Topics Started by finis_mundi

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Question about Genesis account of creation.
by wanderlustguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in the first chapter of genesis, the creation account goes like this...in general:.

earth.

plants.
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How do you handle extremely rude people in public?
by Virgochik in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm so upset by two vicious women who came to my work today.

i was helping a man in my line and they tried to cut in front.

i politely explained that as soon as i finished with my customer, i would help them.
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Is there a 3rd option to explain the origin of life?
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the creation / evolution debate has raged for 150 years with almost everyone coming down on one side or another (although creation has never offered an explanation for the origin of life).

my question is; 'is there another way of explaining the existence of life in the universe'?.

it's tangential and difficult to imagine but can we drag our perceptions away from the well established religious and evolutionary grooves to arrive at something .
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Atheists Worst Nightmare!
by SickofLies in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i don't know how i ever doubted that intelligent design was correct!

after watching a video involving kirk cameron, i now see the error of my ways, and will be tithing 50% of my income to the church every month out of contrition.. .

you want to know the mighty argument that changed my views, and my life, forever?
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Can a website get your acccount profile from a different website??????!!!!!
by kittyeatzjdubs in
1. jw
2. friends
.

i ask b/c i just got a popup from a dating website w/ one of matt's screen names........... should i be worried?.

luv, jojo
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WTS profiting from Katrina Disaster
by finis_mundi in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i apologize if there is already a thread concerning this but the following article is intriguing: http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/society/jehovah_s_witnesses_katrina_disaster_relief_fund_donation_or_profits__36046.html
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Who is sending who?
by mdb in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
flee from the land of the north, says the lord [yhwh]; for i have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the lord [yhwh].

up, zion!

escape, you who dwell with the daughter of babylon.
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4/20 - smoke'em if ya got'em
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
accepted origin

, high times magazine, the marijuana-logues, and the straight dope claim that in the early 1970s, a group of teenagers at san rafael high school in san rafael, california used to meet every day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the water tower.

one piece of evidence supporting an origin of the term from the time 4:20 is the fact that the number is always said "four twenty" and not "four hundred twenty.
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New Invitations for the "Deliverance at Hand" DC
by dorayakii in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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the front of this new watchtower-sized invitation features a common painting of the jw paradise and the theme of his years distirct convention, "deliverance at hand" emblazened across the front.

it looks like they're trying to work up armageddon fervour again.. .
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WTS explanation of how old the earth is
by undercover in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i grew up as a jw believing that each creative day was a thousand years each.

man was created on the seventh day and man's existence on earth was supposed to have been six thousand years back in 1975.. however, this wt article on reconciling science and the bible says something different that i never picked up on in my later years as a jw.

(i guess i blocked it out better than i thought)for example, when we understand that the bible uses the term "day" to represent various periods of time, we see that the account of the six creative days in genesis need not conflict with the scientific conclusion that the age of the earth is about four and a half billion years.