Topics Started by wizzstick

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How Do you Solve A Problem Like Maria (or more importantly 1914)
by wizzstick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so how will they solve it?.

having researched the whole 607bce thing, it's clear that it's utter nonsense.

for example, the house of egibi transaction records closes the door on any questions about the reign of kings of this time.
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Me. 2 weeks on.
by wizzstick in
1. jw
2. friends
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Carbon dating and the Global Flood - links needed
by wizzstick in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i've been using the search function on the site to research this, but a lot of articles seem quite old and there have been some interesting developments in this field of late.. if you're not sure on what carbon dating is have a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radiocarbon_dating.

there's an interesting point made in the calibration methods section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radiocarbon_dating#calibration_methods.

on developments in the last few years.. they highlight the discovery at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lake_suigetsu and how it increased the calibration from 12,593 to 52,800 years.
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Invites, Parking and the DC - a true laughable story
by wizzstick in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm in a major uk city, and we're assigned to an out of city location for our district convention.. to set the scene this site is off a busy motorway (freeway).

it's a football (soccer) stadium.

there is nothing around aside from one petrol (gas) station which also has a tiny supermarket in it.
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Other Sheep question
by wizzstick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
coming off from my thread on the great crowd, (once again thanks td, annomaly and all the others for their help), a question on the other sheep in the 33ce - 1935 ce for the great jwn mind hive.. the qfr in the w86 8/1 p31 ends up with confirming about the other sheep pre-33ce:.

someone might reason: jesus was pointing to a future gathering of other sheep, hence the term applies only to those who, after jesus spoke, would accept the biblical hope of everlasting life on earth.

however, it seems unnecessary to confine the term thusly, as if jesus were defining matters chronologically or sequentially.
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When did people of the Great Crowd start to appear?
by wizzstick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
quick question, faithful followers of our treacherous hearts... .

i should know the answer to this but.... so the great crowd class were identified in 1935, but does the wt suggest when it's members first appeared on earth?

all first century christians were of the annointed (i think that's right), so when do they think the first of the great crowd rolled up?.
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Cultural JWs
by wizzstick in
1. jw
2. friends
following a comment by sapphy on another thread on cultural jws, it got me thinking about my circle of 30 something jw friends.. they fall into roughly two groups.

couples without kids, couples with kids.. the couples without kids are the most interesting.

they're mainly career types, but with one foot firmly in jw land.
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Reasoning with friends
by wizzstick in
1. jw
2. friends
following my first two posts i'd like again to say thank-you for the welcome i've received.

it's taken along time to feel that i could post.

i'd tried before, but the guilt of associating with those that god disapproved of was too much.
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My JW Experiences and Living in No Mans Land
by wizzstick in
1. jw
2. friends
lots of proper pioneering (90 hours), lots of calls, lots of studies, lots of interest.

enough to make it all interesting.

driving this buzz was the sense that armageddon was imminent.. my father was never a jw, and was very opposed.
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My Story - a (kinda) newbie from the UK
by wizzstick in
1. jw
2. friends
after lurking for 7 and half years (is that a record?!

) its time for me to say hello.. so who am i, and whats my story?.

im a born in jw, with all my siblings, mother, wife and children in.