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  Must see video on Youtube where a JW is clearly defeated on the trinity subject...

  by Tuesday in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  personally i hate bible ping-pong.

  i don't think it ever gets anywhere, i don't think it solves anything and i don't think the participants ever make any head room.

  however i will say in this case, i have been proven wrong.

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  mraimondi

  i think people get caught up in semantics here too.

  fact is, the trinity is a bolted-on doctrine.
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  Must see video on Youtube where a JW is clearly defeated on the trinity subject...

  by Tuesday in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  personally i hate bible ping-pong.

  i don't think it ever gets anywhere, i don't think it solves anything and i don't think the participants ever make any head room.

  however i will say in this case, i have been proven wrong.

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  the same DNA? lol

  i love it how begetting is clearly understanding one point whilst totally ignoring the fact that if you beget something, you are seperate from it, and older (and in more authority) than it.

  lol
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  Must see video on Youtube where a JW is clearly defeated on the trinity subject...

  by Tuesday in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  personally i hate bible ping-pong.

  i don't think it ever gets anywhere, i don't think it solves anything and i don't think the participants ever make any head room.

  however i will say in this case, i have been proven wrong.

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  mraimondi

  either there is no trinity

  or the bible contradicts itself...

  those are the only two answers. That bible jim guy was really reaching for straws, and the JWs were dull.
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  A religion with nothing to Celebrate

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how sad that the witnesses have nothing to celebrate.

  the more i think about it since i stopped going to the meetings, the more i feel that spirituality and religion are about opportunities to give thanks and to celebrate life with family and friends.

  christenings or name giving ceremonies celebrate the gift of a new life to a family.

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  mraimondi

  i feel the opposite...

  i am not a witness and yet i have always viewed holidays (before being a witness and of course during) - as a way of society itself to control its populace... and for people to validate themselves. I think we can have celebrations every day,...
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  The League of Apostate Pioneers

  by Megachusen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently it's come to my attention that the other teens in my congragation are being pressured by their parents to pioneer.

  the main problem is that, like me, they're all "apostates".

  because of this amusing turn of events, i'm thinking about starting my own apostate pioneering group with them.

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  megachusen

  Some of you might as well still be in the religion -- you are still as dogmatic and judgemental as any of them.

  lol yup
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  Christians risk rejection and discrimination for their faith in Britain.

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the first poll of britain's churchgoers, carried out for the sunday telegraph, found that thousands of them believe they are being turned down for promotion because of their faith.. one in five said that they had faced opposition at work because of their beliefs.. more than half of them revealed that they had suffered some form of persecution for being a christian.. the findings suggest a growing hostility towards religion in this country, which has been highlighted by a series of clashes between churchgoers and their employers.. and so on.

  more at the link.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5413311/christians-risk-rejection-and-discrimination-for-their-faith-a-study-claims.html.

  silver lining: there are still christians in gb!.

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  presecution complex
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  Washington Post article - Knocking guy

  by Dagney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (apologies if this has been posted already...couldn't find it had).

  http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/05/prop_8_ruling_a_blow_to_all_minorities.html?hpid=talkbox1.

  i was sent this by a missionary.

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  well he makes sense...

  its true, there is, in this case, an appreciative difference between mormons and JWs - the former impose their beliefs into legislation, the latter does not.
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  Author of the book "J.W.s and the hour of darkness" Darek Barefoot speaks up on the conference call concerning subliminal images in the Watchtower lit.

  by koolaid-man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  darek barefoot, author of the book "jehovah's witnesses and the hour of darkness" will be one of our quests on the six screens conference call on saturday june 6,2009 at 7 p.m.est.

  darek barefoot, a former jehovah's witness was ostracized from the organization for trying to expose the truth about the occultic influence in the watchtower organization.

  his book documents the existence of disguised, or "subliminal"images in watchtower illustrations, and further demonstrated that these images were occultic, being drawn from witchcraft and demonology.

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  15 year old masterbating.....Can you IMAGINE That.? I cant draw
  a picture, but my heart aches every time I think of it....

  taking this out of context is BAD.

  since it was highlighted i read it first and was like there better be some context lol
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  The FIVE questions that elders consider whether to form a judicial committee for an inactive person

  by BonaFide in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is according to the pay attention to the flock book.

  i can't remember the page.

  i handled this situation a number of times but i may have missed a detail, these are the basics i am pretty sure.

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  thanks for these posts BF
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  My experience with the Bethel Legal Dept. regarding a Ministerial Servant molesting a boy

  by BonaFide in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the experience that follows contains some details that some might find graphic.

  so be warned.. the body of elders received word that an unmarried ministerial servant, age 20, had been seen fondling a younger male bible student, age 14. the ministerial servant himself had been studying with the boy.

  the ministerial servant was a quiet, timid brother.

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  -- Yes, assuming it's actually required by law for them to do so, in that particular state. That doesn't bother you in the least?

  should they not do what is required of them by law? Otherwise, if you don't like the laws, you should probably write a senator. They are just following the rules....now... anyway.