Posts by smiddy

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Is the Jesus of religion conservative, and the Jesus of the New Testament liberal?

by Fernando in

is the jesus of religion conservative, and the jesus of the new testament liberal?.

your thoughts?.

smiddy

I wonder whether Jesus was conservative or Liberal when it`s all boilled down to it.

From what I can gather he was ????,He never wrote anything down himself at all .Maybe he thought what he had to say wasn`t very important at all , certainly not to be taken literally by the jews and definetly not to be taken literally by the whole world. ?

The only sayings of Jesus comes from second and third , fourth ,? hand accounts as to what he was supposed to have said.

That does not inspire confidence in me.

At least Moses is attributed to have written 5 books , even if they do cover a couple of Centuries after the event.

Wasn`t Jesus touted as the greater Moses ?

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Hopefully a Commonwealth Precedent - DF'ing Reviewable by a Court

by search in

well, it's been a very long road, so far, but, for the greater good.. appeal decision posted today.. http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abca/doc/2016/2016abca255/2016abca255.html?autocompletestr=highwood%20congr&autocompletepos=1.

smiddy

Anders Anderson , good points.

No child ,teenager or even an adult is forewarned of the consequences as to what will happen to you if, by any chance , you fail to live up to the rules and regulations imposed on you by the Jehovah`s Witness Elders /,Governing Body /clergy class.

Such as marking you as an undesirable acquaintance to associate with .

Publicly reproving you via an announcement in a Kingdom Hall , making you a person to steer clear of.

Disfellowshipping you in a public announcement in a Kingdom Hall ,whereby all jehovah`s Witnesses including family members will now actively shun you , not even saying a greeting to you for at least a year , and then only if the congregation Judicial committee convenes and welcomes you back into the religion after you have jumped through many hoops to appease them.

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further from ARC

by zeb in

jw
friends

the royal commission has published 35 submissions received from a range of organisations and individuals in response to its consultation paper: best practice principles in responding to complaints of child sexual abuse in institutional contexts.

the commission received submissions from sector peak bodies, government agencies, survivor advocacy and support groups, religious institutions and other interested parties.

the consultation paper, which was released in march this year, sought input into which matters should be canvassed in a complaint handling policy and how those matters might be addressed, as well as the royal commission’s suggested best practice principles.

smiddy

Thank you Zeb

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Hopefully a Commonwealth Precedent - DF'ing Reviewable by a Court

by search in

well, it's been a very long road, so far, but, for the greater good.. appeal decision posted today.. http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abca/doc/2016/2016abca255/2016abca255.html?autocompletestr=highwood%20congr&autocompletepos=1.

smiddy

Good luck with that , I hope you find satisfaction in the outcome .

Hopefully someone on here with experience in legal matters can offer more comfort.

And welcome to the board.

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CHRISTENDOM is doomed...........

by The Searcher in

..........according to these wtbts's literature quotes:god’s word is heavy with doom, announcing christendom’s imminent destruction; .

christendom is a fake "kingdom of the heavens" and is full of badness; .

christendom, professing love for jesus, actually rejects him; .

smiddy

"Babylon The Great Has Fallen Gods Kingdom Rules" published in 1963 spoke of the demise of Christendom in 1918-19 ? and it was just a matter of a short time before it went off into destruction ? along with all other false religions ,including Islam .

If Jesus has been sitting on his Kingly throne since 1914 , he better take his finger out , it`s now 2016 .

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Science the bible and some telling scriptures

by Crazyguy in

if one reads about god creating the earth with any critical thinking you'll notice that he created vegetation and the trees before the sun.

another one that i just read about was the stories about the golden calves.

one story involves the making of a golden calf by aaron and the other is about the golden calves that were set up at bethel and i think dan.

smiddy

The sun was the luminary for day , and the Moon was the luminary for night.

OK the Sun appears to rise every morning about 6` ish and sets about 12 hours later , every day , where I live anyway .

The Moon ? ugh , ugh ., some daylight hours it is up in the sky all day , so obviously it`s not appearing at night on the other side of the world at all.

And vise versa , sometimes it just does not appear in the nightime sky where I live at all , simply because it`s up in the daytime sky on the other side of the world

I don`t live in the Arctic or the Antarctic , I live in the S.E.of Australia.

No matter where you live you will observe the same thing.

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Question Anointed , If they are too sick or too old to attend the memorial.

by James Mixon in

i never encountered this as a elder, but if one that profess to be of the anointed is too ill to attend the.

the memorial do the brothers take the emblems to the sick??.

in the baptist church( after leaving the borg) i was assign to take the emblems to the sick and shut in on.

smiddy

I`m pretty sure that if someone was in hospital or otherwise through no fault of their own ,unable to attend the memorial ,arrangements were made for them to either observe it or partake of it , depending on what class they came under .

And I`m going back as far as the 1960`s .That`s my recollection here in Australia.

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Ever notice this contradiction?

by stuckinarut2 in

so witnesses love using the scripture that says that "narrow and cramped is the road to life, and few are the ones finding it" as proof that they have the truth.

yes, a small number.. yet they also love boasting about the "increases in numbers coming into the truth" as proof of jehovah's blessing of the society!.

so, which is it?

smiddy

Jehovah`s Witnesses speak out of both sides of their mouth.

Also , their is a scripture for every occasion .

On the one hand when it is brought up that the Roman Catholic Church has over 1 Billion members , and Islam has over 1 Billion members , numbers don`t count .

When they report such an increase in Baptisms in a certain country , it`s an evidence of Jehovah`s blessing.

On the other hand when decreases are noted around the world in various countries , they will cite the scripture "in the last days the love of the greater number will cool off "

Remember" Babylon The Great Has Fallen Gods Kingdom Rules" ? many years ago that foretold religion was on it`s last legs and .people were leaving it in droves ?

Nothing is further from the truth in todays society on a world scale.

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Family contact in terminal illness cases.

by Disassociated Lady 2 in

i had not seen my parents for over 15 years since the funeral of my brother and even then no one spoke to me as i was da.

my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2014 and i was then permitted contact with them.

i now know the reason that this is allowed.

smiddy

I like that one , iown Mylife , so very true.

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Visit From Jehovah's Witnesses

by Vanderhoven7 in

had two lovely jws (stephen and ruth) visit this morning.

this was our second study in the last 2 weeks.

they first knocked on my door (bell is out) 3 weeks ago and i shared my testimony and we arranged to meet last tuesday which we did.. our first study went like this:.

smiddy

The suspence is killing me , come on Vanderhoven7 !