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  Is There Free Will In Heaven?

  by serotonin_wraith in

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  christians will say the reason there's so much evil in the world is because of free will.

  even christians will 'sin' on occasion, but they believe they can be forgiven.

  free will is seen as a bad thing...?.

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  freeme

  of course "free will" isnt the cause of sin. its the unability of imperfect humans not to do what they freely decide. even if you decide willfully not to sin youll do it. thats the reason for sinning. imperfection. of course there is free will in heaven, because satan and all his demons willfully decided to offense god.

  even in paradise earth there will be free will... but of course everyone decides not to sin there. noone will change his/her mind just like the first humans (adam and eve) and one of the first angels (satan) did.
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  Is it possible to have an unbiased opinion on this Question:

  by freeme in

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  the immorailty.... what is more likely:.

  a) the immorality of the world is the result of evolution, since individuals with an high sex drive will have more offspring.... or.

  b) the immorality of the world was introduced because adam&eve ate a forbidden fruit and obeyed an evil angel?.

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  @Sherry

  Of course immorality in the sense of JWs...

  @Narkissos

  Sorry, thats not my question. Of course morality is another interesting question and i have an opinion on it too. And okay, yes, an opinion cannot be unbiased. But the act of getting it might be. Like having two unlabeled glasses of coke in front of you without knowing pepsi and cokes taste and choose with one tastes better.

  And thats the point. You cannot choose between "comes from evolution" and "comes from mythology" unbiased, because i believe you dont think about this question in the first place without having an biased background. Its the problem of faith and things that cannot be proven.
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  Is it possible to have an unbiased opinion on this Question:

  by freeme in

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  2. friends

  the immorailty.... what is more likely:.

  a) the immorality of the world is the result of evolution, since individuals with an high sex drive will have more offspring.... or.

  b) the immorality of the world was introduced because adam&eve ate a forbidden fruit and obeyed an evil angel?.

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  freeme

  The immorailty...

  What is more likely:

  a) The immorality of the world is the result of evolution, since individuals with an high sex drive will have more offspring...

  OR

  b) The immorality of the world was introduced because Adam&Eve ate a forbidden fruit and obeyed an evil angel?

  I think its impossible to have an unbiased opinion.

  freeme
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  Comments You Won't Hear at the 9/2/07 WT Study (WALKING BY SPIRIT)

  by WT Comments in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you won't hear at the 9/2/07 wt study (walking by spirit).

  (wt 7/15/07 pages 21-25).

  review comments will be in red.

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  freeme

  Spiritism != Spirituality

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality

  Even though they have similarity from a special viewpoint.
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  Proof that the WT has edited the WIKIPEDIA page on JW's?

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  check it out .... .

  http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/name2ip.php?orgname=watchtower&location=.

  http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/.

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  freeme

  wikipedia was how I got started examining. It seemed harmless, possibly unbiased, lets see if JW's are on here? Oh they are, hmmmm........ interesting, maybe I'll follow this link to see what they say about CT Russell....... uhha..... yup.... okay...... O my! ...... are they serious??....... etc. etc.

  omg... double life again 74! i had the same experience :D
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  Sinning against the Holy Spirit - Unforgivable? How does one commit it?

  by Shawn10538 in

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  i seem to remember a doctrine that says that the only sin that is unforgivable is a sin against the holy spirit.

  is apostasy a sin against the holy spirit?

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  i always wondered about that one...

  some day it hit me like a hammer: the unforgivable sin is willfully sinning. this can not be forgiven... but... you can change your mind and come back... and your sin will be forgiven, since it isnt willfully anymore. its not more like that i bet.

  this scripture is not about some mysterious sin which makes you dead meat without any chance when you commit it. thats just bullshit... and if it would be such a thing its would be better explained.

  what a loving god would it be who says "there is the unforgivable sin" but dont tells us what it is. so if you commit by accident its just "HAAAHAAA!" and death...
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  apostate kingdom song

  by DeusMauzzim in

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  kingdom song 171 + elec.

  guitar + grunting = apostate mutated kingdom song .

  enjoy!.

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  freeme

  sounds like metal or something. i hate metal. and i dont understand a word...

  has someone the lyrics?
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  ive come to the conclusion that

  by ness in

  1. watchtower
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  jehovah's witnesses vary a great deal country to country.

  i think it may be cultural or something.... ive been browsing the forum for a few days now and cant believe at times we are talking about the same religion.

  and while i would never want to go back to their way of life, i honestly find it hard to believe that as an organisation they are evil.

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  its a matter of country, district, circuit and personal experience.

  my wife as an example lives in a completely other religion than me. she honestly thinks that the society teaches that you dont have to be a witness to get eventually saved (funny thats somehow true... they say only JWs do things that are necessary to be saved and say in the same sentence that only god can say who will be saved... lol...), one can easily have an opposing opinion to WTS teachings, talk with others about it AND stay a JW. she also thinks that numbers, dates and stuff dont play any real role in jw belief and she thinks the 1914 problem is completely unimportant because its only a suggestion by the WTS and nothing which is important.

  im not kidding. thats what she tells me. and she is a believer, born into, going regulary to all meetings since 25 years. she got all that weired opinions from her father which is a congregation overseer.

  she talks away all the hundreds and hundreds of WT articles dealing with such stuff and forbid such opinions. she also has no problem studying the revelation book and still say numbers and dates dont play a big role.

  she also thinks that when someone goes away from the religion noone is really forbidden to speak with him. its merely the sinners wish not to have any contact with jws anymore. (lol!!!)

  it sounds completely crazy to me, but she seems to really think that. when i try to show her that the WTS teachings are not as she thinks she says im too negative and a nit picker.

  when in the same congregation, such different views of the religion can exist i dont wanna know what differences exist on international basis.
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  The Greatest Answer In the History of the World!

  by smellsgood in

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  2. friends

  i don't know how you will feel about miss south carolina if you view her answer, but i would move for throwing down the irrelevant leaderships of our respective countries (that means you, deleware), and making s.c. empress of the earth for life.

  and maybe a few years after death.

  surely even as ashes in a jar, she will be as a light of intelligence, clarity, justice, fluidity of speech, and above all, hotness.

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  freeme

  Ok maybe I'm the stupid one, but I think that that is a dirty question from someone that didn't want her to win. How can you answer that? You can only speculate, that the schools have dropped higher standards of learning, but how would you know that unless you were a multifacted administrator that deals with the curiculums of all the geography classes in the United States.

  Incidently, How in the hell, do they know that many people can't find the States on a map.?Did they hand out a survey to every kid in the USA and count it all up? Its ridiculous.

  Is there an actual source that has the answer to this. I'd like to hear it. I'd like to hear the judge give the answer. I'd be curious, cuz I don't know, and I really don't know how anyone else would know.

  She may not be that bright but, it is not something that can easily be reasoned out in my mind. Is it because of poor funding in schools, lack of interest in the subject matter. How do they tally these results. I doubt it's becuse of poor funding. How much does a bloody map cost. She was set up!

  If I'm wrong, no big deal. Any takers. I can tell you right now I wouldn't have a square answer for that. At least she tried.

  im not living in the US... but... when i heard this somewhere that an amount of the US americans cant point on their own country on a world map it did not feel very surprised. its not that i think US americans are stupid ppl :D

  its because i feel like the US is ultimately self-fascinated. Big NATIONAL sports events (NBA, NHL, etc) are somehow BIGGER than international ones (contrary to EUROPE), the news on US news sites are incredible dominated by US events. Patriotism is big, USA rules! ;) I think for some US citizens the world consists of the US only. Everything else is far, far, far away. Like moon or something. Another example... who plays against who in the "WORLD SERIES" in baseball?! LoL :-) They are just not interested in the rest of the world :) And those dont listen in schools when it comes to other countries as well. but thats just my own personal impression. when i was a kid a group of children from the US visited our school (8th grade) and they didnt know ANYTHING about germany. they literally thought Hitler is some weired current german king and we're all nazis (but they didnt know what nazis are). One of them wrote "Heil Hitler" on our blackboard in the break. They even wondered that we have electricity and TV already... no joke.
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  The Greatest Answer In the History of the World!

  by smellsgood in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know how you will feel about miss south carolina if you view her answer, but i would move for throwing down the irrelevant leaderships of our respective countries (that means you, deleware), and making s.c. empress of the earth for life.

  and maybe a few years after death.

  surely even as ashes in a jar, she will be as a light of intelligence, clarity, justice, fluidity of speech, and above all, hotness.

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  freeme

  its very funny and i had to watch it twice because its so perfect :-)

  but... i feel sorry for her too. it doesnt really mean that shes dumb. stress and pressure can ruin everything. i know this from being a kiddie. i feel sorry, because everyone think of her having no brain at all now.

  okay, shes probably not the new einstein... lol ;) and she would definately not be a girl for me ;P