Sir, if you don't see that contrary to what the dictionaries say about the word, Jesus evidently meant two groups by the word "generation", you sir lack faith. You might as well go around telling the historians are correct when they say Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 BCE instead of 607 BCE what evidently the Bible points at.
Posts by teel
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135The generation changed is explained in the June 15'th WT!
by life is to short init is here in writing the new generation change.
on page 5 of the of the wt while talking about the annual meeting report.. "john barr gave the third and final talk.".
"john barr made clear that the gathering wound not continue indefinitely.
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for those that married in the "truth"
by rockmehardplace inhow long did you date?
i was reading another post by exms and he mentioned three years.
in the area where i am at, three years would have never been accepted.
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teel
We dated 2 years too. I was still fresh in the lie, so I didn't really understand by the standards we're taking too long. When the elders asked me about my intentions, I said the engagement is set to about half a year from now. I was a bit puzzled that they were looking at me like I'm doing something wrong, and asked me "so the wedding only comes later then?" I had no idea back then that they were expecting us to be married after at most 1 year.
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By their deeds you shall know them - aka JW's who aint that christian
by LaniB infirstly some background.. when i was 21 i went to live in sydney and left my congregation in tasmania.
until then i had never seen the bad side of the borg.
being new in town and staying with my non jw sibling i immediately checked in with the local congregation and soon found a fellow witness to share an apartment with.
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teel
Oooh, is this a small world or what? Hmm... Well, thanks to both of you for reminding me not to pass judgement until you hear both sides.
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Most people who are not JW's live with out moral restrain! All who have left the "Truth" regret it. June 15th WT
by life is to short inin the june 15th wt it says on page 9 i will just write it out as it is to hard and unbelievable to preface this.
so here it is.. "many who today are members of the christian congregation can tell you that before learning of and adopting jehovah's righteous standards, they lived without moral restrain.
yet, they were unsatisfied and unhappy.
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teel
Sadly it's true wobble. I just took an interrest in finding errors and fallacies in the magazines - which is too easy work actually.
I have a feeling the writers still have an ounce of honesty, and whenever they can, they avoid outright lying. Yet they choose the words so that JWs will come to the conclusion they want them to. In this case they know very well many who leave don't regret it, but they can't put that in writing, and saying "most who leave regret it" would be lying.
I find this sort of manipulation of truth to be worse than outright lying - it's deliberate twisting of words, that is harder to discover than the true lies.
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The generation changed is explained in the June 15'th WT!
by life is to short init is here in writing the new generation change.
on page 5 of the of the wt while talking about the annual meeting report.. "john barr gave the third and final talk.".
"john barr made clear that the gathering wound not continue indefinitely.
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teel
Black Sheep: my wife is buying into this without any shadow of doubt. When I pointed the generation change to her, she thought it was perfectly logical, and a great provision from the "slave". As a sidenote she is quite intelligent, that is not the reason. The WT can say absolutely anything, and faithful JWs will still view it as coming from God.
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Most people who are not JW's live with out moral restrain! All who have left the "Truth" regret it. June 15th WT
by life is to short inin the june 15th wt it says on page 9 i will just write it out as it is to hard and unbelievable to preface this.
so here it is.. "many who today are members of the christian congregation can tell you that before learning of and adopting jehovah's righteous standards, they lived without moral restrain.
yet, they were unsatisfied and unhappy.
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teel
Hm, is this an admission? Or someone was really careless?
In contrast, some who in the past chose to leave the 'safe water' of the Christian congregation now bitterly regret that decision.
I read this that the majority of those who leave don't regret it at all Which makes the rest of this tripe irrelevant.
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[PSP] Gran Turismo, tokyo 246
by possible-san in[psp] gran turismo, tokyo 246, honda s2000lm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trftbhkoyzi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyboqm7u2xm.
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teel
Scott: fortunately I never been in situation to really need a car (I live in a relatively small town, and walking is healthy, taxis are cheap when in need), so I only drove small carts in my youth. I often wondered whether the careless driving in games would affect me in real life, were I to actually drive. GT5 on the other hand is a simulator, so I'm guessing there will be a realism setting, that when you set all the way up, the car will get as much damage as in real life, so no reckless driving there. Still you will probably drive over 100-150 mph most of the time.
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Do you still pray? Why?
by gubberningbody inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ilzaaami.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uazdcs-rmf4.
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teel
The first video made some points, but they were blurred by the blatant appeal to flattery fallacy. Come on, every intelligent person should see the problem with that video
As others said before me: inner peace is the undeniable result of prayer, and that was not part of the scientific study.
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[PSP] Gran Turismo, tokyo 246
by possible-san in[psp] gran turismo, tokyo 246, honda s2000lm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trftbhkoyzi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyboqm7u2xm.
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teel
I watched the Gran Turismo 5 trailer in hi-def, and I had to collect my jaws from the floor. It can easily pass as a movie. I played the contest version of GT5 (it was a free contest in March, one lap, best time wins a trip to F1 in South Africa I think), and I was quite impressed. Have to look for this one.
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The 'you don't look happy' theory, the anorexic masturbator, and other crazy cunundrums(?)
by freeflyingfaerie inso it was that we were having another emotionally charged conversation, my parents and i. in the course of it, they condescendingly told me i wasnt happy, because i just dont look like it to them (they don't even know me anymore, as we have no real relationship-- the never-ending assumptions they make of others infuriates me to no end!!).
my theory~~~ of course df'd family and ex-friends don't look happy to them!
what they see (if they ever encounter us) is someone who is dead to them, has been publicly flogged emotionally and mentally~~~why would we fake a smile and pretend everything is normal and ok when we see them?
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'masturbation' is arousing you sexually (no duh!) and that it could tempt you to fornication
Yep, the old slippery slope fallacy. They love that. Don't hold hands, because that leads to kissing, that leads to fondling, that leads to sex. Don't say hello to a DFd, because that leads to more indepth talk, that leads to regular chattings, that leads to close friendship (oh I wish it was that easy...).