Posts by dudeson

so, after a lengthy discussion with my mom on friday, she asked me ( again) to have a study with a bethel brother because the question i ask are too "above" her knowledge and she feels that only a well trained bethel brother can show me the "truth".. i voiced to her my issue:.

i love my mother, father and sister that are jw's and the last thing i want is to lose them, we had already drifted apart because of their new found faith ( my mom was first, about 8 years ago, then my older sister and just recently, last july 4th, my dad), i told her that if i have these study with a bethel brother i will, most likely, sya thing and state sources that may get me brnaded as an "apostate", i asked her, to be honest and truthful with me and to tell me that, if i get branded that and they are told, suggest to them, to stop dealing with me, would they?.

she said that no organization tells her who to deal with, even more so in regards to family.. i was not convinced, nevertheless i agreed and this wednesday will have my first study with him, first topic the mwt, my issue with certain translations ( such as romans 10:13, colossians and so forth) and the name "jehovha".. .

dudeson

Ask about 2 John 11-13 with regards to "greetings". This is the scripture the WT uses to justify never even saying "hello" to a DF'd person. The NWT renders 2 different greek words, with different meanings, as the same word in English.

The Watchtower 1988 May 15 p.27 says: "John here used khai´ro, which was a greeting like "good day" or "hello." (Acts 15:23; Matthew 28:9) He did not use aAspa´zoAmai (as in verse 13), which means "to enfold in the arms, thus to greet, to welcome" and may have implied a very warm greeting, even with an embrace. (Luke 10:4; 11:43; Acts 20:1, 37; 1 Thessalonians 5:26) So the direction at 2 John 11 could well mean not to say even "hello" to such ones."

This WT has it backwards. Khai'ro actually means "to enfold in the arms, thus to greet...".

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Time is going by really really really slow

by purplesofa in

jw
friends

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlkoddgjyuy&feature=fvw.

dudeson

SNORT!

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Missing Bike

by leavingwt in

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dudeson

That's awesome :)

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The WTS and Frequent Liar Points

by Hopscotch in

i have read on here of the frequent flyer points racked up by bethelites etc on wts business and it made me think of this.. .

frequent liar points.

the wts has told so many lies to its members, the public and the media that if there were points accumulated for frequent lies then surely they would have a huge tally of them.. .

dudeson

"indisputable facts", "absolutely and unqualifiedly correct"

"Instead of it being considered a 'probability,' they read into it that it was a certainty"

"i made an ass of myself"

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we are truly in the last days of this wicked system

by knows better in

u.s. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported wednesday.

the increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death.

the average life expectancy for babies born in 2007 is nearly three months greater than for children born in 2006.. .

dudeson

Satan is surely the master deceiver!

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Claws, venom, sharp teeth and other defensive things.....

by Vachi 8 He Is in

another thing i don't get is how all these animals have these destructive body parts, yet i'm to believe they were going to all be herbivores had a&e not sinned?

i pose this question to my dub aunt and she goes "animals weren't eating each other before the flood but they the ones outside of the ark had to survive some kinda way so they took to eating each other.".

now, this begs a series of questions: if the animals could survive the flood, what was the point of noah collecting all of them in the first place?

dudeson

It's alot like Santa Claus for kids. Eventually someone they trust tells them it's not true. It might hurt but in time they get over it. But these "kids" (dubs) were reassured throughout thier lifetime that "Santa" was real. The proof is in the WT mags, a source they put complete trust in. Unfortunately it takes something drastic in thier lives to cast doubt in their minds.

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Claws, venom, sharp teeth and other defensive things.....

by Vachi 8 He Is in

another thing i don't get is how all these animals have these destructive body parts, yet i'm to believe they were going to all be herbivores had a&e not sinned?

i pose this question to my dub aunt and she goes "animals weren't eating each other before the flood but they the ones outside of the ark had to survive some kinda way so they took to eating each other.".

now, this begs a series of questions: if the animals could survive the flood, what was the point of noah collecting all of them in the first place?

dudeson

Because there was no earth wide flood.