According to the WTS, children -> wife (mother) -> husband (father) -> Elders -> FDS -> Jesus -> Jehovah.
Isn't Kevin Bacon supposed to be in that equation somewhere?
streets76
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It's been a while F@CK3RS!
by XPeterX insince i last posted on this board.miss me?here we go (question):if a jw woman is widow,or divorced,or not married at all who's her head then?the elders?christ?god?her neightbours?her son??
(i want the org's official point of view).
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The Most Amazing Thing I've Ever Seen
by TheClarinetist inhttp://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/25/charles-darwin-studies-the-evolution-of-pokemon/.
this t-shirt design makes me happy on so many levels... unfortunately, the only print run of it is sold out so i'm doomed never to get it.
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streets76
Ali knocking out Foreman in round 8, October 30, 1974.
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Young People Aren't Interested in Religion
by leavingwt inthe church of england has published a new book called "the faith of generation y".
300 young people, born after 1982 were interviewed.
one of the authors is christopher cocksworth, the bishop of coventry.
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streets76
Praise the Lord! The end of faith (to borrow Sam Harris' title) can't come soon enough.
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Why did God kill children?
by brotherdan inthe atheists and bible deniers love to talk about how hateful and murderous god is.
i suggest the following.
i believe that the children that were killed in warfare by the israelites were taken to heaven with god.
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streets76
The 3D monster is right there, hiding in the picture. Just look! Concentrate!
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Why do people defend monsters?
by AK - Jeff inthe 'god' of the jw's is a god that will kill billions at armageddon.
the christian 'god' in general is a god that [according to their own holy book] already killed millions in the ot.
this 'god' ordered the slaughter of innocent virgins and children and old men and old women so that his people could take the land.
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streets76
Every father is viewed differently by his children.
The heavenly Father is no exception.
So if I don't see him as the monster he obviously is, then I'm not truly one of his children?
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Why do people defend monsters?
by AK - Jeff inthe 'god' of the jw's is a god that will kill billions at armageddon.
the christian 'god' in general is a god that [according to their own holy book] already killed millions in the ot.
this 'god' ordered the slaughter of innocent virgins and children and old men and old women so that his people could take the land.
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streets76
It's kinda like those pictures that were popular a number of years ago, I think they called them "hallusions," a play on the words "illusion" and "hologram," I think.
One person could look a the oversized framed photo, and not see anything but interesting colors and designs. Another person could look at the same photo, and after a minute or so of concentration, a distinct 3D image would amazingly jump out.
There was a trick to getting your eyes to focus in a certain way, in order to see the hidden 3D image. If you couldn't somehow "discover" how to do that, it was almost impossible for another "enlightened" person to get you to see it their way.
I could never get my wife to see the 3D camels and pyramids in the photo we owned.
Anyway, that's what the bible and god and religion is to me -- grand hallusions. Some of us can see the 3D monsters that leap from the pages of the OT, other can't. They just can't, and probably never will.
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Why did God kill children?
by brotherdan inthe atheists and bible deniers love to talk about how hateful and murderous god is.
i suggest the following.
i believe that the children that were killed in warfare by the israelites were taken to heaven with god.
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streets76
That is why the Bible is a book of faith. You are allowed to take it or leave it.
<Sigh>
Things have to be understood in relation to the times... has God changed or is it more likely human progression ?
No, the imaginary OT god has not changed. But, thankfully, freethinking is a human progression -- a very, very sloooooooow human progression.
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The old big orange "Paradise" book
by aquagirl inanyone remember that?
i learned to read on that book.there were some very disturbing images,like the earth opening up and people falling into it.like upside down ladies and hippies.id love to get a hold of one and peruse it with a friend and some herbal medicine.maybe there is one in the attic?anyway,that and the image of the snake talking to the beautiful,bare shouldered eve,who was holding an apple,made a big impression on me.any else have any faves from that book?is it still being used?.
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streets76
I still remember the first time Mom read that stuff to us and showed us those pictures, even though I was only about four years old at the time. She explained what was happening to all those people in the pictures. She said they were being destroyed at Armageddon, because they were all bad people. I looked at the people and I started crying. They didn’t look like bad people to me. They all just looked scared. I couldn’t understand why all that was happening to those people in the pictures. All I knew was that I didn’t ever want to fall down into that big hole in the ground with all those other people.
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Fibonacci numbers and 144,000
by Beta Male inthe twelfth fibonacci number is 144, since they start counting the sequence with zero.
that just seems an neat "coincidence" eh?
all this religious stuff has its roots in the study of mathematics and the stars, doesnt it?
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streets76
Not sure how evolution explains mathmatics, or how mathmatics explains evolution, but if my theory holds up, they must.
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Fibonacci numbers and 144,000
by Beta Male inthe twelfth fibonacci number is 144, since they start counting the sequence with zero.
that just seems an neat "coincidence" eh?
all this religious stuff has its roots in the study of mathematics and the stars, doesnt it?
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streets76
Two things (I think) I know.
1. Everything is mathmatical.
2. Evolution explains everything.
(That only took me 50+ years!)