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  The Great Apostasy is months away?

  by Hiddenwindow in

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  2. experiences

  it's time for "the new song".. same as the old song...it will be a lie.. the teachings will surprise you and the word will be those that can't change and go with the program will be left behind.. it will be so fast it will make your head swim.. as always, jehovah/satan will dangle the carrot of promised knowledge...but you have to committ blindly first.

  the knowledge and understanding will come later.

  same promise; same lie.. the new teachings will be that humans were an abandoned experiment and the reason the nephilim mated with the women was to try to raise the intellect through the gene pool.. as in the days of noah, the nephilim are rising again.. they will teach you that god is a hoax, created by man.

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  eyeslice

  I cannot understand reducing Public Talks to 30 mins, or removing Group Studies either
  
  Neither can I. Nothing they do today seems to make sense to me, its all about uniformity and control.
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  WHERE WERE YOU 7 YEARS AGO?

  by Mary in

  1. social
  2. current

  guess i'll be the first one to do an (inevitable) thread about 9-11. hard to believe it's been 7 years already.

  i was at work when one of my co-workers came up and told me that a plane had hit the world trade center.

  i thought it was awful, but i figured it was a small single engine plane that maybe lost its way in the fog.

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  I was at work and remember just how hard it was to get on to websites such as foxnews. I guess 9/11 will stick with people just the same as the assignation of JFK, the shooting of John Lennon, the death of Elvis and man landing on the moon. Though they are sometime tragic, they form the landmarks of our lives.
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  Why I think Americans should give George Bush 4 more years in office

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1.our australian dollar is booming thanks to the u.s dollar and economy crashing......2. he makes me laugh.......3. he makes australia look less backwards as a nation...4. his daughter is kinda hot.

  5. he has a dog which means your okay by me.

  6.his daddy did a good job so give him a third chance.

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  eyeslice

  He will go down as one of the worst presidents of recent years. I've always had feeling that GW is just a puppet and that the real power must be behind him somewhere. What a dork.
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  Do you have your "bucket list" prepared before 2012?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. friends

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfwfyblkp7c.

  er.

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  eyeslice

  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4640872.ece - 100 things to do before you die. But be careful the guy who co-authored the book '100 things to do before you die' died recently aged 47, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4613674.ece
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  Freewill - does it really exist?

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  paul wrote in romans 7:19;"for what i do is not the good i want to do; no, the evil i do not want to do.

  this i keep on doing.. so is there such a thing as free will, or are we all driven by our nature (our genes), .

  our nurture or both?

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  eyeslice

  But if freewill doesn't exist, does that mean that sex offenders, drug addicts and people who become JWs or grow up as Jws have absolutely no choice in the actions that they take?
  
  The there is the debate about homosexuality; do we have any freewill when it comes to choosing our sexuality? That this is freewill is the argument of those who condemn gays.
  
  There are those here who would string up sex offenders by the balls. However, I am more of a 'woolly liberal' type and tend to lean to the 'its in their nature + nurture' defense. Understanding and treatment rather than punishment - how can you punish something where freewill was not exercised?
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  Freewill - does it really exist?

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  paul wrote in romans 7:19;"for what i do is not the good i want to do; no, the evil i do not want to do.

  this i keep on doing.. so is there such a thing as free will, or are we all driven by our nature (our genes), .

  our nurture or both?

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  eyeslice

  Paul wrote in Romans 7:19;"For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do
  this I keep on doing.

  So is there such a thing as free will, or are we all driven by our nature (our genes),
  our nurture or both? Or perhaps, everything has been predestined for us and what will be will be?

  Me? I don't think that I have much freewill. We are all driven by forces outside of our control.

  I go to work each day because I have to put food on the table. It's not that I dislike my job, quite the opposite in fact
  but it's probably not I would choose to do . We live where we do because we had to be close to my wife's ageing parents before
  they died, and now we have kids, they want to be close to their friends, school, college, etc.

  There are a few people who totally live their lives as they please but I have a suspicion that these people are not
  always the happiest of people and certainly have often caused much anxiety and pain to those they become close to.
  Most of us go with the flow and spend our lives 'going with the flow'.
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  Just encase you are missing the "Bookstudy"!

  by Rooster in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  *** truth book chap.16pp.140-150popularcustomsthatdispleasegod***.

  popularcustomsthatdispleasegod.

  we have everything worth while to gain and nothing of true value to lose by seeking to please god in all things.

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  eyeslice

  After that, not missing it at all.
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  COMMENTS YOU WILL NOT HEAR AT THE WT STUDY 09-07-08 (HOUSE TO HOUSE MINISTR

  by Mary in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  " (this would harmonize with matt 10:9 that tells them not to take any money with them).

  " the interpretation of the acts of the apostles, 1961, pp.120-21.

  it became evident, however, that further personal training in the house-to-house ministry was needed.

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  Top work Mary.
  
  The society still clings to the 'house to house' work even though that it is evident that it is having absolutely no success in the west, where witnesses going from door to door has become a joke. Although there is growth in the developing world, they could achieve the same growth using other methods - evangelicals appear to me to be growing in Africa and India more rapidly than the witnesses and they use slight different tactics for attracting new members - for example charitable handouts.
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  Who remembers – the NWT Bible on 3.5 inch Floppy Disks?

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at the dawn of the age of the pc, before the advent of the cd, when pcs had 10 mg hard drives and when few people had pcs at home, the society brought out what at the time was an amazing piece of software: the nwt bible for the pc.

  i think it came on something like 12 3.5 inch floppy disks, which took an eternity to load, but as a piece of software was really cool at the time.

  it allowed for a full text search way before yahoo and google ever were thought of.

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  eyeslice

  There is nothing more manly than computing from a C: prompt.
  
  How true! Thank goodness we still have Unix/Linux for real men.
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  Do young JWs care about the dates 1914 or 1919 anymore?

  by 1914BS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt mags are using the word "1914" and "1919" less often because jw teenagers today could not care less about the hard core teachings of the past.

  the jw religion today is not the same religion it was even 10 years ago.

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  I find the Watchtower and Awake to be totally vague now a days regarding key Watchtower dates.
  
  I am sure that the average JW is no theologian and do not understand or care about theology. THose remain in do so because of family and social reasons, not for any love of God or a conviction that we are living in the end times.