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  Worshipping Jehovah without all the rules?

  by ptucker8357 in

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  hi again.... i've been searching around for a few days now trying to understand whether or not there are spiritual folks out there who believe some of the fundamental tenents of the witness religion, but don't believe in all the rules that the gb puts forth... many of the folks that i talk to tell me that the only way to salvation is through acceptance of jesus as god.

  i do accept jesus as the messiah, as a perfect man that god sent to atone for the sins of adam, but i don't believe he is god.... i believe there is one god, one son and one holy spirit and they are not three persons in one god... i feel weird whenever i go to another service that exalts the trinity, as well as some other basic rituals of their religion.... am i making sense?.

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  davegod

  Wobble, do you read what you post?

  "I would be suspiscious of anyone who is too sure of themselves in this matter and insists their point of view is the one and only,make up your own mind as far as you can,and keep questioning.

  I am sure too that Jesus is The Way the Truth and the Life,and no one comes to the Father,except through Him."

  There is no Jesus without the old testament. End of story, period. The OT is a bunch of stories. None of those miracle stories are true. What then does the NT fulfill? What you are saying is, I have read a book, I have fulfilled what that book said. Tell me, what is so miraculous about that? In that context anyone who can read something and make it come true is the son of god. It is absurd. You must believe all of it for some of it to be true.
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  My wounds opened up badly today

  by Maddie in

  1. jw
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  the past three weeks having been so stressful and very sad.

  my ex husband died after being in hospital for just over a week in intensive care.. i was just 18 and he was 21 when we first met and after a whirlwind romance we married 6 months later and have two sons together who are now adults.

  although our marriage ended after 25 years and i remarried 7 years ago, he was my first love and i knew him for most of my life.

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  davegod

  The only members of my family to show at my Mom's funeral were the non JW members. This was in a KH mind you. As for the other witnesses they were friendly, sat my entire worldly family on the front row and invited us back to the PO house for food etc. What they are doing is on their own. They both need a slap in the face.

  Sorry for your pain and your loss.
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  What does nicotine feel like?

  by Elsewhere in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i have never smoked or used any tobacco products aside from puffing on a cigar a few times (maybe 5 times in my life).

  even with the few cigar experiences (which i did not enjoy much) i never noticed any real "feeling" from the tobacco.

  what is it supposed to feel like?

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  davegod

  LOL, the one cigarette, permanent change is simply a link. It opens the neuron receptor to nicotine within the brain.
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  Armageddon "WILL" be Here Before 2014!

  by african GB Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i met a jw this past saturday, he was doing street witnessing, he told me that the end was coming.

  i asked him when that is going to happen, and he told me that 2014 will be 100 years since satan was dismissed from heaven.

  he told me that it would'nt make sense for god to let more than 100 years "pass before ending this world".. .

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  davegod

  now if JW's say "no one knows neither the day nor the hour, but the father", and yet go ahead and make predictions about the end, are they deliberately misleading people or are they trying to 'save' them?

  It's called lying.
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  Kentucky Derby

  by purplesofa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did any of you watch the kentucky derby yesterday?.

  yesterday i watched the kentucky derby, i am not a horse racing fan, although i do enjoy going to the races.

  we have a nice track here about an hours drive from me.. but all the hype about it being the best sporting event, me being an indy race fan, thinking that is the greatest sporting event!!!!

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  davegod

  What planet do you people come from? What evidence have you found that we are in any way civilised?

  Awesome race, that was an amazing run to the front.
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  The WT asks: Was the Flood of Noah's Day Really Global?

  by undercover in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the subject of the day at watchower.org is about noah's flood.. a direct link to the article is here: http://www.watchtower.org/e/20080601/article_01.htm.

  in the article highlighted this comment is made:.

  geologists studying the landscape of the northwestern united states believe that as many as 100 ancient catastrophic floods once washed over the area.

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  davegod

  "If Noah was a mythical figure and a global flood a fable, the warnings of Peter and Jesus for those living in the last days would be meaningless."

  Awesome!
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  Pumping Gas with engine running....

  by cameo-d in

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  i saw someone doing that today.

  big old ram truck and the motor running while he was pumping gas.. how dangerous is that?.

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  davegod

  Nanny State!
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  Help on becoming a Jehovahs Witness

  by tpadgett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am seventeen years of age and have been born into christianity by my parents.

  for some reason i havent really been all that into going to my christian church.

  some of the things we discuss are very confusing.

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  davegod

  Outlaw, you missed the point. Should not the enlightened of this group do their part to inform and "unconvert" the misguided? I left close to 20 years ago, until coming here I had no idea Russell used numerology or was buried under a pyramid. Learning that they dropped the generation edict was shocking to say the least. Crisis of Conscience did not exist to people of my age, those truly in the faith would never read it anyway. His (Franz) Uncle used to come to our house for dinner, along with others of the GB. One of these days I will scan the pictures with the swinging bottles of Chianti However misguided, very much real people effecting real lives. I am sure Padgett is real too.
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  Should I renew my Norton subscription?

  by frozen one in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my norton security sub exprires in a couple of weeks.

  i've heard a lot of negatives about norton mostly about the resources norton gobbles up which slows down everything else.

  my computer does seem to be be a bit pokey at times.

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  davegod

  Use Windows Defender for a firewall and Avast for Anti-virus. It works, it's free and it uses very little resources. Beyond that, hit ctrl, alt and delete and learn your processes. Once in a while do it again. When something unfamiliar is there, research it.

  http://www.avast.com/
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  I need proof for my wife that NW Translation is not correct

  by Albert Einstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what scriptures would you reccomend, to prove nwt is not reliable?.

  please help, i need a reason for my wife to start reading other translation.

  i want to start chronological reading of nt with her, to show her wtbs is not a mediator for us.. thanks.

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  davegod

  Tell her to read it.