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  Do flat earth beliefs deserve respect?

  by azor in

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  what say you.

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  dropoffyourkeylee,

  Just to clarify my friend ,Jw`s never believed the earth /universe was created in 6 days of 7000 years (42000 years ) ago .

  When I joined in 1960 , they taught the universe / earth could have been around for millions of years.

  The 7000 years for a day only applied to when Jehovah decided to make the Earth as a place for humans to live on.

  Gen 1:1 Could be applied to millions of years ago

  Gen 1:2 applies to when Jehovah God turned his attention to the Earth to put humans on it.

  That is the official WT teaching .(back then anyway )

  Of course that means that humanity has only existed for no more than 6000 years , along with animals ,vegetation ,etc, which is absurd , and not supported by academics in their relative fields.

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  Why Are You Here?

  by Believer in

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  i'm wondering why believers remain members of this forum which is clearly hostile to believers.

  as one member said, nonbelievers pounce on any semblance of belief like piranhas on prey.

  as former jws we should have had our fill of judgmental know-it-alls, but here we are.

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  Believer

  If the Hebrew Scriptures ,Old Testament is not relevant for Christians , that is , it`s outdated and not relevant in our day for Christians why is it even a part of the Christian Bible?

  Almighty GOD inspired the Old Testament and gave his laws on everyday issues religious and social ,,to reject that either means GOD was wrong or he has had a change of heart .

  However the Bible states that GOD is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow , in other words he never changes. And he certainly can`t be wrong.

  Jesus Christ accepted and worshiped the GOD of the Old Testament and instructed his followers to do so also .The GOD of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament do not gel.together.

  Jesus said you only have to observe two commandments , so God burdened the Jews with eight other commandments that was not needed ,along with a multitude of other laws and requirements.

  Why am I here ? to learn , to see others point of view ,and to discuss issues that are brought up about religion and specifically JW teachings.

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  "holding the anointed elders in his right hand"

  by oppostate in

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  (ks10 p11:1) revelation 1:20 depicts jesus as holding the anointed elders in his right hand, thus, by extension, indicating that he controls all bodies of elders for the purpose of accomplishing jehovah’s will.

  (re pp.

  in the shepherding book it says "holding the anointed elders in his right hand".

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  The illustrations in JW publications showing the Anointed in heaven as all having beards ,so I guess that`s something the Anointed sisters can look forward to .

  I always wondered how the Anointed , male or female never had a part in congregational matters , yet they will rule with J.C.in heaven .

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  I've been found out!

  by pale.emperor in

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  well, thats it folks.. my identity on here has been rumbled and reported to the elders.

  someone, somehow, has figured out that im a member of this site and - rather than speak to me - has promptly reported me to the elders.

  i just feel sad for my daughter.

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  pale emperor ,your not pale emperor , I`m pale emperor , and I hacked into your pc .

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  Anti-religion T-Shirt idea

  by Simon in

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  i want a t-shirt.

  something that says "religion is crap, i don't care which one".. i was thinking of adapting the "coexist" one to say "toxic" instead which is great because it removes 'science' but includes all the major world religions.. anyone else have any ideas?.

  also a tag-line ... "whatever god you worship, he's a weirdigan".

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  Some very clever ideas here , I especially like Timebandit`s

  Trouble is nowadays you set yourself up to be a target for a crazy.

  And their`s plenty of them around.

  smiddy
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  New to JWD, Hello!

  by jwundubbed in

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  my story in a nutshell... .

  scientist for a father; extremely mentally ill, 'annointed' mother.

  was privy to and also suffered a lot of abuse.

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  Welcome , their are all sorts here I`m sure you will fit in.

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  Warwick, Queensland, Australia: Elders covered up rape of young girl

  by wifibandit in

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  http://www.warwickdailynews.com.au/news/church-elders-covered-rape-young-girl/3047470/.

  and archived forever via the wayback machine.

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  Is it not a criminal offence to know about a crime and not report it to the police / Law /authorities ?

  If so , how , have at least 3018 Elders in Australia not been prosecuted for not reporting these crimes against children ? These past decades ?

  I for one propose writing to the Australian newspapers a letter to the editor where you can voice your opinion on this matter.

  If you are genuine about the Elders withholding this information of child abuse from the law enforcement authorities /police then please , contact the media in Australia with your concern , because it is only with media expose that anything constructive is ever done.

  The Herald Sun , The AGE , The Sydney morning Herald ,The Courier Mail , The Advertiser ,to name a few .

  The more people that respond to this the more action that can take place , the more impact we have .

  Of course if everybody ignores it , then how genuine really are you in protecting youth in the JW religion against abuse .

  You do not have to be a resident of Australia to voice your concern , so please do so .

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  The Ten Commandments in stone / the Golden Calf in gold.....,Pose a problem for GOD?

  by smiddy in

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  in exodus 32 aaron made a golden calf at the jews request from the gold jewelry they had in their possession .. did they use more common sense / ability than jehovah ?.

  problem 1 .would the egyptians have allowed them to flee with their valuable possessions ?

  ( side point ).

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  In Exodus 32 Aaron made a Golden calf at the Jews request from the gold jewelry they had in their possession .

  Did they use more common sense / ability than Jehovah ?

  Problem 1 .Would the Egyptians have allowed them to flee with their valuable possessions ? ( side point )

  Almighty God Jehovah ,who was described by the WT many years ago as the ultimate chemist ,wrote the ten commandments on two tablets of stone ? Something that could be so easily destroyed ?

  He didn`t learn from his mistake he had Moses do the same thing.And it went off into destruction also

  Problem 2 .He didn`t think to use his chemistry knowledge to form some alloy that would be indestructible ?

  That would last indefinitely throughout time ? After all GOD did write it himself right ?

  It would seem mere humans were way ahead of their creator in thinking ability here.

  just saying

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  "how awful it must be to be dying as an apostate!"

  by purrpurr in

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  i heard today about a former jw/now apostate who is dying in hospital.

  this information was accompanied by the comment of "wouldn't be awful to be lying there in hospital,dying as an apostate!

  knowing that you have no hope!?

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  How awful it really is still living ? as a Jehovah`s Witness .

  What with all these back-flips , flip flops ,nu-lite , old-lite ,rules & regulations not found in the Bible ,counting hours ,worshiping the new golden calf JW.ORG ,if Christians are worshiping the cross as a symbol of their religion then so are JW`s.

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  They call me TaterSalad

  by TaterSalad in

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  my name is tatersalad.

  i have been disassociated for about six years now.

  i have moved past most of my jw issues, but i feel like it would be cool to get to know others like myself.

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  Welcome Tater from down under , I DA about 10 years ago now after being out for 20

  I thought I would make a statement

  Make yourself at home.

  smiddy