Topics Started by Gopher

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how many normal people would only go to the dub website?
by purrpurr in
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all this campaign going on got me to thinking, a normal person having received a tract about the jw website, would they only go to that one website if they were in any way interested?

would they really not click on any links that would also appear about jw's?

would they really not read about them from other sources too?.
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New "The List" of... Times when JW's thought it was the end and it wasn't...
by ILoveTTATT in
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i think that there should be a list of the times when a certain world event got jw's thinking "this has got to be it!

the start of armageddon!".

it would be nice to have screenshots of twitter/facebook comments from actual jw's.... then come back to it 5, 10, 15 years from now and just say... nope... just another crisis in the world.... just this year there have been two:.
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"Worse And Worse"? (Nope)
by metatron in
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http://www.businessinsider.com/50-reasons-its-the-best-time-in-history-2014-1.

i would quibble with the life expectancy a little ( averages derived from a time with higher infant mortality) but still pretty good.. .

metatron.
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Atheism and Theism are only partly right!
by abiather in
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today we know that matter and energy are interchangeable, hence they are there always in either form, they are eternal, hence requires no creator.

hence atheism is right in rejecting a creator, but failed in providing any motivation for people to do good.

religions, in their effort to provide a motivating factor for humans to do good, introduced creation stories and other myths; hence they too are right (as far as their intention is concerned), yet failed in producing any worthy resultsworld was steadily moving from bad to worse and from worse to worst!.
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Elder and i discussed beards, and got into rules and regulations
by Jon Preston in
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during a study the elder brought out that eating blood and omens are from the devil, and brought me to leviticus 19:26 (i think).. in verse 27 i says this:.

you must not shave the hair on the side of your head or disfigure the edges of your beard.. i said: "so why are we not allowed to have beards?".

elder: "thats a good question, cleric.
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Did You Ever Hear An Elder or Bethelite's Comments That Made You Question ??
by minimus in
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years ago, the society's speakers used to give many off the cuff statements.

a lot of personal opinions and questionable remarks.. anything ever stand out for you in this area?.
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Does anyone know the curent understanding on Chess for JWs?
by BU2B in
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i seem to remember chess was frowned upon by some jws.

is this like the oral/anal sex policy?

just ignore it and hope it goes away...
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Seven Headed Wild Beast officially no longer represents UN?
by donuthole in
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according to a new "bible questions answered": " the wild beast with seven heads introduced at revelation 13:1 represents the worldwide political system.".

i know that they have quietly been backing away from the un identification for awhile.

is this feature on jw.org a new official teaching, or just a spin for the sake of the public?.
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Can you prove Jesus existed outside of Bible (so called) evidence?
by punkofnice in
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i thought i'd done a thread on this before but can't find it.. so.

did jesus actually exist?.

without using the bible i'd like to see obvious proof..
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Status quo? Or tell ttatt?
by ILoveTTATT in
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supposing i can pull off moving to the other city without the elders successfully finding me and forcing me to go to a jc or something.... should i ever tell my mom ttatt?

or should i let sleeping dogs lie?

it is extremely unlikely that dad will tell her ttatt... he prefers, 99% of the time, to not say anything rather than fight.