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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

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  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  Is this JW video available on YouTube? I don't like going to jw dot Borg.

  And remember, Paul, Christianity's foundational figure, circumcised his adult male friend Timothy. We all know the ancient Jewish circumcision technique, right...right?
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions

  by cofty in

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  250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.

  it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.

  a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.

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  cofty said: It may be true that human activity is creating a new extinction event

  I have read this also. I think Cuba's Special Period is worth examining to see a way to possibly avoid a human created extinction event. I wonder if the collective homo sapien species is able to see the value of working with nature instead of against it, to adjust our rabid energy consumption to a more sustainable one in order to preserve the very system that supports us all.
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  The Freedom to Learn

  by TheLiberator in

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  since i have left the watchtower's dung behind, reading and learning has accelerated at an unbelievable pace for me.

  i am sure that is true for most here.

  i have always been a big time reader.

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  Liberator said: Bart Ehrman is another one. By means of careful words he misleads people to draw a conclusion that simply isn't true. It might be technically true,

  This is one f'ed up statement.
  
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  Why haven't you been to the meetings?

  by Zana in

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  some cong-member asked my wife this question (in the street, stopping her on her bicycle) in a rather police-like fashion.

  i wasn't there so i don't know her immediate reaction and response, but she got very upset afterwards and one day later this still occupies her mind.

  i believe it's an emotional mix of anger, sadness, shame and guilt.. she doesn't like this intrusion in her privacy from some jws and on the next occasion she will try to make this person respect her boundaries (or just ignore her).

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  Q: "Why haven't you been to the meetings?"

  A: "Because they suck."
  
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  Today's Text - Jehovah Is SPEEDING Up The Work!

  by Divergent in

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  today's text:.

  saturday, april 30. the little one will become a thousand and the small one a mighty nation.

  i myself, jehovah, will speed it up in its own time.—isa.

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  Ok, so slowing down = speeding up. Gotcha. Is that the same as tacking in the wind?
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  Every species on the planet has an Adam and Eve

  by stillin in

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  the original "parents" of each species sinned in some way peculiar to their "race.

  " this dented the bread pan, thereby causing all offspring to be "dented.

  in every case, the "dent" results in a premature death to all descendants.. the languages are "confused" but there will come a messiah in the form of a perfect example of whichever sort of animal it is and all of those animals must recognize the messiah or they will die.

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  Hello

  by WITNESS-FOR-WATCHTOWER-REFORM in

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  just to say a big hello.

  i have been reading this site for some time now and have been very unhappy with some of the things emanating from watchtower head quarters in new york.

  the final straw for me is the upcoming watchtower study this weekend encouraging us to shun our own family members (our own mothers if need be) if they are disfellowshipped....a step too far for my liking.

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  Welcome WFWR... if you write to the GB and then post those letters here, won't they know who you are on this site? If you don't care then go for it.
  
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  Lennon and McCartney could so easily have been writing for the Watchtower...

  by The Rebel in

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  in fact just like the watchtower, i've no idea what they were writing about half the time.

  all that rubbish about " i am the walrus" and eleanor rigby keeping her teeth in a jam jar or something, and what "lucy the in the sky with diamonds" means i do not know!

  anyway, i mention the above because shortly after i quit meetings, beattle loving brother, ian x also, stopped attending meetings, and i watched him transform himself in to a, scruffy bearded, hippyish, beer drinking slob, ( translation a great guy) .

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  You guys are cracking me up today!
  

  I love Joe Cocker's music. My neighbour's kid used to have Joe Cocker moves.
  
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  What was there before the Big Bang?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

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  What was there before the Big Bang?

  Quiet.

  In Space, no one can hear you scream.
  
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  Has Anybody Hear a Rumour That Prince Died?

  by cofty in

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  why do people care so much about celebrities?

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  Heaven

  I guess many people identify with celebrities for a variety of reasons. When someone we relate to through their fame and therefore, work, passes away, particularly someone whose work we enjoyed or connected with, it makes us feel sad that someone who evoked something within us is now gone. It usually means we will no longer receive any pleasure or joy or benefit from any more of their future work, although, in the case of Prince, sounds like he had a vault full of unreleased music.
  

  Regarding Prince, he was a bit young, in my opinion, to pass away. He was once, and possibly still considered, a Jehovah's Witness, hence the discussion on this board about him. Prince's JW membership is definitely an oddity, conundrum even, considering the type of celebrity he was. Not the JW type AT ALL, at least in his public persona.

  I was sad to learn of Christopher Hitchens passing. We need people such as he who are fearless in the onslaught of ridiculousness, to keep the fight for critical thinking over the delusion going. I also identify with their loved ones. I feel an empathy for them as I have lost many of my own family and can relate to the difficulty of loss.