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  Ancient Hebrews Got Away With So Much

  by Tim207 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why wasn’t judah punished for sleeping withtamar?

  even though she had the legal right to an offspring by his family he still thought he was sleeping with a prostitute.

  if it is wrong to even think of having relations with a woman similar to the “sin” of watching pornography why wouldn’t what judah did be wrong?

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  He got away with it because there was no law against fornication, in the same way there is in the NT. All of the Mosaic laws related to sexual conduct have to be considered in the context of women as property. It wasn't that the sexual act w/o marriage was problematic, it was that the man was tampering with another man's property. Judah having sex with a prostitute was not infringing on another man's rights. However, Tamar risked being burnt alive when found pregnant because she WAS someone's property--in that case, her father-in-law's property. She was one smart cookie to retain proof of paternity.

  I wouldn't agree that the Bible is mainly fiction; however, it is certainly not the kind of accurate history that JWs like to believe. I think what we have are embroidered tales that have their root in some kind of actual events, though not in the fantastical form we read today.
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  I have vivid recollections of cutting out the little paper corrections and taping them over the assigned words/lines. I was obsessive that way. Still, the very act of doing that niggled at the back of my mind and contributed to my eventual awakening.
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  Are We Living In The Last Days?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just received this note out of the blue from a pimi jw.

  how would you respond?.

  hi vander,.

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  Hard data supports the fact that the 20th century as a whole and the latter half of the 20th century through today, in particular, have been among the most peaceful, disease-free and nutritionally expansive times in which to live. Share facts from Max Roser's excellent website Our World in Data, which includes charts like this one:

  
  

  or this one:

  

  This does not mean that there have not been horribly massive crises on our globe but it has to be comparative, doesn't it? That is, for the last days prophecy to mean anything, it has to be in comparison with something else. And when you compare the past, it becomes clear that while we are facing real challenges right now, we are still in a much better situation globally than ever before. I doubt this will change your friend's mind, though, since belief in the last days for most JWs is not a matter of facts.
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  Name 3 Movies You Have Seen At Least 3 Times

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  goodfellas.

  one flew over the cuckoos nest.

  casino.

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  Moonstruck

  Tootsie

  O Brother Where Art Thou

  American Hustle. Okay, I know that was four.
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  Marvel's new characters XD

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  luckily for me, i'm not interested in marvel at all - i never read the comics as a kid; i haven't seen any of the films as an adult.. but, i still think some of their new characters are worth mentioning.. here are two: snowflake and safe space.

  no, i'm not kidding.. here's a little vid by a youtuber called just some guy.

  he's a keen comic reader and loves that kinda stuff … but not the latest characters.. he's spliced clips of ricky gervais laughing his ass off with an interview with marvel writer and balding, bespectacled beta male, daniel kibblesmith.. enjoy!.

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  I think they're cool.
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  "We're In The Last Days Of The Last Days!"... So Say's Old Rubberface

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have you seen this on jworg?.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.

  2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.

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  The l-a-a-a-s-s-t part of the last part of the last part of the final days...
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  Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  it looks like joe biden might be the next president of united states!

  your thoughts?

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  As much as I am not in love with the idea of another old white man as President, at least Biden isn't Trump. My golden retriever would be a better president than Trump.
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  Greta Thunberg, Worse than Plague

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so greta thunberg thinks the world pollutes too much.

  specifically, the parts of the world that pollute the least and have the cleanest industries.

  she doesn't seem to care about india or china who are the biggest polluters by far.. "how dare they".

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  If people were serious about climate change, they would be applauding the Trump administration for the reduced emissions of the US and suggesting that other countries adopt similar policies and technologies so that they too could reduce theirs.
  

  It's easy to refute uncomfortable truths with the canard about biased media, etc., as you like to do. But the fact remains that humans are in deep, deep shit, on a planet that is warming more rapidly than natural systems can adapt to. Trump and his cronies have turned their back on science. HAVE emissions fallen under the Trump administration? Yup. But that's because the most recent data is from measures taken by the OBAMA administration:

  The report found that the amount of greenhouse emissions by the United States fell in the most recent year. But there’s a problem: Due to the lag in data collection, that decline occurred during President Barack Obama’s final year in office, 2016, not under Trump.
  

  Wait, there's more:

  In addition, the EIA estimated that emissions will actually rise over the next two years. In 2018, the agency forecasts a 1.1 percent increase, and in 2019, it projects a 0.2 percent increase.
  
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  The "Financial" New System of Things!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the "financial" new system of things!.

  yes, in the new system it will be "business as usual" with the watchtower society's financial arrangement.

  all those beautiful homes are to be built to make paradise complete.. .

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  Don't forget the "new scrolls" that are to be opened, according to Revelation.
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  JW's and Retirement Planning

  by JaNayNee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my mother is a jw.

  i studied for several years and ultimately could not digest what was being served.

  for the last 20 years my mother has done nothing to prepare for retirement.

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  I suspect that many younger JWs (40's and under) are towing the organization line about the end being SOOOO close while at the same time quietly putting $$ into retirement accounts, working on a degree part-time or online, and otherwise taking care of business.

  I want to add--the only reason my husband and I have any retirement savings is because I got a degree (then another one, then another one) and now have a great job with benefits. Totally NOT what the organization says to do.