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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
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If the GB were really interested in the preaching work.....
by pontoon in......they should be out there where the "need is great" spearheading the work.
remember now, the preaching work belongs to the annointed, other sheep are just helpers.
the gb especially should be out there doing it.
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The contempt of Anthony Morris: the face doesn't lie.
by freemindfade ini have noticed something even long before even looking into ttatt, something about morris bothered me.
i am personally very attuned to body language, facial expressions and general subtleties in human interaction.
there was something about his face that really bothered me, and i will explain it.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
They've reduced themselves to cheap Internet copies of TV evangelists, right down to denouncing gays... just before they get caught at the airport with a rentboy helping them with their luggage.
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Watchtower choir
by wannaexit ini think i've seen it all now.
nothing surprises me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfzs7l_3sq.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
In order to appeal to the youthz in the congregation, WT will be releasing some new songs, here sampled by a collection of brothers and sisters... in good standing:
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Watchtower choir
by wannaexit ini think i've seen it all now.
nothing surprises me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfzs7l_3sq.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
They just need to jazz it up a little more and set more budget for costumes. And the Tony goes to Watchtower!
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East Coast Blizzard 2015
by breakfast of champions inwhere we're at, we won't get it as bad as nyc, long island or new england.
even so, my university is closed until wednesday morning, and we're expecting well over a foot of snow.. anyone else out there "hunkering down"?.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Didn't Revelation prophecy the four horsetrumpets of the snowpocalypse?
This could mean that the end us right around the corner. That is, the end of the third bowl-pouring-outs of the 24 pouring-bowls of wrath. So that means we're looking at about 225 years before the beginning of the end of this system.
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What is the main reason the Watchtower Society baptize their children so young?
by RULES & REGULATIONS injesus was thirty was he was baptized.
today, you hear of young children getting baptized as young as 10 years old.
the parents, family and congregation think it's a wonderful idea that someone dedicates their life to jehovah at such a young age.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Of course JWs say, "It's da troof! It's the only right decision to be made on the matter!"
And there's bragging rights. "My daughter was so spiritual and mature that she qualified for baptism at 4 years old!"
In reality, it all cheapens the meaning of things like "dedication" and "ordained minister." They may as well start infant baptism.
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Science still doesn't have the answers on how life first appeared
by EndofMysteries insince so many athiests in this thread, and since i'm going to college, i was curious if what i would learn in biology would change my thoughts and show that life clearly and easily spontaneously happened.
just looking up the origins of dna or rna there is nothing conclusive.
for example, scientists today are able to manipulate life.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
That long post and I didn't get around to the conclusion...
The Bible still doesn't have the answers on how life first appeared. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Is God alive or dead? If s/he's alive, how did that life appear? Invisible evolution from nothing?
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What will JW.org / Watchtower be like in 15 years?
by jw07 inover the past few days i've been reading and watching bill and melinda gates speak about their plans for a better world by 2030. they bet that due to technology and the compassion of people the world should improve more in the next 15 years than it has in all of history.
specifically lower child mortality rate, eradication of polio and guinea worm among other diseases, improvement of standards of living, greater access to education etc.. i'm a realist, so i'm not looking for miracles, but i believe most of these things are possible given the level of success they have reaped in other endeavors, and naturally emerging tech being used to make some of these projections possible.. you can see that the world is actually improving in many areas if you seek out the good news stories and statistics and look beyond the watchtower friendly fear porn about terrorism, and potential dangers from culturally diverse nations around the globe.
for instance 2014 had the lowest fatal airline accident rate in history despite the hyping of the ill fated malaysian airlines crashes.
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I predict that in 15 years, WT will crack down on higher education, condemn tight pants, and denounce gays. I also predict that they will say the end is coming very soon. -
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Science still doesn't have the answers on how life first appeared
by EndofMysteries insince so many athiests in this thread, and since i'm going to college, i was curious if what i would learn in biology would change my thoughts and show that life clearly and easily spontaneously happened.
just looking up the origins of dna or rna there is nothing conclusive.
for example, scientists today are able to manipulate life.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
I wonder are athiests convinced life (on planet Earth and life as we know it) convinced that it all happened by chance? Or are athiests just convinced the creator as described in religion is incorrect but believe our life may have had some intelligent life preceeding it? ...
Even if I did not believe in a creator as described in religion, based on everything so far, I'd say some type of other life was responsible for us. It's like breaking down a building, if you see a building and with enough research it comes down to blueprints, but the blueprints, where did they come from?
It would be easier to believe an advanced life/civilization with scientists who mastered biology were able to create cells, code DNA to make any sort of biological life they wanted, features, etc. They would have programmed it to adapt as well to environmental changes, evolution.
Infinite regress. If you point to a watch and say, "It had to have an intelligent creator." Then you point to it's human designer and say, "He had to have an intelligent creator." Then you must point to god and say, "He had to have an intelligent creator, too." Then of the creator of the creator of god, you have to say, "Well, she had to have an even more intelligent and powerful creator, too!" Etc.
Or are you going to say that our material world is so complex that it must have a designer/creator. But God, of infinite power and wisdom has simply always existed? That huge mystery is somehow an acceptable explanation?
When I studied biology, chemistry, and physics, it certainly did not give final answers to all the questions of the universe, but it did bring a lot of mysteries down to a level to grasp. All those mysteries of life, electricity, and radiowaves had clear explanations. Everything about God became more mysterious and illogical. For me, it wasn't a stretch to replace the unanswered questions about God's beginning with the unanswered questions about the beginnings of the universe and life. As JWs we were supposed to simply swallow "Jehovah has always existed." Now I replace it with, "There's a lot of things out there that we don't know. There's a lot of things about our history that we don't know. But those answers won't be coming from some suits in Brooklyn with an interpretation of a Bronze Age god."
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Want to make ToMo3 watchable? It needs some audio enhancement, like...