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  A blog post on my 65th birthday

  by JeffT in

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  putting this out there for everybody.

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  http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/.

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  Happy birthday Jeff,
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  Update on my current life

  by umadevi in

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  i'm visiting this site after few years here and it's feels like coming home!

  just a recap on my past visits here ... i was a confused single jw mom with a 9 year old son in 2011. some friends here sent me soft copies of coc and few other ebooks which gave me the courage and strength to exit from wt society.

  best ever decision i made!

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  Welcome back umadevi ,that`s a good success story, good to hear tour son is doing o.k. also Take care

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  "Ridiculous Claim"...?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  interesting, yet thought provoking video regarding how beliefs are taught or promoted...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.

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  It gets my thumbs up
  

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  The Christian GOD / Old Testament GOD , one and the same right? A GOD of Love ?

  by smiddy in

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  2. bible

  and god is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow.. in other words he is unchangeable.. what a bloodthirsty god he was in the old testament., at his command killing old men young men women and children by the sword , a two edged sword i might add in some cases.cutting both ways.. put yourself in that situation for a minute , either as a victim or the executioner.

  can you imagine piercing some other human with a two edged sword ?

  especially if they were a child ?

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  And God is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow.

  In other words he is unchangeable.

  What a bloodthirsty God he was in the Old Testament., at his command killing old men young men women and children by the sword , a two edged sword I might add in some cases.Cutting both ways.

  Put yourself in that situation for a minute , either as a victim or the executioner. Can you imagine piercing some other human with a two edged sword ? especially if they were a child ? or teen ? or pregnant woman ? or an elderly man ? yet that is what GOD commanded. ....And his servants did just that.

  God created the animals , in the law covenant he makes provision for their health and well being

  .On the other hand he wants humans to sacrifice these same animals and bird life. In the 4000 years from Adam to Christ , he has wanted animal . bird sacrifices shedding their blood , would amount to the millions if not billions of animals slaughtered for him.

  Is their any difference in the New Testament ? not really , in spite of all the " LOVE" that surrounds Jesus life he wholeheartedly endorses his Fathers wishes .

  Christendoms religions cherry pick all the goody goody /lovey lovey scriptures they want but the bottom line is according to the Bible the majority of humans , man woman and child , are going to be annhillated at the great tribulaion and Armageddon

  Jehovah/GOD , apparently is not content with the shed blood of Jesus , he wants billions of people to shed their blood in his name. according to the New Testament.

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  You Can Be Happy As A JW If...

  by JW_Rogue in

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  you are delusional.

  meaning that you believe everything that the wt says 100% without questioning it all.

  you believe there is no other source of truth or valid view points.

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  You can be happy as a J.W. if ?

  You have your head up your arse

  somebody else`s arse

  your head is buried in the sand.

  You refuse to face facts

  You are in total denial

  you believe the ARC is an Apostate conspiracy ? Really ?

  You just don`t think , period.

  You believe everything the G.B. says without questioning it .

  Discard all the contradictions contained in the Bible.

  You believed C.T.Russell was chosen by God , for telling the truth and now the religion he started rejects nearly all of his teachings..?

  New light is always followed by failed prophecy`s /expectations or evident

  predictions that never came true..Old light obviously never came from God

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  Real Prophecy vs. Watchtower Prophecies

  by Perry in

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  while we had our eyes fixated on our "one-time" idol the watchtower and their false prophecies like the generation of 1914 that wouldn't pass away, 1975 etc.

  ; a number of real prophecies were unfolding.

  we just weren't taught to look for them.

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  Where would modern day Israel be today if it were not for the backing of the most powerful nation on earth at the present time , namely the United States of America .

  Giving Financial , Military ,Economic ,and Technological aid to them.

  I don`t see any GOD involvement in their current status.They are propped up by the USA .

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  This week's resurrection video, will it backfire on the wt?

  by prologos in

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  the resurrection is supposed to be a joyous occasion?, if it ever happened!

  --well, this week's showing at the hall was the opposite, it was about death with violins playing in the background.

  a recently bereaved member, , full of tears, (like many others) could not contain herself.

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  I find it amusing that in all these New World / paradise scenarios , they have the latest equipment , building materials , clothing , mod cons , sewerage ,technology ,etc.etc. ,Where do they think all this comes from ?

  If not from mass produced , in factories somewhere along the line.

  The earth has different temperate zones , no way could it be otherwise ,therefor every where on the earth could not be a paradise.

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  What is a generation? Matthew 1:17 is pretty clear to me

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. bible

  so we have this ridiculous teaching of an overlapping generation, something the bible clearly does not teach.

  if this has been mentioned before i apologize.

  but it's interesting that at the start of matthew we go through the genealogy of jesus.

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  I bumped at the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses ___generation ,(The Bibles viewpoint .) as I see it.

  I would appreciate your thoughts guys /gals.

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  At the mouth of 2-3 witnesses a matter is established .Gods word the bible proves a generation is 50 years +, or - 5 years

  by smiddy in

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  jehovah`s witnesses make a big deal about the 2 or 3 witnesses in judicial decisions yet they ignore that evidence when it suits them.. firstly :.

  regarding the length of a generation matthew ch.1:17 gives a strong clue ,their are 3 lots of 14 generations mentioned which equal 42 generations from the time of abraham to jesus .. watchtower publications give abrahams birth as 2018 bc......they also give jesus birth as of 2 bc a period of 2016 years .

  2016 yrs.

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  Bump , for those having difficulty understanding the Bibles definition of a generation.

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  Ronnie Corbett.

  by karter in

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  and it's good nite from him.. one of the greatest comedians of my lifetime,he never used foul language he and ronnie barker were just truly funny.. i always enjoyed he two ronnie's.. rip.. karter.

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  Escaped convicts in a van collided with a cement truck , authorities are now looking for 16 hardened criminals .

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