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A Bible Question, please comment
by restrangled in
1. watchtower
2. bible
there will have to be assumptions involved here.....that god exists, the bible is the word of god and creation is as stated in genesis, etc.

etc.. in the old testament, god seemed pretty straight forward, let certain people know (and not by osmosis) his intent.

backed certain kings, and showed power through physical occurrences over and over again.. along comes his son, who died for the entire race as a ransom for adam's sin.
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Did You EVER Enjoy Going To Meetings Or Out In Service?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i can say that i don't thinki ever really looked forward to going to a 2 hour meeting or a 2 hour ride around in the "ministry.
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Taking predictions for the 2007 memorial partakers!!
by cultswatter in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm doing this well in advance so that all the wonderful people on jwd can look back later and see just how close they were to the actual number!

(it is possible the wts might stop publishing the partaker numbers) in a few days, i will duly record the link to this thread for future reference.. remember that there were 8524 partakers in 2005 and 8758 partakers in 2006, an increase of 234 partakers.

so how many remnant will partake in 2007??.
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CHRISTMAS: December 25th DOES have a Biblical foundation! CHECK IT OUT!
by Lady Liberty in
1. watchtower
2. bible
my mother and i were talking about christmas being in december, and how the christians felt it was truely a victory to have christ jesus birth still celebrated, unlike the pagan sun god that was celebrated by the pagans at the same time.

we got to talking and realized that if you count backwards from when scholars really feel jesus was most likely really born (in september), and count back 280 days of pregnancy, it would actually be late december!!!

could it be that the birthday was from the date of conception, not delivery???
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Time to start living again
by lola28 in
1. jw
2. friends
time to start living again.

i have come to realize that for the last two years i have put my life on hold, i have not been living i have just been floating just existing but not living, not really living.

it is time for me to change this.
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Something funny about masturbation
by skyman in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
we had a family in the congregation years ago that was over sensitive about sex.

everything about sex was bad.

i noticed one of their teenage boy?s going into the back room before every meeting for weeks.
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Are Witness Children Brighter than most?
by ApagaLaLuz in
1. jw
2. friends
the recent thread about the 5yr old baptized got me to thinking....... i learned to read at an early age.

i was also in all the gifted classes in school.

i remember a great deal of the witness kids were in gifted classes.
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If Jesus Was An Elder
by Mulan in
1. jw
2. friends
i didn't write this poem, but think it is awesome.

a friend sent it to me yesterday.. if jesus was an elder.

if jesus was an elder, what would be his main concern?.
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Christmas Shopping
by Duncan in
1. jw
2. friends
dear all.

i'm a new chap here, one of the old h2o refugees who seem to have been streaming to this place recently.. englishman suggested i post my "christmas shopping" post as a kind of introductory-hi-and-how-are-you.

hope you like it, despite it not being terribly seasonal at the moment.. i'll look forward to posting here in the future (original stuff i mean, not just reheated "greatest hits" like this).
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Liberal JW's
by Dubby in
1. jw
2. friends
i admire the jw's who seem to be not too affected by what the society teaches.

for instance; my brother became a jw when he met his wife, who was born into the wts.

his wife and her family, always seemed to be very gregarious people, and enjoy life very much.