Posts by jgnat

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Caleb's aeroplane returns! (w14 11/15 p.16)

by darkspilver in

watchtower 2014, november 15, page 16 .

study: "we must be holy in all our conduct".

that's all folks!.

jgnat

Let me guess. Caleb isn't paying attention during Family Study Night, is he?

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Would You Convert to Islam to Avoid getting Your Head Chopped Off? Atheist to Polytheist, what say you?

by BucketShopBill in

would you convert to islam if they were holding your head on a ax block, ready to swing the ax or sword to cut your head off?

we know there are people who died for their political and spiritual values, would you convert to islam to avoid death?

for atheists, can you justify conversion to preserve life since there is no life after death?

jgnat

ISIS has it covered. They force the conversion THEN chop their heads off. The poor pagans get an immediate entry in to Paradise, AND they have no chance to recant.

I'd fake a conversion, no problem. My mind is my own.

Even an athiest can live with reverence for life, the wonder of it all. Since it is short-lived, protect it!

Flax, flower lasts one day.

Flax

Ditto for the daylily.

Daylily

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"Kingdom Hall Construction Guidelines For Lands With Limited Resources" ¡leaked!

by hildebrando in

"these guidelines are for use by branch personnel and those directly involved in the program.

they are not for general distribution... the material presented describes how this program is coordinated internationally through regional kingdom hall offices and how it is supervised at the branch level by the various branch committees re-sponsible.

it explains how volunteers are obtained for the program and how modest standard kingdom hall plans are developed based on local building materials and methods.

jgnat

A little off-topic,

https://www.ted.com/talks/diebedo_francis_kere_how_to_build_with_clay_and_community

Wouldn't it be keen if the Kingdom Halls could double as schools and community centers during the off hours?

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LET'S SAY, TODAY YOU HAD TO JOIN A CULT . . .

by Terry in

and by "cult" i mean any organized religious group outside of the mainstream--.

which one would you select?.

let's say you were compelled to remain an active member for one year--which one do you choose and why?.

jgnat

AAAAAH, hahahahaha.

.

no

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Will someone, please, stop ISIS?

by skeeter1 in

will anyone stop isis?by josh levs, cnnupdated 2:07 pm edt, thu august 7, 2014(cnn) -- if you're following the news about isis, which now calls itself the islamic state, you might think you've mistakenly clicked on a historical story about barbarians from millennia ago.. in a matter of months, the group seized territory in both iraq and syria and declared an islamic caliphate, celebrating its own shocking slaughter along the way.. "i don't see any attention from the rest of the world," a member of the yazidi minority in iraq told the new yorker.

"in one day, they killed more than two thousand yazidi in sinjar, and the whole world says, 'save gaza, save gaza.'".

in syria, the group hoisted some of its victims severed heads on poles.

jgnat

A collaboration of local states to wipe them out would be best.

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JW teachings that have remained the same

by Splash in

teachings that have remained the samewhen you highlight the continual ebb and flow of changing teachings, a jw may refer you to the long held teachings which have never changed.

core doctrines such as the importance of using gods name, and the trinity, hellfire and immortality of the soul all being false.

but even here things are not as simple as they could be:.

jgnat

How about the sanctification of Jehovah's name? Or is that another Rutherford addition?

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Wow I did not see that coming!!!!!!!

by Defianttruth in

jw
friends

i took my family for a weekend trip to a lake in oklahoma a few weeks ago.

the area is right at the end of where the "trail of tears" (i don't know if human atrocities should be in paretheses, italics, or underlined.

yes, i have a dark sense of humor.

jgnat

Yes, there's the family legends and then there's the records. Both sides of my tree is made up of plain, hard-working stock. You go back far enough, they don't even have a last name. We're talking Carl the Carpenter and Sally the Seamstress here.

There was a long-standing family legend that we were related to gentry (Lainchbury, I think), and several generations stuck Lainchbury as a middle name on to their progeny. So I looked it up. A sixth cousin ten times removed or somesuch was one of the Nouveau Riche from the rising industrial age. In order to settle the debt of the local gentry, our Lainchbury ancestor came to acquire the gentleman's property. I found a very interesting court document where the said gentry several years later, tried to argue that he was still entitled to the rents on the land. The gentleman lost. I get the sense that the handing over of said land to - essentially - a working man, went down hard.

I don't know what happened, but within two generations that land was no longer in the family.

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Just an old illustration from "Religion"

by wifibandit in

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source:.

jgnat

Umm, strategic folds, too.

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LET'S SAY, TODAY YOU HAD TO JOIN A CULT . . .

by Terry in

and by "cult" i mean any organized religious group outside of the mainstream--.

which one would you select?.

let's say you were compelled to remain an active member for one year--which one do you choose and why?.

jgnat

Who's going to compel me?

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the end did come???

by Crazyguy in

i believe after russel died that rutherford about russell's perdiction of armageddon in 1914-15 said that the end did come and now millions now living will not die.

has anyone read how rutherford explained or his reasoning for the end did come?.

jgnat

Funny, I just looked that up this morning. How's this article?

http://lukebenjamin.com/ReachoutTrust/rutherfords-two-tier-christianity/