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  I started my first " Mens Gym" session today

  by smiddy in

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  i`m no fitness fanatic by any stretch of the imagination though throughout my life i have strived on & off (more often than not , off ) to maintain some level of fitness activity.. i retired about 10 years ago and for the first few years i joined two table tennis clubs , social activity,though not anymore.. and i have become more of a couch potato these past few years with the internet and netflix and the club as my main concern of activity if you can call it that ,and it has been bothering me ,so finally i did something about it.. only a few doors down from me is a medical health clinic with a gym that caters for seniors like myself , so i bit the bullet and joined up .. and i`m proud of it.. if it kills me in the process then i`ll die doing what i want to do at my age.. sorry to bore you with this post ,but what did you expect a future mr. universe ?.

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  jwleaks , let me know when you will be down this way again and we can have a coffee or beer together or if you prefer whiting & chips.
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  When you stop & think about it ,why would Gods chosen people in the Old testament need an army ?

  by smiddy in

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  2. friends

  as the op states why would israel /jewish nation need to have an army at all ?

  if they were the chosen people as the bible states under a theocracy , why would the men of israel need an army .?

  to protect them ?.

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  Yes stuck..., you are right, it stands to reason their were deaths and casualties in the wars jehovah approved of, their is nothing in scripture to say the opposite.

  If a JW reads of Women and children being killed in any conflict today around the world , its an evidence of Satans system of things causing it.

  Go figure
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  Entertainment: What's everybody reading or into right now?

  by schnell in

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  2. entertainment

  i picked up bernard cornwell's the pagan lord at the library.

  historical fiction set in england after the death of alfred the great.

  i'm loving it, especially the between-the-lines wit and sense of timing in cornwell's writing, and the complete badassery of the protagonist.

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  I have just started reading "The Girl On A Train "
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  Lost my avatar

  by Listener in

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  2. tech-support

  i lost my avatar (the ballerina) and now i have a completely new one, not the original green one that i had when i joined up.

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  It could be better , you could have lost your virginity .
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  Cryonics

  by HB in

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  2. medical

  on the bbc news at present is a story about a 14 year old girl from the uk who has sadly died of cancer, but has chosen to be cryogenically preserved in the us in the hope that in the distant future, science will find a way to cure the cancer and resuscitate her frozen body.. see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38012267.

  the chances of this technique ever becoming a practical reality are very remote at present and it would take major breakthroughs in technology.

  however, the professor in charge of tissue banking at the university of bristol, says that although there is little chance of it happening based on current knowledge, he believes "you can never say never in science".

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  How much would this cost in $$$$$ ? I just couldnt see how anybody could afford to keep such a project like this going even if you were a Billionaire .

  I read this article about this young girl and I could certainly synpathise with her.

  very sad
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  When you stop & think about it ,why would Gods chosen people in the Old testament need an army ?

  by smiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as the op states why would israel /jewish nation need to have an army at all ?

  if they were the chosen people as the bible states under a theocracy , why would the men of israel need an army .?

  to protect them ?.

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  Its been refreshing to read your "Jewish" take on the OP David _Jay , it makes a helluva lot more sense than the literal interpretation that Christianity makes the Bible out to be ,that its all historical fact.

  I should have gone to a synagogue and talked to the people of the book , . before taking the plunge in Watchtower bullshit for 33 years,

  Thanks to everyone else who has contributed to this post it has been very enlightening for me.

  When I think of it , I wonder ,why do Jewish people embrace Christianity ?

  I knew a Jewish family in a congregation I attended in Melbourne Aust.
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  Hello everyone

  by Lancashirelass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just wanted to add my name to the many number of people who have awakened from the cult.

  i have been lurking for probably 2 years now.

  and i'm quite certain there are many more lurking and reading just like me.. i have to be honest and say that i most likely will not be contributing much to the discussion board.

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  Welcome LL from down under,its always encouraging to hear more people waking up TTATT

  Take care and enjoy the real life you are now engaged in and not the pie in the sky one.
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  If the light is getting brighter why are they getting dumber?

  by scotoma in

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  don't they have editors?.

  why can’t they get it through their heads that they aren’t under the mosaic law.. look at the “imperfect food” that was served up at the nov 14 watchtower study.. "3. what can we learn about clothing from god’s law to the israelites?.

  3 for example, in god’s law to the israelites there were rules that protected them against the.

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  Jehovah`s Witnesses speak out of both sides of their mouth .
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  So the governing body is NOT inspired...are they still "spirit directed"?

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay there has been lots of buzz about the feb 2017 wt where they say the governing body is not inspired nor infallible.

  yet, they are still using the baptism questions.

  the second one being... "do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of jehovah’s witnesses in association with god’s spirit-directedorganization?".

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  I agree evilApostate , the Holy Spirit cant be wrong or lie can it ? So the religion obviously cant be spirit directed with their admission they are neither inspired or infallible.
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  Need input: elders showed up at our door today

  by de-opresso-liber in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so as i announced last week, my wife and i started our fade and i sent in a letter to our body that i was stepping down and cited the arc as the reason and insisted that we not be bothered.

  my wife told a few relatives in person that we weren't going to attend meetings any longer (immediate shunning occurred, the new videos must be effective) and that what we found with the arc shocked us etc etc.

  i have an inside track on how this is all going down by an awake elder on the body, co told them to handle the matter quickly.

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  I think " apparent Apostacy" has become so rife in the organization now ,that they are now shooting from the hip and as crazyguy says they will move quick to try to kill the problem.

  I also think they are flogging a dead horse , its too late to shut the gate.