Insulting people who don't accept / understand gay people does nothing to change their viewpoints. In fact it just makes those views more entrenched. Some folk just won't run with the crowd because it's not their nature to do so in any situation whatsoever. If people are anti-gay for whatever reason, be it on religious grounds, personal dislike or simply not understanding, then vociferous name-calling will only see them become more polarised. IMHO, only time will tell until we see a gradual change in people's attitudes.
tim hooper
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JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple
by KateWild ini was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.
i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.
i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.
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1975 end prediction
by FL_Panthers indoes anyone have the article written by the wt saying that the end would come in 1975?.
how did people back then come to this year?
i need this information becuase i was told, this was never literally written by the wt in any publication.. thanks.
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-"Making some special effort to do more than the usual helps us live up to our dedication. In view of the short period of time left, we want to do this as often as circumstances permit. Just think, brothers, there are only about ninety months left before 6,000 years of man's existence on earth is completed.. Do you remember what we learned at the assemblies last summer? The majority of people living today will probably be alive when Armageddon breaks out, and there are no resurrection hopes for those who are destroyed then. So, now more than ever, it is vital not to ignore that spirit of wanting to do more."
KMIN Mar 1968 4 (Mar 1968 + 90 months = Oct 1975)
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1975 end prediction
by FL_Panthers indoes anyone have the article written by the wt saying that the end would come in 1975?.
how did people back then come to this year?
i need this information becuase i was told, this was never literally written by the wt in any publication.. thanks.
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The October 8, 1966 Awake! carried an article entitled "How Much Longer Will It Be?" and under the subheading "6,000 Years Completed in 1975," it too reasoned that the millennium would be the last 1000 years of a 7000-year rest day of God. Abandoning some of the caution shown in the above it said on page 19-20:
>>Hence, the fact that we are nearing the end of the first 6,000 years of man's existence is of great significance.
Does God's rest day parallel the time man has been on earth since his creation? Apparently so. From the most reliable investigations of Bible chronology, harmonizing with many accepted dates of secular history, we find that Adam was created in the autumn of the year 4026 B.C.E. Sometime in that year Eve could well have been created, directly after which God's rest day commenced. In what year, then, would the first 6,000 years of man's existence and also the first 6,000 years of God's rest day come to an end? The year 1975. This is worthy of notice, particularly in view of the fact that the "last days" began in 1914, and that the physical facts of our day in fulfillment of prophecy mark this as the last generation of this wicked world. So we can expect the immediate future to be filled with thrilling events for those who rest their faith in God and his promises. It means that within relatively few years we will witness the fulfillment of the remaining prophecies that have to do with the "time of the end."<<
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1975 end prediction
by FL_Panthers indoes anyone have the article written by the wt saying that the end would come in 1975?.
how did people back then come to this year?
i need this information becuase i was told, this was never literally written by the wt in any publication.. thanks.
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tim hooper
Will this do?
Shortly, within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin
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How many *educated* adults are being converted into the Jehovah's Witnesses nowadays?
by EdenOne inthe other day i was sitting in one of those meetings where the public talk was absolutely mind-dumbing.
by minute 5 i couldn't take it anymore paying further attention to what was being said, so my mind wandered.
i looked around to my own kh and started to notice something.
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tim hooper
It's a good point. I think that my dad was actually the most intelligent JW I ever knew. But there were holes in his reasoning that were apparent to me even as a child.
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JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple
by KateWild ini was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.
i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.
i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.
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Just thinking about this - their being witnesses must cause them all sorts of problems in their wedding invitation business besides this. Wedding invitations typically include illustrations of church bells, champagne glasses, horseshoes etc - all of which would be contrary to their beliefs anyway.
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JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple
by KateWild ini was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.
i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.
i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.
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I guess that if a woman in a burqa was refused service the police would become involved immediately.
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Where does the Bible mention 7000 year long Creative Days?
by tim hooper into my total astonishment, there is no mention whatsoever in the scriptures re jehovah's creative days being each of 7000 years duration.. nothing!.
zilch!.
...and yet the wt had this to say:.
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To my total astonishment, there is no mention whatsoever in the Scriptures re Jehovah's creative days being each of 7000 years duration.
Nothing!
Zilch!
...and yet the WT had this to say:
12-1-1956 WT states:
Here Jehovah tells of earth’s preparation, a process covering thousands of years with the time divided into ‘days,’ periods that the Bible shows to be of seven thousand years each.It's a lie. The Bible shows no such thing. So the whole of the workings-out regarding us now living right at the end of 6000 years and waiting to complete the creative day at the end of the millenium is total hogwash.
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Investigation by Charity Commission for England & Wales - Could this be the Great Tribulation?
by outinthemeadows inthere will be a cry of peace and security and then sudden destruction be instantly upon them as a snare.
1 th 5:3.. wts have been claiming peace and security in their organisation for years, which of course, has been anything but.
now they are being investigated by the charity commission for their handling of child abuse and other cases.
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tim hooper
It seems to be just 1 congregation in Manchester.
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Do JW Apologists "Count the time" when they come here?
by tim hooper in..and if they do "count the time", do you think that they type very slowly?.
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tim hooper
Back in the day 10 hours a month were the minimum. I'd get my time in walking home from work leafletting a few doors as I went.