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  Another Watchtower Flip Flop.

  by gumby in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's no wonder so many witnesses need medication since they must rely on the faithful slave do make decisions and do their thinking for them.. evidently jehovah changed his mind once again in the articles shown below and thanks to the fds they let the publishers in on it.. the watchtower march 1, 2002 p.30 .

  is it correct to say that jehovah's mercy tempers his justice?.

  although this expression has been used, it is best to avoid it since it seems to imply that jehovah's mercy softens or restrains his justice, as if his mercy were superior to the harsher quality of justice.

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  brinjen

  say it with me warlock.... BULL**IT!... and join me and my buddies for a round of .

  Come on Snakes, sing with me

  Bulls*^t, bulls*^t, it all sounds like bulls*^t to me
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  HE'LL BE RIDIN' FOUR WEIRD HORSEMEN WHEN HE COMES! (When he comes!)

  by FireNBandits in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "i won't hafta pay my car off when he comes!

  "i won't hafta pay my car off when he comes!

  "i won't hafta pay my car off!".

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  brinjen

  Thanks FireNBandits, theres coffee all over my monitor now!
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  If you were an elder, what would you tell me?

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  ok, lets say a witness goes up to an elder at the hall, and says, " what's going on" ???.

  why didn't the end come by now ?.

  why didn't the king of the north show up ?.

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  brinjen

  OK, lets say a witness goes up to an elder at the hall, and says, " What's going on" ???

  Just hanging at the KH dude, why do you ask?

  Why didn't the end come by now ?

  Ah, that sticky question again, have you checked your watchtower index?

  Why didn't the king of the North show up ?

  Cost of fuel skyrocketing, he'll be here soon. Just drop a few dollars into one of the 53 contribution boxes we have here. Maybe that will speed it up a bit.

  Why didn't we hear the Peace and Security call by now ?

  You didn't get the call? Dosen't your mobile have a messagebank?

  Why are brothers and sisters living more and more like worldly people ?

  You ever tried following this crap? Doctor says there is no more anti-depressent medication I can use anymore.

  Why are there less pioneers than years ago if the end is even closer than it ever was ?

  Dunno...something about dying from exhaustion, starvation, bumped off by loan sharks. Shame really.

  Hello....we are in 2007 for pete's sake... The generation of people that was supposed to see the great tribulation and the new system is dying away fast !!! If these JW's all die away, what's the difference between people who accepted the "truth" and sacrificed their lives, and those who didn't want to become JW's and both of them die? Both will resurrect, because the end came after their death, so there was NO advantage being a JW throught these years.

  Aah, we do have a back up though. Those who came to know the truth and died before armaegeddon won't be resurrected, once you listen to our crap we've got you for life! How's that? Of course I could never be an elder, pity
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  Phone phobia overcome - now the price to be paid! Skype info?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have always been slightly uncomfortable using the phone, but over the last month i seemed to overcome it in a more general way.

  to financially bad effect.

  i just got my bill for one month and its horrendous.

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  someone said you can buy phone cards which let you talk abroad for hours for a tenner. I must look into this.

  Ok I'm back. You should be able to get those from your supermarket, lots of companies do these. Australia has GoTalk, HappyCalling, SuperBuzz to name a few. How they work is you ask for say $10 of credit. They give you a voucher with a number you call that's local call cost, then you put your voucher number in, you'll hear how much credit you have, then you dial the number your wanting to call. They can be extemely cheap. I used to sell a lot of these at my former job of checkout operator in a supermarket. One german girl told me it is cheaper for her to ring her parents in Germany from here using SuperBuzz than it is to call them from her own country. I'd combine these with Skype and your phone bill will be nothing like it is now.
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  Phone phobia overcome - now the price to be paid! Skype info?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have always been slightly uncomfortable using the phone, but over the last month i seemed to overcome it in a more general way.

  to financially bad effect.

  i just got my bill for one month and its horrendous.

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  brinjen

  Crumpet did you not hear about TalkTalk? For £21 per month they give broadband internet of up to 8Mb and free (zero cost) calls to fixed phones in the UK, all EU countries (and a few more European countries), USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and several more international countries. To the USA and Canada calls to mobile phones are also free.

  I see only one problem with that deal, they only give you 8Mb of data a month. You'll chew that up within the first hour, what do they charge after that?

  My advice would be to go with Skype, just download the program, plug a microphone into your souncard (headset is prefferable). They do have a number where you can test your audio, you'll find it easily you just talk when prompted and it plays your recording back so you can hear how your connection is etc. You can search for someone on skype by using their email address as well, in fact thats how it works, you're not given a number.

  That's pretty much it!
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  Was man created perfect?

  by moshe in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the bible explains that adam and eve were created human and because they had eaten from the tree of knowledge good and evil, they became almost like god and the angels.- gen 3:22-24. they knew the difference between good and bad, which the rest of the animals did not.

  god kicked them out of the garden of eden to keep them from eating from the tree of life and becoming immortal- just like god.

  if they had been able to get to the tree of life, they could have lived forever.

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  How do you define perfect? On whose perception is this based upon? Found a good link here

  http://www.christianworldchurch.co.uk/page8.htm

  A bit deep for me at this time of the morning, I need a coffee, I'll be back soon
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  marriage

  by showmelight in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my name is paul , i am a practicing jw, (and loving it).

  i am engaged to woman who is not a jw.

  during my studys my elders are always reminding me that i should marry only in the lord as the bible says.

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  can you guarantee that not being a true christian will svae me from armageddon?

  Showmelight, the dubs are not the way to being a true christian. Have a read through this discussion board, just browse through some of the posts at random if you haven't already done so. We're not monsters like you've been told. We're not out to ruin anybodys lives, and we're not spiritually weak either. Just do the research and come to your own conclusion, if you feel your best course if with the dubs, then go for it. But stay with them because you want to, not because you're afraid to leave.

  Getting back to your question, no the elders cannot stop you from getting baptised if you marry an un-believer. They will however, rub your face in it for the rest of your life. How are you going to feel being told your wife won't survive armaegeddon? How is she going to feel in the long term about your faith? You both need to think long and hard about how this will affect the both of you.
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  Make up: Love it or loathe it?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just gotten around to taking off last nights trowelling and what a relief that is!

  i rarely wear make up - maybe once a month, so i probably go over board.

  i feel like my skin just suffocated for 24 hrs.. what do you love or loathe about make up?

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  brinjen

  I love the mineral foundation - a few swirls of a big brush and voila! even skin tones, very natural looking!

  I've wondered about those. So they are worth getting? I'm sick of my face feeling like goo every day....
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  Make up: Love it or loathe it?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just gotten around to taking off last nights trowelling and what a relief that is!

  i rarely wear make up - maybe once a month, so i probably go over board.

  i feel like my skin just suffocated for 24 hrs.. what do you love or loathe about make up?

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  brinjen

  Both really. I wear it to work everyday coz I like the way it evens out my skin tones. As soon as I get home though, I wash it straight off. I hate that 'icky' feeling that it gives you, you can feel it on your skin especially when you live in the tropics and perspire a bit. I don't wear it when I'm home or just ducking out to the shops though.
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  They didn't know 18 to 20 years ago, that pedophiles were harmful?

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm.

  that explains it all.

  they just didn't know, that it would be harmful to a child.

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  brinjen

  But if you have consensual sex with an adult, we will disfellowship you. We don't even have to have 2 witnesses.

  That's the part that p**##s me off the most. Who here has been reproved/disciplined/disfellowshipped etc without 2 witnesses to back the accusations up? I'm guessing a lot, a hell of a lot. Whatever it was, I'll bet it pales in comparison to the actions of a child molester.