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  Sweet 16 - Happy Birthday to Us !

  by Simon in

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  it's the forum's 16th birthday today!.

  amazing that not only have we lasted so long but we're still thriving and growing.. thanks to all the people and often colorful characters who've contributed to the site over the years.

  some are still here with us, some have since moved on, but all have touched each others lives in some way along our different journeys.. .

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  Wild_Thing

  Happy birthday to your forum, Simon! I can't tell you how much your website has helped me over the past many years. I can't believe I have been a member for 14 years and only posted a little more than 1,000 times. And before those 14 years ... believe me, I was lurking in the shadows.

  Back then, there was quite a bit of drama happening between members on this forum. I am so glad to see that ended and I know you are to credit for a lot of that. Thanks for chasing away the drama. I feel a lot more comfortable posting here because of it.
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  I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

  by Terry in

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  please post your favorites too.

  my favorite quotations:.

  you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

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  Wild_Thing

  There's a skinny woman inside me dying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with some chocolate.
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  I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

  by Terry in

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  please post your favorites too.

  my favorite quotations:.

  you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

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  JW Videos

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  my belief is that the jw organization is moving towards video teaching.

  at the last convention a mini jesus movie was created.

  today watching the jw video on 'older ones' is the famous widow in the temple scene with the same actor for jesus.. are they slowly and carefully making a jesus movie?.

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  Wild_Thing

  It is amazing to me how they have done a complete 180 and embraced all technology. When I was a kid, the most pious witnesses did not even have a tv and none of the the visiting overseers did. And when the internet became available, it was "another tool of Satan" we were supposed to avoid. Now they embrace it all whole-heartedly.

  They have their own internet TV broadcast channel, they have a Roku channel, they are making music videos, and now Jesus videos. It all seems so weird to me. Ironically, they are beginning to look like all the other religions they have cursed for so long. Now they are televangelists, make cartoons for kids, etc. I can't say enough how weird it all is to me.

  The only thing I haven't seen them embrace wholeheartedly is social media. I think this is a tougher one for them because social media involves two way communication, which they hate. When they have an official Facebook page and Twitter feed, I will be looking out the window for flying pigs.
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  God said be fruitful and multiply,fill the earth and govern it.

  by atomant in

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  l have a problem with this.lf adam and eve didnt sin the earth would eventually have been full to the brim with perfect human beings.then what every man gets the chop or no more sex?then on the other hand we have the jw's sayingresurrected ones will not be allowed to marry in the earthly new system.. married survivors of armageddon will remain married.

  single survivors of armageddon may or may not be allowed to marry.so it seems that people reborn into new system wont be able to procreate.

  and married survivors will stay married so l assume that means they can still hanky panky and have babys thats a bit unfair..the earth can only accommodate a maximum number of humans then what for the married couples.

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  cofty, thanks for that info. It makes perfect sense now! I could tell he was an apologist. I just assumed it was a JW apologist.
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  God said be fruitful and multiply,fill the earth and govern it.

  by atomant in

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  l have a problem with this.lf adam and eve didnt sin the earth would eventually have been full to the brim with perfect human beings.then what every man gets the chop or no more sex?then on the other hand we have the jw's sayingresurrected ones will not be allowed to marry in the earthly new system.. married survivors of armageddon will remain married.

  single survivors of armageddon may or may not be allowed to marry.so it seems that people reborn into new system wont be able to procreate.

  and married survivors will stay married so l assume that means they can still hanky panky and have babys thats a bit unfair..the earth can only accommodate a maximum number of humans then what for the married couples.

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  Cold Steel: Matter lasts forever, and though it can change, it can't be annihilated.

  I think you are thinking of energy, which again goes back to the whole circle of life thing.

  
  

  From http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/askaphysicist/physics-answer.cfm?uid=20120221015143

  "The first law of thermodynamics doesn't actually specify that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but instead that the total amount of energy in a closed system cannot be created nor destroyed (though it can be changed from one form to another). It was after nuclear physics told us that mass and energy are essentially equivalent - this is what Einstein meant when he wrote E= mc^2 - that we realized the 1st law of thermodynamics also applied to mass. Mass became another form of energy that had to be included in a thorough thermodynamic treatment of a system."
  

  
  
  

  Cold Steel: Well, the verdict isn't in regarding whether the WTS is the sole purveyor and arbiter of truth in the earth.

  Ummm ...yeah, actually the verdict IS in. I can unequivocally guarantee you that the WTS is NOT "the sole purveyor and arbiter of truth in the earth."
  

  Cold Steel: We only see through a dark, murky glass the things that will be, but they are said to be far beyond the understanding of man.

  Not really. Science has come a long way. While there are still things yet to be discovered, I think things are pretty clear. It's the bible and religion that murk things up.
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  God said be fruitful and multiply,fill the earth and govern it.

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  l have a problem with this.lf adam and eve didnt sin the earth would eventually have been full to the brim with perfect human beings.then what every man gets the chop or no more sex?then on the other hand we have the jw's sayingresurrected ones will not be allowed to marry in the earthly new system.. married survivors of armageddon will remain married.

  single survivors of armageddon may or may not be allowed to marry.so it seems that people reborn into new system wont be able to procreate.

  and married survivors will stay married so l assume that means they can still hanky panky and have babys thats a bit unfair..the earth can only accommodate a maximum number of humans then what for the married couples.

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  Wild_Thing

  OneEyedJoean hour ago

  Sometimes I wonder if god telling Adam and Eve to "go forth and multiply" was a generous translation. Maybe he was tired of dealing with them and what he really said was "fuck off."

  
  

  Haha! Best comment it ever! If I could double like it, I would!
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  God said be fruitful and multiply,fill the earth and govern it.

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  l have a problem with this.lf adam and eve didnt sin the earth would eventually have been full to the brim with perfect human beings.then what every man gets the chop or no more sex?then on the other hand we have the jw's sayingresurrected ones will not be allowed to marry in the earthly new system.. married survivors of armageddon will remain married.

  single survivors of armageddon may or may not be allowed to marry.so it seems that people reborn into new system wont be able to procreate.

  and married survivors will stay married so l assume that means they can still hanky panky and have babys thats a bit unfair..the earth can only accommodate a maximum number of humans then what for the married couples.

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  Wild_Thing

  
  

  It doesn't make sense because none of it is true.

  ALL living things were meant to procreate, live a certain life span, deteriorate and die. It's the whole Lion King circle of life thing.

  I never understood why when Adam and Eve supposedly sinned by eating an apple and Jehoho took away their perfect and never ending life for it (talk about over-reacting, Dad!), that he in turn decided to impose the same sentence on every living creature and thing that ever existed. It's kind of ridiculous when you think about it.

  There is not one single thing in the entire Universe that lasts forever, and there never has been. Not a star, not a planet, not a tree, not a creature, or human.

  And personally, there is nothing scarier to me than an entire planet full to the brim with Jehovah's Witnesses who can't have sex. Let's see them dance and sing the Happy song, then.
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  Another 12 yr old df in cong 13 people df in 3 yrs

  by poopie in

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  Wild_Thing

  Details or it didn't happen.
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  making memorial bread parties

  by wannaexit in

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  i though i'd heard and seen it all.

  i guess i was mistaken.

  i saw from various social media the the witnesses are holding parties to  make memorial bread.

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  Wild_Thing

  Back in my day, the little kids were allowed to eat the "unleavened bread" after the memorial. It tasted nasty, but we didn't care. We thought it was cool to pretend we were anointed. Then, the "mothership" had to be a buzzkill and forbid it.

  I have never heard of having an "unleavened bread" party. Sounds like a blast.