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  my beard looks good

  by rockmehardplace in

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  2. friends

  since my fade, i have decided to do what all jw men and some jw women do.

  i have grown a beard.

  i have more compliments on it from people i work with and come in contact with than ever before.

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  I trimmed the beard down to a gotee because I have been getting too many pens caught in my beard.

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  my beard looks good

  by rockmehardplace in

  1. jw
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  since my fade, i have decided to do what all jw men and some jw women do.

  i have grown a beard.

  i have more compliments on it from people i work with and come in contact with than ever before.

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  Come all Ye' Faithful... and tell us how God has answered

  by AK - Jeff in

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  prayer.. billions of people have been praying for hundreds of years for peace.

  other billions pray for happiness for mankind.

  not one evidence exists that he hears or that he cares.. can anyone provide solid evidence that god answers prayers.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo

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  Come all Ye' Faithful... and tell us how God has answered

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
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  prayer.. billions of people have been praying for hundreds of years for peace.

  other billions pray for happiness for mankind.

  not one evidence exists that he hears or that he cares.. can anyone provide solid evidence that god answers prayers.

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  One time I offered a prayer during a poker game. I said the prayer when I can 30,000 in chips and 40 minutes later I had over 500,000 in chips and was sitting in the chip lead. Proof that praying to Joe Pecsi works !!

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  Facebook condemned

  by straightshooter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.

  this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .

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  I agree with undercover !!

  I am very interested in this post because I have a friend (not jw) who is married to a JW and their 18 year old son went and got DUNKED this year. He loves skateboarding and it might wake him up if the elders tell him that he can go skateboarding anymore.

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  Facebook condemned

  by straightshooter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.

  this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .

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  Was this info in a KM or a Watchtower or was this just 1 local elder spouting off his thinking?

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  Is the Bible Really Scientifically Accurate?

  by FreeAtLast1914 in

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  the society (and others) love to quote job 26:7 where it says that "[god] suspends the earth over nothing" and isaiah 40:22, where it speaks of "the circle of the earth".

  they use these scriptures to boast about the incredible scientific accuracy of the bible, proving god had a direct hand in everything written in it.. the trouble is that elsewhere in the scriptures, opposing views are put forth explaining then-unexplainable physics and geographical notions.

  one is job 26:11: "the pillars of heaven tremble.

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  It is very accurate if you have the "de-coder" glasses, that way you know what verses are literal and what ones are not literal.

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  PS: The "de-coder" glasses are for sale that the kingdom hall !!
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  C T Russell the retro apostate. From the WT 1879

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "what is truth?".

  this question is one which every sincere christian should ask and seek to answer.

  should learn to love and value truth for its own sake; to respect and honor it by owning.

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  What issue is this in?

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  The "Other Sheep" & 144,000 & other Revelation thoughts

  by sd-7 in

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  revelation 5:9, 10, which speaks of people from all nations being made a kingdom and priests, ruling "over the earth"?

  realizing that if the "other sheep" are gentiles, i would therefore need to find some explanation for this scripture.

  for me, i find a need to understand what this 144,000 concept means in connection with it all.. well, i spent some time yesterday reading scriptures and pondering it.

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  You do know that John wrote this book while on acid dont you?

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  Not invited to a JW family dinner

  by LoriJis in

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  i just need to vent.

  my husband and i live in the same apt complex as my jw in-law family.

  they have family visiting from out of state and there is a big family dinner tonight - but omg its not a thanksgiving dinner.

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  Sorry to hear this.

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