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  Question about Universal Sovereignty, please

  by purplesofa in

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  this is from someone that is waiting to join as soon as the site starts taking new registrations.

  he has a question for the board.. .

  i also see ya posted my letter on the board...is there really a lot waiting to get it 'in'?

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  Spectre

  I like to take it a step in the opposite direction.

  If an all knowing perfect God created everything, did he intentionally manufacture the "flaw" that would have been in Satan? Same with Adam and Eve?

  Free will.... blah blah blah.... he made them as they were so the blame falls back on him.

  Parents don't know how a child will turn out, but this can't be an excuse for God.

  And it takes 6000 years? Really?!?! Millions die every year from famine, disease, etc. and this is better than just killing of 3 beings at that point?

  Of course, I view the bible as Jewish mythology and don't believe a word of it.
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  Extreme Home Makeover Fresno--JWs don't help their own

  by LDH in

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  so worldly people do it for them.. .

  http://www.fresnobee.com/1040/story/1117887.html.

  ok, i watch the show once in a while.

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  Spectre

  What a great opportunity to witness to those construction workers!

  Jehoober works in mysterious ways.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Purposely Confuse Meanings of Words- to Control

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's well known that jehovah's witnesses are a mind control cult.

  most would agree on that point.

  but have you noticed the clever ( allegedly ) way they try to blur meanings of words to control their rank and file members and any prospective incoming members ?.

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  Spectre

  Spiritual is a word that got to me too.

  Some years after I had stopped going, I was taking a mandatory health class for college. The instructor mentioned that we need to keep ourselves healthy physically, mentally and spiritually. I rolled my eyes at the last one and he went on to define spirituality as being ok with what happens to you when you die. Believe whatever you want but just be comfortable and have resolved within yourself what may or may not happen when we die.

  I immediately thought, "If that is the case, I'm so much more spiritual now then when I thought it was about how much time you put in field service each month."
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  2008 Releases

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have almost quit caring about this stuff - but i saw a scan somewhere of a 'preface' or 'forward' to a new wts pub, that slammed da persons pretty hard.

  i think that reading this infomation might be the reason that my cousin [also my absolute best friend for 35 years] has now elected to stop any contact with me.

  i would like to confirm the info and disect it a bit.. can anyone tell me what book i saw, and whether it is out there somewhere for dl ?.

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  Spectre

  Just don't try and tell the elders that your relative is neither a fornicator or a greedy person.
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  How could there be Fugitives?

  by KAYTEE in

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  Spectre

  As long as their are one armed men, there will be fugitives.
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  How do you best mend a broken heart?

  by Newborn in

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  not that mine is broken...yet....

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  Spectre

  ^^^ Awesome version of that song!
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  Watchtower 1954 "Jesus was clean shaven and had short hair?? What!

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. beliefs

  all society publications from 1950 -1968 pictures showed jesus as a jew who had short hair and was clean shaven???.

  watch 1954 p.511 "why do watchtower books now show jesus with short hair and no beard?....because he is shown that way in representations of him that are older than the traditional effeminate looking pictures.".

  watch 1968 p.286 "bible evidence and a recent review shows that jesus did have a beard.

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  Spectre

  A while after I grew my hair long, I was at a family reunion. Someone didn't recognize me and said, "Who invited Jesus?"

  Everyone knows Jesus was a hippy.

  Uhmmm....I however, am NOT a hippy.
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  JW tells me, "1981 Watchtower article predicted today's economic problems."

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i was at the local mall today and ran into a jw friend that i had grown up with and attended school with.

  hadn't seen him in 6 months or so.

  he didn't see me, so i had to approach him.

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  Spectre

  And now that I read all of your answer to him Wing Commander, I see that you said that.
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  JW tells me, "1981 Watchtower article predicted today's economic problems."

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i was at the local mall today and ran into a jw friend that i had grown up with and attended school with.

  hadn't seen him in 6 months or so.

  he didn't see me, so i had to approach him.

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  Spectre

  Wait-a-minute here.....

  Didn't old magazines from that time say that armageddon would be here by now?

  So was there supposed to be an economic problem AFTER armageddon?
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  RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008

  by faundy in

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  2. friends

  have posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:

  i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.

  he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.

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  Spectre

  I am saddened to hear of this.