Perhaps it is because they can't speak in tongues or heal people miraculously or just plain not make mistakes when they prophesy. OR the word Apostle sounds too much like Apostate.
Posts by wozza
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12QUESTION of the DAY (a brain teaser)
by Terry inquestion of the dayeach man chosen of the twelve jesus selected had been called disciples, or "students" (meaning "one who learns").
(latin discipulus; greek μαθητής mathētḗs; hebrew לִמּוּד limmûdh;jesus is stated in the bible to have sent out the twelve using a new description: apostles, "whom he also named apostles" (luke 6:13), first before his death "to the lost sheep of israel" (matthew 10), and after his (resurrection to spread the message of the good news to all nations (matthew 28:16-28:20).with the above firmly in mind, the question arises: “why aren’t the governing body called apostles?”.
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The looney left is at it again
by mickbobcat inso we all know california is one shit hole idiot state.
now gov.
asshat has banned gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers.
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wozza
Typical fuckwits ! If they want to seriously stop pollution .global warming etc stop the planes flying in California .oh but they don't want that do they the hypocrites and that goes for all the Greta worshipping fucks as well.
Jesus, next they will be stopping Americans from shooting their guns at each other coz they is noisy and pollute !
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What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?
by Sea Breeze ini was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.
in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.
her husband was a ms. both were df'd.
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So many but I won't be greedy
1: The hall near me ,a wealthy business brother in dry wall industry,new to congo kissed a lot of arse bought a block of land , sub divided it and gave part to to the congo to build a kingdom hall but presented it to the authorities as housing and hall on the plans, put some plumbing illegally from the housing sector of the original part onto the kingdom hall block .All to save money I suppose but the brothers swallowed the BS and appointed him an elder not long after. A few years later I found out thru a sister her best freind was his daughter and he was a pedophile.
2:In the hills of Adelaide South Australia another brother on the regional Quick build commitee and a builder himself tried to use hall funds to prop his business ,he also was not paying tradesman on his companies jobs ,for one night someone planted a bomb on his freshly laid concrete slab and blew it up , what lovely people!
3:When I moved to the state of Queensland I was asked to audit the congregation books as soon as I started at their meetings ,apparently the last servant had ripped off thousands of dollars .
Like others I could write a book so glad to have left .
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Four Corners: Bearing Witness airs Monday 13 September at 8.30pm on ABC.
by smiddy3 inabc 4 corners tv here in australia to be seen on monday 13th september.. i`m looking forward to seeing it.. ex witnesses have their say ..
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wozza
Just saw the ad on ABC TV for this tomorrow night ,going to record this as I always hear about events like this after it shows.
I really hope they give a balanced view in the time they have ,there has been so much damage done to peoples lives .JW people need to focus less on how little time there is before Armaggedon ,and focus more on how much time they have to be honest with themselves about how the organisation is corrupting their conscience.
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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,
by Sea Breeze inhonda vfr 750.
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@ Waton yes I may have been boasting and yet I can still remember the feeling of laying on the tank and feeling the fear and beautiful excitement of that one time and still exhilerated by the memory 50 years later. I can also remember the sick feeling of close calls ,yet here I am an old man with the wonderful knowlege I took a chance and succeeded ,the alternative was living a life of regret that I was too fearful to enjoy the thrills of life ,the only one you get.
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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,
by Sea Breeze inhonda vfr 750.
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wozza
Hi St. George of England I know ,it would be worth a lot especially to me . I sold it to buy a car and go Motocross racing ,I had crashed it into a guard rail at 70 mph around that time ,had it rebuilt with a non standard paint job and here is a photo of me with it but it never seemed to be the same even though the frame had been straightened enjoy!
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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,
by Sea Breeze inhonda vfr 750.
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In 1971 on plains road 5 minutes from where I live now on my tweaked CB 750 K1 Honda 4 . it started shaking it's head at about 115 mph ,and thats when I knew I had to upgrade the suspension to Konis.
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Converted Greek Philosopher Explains Christianity in 125 AD
by Sea Breeze ini ran across a pretty early treatise.
we were all taught that "real" christianity was lost to history and was only restored once russell and then rutherford restored it so that the wt could be appointed as god's "mouthpiece".
but, aristides wrote to the emperor hadrian and gave a pretty good synopsis of core christian belief in 125 ad.
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wozza
Thank you Terry for putting all the text up ,what a great read in context .I found it an amazing writing as an appeal in reasonableness, though I don't think this would be enough to show that God is a trinity.
Seabreeze I think I know why modern churches don't publicize this stuff , that since the 4th century in particular christianity has corrupted itself by men seeking power and making themselves and others gods just the way that was described by the nations described by the above from Terry.
Think about the purity of which Aristides spoke of within the primitive christians and then compare to what we see in the world today in religion and how corrupt it has become after all this time ,and yet there is no god ordained people like back then that can be seen shining as a beacon to the world like back then living like they did according to Aristides.
It's been a long time since then ,and religion like the corrupt WTS promised they were this beacon but they are not, the religions of the world are just the same and still no god has revealed himself like the idols that Aristides talks about.
Christianity has just become a branded product where there is huge confusion where even the essence of the divine nature of god cannot be agreed upon ,some thing as basic as that.
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Party tunes
by jhine inas usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .
i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .
as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .
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How about this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91hydQRGyM J-Lo
Or this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOz_k9zvzo Tina Turner
The second one has funny memories for me ,the JW's would always leap up onto their feet and line dance to this one.
Why is this funny? Before I was a JW in 1975 the night before I was getting married I was taken on a bucks night to a strip joint and this song was featured in some of the strip routines. Years later I find myself watching my brothers and sisters dancing exotically ,especially the sisters, to the same song!
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God vs ET`s ,why is one more probable than the other ?
by smiddy3 inbillions of people around the world beleive in a god of some sort or other who exerts some power or influence to some degree or other in lifes affairs .. i don`t think there would be anywhere near that figure that would entertain the possability of extra terrestial life elsewhere in the universe.. and i find that curious .. the ancients didn`t know that their were other humans on other continents on this planet until they ventured out and found them .. we live somewhere in the milky way galaxy with millions of suns and planets that orbit them.. our galaxy is only one of trillions if not zillions of galaxys in the known universe.. look at the diversity of life on just this one planet earth ,what possabilitys could exist elsewhere ?
on alien worastronomers can use the hubble space telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).
by examining a very tiny portion of the sky, counting up the number of visible galaxies in the universe in that specific region, and then multiplying that number to account for all the regions of the sky, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe.
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Hi Rocketman , I agree that objects and glitchy radars could explain some sightings. I can remember the phenomenom of ball lightning being mistaken for UFO's and our atmosphere does peculiar things with light like the Northern lights.
I am not suggesting every weird thing seen is an inhabited craft as science has shown us some explanations .
But when you get a schoolyard of children and teachers looking at a craft hovering on the school grounds this is something different. Even after all these decades they interviewed some of the children who held to the same story as the teacher to what they witnessed.Interestingly they drew pictures of the what seemed to be a triangular craft with lights similar to what has been seen in other sightings around the world. It's certainly different from my sighting of UFO's and certainly more credible than my story.
But it all comes back to personal perception in the end, If one has never seen a phenomena it would be hard to believe but it is a huge universe and I find it hard to see we are the only planet with life ,and why is it so hard to see that it may be possible for other creatures to be investigating space when we are doing it and dumping our shit in space and on planets now ?