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  Gun Control, Alex Jones and Piers Morgan

  by Amelia Ashton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  piers morgan decided to advocate gun control after sandy hook.

  that caused this radio host, alex jones, who has millions of listeners to create a petition to have piers deported.

  piers invited alex on his show to have a civil debate about guns.

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  CO Disfellowshipped in UK

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, i have it on very good authority that a co has recently been disfellowshipped in the uk.

  he has just finished serving the north west london area.

  i don't know any details but perhaps there is someone who does know what happened.

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  Does the Gospel of Thomas support the view that Jesus used the divine name?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  most of the apocryphal gospels are dismissed by scholars as being too late to tell us anything useful about the historical jesus, but the gospel of thomas may be an exception.

  when the jesus seminar (a group of around 200 scholars who study the historical jesus) debated which sayings attributed to jesus in the gospels were most likely authentic, they concluded that none of sayings in john's gospel were certainly authentic, but that three sayings in the gospel of thomas were unquestionably authentic.. this is the passage, from saying 13 in the gospel of thomas, that suggests jesus used the divine name:.

  and he took him and withdrew and told him three things.

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  Is this valid reasoning for Trinitarian Doctrine?

  by Flat_Accent in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i had been watching jwfairytale's videos recently, and he's been including snippets of this short film about a guy that becomes a jw and then changes to a born again, or so i think.

  you can watch it here.

  it's very dated, but quite enjoyable:.

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  Olympic Torch comes to town

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so the olympic torch came by the other day, and who did we stand next to by accident to watch and celebrate, but a jehovah's witness couple.. now, even i know that the olympics is pagan in origin, and was for the greek gods so what are jehovah's witnesses doing celebrating it?.

  the lady even had what appeared to be her book bag with her.. this makes the not celebrating of birthdays very hypocrytical..

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  Does it matter if they're happy?

  by Zico in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is something i am conflicted about.. since leaving the jw religion, i have generally thought there are many jws i should leave alone.

  if they are happy in the religion, i reasoned, why try to force a change in their beliefs, particularly among those older jws who have spent so long serving the wts?

  certainly, i'd be willing to help any jw who clearly didn't seem to fit the religion, or couldn't live up to its rules, but there are some jws who i think would be happier in than they would be without it.. otoh, i have been thinking recently, that these jws by their presence in the religion, are providing the power to the society that allows them to damage/ruin so many other jws lives, so perhaps it doesn't matter what one jws personal situation is, perhaps i should be trying to 'free' everyone i can in an attempt to contribute to the society's eventual downfall.. what are your opinions on this?.

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  Rupert Murdoch: Scientologists 'creepy, maybe even evl'

  by skeeter1 in

  1. social
  2. current

  rupert murdoch: scientologists creepy, maybe even evil by dylan stableford, yahoo!

  news | the lookout 7 hrs agorupert murdoch delivers a keynote address on education reform in san francisco on oct. 14, 2011.

  (ap).

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  Latest convention brochure on,,, the Governing Body

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've finally get my hands on a pdf of one of the two newly released brochures, this one entitled "who are doing jehovah's will today?".

  here's a link so you can download your own copy.... http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/98881625/file.html.

  predictably, the brochure is extremely vague on key topics.

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  Sparlock has a different name in some other languages

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know for a fact that our beloved hero sparlock has been given a different name in at least one other language version of the "become jehovah's friend" dvd.

  caleb has also been given a different name in the same video.

  obviously it makes a degree of sense to rename caleb according to names that are common in various different countries.

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  Watchtower explains why it's NOT a Cult

  by JWOP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here is a youtube video showing a wt article trying to explain how it is not a cult, but contradicts itself and undoes their own reasoning:.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2lac74n638.

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