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  No secular evidence for Jesus. What does this imply?

  by Spectrum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a man that performed miracles including raising the dead has left no secular evidence.

  but as i write this the question has come to mind of what ancient evidence constitutes verifiable, believable evidence that we can take to the bank?

  we have the nt and the apocrypha, ancient texts that tell a story of the early christians.

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  What is your favorite Chinese Food?

  by averyniceguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i like orange beef.

  what about you?

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  Other 'superstitions' of JWs (other than fortune cookies)

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well... the 'fortune cookie' thread got me to thinking about all of the silly things that my mom (and the jws) did when i was growing up.. it has been a while, and so i know that i won't be able to remember all of them.. my mom refused to buy a soft drink named 'sprite' - as its' logo included a small impish-looking fella (a sprite) that wore a bottlecap for a hat.

  she claimed it was deemunz.. my mom hesitated to buy fried chicken at a place named 'church's fried chicken', as she wasn't sure if the name meant 'religion', or was a person's last name.. my mom refused to shop at salvation army - cause it would be supporting another religion.. the folks at the local kingdom hall came down hard on my mom cause one of my sisters wore a cute little 'sailor's dress'... it had boat anchors, and other 'sailor' emblems on the buttons, that were considered 'militaristic' by the powers-that-be at the local kh.

  (i'm not sure if my mom put on different buttons, or scrapped the dress entirely.

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  BIG Moral Crisis.....

  by justsomedude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  (if anything i write below is horrible offensive to anyone, please do me a favor and just ignore this post and dont tell me what rotten person i am and im going to hell or some such thing)

  over the last few years ive had to change a great many views that ive previously been very emphatic about.

  there are a number of things that are currently running through my head, the short list looks like this.

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  Did the Witnesses you know, see "Fortune Cookies" as evil?

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was in a few congregations growing up and like many things in the organization, rules were often regional.

  one of those issues i remember and it was something i always got a kick out of, was people's reaction to fortune cookies at chinese food restaurants.

  i had not run in to it as a child, and then i moved away as a young adult and was studying with witnesses to get baptized and they would try to make me feel more welcome, by inviting me to meals with other witnesses in the congregation.

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  Another JW Suicide

  by orangefatcat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes last thursday a young brother who was in the same hall as me but in the other cong.

  and he was 29, a newborn baby and a 2or 3 year old and young wife committed suicide.

  was killed here in our town of newmarket by a train.

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  Could Someone Explain This

  by Undecided in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have three cherry trees in my yard and the birds eat every cherry before it's fully ripe.

  my brother-in-law has the same type of cherry trees in his yard and the birds don't bother his at all.

  they are just about 250 feet from mine.

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  When you pray to God, who answers your prayers, Jesus or Jehovah?

  by JH in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  13 also, whatever it is that you ask in my name, i will do this, in order that the father may be glorified in connection with the son.

  so is it correct to say that if we ask jehovah something in prayer, it's jesus that will grant the prayer, since he said "if you ask in my name, i will do it"?.

  i always thought that it was jehovah whom we pray to, and he was the one who would answer our prayer, not jesus.

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  Do you think a JW childhood is abusive?

  by Konrad West in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i had a long discussion the other day with my new flatmate, who it turns out has studied with jws and thinks they're wonderful, about my view that being raised a jw is psychologically abusive.

  being indoctrinated with the concept of jehovah killing people who don't do what he says and being scared of losing your friends and family if disobedient is, in my view, a very unhealthy thing for a child.

  any thoughts?

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  The DaVinci Code -- overreaction or a chance to rumble?

  by cruzanheart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here's an excerpt from a bbc.co.uk article i just read:.

  "the holy koran recognises jesus as a prophet.

  what the book says is an insult to both christians and muslims," maulana mansoor ali khan, general secretary of the all-india sunni jamiyat-ul-ulema, told the reuters news agency.

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