LayingLow

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  How do I know which one of my friends on facebook is looking at my fb page?

  by asilentone in

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  do you know the answer??

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  LayingLow

  To my knowledge, there is no way to know who is checking out your facebook page. Obviously, you can control how much friends / non-friends can see, but you can actually know who is looking at them. If it were on a site where you could link to pictures in your html, you could run a counter on that, but still not a name or anything like that. You could probably grab their i.p. address though. As it is, pictures are uploaded and hosted by their site, so you can't even run a counter on that. I'm think you might be able to make an app (if your a programmer) that could collect that data, but generally sharing any information with an application requires your consent and I doubt that most people who looked at your page would add that app so it leads to another dead end. Good luck with it, and if you find something, let me know please :)
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  If no organized religion existed, would Bible principles work for you?

  by The Berean in

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  none, a few, most, nearly all?.

  examples ....

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  LayingLow

  I think it is a very interesting question as well as to what defines Bible principles. Most people would shutter at Abraham's preparation to offer his son Isaac, or at Lot's proposal of offering his daughters to the Sodomites. So we kind of pick and choose our values from the text. When I consider "love your neighbor as yourself", I find the idea wonderful and so I accept it. My point is that I'm still the filter of the principles. So I'm still deciding what is right and what is wrong. Seems kind of terrifying if a person took a literal view of the book and put them all into action. I think that kind of nullifies the question. It's loaded....
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  Embarrassing Moments on the Platform

  by HintOfLime in

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  i was thinking the other day about a potential answer to the frequent party question 'what was your most embarrassing moment?'.

  immediately my mind went to my last experience on the theocratic school.

  as an aspiring ms, i volunteered at the last minute to give a #4 talk on a particular individual (ignorant of what i was about to get myself into).

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  LayingLow

  That one about "All I want to know is who's the son-of-a-bitch that's been working my territory?" was hilarious. Thank you for sharing
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  How do you respond to the JW statement: "The First Century had congregations, preaching, Elders, Servants, C.O.'s, and so do we!

  by BonaFide in

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  well?.

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  bf.

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  LayingLow

  And so does most every other church. They had ministries like taking care of the poor which is talked extensively in the Bible. Servants = deacons in most churches which is actually very close to the greek word for it. Presbyters = older men = Elders, and C.O.'s = Bishop or Archbishop. I don't think any of those claims are particularly spectacular or unique. They have only changed the terminology.
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  Holy Sh*T!! I missed the memorial!!

  by Quirky1 in

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  how could you guys let me down like that?

  you know i need everlasting life!!

  no invitations, no reminders, what's up with that?.

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  LayingLow

  I actually wasn't even invited this year. Kind of nice not to have to turn it down and all that goes into. I ran into Witnesses and saw family members who are, nobody mentioned it. I think they finally get it
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  ExJWs either BAs or atheists -- do you agree?

  by parakeet in

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  a week or two ago, a poster (i forget who; sorry) noted that exjws tend to fall into two camps -- born-again christians or atheists/agnostics.

  there doesn't appear to be much of a middle ground, e.g.

  joining a traditional, mainstream religion.. the observation has some merit to it.

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  LayingLow

  I think that the most vocal are the ones who have become BAs or atheists. Going off of your experience is biased since your sample data comes from observations of people who post on here. That is like doing an observation on a volunteer survey, the people who volunteer tend to bias the results. You would need a truly random sample of exJw's to determine that.
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  Cross prophecied in OT? The altar?

  by still_in74 in

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  2. bible

  we have all read the arguments - was it a cross or a stake?

  the jw's teach it was a stake or pale, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cross_or_stake_as_gibbet_on_which_jesus_died> however if you really examine the wts teaching and logic behind this position you discover that it is not 'exact'.

  rather, it becomes an assumption, a best guess.

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  LayingLow

  I remember reading one of Justin Martyr's book where he mentions Moses holding his arms up as Joshua conquered before him. He mentioned that it was in the shape of the cross and that as long as he kept his arms in that position they would continue winning as Joshua (A type of Jesus) conquered before him. I remember that was a very interesting reading.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses are the most Meterialistic people on the planet!

  by Witness 007 in

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  when i visited my mum, pioneer family would complain about brother m_____ who just brought 2 new toyota camry's...brother n_____ who keeps changing to bigger houses.

  the brothers family are all pioneers and seem fixated on meterial things!

  i'm asked every time i fly down.

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  LayingLow

  What is the desire of JW's that they promote:
  
  Good health, housing, plenty of food, etc... in the future Whether all of your desires are on having "good things" in the future or the present makes no difference, it is still materialism.
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  Materialism: An Example

  by WTWizard in

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  i have just realized what crap material items the witlesses live with.

  just now, i went through my place and marked the things that the witlesses stocked me up with at the time i moved in 1x years ago (more work, hounders, to figure out just when).

  and i found plenty of crap.. first, the "furniture" was flimsy wicker.

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  Now open "Harvard Witness Window Cleaners University"

  by Witness 007 in

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  since the society has banned higher education the "harvard witness window cleaners university" offers witnesses many courses to better themselves.....in field service.

  1. phd in window ledge wiping.

  2. masters degree in scraping paint off glass.

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  LayingLow

  I went to that school as well..