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  Beat to Hell.......were you as a child as a JW?

  by restrangled in

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  there was a scripture about a rod.......it seemed to be in every other watchtower.....it was an excuse to beat children.

  i was a little girl.

  i was beat with my pants down every time they could.

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  Article: The Atheist's Dilemma

  by BurnTheShips in

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  campos: the atheist's dilemmaby paul camposwhy is stanley fish so much smarter than richard dawkins?

  that question occurred to me last week, while attending a lecture at which fish, the well-known literary and legal theorist, did the thing he always does, which is to make the following point over and over again:.

  "no believer will find his faith shaken by evidence that is evidence only in the light of assumptions he does not share and considers flatly wrong.".

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  Is Third Heaven a Near Death Experience?

  by cameo-d in

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  2 corinthians 12:2. i know a man in christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.

  whether it was in the body or out of the body i do not knowgod knows.. .

  is it astral projection?

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  Waters above the Firmament as the source of rain

  by VM44 in

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  from the king james bible.

  god said, "let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

  and god made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

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  VOTE YOUR "SILVER BULLET" QUESTION

  by V in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm quizzing all my sources for the ultimate "silver-bullet" question for a jw at your door.

  the best questions will be used in a video series on watchtower comments.

  the goal is to help people respond to jws.. the question must be direct and designed to open the jw mind, not necessarily to win an argument.. i would prefer to avoid doctrinal debate such as trinity, cross, even thiest/athiest subjects.

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  looking for opinions....would this have ANY success?

  by The Oracle in

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  looking to try something a little different with my ongoing campaigns to free minds from the wt.. .

  if this was sent to a few thousand jw's do you think any would respond?

  i'll check back in tonight and see if anyone has any thoughts on this.. .

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  What do you feel is the reason the WTS succeeds in retaining its members?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most of my family have been members since the early 1970's.they attend 3 meetings per week,fly or drive to summer assemblies,preach the average 10 hours per month,and read the same boring watchtower magazine week after week.

  the congregation has lost nearly all the young teens,many have quit attending all the meetings,some divorced,and some members just going thru the motions.

  i'm never going to question them on why they still remain members but shouldn't all the promises of "this generation never dying" make them question the wts.... just a little?

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  "He Causes to Become"

  by megs in

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  2. bible

  i'm reading the public edition of watchtower for september and it says that "jehovah" means "he causes to become".

  i've never seen this before... is this the jw's definition of the tetragrammaton?

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  Jeremiah and the 70 years. Jewish exile or Babylonian rule?

  by digderidoo in

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  2. bible

  i have never until a few days ago been able to reconcile the 70 year prophecy with the 587/6 bce date for jerusalems destruction.

  although a post was about this in a previous thread by a@g , i would like to explore this more.. when the 70 years are applied to babylonian rule, rather than the jewish exile everything seems to make sense.. to ellaborate for those who haven't come across it, this is how 587/6 does match the 70 year prophecy.. i hope a@g doesn't mind but i have cut and paste his post:-.

  the 587 date does match the bible.... (jeremiah 25:11) 11 and all this land must become a devastated place, an object of astonishment, and these nations will have to serve the king of babylon seventy years.".

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  'After sundown'

  by The Nothing Man in

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  could anybody please shed light on this for me.

  why did the jews always celebrate 'after sundown'.

  why did everything happen 'after sundown'... is it based on the torah alone, or on tradition?

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