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  Are Magicians Spawns of Satan the Devil?

  by Cold Steel in

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  i was perusing the internet not long ago and came upon this series of videos by a guy calling himself xendrius.

  it declares that many of today's best magicians are in league with the devil.

  his claims are based on his observation that the tricks would be impossible to do unless the magicians had made unholy pacts with the devil.. so what's the take of the wtbts?

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  An Elder in our congregation beleived that skippy the bush kangaroo was demonized , seriously.

  Ozzie TV show

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  New NWT deception at Genesis 8:22 to indicate earth remains forever.

  by jwfacts in

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  i could not find mention of this before.

  i was reading genesis 8:22 in the niv and was surprised i had never noticed that this verse gives the impression that the earth will not remain forever.

  genesis 8:22 stated by god after the flood, when promising to never again destroy all living creatures.. as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.

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  As I have said before and will say again these words attributed to GOD ?Jehovah ? over 2000 years ago and are continually debated today as to what the correct interpretation lies ,???? Where has he/she been these last 2000 years ? He/She could easily clear up these controversial passages , and there are heaps of them , if he/she just spoke up ? Imperfect humans decided what books were to be included to make up the Bible Cannon , GOD never had a say in it .Is that reasonable ?

  After all He/She is GOD the Almighty ? Why so silent for 2000+ years ?

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  Why do animals suffer?

  by nicolaou in

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  bonnie is fourteen years old now and she's still fit and active, but she sleeps (and farts) a lot more and is definitely slowing down.. she loves us in her own dumb way and always comes to the door to greet me when i get home from work.

  she doesn't 'sin' but yeah, she'll steal biscuits and feel shame afterwards.

  she's loyal and intelligent and i dread the day when .

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  As someone once said , when you say something to a dog , they cock there head as if to say Geeeez that was a profound statement you just made .

  My favourite saying ," Nobody loves you like a dog loves you "

  R.I.P.Lilly

  Edit to say , Why do all the marine creatures suffer , how in the world could Adam and Eve`s disobedience effect /affect marine life, where they live out there lives with the threat of another marine creature ready to eat them alive.

  And God is a loving God ? No harm to any creature would occur under his Kingship ? Then why has he tolerated it for over 6000 years ,? I don`t think the rest of creation would accept the WT theory.

  God is Love ? Tell that to all of his creation .

  Every living thing/creature on this planet survives by killing and eating some other living creature/thing .

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  Traveling Merchants

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wt teaches that rev 18:11 applies to "big business" mourning the demise of false religion, as they were essentially losing their best customer(s).. the last reference to this concept that i could find is 1993 wt.

  also weeping and mourning over her are greedy men of commerce, traveling merchants .

  , who became rich from her.. .

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  Good question berrygerry ,associated with that scripture as you point out is" Babylon The Great Has Fallen" (false religion) do they still teach that ? Probably not , for they could not preach one without the other.

  I don`t think there is any evidence for either claims.

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  Moses

  by Lost and adrift in

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  I saw this when it was first posted , I resisted commenting on it because of the "C" word .

  I have never considered myself a prude , before I converted to JW `s at age 19 , the language of F`s & C`s was part of my vocabulary .I had a foul mouth.

  After 33 years in the Borg , maybe that`s one positive ?

  I think it would have had more impact substituting the "C" word for something less confronting.

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  Lost and adrift

  LOL , trust the Irish to see the funny side of this , you say used to ? what`s happened lately ?

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  3 wiser women

  by Lost and adrift in

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  I knew these three sisters in my old congregation .

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  People keep sending me messages saying "what happened?"

  by slimboyfat in

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  i am sorry i haven't replied and if it seems rude.

  but people keep asking me what happened and i am not sure what to say.

  thanks for writing anyway.

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  Slimboyfat ,

  I wouldn`t concern myself too much about it.You can`t please everybody , some will love for what you post others may find it objectionable .Some even misinterpret what your post tried to convey , which can also work in your favour LOL

  I don`t think there are many of us here who, at one time or another , haven`t said to ourselves , GEEEEZ I wish I hadn`t posted that ! .

  I learn from others , hopefully others learn from me , regardless if it`s a negative thing or a positive thing ,we learn something .

  And hopefully that benefits us as a person.

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  Imagine

  by Doug Mason in

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  mary gives birth to a girl..

  jesus shares the lead in his ministry with a woman..

  half of jesus leading disciples and half of his apostles are women..

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  Doug , I think Imagine should be an International Anthem played at every opening session of the U.N.

  And as far as Islam being controlled and managed by women , I don`t know , while some men can be bastards ,some women can be bitches

  Having said that , we would never know until it was tried .I won`t hold my breath though. .

  Just saying.

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  Going to see Star Wars:The Force Awakens - What are you seeing?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  this is not an attempt to 'straightjacket' anyone into a fixed interpretative perspective.

  so set your mind free and see satan and his demons if you reallynwant to adopt a possible jw perspective.

  or, just sit back and watch the show and the trick affects if you want.. or like the uk guardian you could see the movie in terms of dysfunction (personal and family).. quote: the original movies were always based on the most extraordinary nexus of personal and family dysfunction: a motor of guilt, shame and conflict.

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  Its hard to believe that Australia saw it before the USA , my son and DIL went to the midnight screening and my wife and I saw it the next day.I enjoyed the first two movies 30 years ago , not so much the ones to follow , however this one did get something back to the originals .

  We look forward to the next one.

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  OK friends lets be honest, if a Nuclear Holocaust took place today how many of you would return to the KH?

  by James Mixon in

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  2. bible

  speaking for my self, no way in hell.. this question to see if you really have been deprogramed,.

  do you 100% believe it is not the truth.. a fourth of the world hit by a nuclear attack..

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  Never , not in a million years .

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