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  WHERE DID POST -FLOOD VEGETATION COME FROM?

  by badboy in

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  its occurs to one that the floof would have destroyed virtually all vegetation,so where does wt say post flood vegetation come from?

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  If there was a flood. I suppose Noah could have brought various seeds on board. Im more concerned about what kind of God would know the begining from the end. And create a situation that he would get so out of control and so mad that he would destroy everything. When he knew he would do that to begin with.

  Yeah, that part never flew with me. It really makes God sound pretty human, right? Kill everyone and nearly everything off, only to have evil people once more? Real farsighted!

  The only way you can make the Flood work is by resorting to "God made a miracle occur to __________," and then insert whatever problem arises from a scientific consideration of the flood. God becomes the "glue" to hold the whole story together, which begs an even bigger question: if God needed all those miracles to keep Noah, his family, and his animals alive, wouldn't it just be easier to smite all the "bad people" at once? Or does God have an incredible flair for the dramatic?

  Even the ending smacks of a fable. God gave the rainbow "as a promise that he would never flood the earth again." So light reflecting off mist never produced a rainbow before? Sorry...not buying it anymore.
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  Alone With the Opposite Sex

  by purplesofa in

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  over the last few months i have been training three different men for backup position of my job.. we are alone in my car all day.. as a jw, i remember one time, needing to go to another congo in a different town to work on a part at an assembly.

  i was to ride with the brother doing the part.

  he was probably at least 30+ years older than me.

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  Man, I hate that rule. One time there was a beach party and this cute sister from Japan needed a ride there. I offered to take her. But then her friend called me up and said, "You don't need to give her a ride, I'll do it."

  "Don't you have to go out of your way to do it though? It's easier for me to pick her up..." I said. It was true.

  "NO THAT'S OKAY, I'M GOING TO BE GIVING HER THE RIDE."

  It's not like I could get that far with the girl. Her English wasn't that good, and she wasn't very talkative to begin with. Plus if I fiddled with her in the car, someone would eventually find out, and I'd have to live down plenty of shame from the elders. Of course, being alone with the opposite sex must always lead to FORNICATION so I was wrong there.

  In my senior year, this girl who I had known (and who's family I'd been close with) for some time started asking me for rides to and from school. Her stepdad put a stop to that after a week, "Because it would look bad for you to be alone with the opposite sex." Nevermind that I had pretty much grown up with this kid, or that I knew I would be in deep crap if I fiddled with her in the car. It would "look bad." You know, I bet he regrets that now that this same girl is fully out of the org and probably has a skinny emo boyfriend.
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  The "Revelation Book" adhesive cut and paste instruction kit!

  by Atlantis in

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  the revelation book adhesive cut and paste instruction kit!

  this pdf-"kit" was sent to us from a friend of ours who is an elder in england who is thoroughly disgusted.

  the file is being sent throughout many congregations by email to assist the witnesses with "corrections" for their "revelation" book.

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  SirNose586

  How can anyone cut, paste, and glue 70 corrections over the older published material without "red lights" going off somewhere?

  The same way they can swallow "new light" and a consistent history of failed promises: blackwhite.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 9-10-06 WT Study (FEAR GOD)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the 09-10-06 wt study (august 1, 2006, pages 21-25)(fear god) .

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  The search for the missing Jesus continues. Good that you pointed out how everyone around David paid for David's sins, but not really him. Sure, he had to suffer inconveniences...but he still got to live.
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  Gonzales twins from San Diego

  by coffee_black in

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  anyone here know (or knew) the gonzales twins... male...( i won't give their first names...don't want to get too specific) they'd be in their mid to late 50s... both went to the new england conservatory late 60s/early 70s... just curious as to whether they are still in.... coffee

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  SirNose586

  Sorry, never heard of 'em.
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  What's You're Musical Time Line...

  by OpenFireGlass in

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  birth - 6 y.o.

  : john denver, waylon jennings(dukes of hazzard theme song), etc.... 6 y.o.

  : (started grade school... heard new stuff) joan jett & the blackhearts, & (can't remember the artist but the song was:) pac-man fever... and so on... 9 - 10 y.o.

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  SirNose586

  Pretty simple, actually...before 10th grade I listened to crap metal, then for a few years nothing, then I discovered Earth Wind & Fire and funk, and have been funky fresh ever since.
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  I'm Sorry Jgnat!!!

  by RichieRich in

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  ok, so i got some new ink yesterday.

  whoa whoa whoa now.

  i'm not jumping in to this thing head first, this had been planned since day one.

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  SirNose586

  You're the first person I've seen with Latin on his back. Unique. I appreciate that. Edit: Finally, the new avatar came through!
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  Did anyone really buy into the "Universal Sovereignty" issue?

  by loli in

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  i am new to the forum, but not new to jw indoctrination.

  even as a child, i would ask myself, "why would the almighty creator need to prove anything to anyone, including him/her/itself?

  really, one of the few scriptures that i do actually agree with is that 'god is love.

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  SirNose586

  Here's another thing that bugs me: the Society's use of Proverbs 27:11 in supporting this "universal sovereignty issue."

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  w86 8/1 p. 15 Youths Who Make Jehovah’s Heart Glad ***

  Youths

  Who Make Jehovah’s Heart Glad

  "Make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me."—PROVERBS 27:11.

  WHETHER you realize it or not, it makes a difference how you live your life. For example, it makes a difference to your parents. "A wise son is the one that makes a father rejoice," the Bible explains, "and a stupid son is the grief of his mother." (Proverbs 10:1; 23:24, 25) But even more importantly, how you live your life can make our Creator, Jehovah God, either glad or sad. "Be wise, my son," Jehovah exhorts, "and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me."—Proverbs 27:11.

  And for the longest time, I bought that. What a silly thought. Are they God's words, or that of Solomon? The beginning of Proverbs 25 states:

  These also are the proverbs of Sol´o·mon that the men of Hez·e·ki´ah the king of Judah transcribed:

  Any dub will bring up that Solomon was God's secretary in writing these, but when these proverbs have such a human feel to them (not unlike Poor Richard's Almanack), it's not as easy to prove as you would think. To anyone reading it, it sounds like a parent advising the child. Yet the Borg has hijacked this scripture for its own nefarious reasoning, like they did with Proverbs 4:18.
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  Is Sponge Bob Square Pants, gay?

  by free2beme in

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  i was speaking to this woman at work today, and my phone rang and as my ringer for a certain friend, i have the sponge bob square pants song .... "who lives in a pineapple under the sea .... ".

  ... well she is a little strange and very ultra christian.

  she started telling me, that her church she goes too feel that sponge bob and patrick are portraying the gay lifestyle.

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  SirNose586

  They said the same thing about Ren & Stimpy . Don't these people have anything better to do with their time?
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  Why can't the headline be "Paris Hilton dies in tragic diving accident!"

  by free2beme in

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  i am so sick of this woman, and her fame for simply being born into a rich family.

  i am just waiting for the day that we get to see her name in the obituary and not on the front of some magazine to say what a great thing she has done, when she found a lost dog.

  i actually like the movie, "house of wax", as it does allow you to see some damage done to this woman.

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  Yeah I agree, there are people worth the camera time and the national attention. This skinny doorknob (everyone's had a turn ) merits no attention. I don't watch Hollywood-centered TV programs or read pop culture magazines, but I've really had enough!

  The cycle's got to end sometime. Remember when you couldn't go 2 days without hearing something about Jennifer Lopez? Now you have to go out of your way to search for news about her. It'll happen with Paris, too.