crownboy
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Ginger or Mary Anne?
by crownboy inno doubt one of the most ask questions ever.
no matter what age you are (in my case fairly young), you've seen gilligan's island, and heard the inevitable argument (especially amoung men), who do you prefer better: ginger or mary anne.. well, i decided to bring the debate here to jw.com, see if there's an (ex) jw consensus on the issue.. my personal favourite is mary anne, by the way.
they were both very attractive, but mary anne's personalty was more down to earth (or naive) to me, and i find that more desirable.
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About stumbling
by crownboy inhow many of you were ever "stumbled" as a jw?
i always thought that claiming you were "stumbled" was just an excuse to stop going to meetings etc.
(should have thought of it myself .
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How many do you know like this?
by crownboy ina bethelite brother gave a public talk at our hall a couple weeks ago.
one part of the talk focused on "putting kingdom interest first".
he gave examples of how some gave up material comfort so they could pursue the ministry.
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How are Governing Body members chosen?
by crownboy insince it wouldn't make sense for the society to choose "orginal" (i.e.
pre-1935) annointed ones for the gb because they're so old now, how do they choose the new ones?
couldn't a "newer" annointed simply declare himself to be one just so he could get on the body?
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Young People Ask book
by crownboy inhow many of you guys really believed and took to heart every word that was written in it?
i was recently rereading it and it was ridiculous how sophomoric and unrealistic some of the answers to the questions were (e.g.
when you have the urge to engage in the "sin" of masterbation you should pray to god untill the urge goes away.
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To all atheist
by crownboy ini would just like to know how you were able to arrive at your belief system.
if i am not mistaken, an atheist is a person who absolutely does not believe in the existence of a god.
while i can definitely understand why someone would be averse to believing in conventional theism (inconsistenies, errors in writing), i cannot understand how one can be 100% certain that a god does not exist.
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Did Anyone See 60 Minutes Last Night?
by crownboy inthere was an interview with the prince of saudi arabia, the one who offered new york $10 million in aid but got rejected by guiliani because he (the prince) made some comments about the palestinian-isreali conflict that were controversial (i.e.
anyway, during the interview the prince said that the saudi people were a very happy people, and he pointed to the fact that there is nary a political demonstration that occurs in saudi arabia.
the interviewer then pointed out the fact that it is illegal for a saudi to demonstrate, and that a strong police presence would preclude many from even attempting to demonstrate.
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Does God condone slavery?
by crownboy inthe september 8th, 2001 awake aimed to answer this question.
to say the least, this is a topic of great controversy and embarrassment for christains.. essentially, the awake said that god is unequivocally opposed to oppresive forms of slavery (as if any type of slavery is not considered oppresive to the one being enslaved) and that he demonstrated his opposition to such slavery by freeing the isrealites from the oppresive eyptians (but of course leaving slaves under more despotic conditions to fend for themselves).. they acknowledged that god allowed the isrealites to own slaves, but not opression of them (an example given was that the isrealites could take women as slaves, but could only have sex with them if they made them their wives.
in the "opressive" forms the women would have sex with their masters without the benefit of marriage and only for the masters sexual gratification.
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Islamic errors?
by crownboy inover the history of its existence, the bible has had its critics and detracters.
going into a bookstore, i was able to find a flood of information that is critical of the bible.
however, the same was not true of the koran.
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Here's my story (I'm new here)....
by crownboy ini am a 4th generation witness (on both sides of the family) and indeed my entire family (save for the few who "fall away" in every family) are jehovah's witnesses.
my dad is an elder, my mom a regular pioneer and my two elder sisters the same.
my younger sister is 17 and still unbaptized, so therefore she is sort of a "black sheep" in our family and "spiritually weak" for not having already "taken the dip in the pool" (however, due to her overall open-minded nature, i am perhaps closest to her).
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