Topics Started by ElderBarry

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Why is truth is so hard to find in Bible
by The Dragon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i have been studing it for years looking for answers....yet for every answer i find there is a counter to it.

the words themselves are twisted by leaders/teachers to fit their personal opinions and adgendas, as well as twisted by trying to rely on our own reasoning to understand them.. a good example would be the way our current system of laws work.. if the supreme court writes a law into the book..say for example.."evil" is anyone who does this....... it is then turned over to a bunch of undereducated enforcers to interpert and judge others they feel are "evil".

they are allowed to accuse and shoot first asking questions later.
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What if we wrote letters to the Society.....
by Lady Liberty in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
goodmorning all and "happy saturday"!!.

i recently had a very upsetting conversation regarding my stand with my active aunt.

for 4 hours i tried to reason with her on many issues.
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Scriptures You Will Not Hear at the 23-07-06 Church Sermon
by scout575 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"then that slave that understood the will of his master but did not get ready or do in line with his will will be beaten with many strokes.

but the one that did not understand and so did things deserving of strokes will be beaten with few.

" ( luke 12:47,48 ).
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Help with info on the Greek word 'Kairos'
by drew sagan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as many of you know, the bible text at luke 21:8 has become a major issue for me.

i decided that it would be proper to do some more in depth research of the text, as well as the words contained in the text.

this is all going to be complied and put togeather in a letter that i am going to send to the society.
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the all knowing god?
by the dreamer dreaming in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
dont know if this has been discussed or not...but.... it always bothered me when people claimed that god is all knowing... what exactly does that really mean or can mean?.

after all, according to all, there was some point when only god existed and so its pretty easy to be all knowing when there is nothing to know.. but why should we assume that a being who had no one teach him and nothing to learn from could be anything but insane?.

we should trust god, some have told me, because he made everything and therefore knows everything about what he made... sorry, but that does not follow at all.. my subconscious, apparently, seems to be able to manifest many dreams of very complex things which leaves me puzzled as to their workings not understanding them at all..... the bible shows god to be less than all knowing on many occasions, especially in genesis 18:20-21 where he is going to investigate a report that has come to him.... from where or who we are not told.... but it makes it clear he is desiring to find out if the report is accurate or not... .
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Just because we fooled you shouldn't stop you from fooling your kids!
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
parents are naturally concerned that their children not make the same mistakes they did.

the society seem to be worried about the power of this impulse to protect one's children.

page 161 of the new book live with jehovah's day in mind reads:a dampening of our expectation of jehovah's great day could reveal itself in the advice we give to our children or to others.
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Did you think that you knew more ?
by A Paduan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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as a jw, were you convinced that you knew more theologically than "those in christendom", yet hadn't really even read the bible ?

more than say, a monk who over a thousand years ago hand wrote one, and read it everyday ?
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Use the Elder's own rules against them......
by AK - Jeff in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the elder's handbook gives specific areas in which tactics might be developed by some to avoid unwanted disfellowshippings - .

the following appears in that manual - .

baptized persons who have not associated for some time .. if you learn of serious wrongdoing on the part of such a. person, the matter should be investigated if it poses a. threat to the congregation's cleanness and welfare or causes.
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What's the oddest thing you have eaten?
by PopeOfEruke in
1. social
2. physical
hey i was on holiday last week and we went to a sea-side night market and there was a food stand called "roadkill restaurant".

the motto was "you kill it, we grill it".

charming place.. they had crocodile, buffalo, camel, and kangaroo and emu kebabs.
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Holy Laughter Church on CNN News (no joke!)
by Gerard in
1. watchtower
2. bible
last night cnn presented a segment on a sect that calls itself the

movement.

their pastor tells jokes and claims that laughter is a trance controlled by god.