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  Jesus had to die? Really?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  i admit i no longer believe in god and holy books.. thinking of the made up 'universal sovereignty' thing, surely if god existed in the way the holy books describe him then he could have thought of something better than humankind suffering thousands of years and the slaughter of jesus?.

  couldn't god have said: 'well, satan is a very naughty boy but you all know how great i am so we can end it now.

  i will lovingly kill satan and his mates and that's that.

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  snowbird

  According to WT dogma, the issue of universal sovereignty was supposed to have come into play in the Garden of Eden when Satan challenged Jehovah's right to rule.

  Adam and Eve took Satan's side of the issue.

  Man was then given so many years to come up with a workable alternative solution, which, of course, he couldn't.

  So, it was left up to Jehovah to settle the issue when His Son, known as Michael in the heavens, was sent to earth to suffer and die, and was raised to heavenly life and placed on the throne to rule all Creation.

  Convoluted?

  You bet!

  Sylvia
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  Huge Rise In US Religious Disaffiliation

  by metatron in

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  http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526111/how-the-internet-is-taking-away-americas-religion/.

  an interesting analysis of the view that the internet is killing off religious affiliation.

  at any rate, the trend is there, whatever the cause.. .

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  Have you read some of the comments following religious articles?

  The questions attacking God, the Bible, Jesus of Nazareth are the same ones to be found on here.

  People are simply fed up with anything that is remotely suggestive of the above three.

  Sylvia
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  Jesus had to die? Really?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i admit i no longer believe in god and holy books.. thinking of the made up 'universal sovereignty' thing, surely if god existed in the way the holy books describe him then he could have thought of something better than humankind suffering thousands of years and the slaughter of jesus?.

  couldn't god have said: 'well, satan is a very naughty boy but you all know how great i am so we can end it now.

  i will lovingly kill satan and his mates and that's that.

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  The universal sovereignty issue per WT raises more questions than answers.

  As if the lofty Creator would deign to bargain (because that is what it is) with one of His creatures!

  Sylvia
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  Elderettes

  by snowbird in

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  2. friends

  i lol whenever i run across this term because it aptly describes the elders' wives i've known.. bossy and domineering for the most part, they delighted in being the alpha females and watched jealously to see if any other female received undue attention from the body of elders.. i remember one who told me that my dress was too short, another said i was spoiling my daughter, and yet another wanted to know from where i was buying her clothes!.

  too much!.

  lol.. sylvia.

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  Unmarried pioneers!

  My poor baby girl!

  Sylvia
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  If you Believe in the Lord's Supper

  by designs in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so this time of year we get all of the feedback about how the majority of jws (and we) didn't partake.. if you self identify as a christian what do you believe about the bread and wine.

  are you catholic and believe in transubstantiation, or greek orthodox and believe in the mystery of the real eucharist, or protestant and believe only in the symbolism of the bread and wine.. do you serve grape juice and soda crackers (chruch of christ i attended), real wine, real matzah, wafer, other.. do you take communion daily, weekly, monthly, annually.. how important is communion to you..

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  LOL @ Outlaw.

  After leaving the JW's behind, I don't attend any church services.

  My personal belief is that anyone who wishes should participate in the breaking of the bread and the passing of the cup.

  From what I've been able to glean from reading 1 Corinthians 11, this was done in conjunction with a normal evening meal.

  Sylvia
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  My personal movie review: Darren Aronofsky's NOAH

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  noah, my movie review.

  you may have already judged this film and you've never seen it!

  like many of its critics, you think you know what you're going to see and .

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  Along with the Book of Enoch, there's also the Book of Jubilees, and the Testament of Noah to help round out the Biblical account of the great Flood.

  Of course, my favorite is the Book of Jasher.

  Sylvia
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  Elderettes

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i lol whenever i run across this term because it aptly describes the elders' wives i've known.. bossy and domineering for the most part, they delighted in being the alpha females and watched jealously to see if any other female received undue attention from the body of elders.. i remember one who told me that my dress was too short, another said i was spoiling my daughter, and yet another wanted to know from where i was buying her clothes!.

  too much!.

  lol.. sylvia.

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  LOL.

  Yep.

  Sylvia
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  Elderettes

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i lol whenever i run across this term because it aptly describes the elders' wives i've known.. bossy and domineering for the most part, they delighted in being the alpha females and watched jealously to see if any other female received undue attention from the body of elders.. i remember one who told me that my dress was too short, another said i was spoiling my daughter, and yet another wanted to know from where i was buying her clothes!.

  too much!.

  lol.. sylvia.

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  I LOL whenever I run across this term because it aptly describes the elders' wives I've known.

  Bossy and domineering for the most part, they delighted in being the alpha females and watched jealously to see if any other female received undue attention from the body of elders.

  I remember one who told me that my dress was too short, another said I was spoiling my daughter, and yet another wanted to know from where I was buying her clothes!

  Too much!

  LOL.

  Sylvia
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  Reunion- Stepping Back to a Time Before All the JW Stuff Started

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  although i was exposed to the jw's as a child as the only religion i knew, i was not a jw until i got out of the navy as a conscientious objector.

  so i was typical "worldly" when i hit 18 out of high school and i got to see the world before personal catastrophy involving heavy drinking made me turn to the lies that i thought were "the truth.

  " so just over 30 years ago, i got the special privilege of serving as the original crew of a brand new ship with a crew slightly over 200. i served 5 years on the "uss worldly" and then left to become a jw.. when you are the first crew, you learn together how to use that ship, how to run things smoothly.

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  Thanks for sharing your reunion experience, OTWO.

  I'm happy to report that my pre-JW associates have accepted me back into the fold unconditionally.

  Sylvia
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  The tower of Babel

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the bible story nimrod is having all the people build a tower to the heavens and god didn't like it so he caused there to be different languages all a miss so no one could understand one another.

  so thats the bible story anyway, what about reality.

  in my limited research of ancient history its come to my attention that the main language written and spoken was akad or akkadian.

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  snowbird

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/

  Here you go; decide for yourself, Comatose.

  Sylvia