I remember reading up on this and the literature is murky and non-committal but with a negative overtone, something about it being against the old mosaic law code but since xtians aren't bound to it it's a gray area but you shouldn't do it anyway 'cause we said so.
Besides, if you've already got ink how are they going to know that you got new ones? If anyone asks just stare dumbly and say "But I've always had these!"
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Anyone know the rules on JW's and Tattoo's????
by superman ini'm an inactive fader (only fading and not da'd for the sake of my family) but i still have all of my privileges and haven't done anything (that the hounders know about) that would get me df'd.
however, a fews years ago before i was baptized i got a few tattoos.
i want to get some new ones and get a some of my old ones touched up.
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How much trouble will I get into if I send this letter?
by inkling inok, so this is a unsent letter to a quite understanding and slightly .
odd jw friend.
we have had conversations in the past about my "doubts".
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Cephyr, every single one of your counterpoints exposing "false information" has been debunked as creationist junk-science.
I will paypal you $50 if you can find peer-reviewed material from reputable academic journals to support any of your arguments about ice cores, radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, the supposed lack of disease in animals before 4000 BC, and evidence of a global flood.
I'm absolutely serious, because these are the topics that made me lose faith in the bible so if what you're saying is true then it would have a major impact on my life, no?
However I've been to University, I've done actual research in scholarly peer-reviewed publications (unlike your brand of scouring the internet for unsupported misinformation), I've had drawn-out conversations with experts in their field who have pointed me towards even MORE information and after carefully considering all of it I arrived at my conclusion.
You, on the other hand, seem to be desperate for someone to "tickle your ears" with quackery as long as it supports the bible and you ignore evidence to the contrary.
If you would like some easily-digested refutations to your arguments and don't have access to a University library, try the talkorigins archive. They provide ample references so you can verify any claims made in the original academic source material.
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How do we know animals have always killed each other?
by inkling inok fellow forum people, i really need your help.. i am trying to put together a concise argument that animals have killed and eaten.
each other since the dawn of time.. i need any fossil evidence that any animal before the "flood", or dinosaurs before.
"adam and eve" were indeed carnivorous.. i don't mean obvious stuff like sharp teeth, i mean things like little chomped up.
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Holy crap! I didn't realize they were still arguing this as recently as 1994!
I thought this was a 1950s-era dogma that nobody really believed anymore except for the old-guard fundamentalists like my grandparents.
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How do we know animals have always killed each other?
by inkling inok fellow forum people, i really need your help.. i am trying to put together a concise argument that animals have killed and eaten.
each other since the dawn of time.. i need any fossil evidence that any animal before the "flood", or dinosaurs before.
"adam and eve" were indeed carnivorous.. i don't mean obvious stuff like sharp teeth, i mean things like little chomped up.
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Does the Watchtower still argue this?
I always thought it was silly even when I was a zealous dub, and it seemed to me like they were trying to let this doctrine die of neglect by not bringing it up anymore.
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Shunning, the latest from my oh so righteous family
by Pistoff ini should say my wife's family.
i have a child (active witness) getting married this year.
one of my other adult children is disfellowshipped; he is invited to the wedding, not the reception.
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Just be thankful you get to be a part of the wedding. My ultra-dub "I'm so faithful even my farts smell zealous" friend didn't invite his own father to his wedding and purposefully blocked him from entering.
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2 Special Pioneers 1 Missionary sick with Chronic fatigue- Quit Ministry!
by Witness 007 in2 special pioneers i knew were at the assembly last year i wanted to know how they were since they have special pioneered for 20 years.
both got sick and have chronic fatigue.
they quit pioneering to rest and get better.
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My uncle was a missionary in Africa during the 80s and came back with Malaria and chronic fatigue.
He was also diagnosed with type II diabetes a year ago, which kick-started him into taking better care of himself (he was almost 500 pounds and bedridden and could barely get around in a wheelchair).
He's dropped quite a bit of weight, is pioneering again and is officially shunning me (even though I'm not disfellowshipped) because I no longer go to meetings. -
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Noah and the high altitude.
by edmond dantes inafter the flood, were the alligators in the days of noah known for their mountaineering skills when coming down from ararat ,?.
and how did the polar bears get back to the north/south pole,?.
and how did the koalas and kangaroos get back to australia,?
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Shepherd Book, bravo on your letters. Like you, the whole Noah fairytale is what pushed me over the edge into fading for good.
The only difference is that I didn't even bother with writing letters, well, I wrote them but didn't bother mailing them after realizing that I'd only get canned answers directing me to the Insight books and telling me to just trust in Jehovah and increase my field service to take my mind off of it.
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So, I opened my big mouth and my sister-in-law called me an apostate . . .
by Olin Moyles Ghost ina few nights ago, mrs. ghost and i joined her family for a nice dinner on the occasion of her parents' anniversary.
they are all witnesses and decent folks--not elders or "big shots," but as far as i can tell they all buy into the jw stuff.
it was a pleasant evening, with a lot of reminiscing on the part of the in-laws.
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That bit about the preaching work always bugged me. It seemed like we were doing people a disservice by preaching to them because we were essentially condemning them to a death they otherwise would not have suffered if they hadn't heard about "the truth."
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Two Questions: 1) Hesitancy discussing salvation, 2) Marriage in Paradise?
by EverAStudent infor the better part of a year, my wife and i have been meeting with a team of jws.
they teach us jw dogmas, and we use it as an opportunity to expose them to the orthodox gospel of jesus christ.
it took quite a long time to figure out what their "plan of salvation" was, as they seemed reluctant to just spell it out.
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Probably because authoritative answers are harder to back-track on than vague waffling. The WT society has a history of doctrinal flip-flops explained away as "new understanding" also known as "new light".
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Accessibility to guns to blame for violence?
by 5thGeneration inwith all the talk about the increased violence in schools and among society, it still surprises me that the accessibility to guns argument often tends to trump the cultural argument.. maybe i'm out of touch but showing saw iii uncut on hbo at 10pm and releasing the most violent video games in history and the marketing of violent and perverse music, these are the things to me that desensitises young people first and then may trigger some hurt and unstable kids long before they go and buy a gun.. okay, ready to be blasted (pardon the pun)!.
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Violence has always been a part of culture. I mean read the bible fer crap's sake. It's bloodier and more graphic than any number of hollywood movies or shootem-up videogames. The account of Barak killing king Og was one of the most gruesome things I had ever read - he straps a sword to his hip all ninja-like and then buries the blade past the hilt into Og's gut, causing intestines and feces to pour out of the gash and leading his servants to think the king was just taking a dump so they didn't open the door until Barak was long gone. Ditto Samson slaying who knows how many Philistines with a bloody jawbone torn off of a dead donkey. This is pretty gruesome stuff.
As far as access to guns, I don't think that has much bearing on the issue. The gunman was from all outward appearances a well-balanced individual and he purchased the guns legally. The last big-headline shooting before Virginia Tech was Dawson college here in Montreal, and the gunman in that shooting also acquired his guns legally and Canada has MUCH more stringent gun laws than the U.S.