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  MY PROJECT IS (FINALLY) FINISHED!

  by Mary in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you who are interested, the project i've been working on for the last few months is finally finished.

  i originally did a thread about it back in april: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/156497/1.ashx.

  it seems that alot of us still have family members in the religion and have not infrequent arguments with them about some of the beliefs and practices.

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  elder-schmelder

  Thank you,

  I received my copy and have been reading it. I will be sharing the part on 607 with my dad and grandmother.

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  New understanding

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone have any idea's on what the next new understading could be.

  i think that it might be that they are going to make the 144,000 a symbolic number not a actual number.

  could it be making a new date for the start of the last days?.

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  elder-schmelder

  That is the best new understanding that I have ever heard !!!

  That is funny - might be true!!

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  New understanding

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone have any idea's on what the next new understading could be.

  i think that it might be that they are going to make the 144,000 a symbolic number not a actual number.

  could it be making a new date for the start of the last days?.

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  elder-schmelder

  My brother is DF'd and he had a close friend that is still in ask him if he is going to come back to the hall.

  My brother told him that he will never go back because he dont believe the Watchtower is directed by god.

  His friend asked why and he replied that god would not have directed us to believe that the end would come before this generation would pass off.

  His friend said that not all JW's believed that, only some of the JW's believed that (and that is was not taught by the watchtower).

  I thought that was funny because that was the answer that my dad gave me about 1975.

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  New understanding

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone have any idea's on what the next new understading could be.

  i think that it might be that they are going to make the 144,000 a symbolic number not a actual number.

  could it be making a new date for the start of the last days?.

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  Does anyone have any idea's on what the next new understading could be. I think that it might be that they are going to make the 144,000 a symbolic number not a actual number. Could it be making a new date for the start of the last days?

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  Now open "Harvard Witness Window Cleaners University"

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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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  elder-schmelder

  I remember all the DCs with the window washers and watching them.

  We were all very proud of how fast they were.

  I had goals that someday I would be a window washer just like them.

  Instead I became a Pizza Delivery guy !!

  Great job for Pioneering - I could go out in field circus every morning and deliver pizza every night - except Tuesday & Thursday.

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  Hi everyone, here's my story...

  by LisaAnn in

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  2. friends

  i loved it, it was very interesting... tell the rest...

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  elder-schmelder

  I have always felt the same way about the bible stories. They never made sense to me !!

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  How were plants created before the Sun?

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  day 3 of creation .

  gen 1:9-13 .

  9 and god went on to say: let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear.

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  It is hard for me to take this as literal.
  
  I have the watchtower that explains how the days were periods of 1,000 years. The creative weeks are a peroid of 7,000 years. So it all started about 49,000 years ago.
  
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  How were plants created before the Sun?

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  day 3 of creation .

  gen 1:9-13 .

  9 and god went on to say: let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear.

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  elder-schmelder

  I am interested in hearing other peoples OPINION on this.

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  How were plants created before the Sun?

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  day 3 of creation .

  gen 1:9-13 .

  9 and god went on to say: let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear.

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  elder-schmelder

  Verse 16 is the one that says when the SUN was created. Verse 3 Says that Light was created.
  
  I dont know how light could be created with out the Sun (or some other star).
  
  
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  How were plants created before the Sun?

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  day 3 of creation .

  gen 1:9-13 .

  9 and god went on to say: let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear.

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  Day 3 of creation
  Gen 1:9-13
  
  9 And God went on to say: “Let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear.” And it came to be so. 10 And God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called Seas. Further, God saw that [it was] good. 11 And God went on to say: “Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth.” And it came to be so. 12 And the earth began to put forth grass, vegetation bearing seed according to its kind and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in it according to its kind. Then God saw that [it was] good. 13 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a third day.
  
  Day 4 of creation
  Gen 1:14-19
  
  14 And God went on to say: “Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years. 15 And they must serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth.” And it came to be so. 16 And God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. 17 Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth, 18 and to dominate by day and by night and to make a division between the light and the darkness. Then God saw that [it was] good. 19 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fourth day.
  
  
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