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  Earth 2.0 discovered!

  by Island Man in

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  http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/feat-nasa-kepler-planet-discovery/index.html.

  this planet is the most earth-like planet discovered to-date.

  it's at the right distance from its sun to allow for liquid water and life, and it has a year of 385 days - only 20 days longer than our own year!.

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  So this planet is 1400 light years from us. If there were intelligent life there they'd be looking at us through their telescopes and seeing us as primitive desert goat herders the way we were/are 1400 years ago. There wouldn't be barely a light on here!
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  Name "UNWRITTEN" Rules That JWs Are Supposed To Follow

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  as with the scribes and pharisees, there are a number of unwritten rules that witnesses are supposed to follow.

  here's a couple : "worldly" kids in society depictions are shown quite often wearing their baseball caps backwards.

  jehovah's witness youths would not want to imitate that "look".

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  Doctor Who

  Your avatar cracks me up.LOL Tell me when the elder said that about your man parts. Did it move?
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  Trump is a funny guy. Attacks John McCain

  by James Mixon in

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  2. friends

  the guy don't realize when he attack john mccain he alienated every men .

  and women who served in the military.

  and this is coming from a guy that.

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  I was reading the comment section of story about trump and the things he says. It was very interesting I can't remember where it was because I do so much reading or else I would leave a link. But poster after poster said "the things Trump says is really his opinion and not just focus group approved responses when he is asked a question". Perhaps that's what resonates with so many Americans. There is nothing more sickening to listen to than a politician give prepared responses to questions that are approved by his/her handlers.
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  Where Are They Now???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was raised as a witness and i remember many of the old timers.

  many of the elders are no longer serving.

  it seems like almost anyone that wad married and had kids.

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  Yep it seems that the ones who were told they wouldn't finish high school before the end are overlapping with their Grandchildren's generation now. I wonder in amazement of what prognostications are to come from the GB's holy spirit directed leadership? I am awaiting with baited breath.
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  Facing up to the reality of the world

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since becoming atheist i have been paying more attention to world events and issues.

  this is giving me some worry's when i see what's going on.

  as a jw i could just dismiss stuff saying "armageddon is coming, jehovah will look after us" etc etc now of course i can't do that.

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  There will eventually be a cataclysmic event to reduce or eliminate humans from the planet, and life will go on again as it has for so much of our history.
  

  Rebel I was thinking about that today. An extinction level event like a meteor impact perhaps?

  Hopefully we'll find away off this third rock from the sun so our story as a species goes on.All it will take is enough time. Survival of the fittest you know.
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  Is Watchtower imploding? 10 reasons why the end could be nigh

  by WildeLover in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/is-watchtower-imploding-10-reasons-why-the-end-could-be-nigh.

  i dont know how to hyperlink the link above,.

  it's a link to an article by cedars on the possibility of the wt imploding?.

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  I agree that a mass exodus is not going to happen for a variety of reasons, but I also think the publishing house that they enjoyed for a century or so is over. Just like many newspaper and magazine publishing houses that are former shells of themselves. The big major ones are still around but their influence is somewhat diminished.

  This is why the WTBTS is selling the expensive properties in NY and elsewhere they are no longer needed. At least now they will have to continually adapt with the internet and compete to get their message out. That's why the indifference witnessed in the trolley cart witnessing

  Then there is the third world countries were they can continue with publishing the way they have always done at least for now.
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  Yet more trolley (in)activity

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. friends

  i am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.

  whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.

  i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.

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  Sofia Lose " I ain't wasting my time, looking weird, in some public corner. No way!"

  That's exactly the way I felt going door to door as a child. LOL
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  Do you celebrate National Junk food day. July 26th. My suggestion, a Gripe Day.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some of you may find this to be silly, a grip day.. ok, how many knew we have these days.. 1)national fast food day.

  2) chick-fil-a , annual cow appreciation day.

  july 14.

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  Well everyone it's international Pi approximation day 7/22. Actually 22/7=3.14

  That's the first thing I said to the wife when we woke up this morning. She looked at me as if I had two heads. Who knows what evil lurks in a women's mind? LOL
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  Potential for new meeting?

  by campaign of hate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've mentioned it in a few threads, but i'd like to make it a thread of it's own.. i'm going to make the prediction the gb will schedule a new meeting once a month, starting in jan 2016, for watching the jw broadcasting program.

  at the moment it's up to each cong to organize a viewing, but soon the gb will take over the arrangements.. i make this assumption based on the fact that they know that a substantial quantity of pubs are not tuning in every month.. by scheduling a meeting once a month, it's easier for the gb/elders/organisation to gauge how many people are watching, and to make sure everyone is fully indoctrinated with what the gb are saying.

  it will also keep the rank and file busy busy busy.. if i was a cult leader, that's what i would do.

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  Its a possibility, the latest thing for Kingdom Halls to have a large screen up on the stage, where the monthly broadcast could be viewed.

  Not that something like that would bring to mind images of George Orwell's 1984. Would it Finkel ? LOL.
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  So much "growth"! JW Land double sided coin

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm finding it more and more funny how every wt article for the public or congregation, including jw broadcast talks about all this "growth" and how fast jehovha's organization is speeding up!

  yet everything behind closed doors, insider information, elder letters and sales paint a very different picture.

  i have news for you gb members!

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  This makes me think that the same could eventually happen in the third world where expansion does exist for now, that a saturation point will come and the JW org will nevertheless be in control of even greater wealth and large numbers of dim-witted believers loyally breeding new child members... just like they did in the Catholic Church.

  There is however a dramatic difference; the Roman Catholic Church has a magisterial hold over its vast but diminishing membership based on the myth of an apostolic inheritance from Jesus’ appointment of Peter. The Watchtower religion makes its claim by contrast as a doomsday cult, not of this world, which can never claim the ‘earthly’ authority as does its envied and supremely successful rival.

  The authority of a doomsday cult arises from the confidence in the accuracy of its predictions...

  Half Banana: Very astute observations about the Catholic Church and the JW doomsday cult.