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  Do You Believe In God Or Not?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  if you've been associated with the witnesses, believing in god was a necessity.

  do you still feel that god exists?

  if you believe in god, do you feel that he cares about you?

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  freeman

  I have no problem with the existence of God, just dont as me to prove it, I cant. And I wont ask you to prove his existence either because I already know you cant. That said however, I could never call myself an atheist, as atheists are SURE there is no God. I on the other hand have no definitive proof one way or the other. The evidence suggests no, but then maybe all the evidence is not in yet.

  Personally if I ever do find out there is a God, Im going to have a pretty stern talk with him. Im a bit upset that he has allowed the world to reach the state its currently in. And what about his supposed channel he is using which is embodied in the FDS of the Watchtower. So whats with all the child rapist running amuck in the Watchtower, and then the Tower covering it all up? He really needs to do something about that, and fast!

  Im also a bit upset that evolution blows away not only the creation account but also everything after that. That makes me wonder why do we need a savior if we didnt inherent sin from Adam in the first place? See the logic?

  Life was so much simpler when I believed without really thinking things through. Sometimes I yearn for the old days.

  Freeman
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  What Was The 1st Thing That Made You Question?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  as a youngster raised in the "truth", i had my questions.

  but anytime you ask a question that is unanswerable, you are told to just wait on jehovah.

  as time passes, i believe that we store up a number of unanswerable questions that forces one to eventually think about everything.

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  The first thing that made me question was I believe some aspects of the creation account, particularly with respect to evolution. In truth I had problems with some of this account from the beginning. I suppressed these doubts knowing (hoping) they would be answered in due course, they werent. The final straw came when I was told I had to choose between meetings or my job.

  I decided to provide for my family rather then listen to the dictates of window washers.

  I believe I made the correct choice, what do you think?

  Freeman
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  Real EVIL - the Watchtower and the Nazis. Blood.

  by Focus in

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  2. friends

  nazi ss chief himmler was an admirer of the jehovah's witnesses:.

  according to rudolf hoess, commandant of auschwitz, ss chief heinrich himmler often used the 'fanatical faith" of jehovah's witnesses as an example to his own ss troops.

  * described negroes as degenerate, degraded, servile {wt jul 15 1902 p215}.

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  freeman

  What a well-documented and annotated indictment of the Dark Tower you have presented Focus; well done!

  Freeman
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  JW's DO eat Blood

  by Yerusalyim in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  why is it that jw's are so big on this no blood thing, yet still eat blood in their meat?

  the dubs i know claim to "cook out" the blood, but this in no way meets biblical standards.

  in fact the way meat is slaughtered doesn't come close to meeting kosher requirements in the bible.

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  freeman

  Nothing like the JW philosophy of life to excuse rampant apathy, inaction, ignorance, stupidity, and an apalling lack of compassion for all that lives...

  Ain't that the truth.

  Freeman
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  JWD Scopes Monkey Trial continues

  by Zechariah in

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  2. friends

  the creation (belief) vs. evolution (unbelief) debate is like a trial.

  the new scopes monkey trial i spoke of weeks ago.

  i accept now the trial has already begun and continues to rage.

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  freeman

  Jim, you said:

  they still aren't sure if electrical flow goes from positive to negative or negative to positive??

  I dont know where you get some of this misinformation from, but the direction of electron flow is most certainly known and has been known for some time.

  As I recall a very basic law of the universe is that like charges repel and unlike charges attract. Two negatives will repel each other. A negative and a positive will attract each other. An electron itself has a negative charge.

  The negative terminal of a battery will push negative electrons along a wire and the positive terminal of a battery will attract negative electrons along that same wire.

  Electric current will therefore flow from the negative terminal of a battery, to the positive terminal. So Jim unless Congress or the Bush administration has somehow revised some very basic laws, thats the direction, the only direction it ever flows.

  Freeman
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  Men Can Breast Feed--Got Milk?

  by teenyuck in

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  http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/milkmen.htm

  yes, gentlemen, you too, can breast feed.

  your wife hungry?

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  freeman

  Ill let you in on a little known secret. Not only can men breastfeed, we can give birth too. We dont however because even the thought of if just hurts too much. OOOOUCH!

  Freeman
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  jam master jay

  by comforter in

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  2. friends

  the nameless one heard last night that some rapper name jam master jay died.

  i not too crazy about rap.

  but the nameless one regret the loss of life.

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  freeman

  Wow sorry to hear that. I saw him just a few months ago. DMC and Kid Rock were the opening acts at an AEROSMITH concert I was at. The Jam-Master will be missed. Any idea who killed him or why?

  Freeman
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  Court of the Crimson King

  by pomegranate in

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  2. entertainment

  robert fripp.

  guitar, soundscapes.

  mellotron adrian belew.

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  For a number of years we have had an annual combo guitar show and concert at a university near where I live. We have had some pretty famous guitarist such as Peter Frampton who by the way is wonderful live. As I recall some years back we were fortunate enough to have had Fripp and one of the other original members of Crimson (cant remember which one) and did the show with several members of the Saturday Night Live band. When they did The Court of the Crimson King they brought the house down, wow it was just awesome!

  My son tried to get the autograph of SNL lead guitarist (he knew him by sight because he saw him on TV all the time). This mad-dashing pony-tailed guitarist quite literally almost knocked my son down as he ran past bumping him with his guitar and small little amp he was carrying. As he then quickly pulled away in his vintage large tail-fined white Cat-O-Lack, I said to my son, never mind him, what about Fripp did you get his autograph? He replied who? I guess he was just to young to appreciate that he was chasing the wrong guy.

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  About Bill Bowen

  by Nordic in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the campaign bill bowen have startet for the sake of little children abused is so brave.

  now the children have a voice to speak on their behalf.

  i don't think you can truly understand what i am talking about if not are a victim of child abuse.

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  freeman

  Amen

  Freeman
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  Things said on stage that made you laugh

  by LyinEyes in

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  2. humour

  there was an elder at our hall ,when he would call on someone , he would help the brother with the mic to find the person.

  he did this by saying: " sister little in the front"....hehehhe ,, of course being bored to death, this always cracked several us of rowdy back seat sitters up.. here are more examples from our old hall.

  sister key , in the rear.

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  freeman

  One poor guy I knew, an Elder, gave a public talk comparing Gods Spirit to water in a desert. Anyway at a very serious part in his talk he was supposed to say and they all died from lack of water, each and every one of them. But what he said instead was and they died from lack of hunger, the stupid dummies.

  He looked really puzzled when people started laughing; Almost pissed my pants. He did a LOT of drugs in his youth.

  Freeman