Posts by garyneal

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TV.JW.Org - WTF is Wrong With This Guy? - CAPTION THEM

by passwordprotected in

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i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.

and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .

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garyneal

Okay, I stomached it for maybe 5 minutes (if that). I noticed that it is contigent of "your continued support."

All I can say is that the opening screamed "700 Club" and it got me thinking about the many times Pat Robertson made a buffoon of himself with his many ignorant comments on camera. I hope, for their sake, that the WTS does a better job filtering what the GB says on camera as it will bite them in the ass if and when they screw up.

Not that it matters anyway as their faithful followers will defend them no matter what. After all, Robert Tilton, Jimmy Swaggart, and Pat Robertson all still have a following.

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THREE REASONS WHY MODERN CHRISTIANITY IS A MYTH

by Tiresias in

modern christianity is based on the notion of a universal outreach to the nations, begun in the first century.

however, a closer examination of the scriptures suggests that biblical concepts have been misunderstood and misapplied.

1) the "world" into which jesus was sent was israel.

garyneal

Interesting but what about the idea of Righteous Among the Nations as put forth by Jews?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations

An excerpt from the page reads as follows: "The term originates with the concept of "righteous gentiles", a term used in rabbinical Judaism to refer to non-Jews, as ger toshav and ger tzedek, who abide by the Seven Laws of Noah."

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There will come a time when no one will care any more

by singlebaby in

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garyneal

I think boards like this will be good artifacts when we all pass on as it will give wonderful insite into how we thought during this time. What I would not give to read the thoughts of the people back in the early days of Christianity.

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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

by FlyingHighNow in

i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

what did you love about the 80s?

garyneal

I did like the pop and rock from the 1980s but I truly did not get into those genres much until the early to mid 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhOUYdg2S8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXy7AsjvL4

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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

by FlyingHighNow in

i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

what did you love about the 80s?

garyneal

Of course, I loved using my color computer which was given to me in 1986...

http://www.thepcmuseum.com/tandy/Coco2/TRS80COCO2-side.jpg

http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80/mirrors/www.discover-net.net/~dmkeil/images/extbasic.gif

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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

by FlyingHighNow in

i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

what did you love about the 80s?

garyneal

Let's see, my avatar was popular in the 1980s.

I was mainly into old school (though not so old at the time) hip hop, which was a bit out of the ordinary at the time since I was white and lived in a small town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPsR4rDp4xI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-o4DwEoFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Lnu2NJ18A

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HOW TO IDENTIFY THE TRUE RELIGION

by Fifth Column in

jesus said that the true religion would be evident in the lives of the people who practice it.

by their fruits you will recognize them, he said.

every good tree produces fine fruit.

garyneal

Ooops, I see this is a ressurrected old thread. Oh well...

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HOW TO IDENTIFY THE TRUE RELIGION

by Fifth Column in

jesus said that the true religion would be evident in the lives of the people who practice it.

by their fruits you will recognize them, he said.

every good tree produces fine fruit.

garyneal

Each of us does well to ask himself, ‘Am I worshiping God in the way he has set out in the Bible?’ If we make sure, day by day, that the answer is yes, then we are on the right path.

No problem here, I asked that very question about five years ago when I was seriously considering becoming a Jehovah's Witness after studying with them for six years. But I did a little research of my own and found the following:

Baptism to an organization with their two baptism questions that they ask all baptism candidates (after 1985). Compare Matthew 28:19.
Jesus is not your mediator if you belong to the great crowd of other sheep without the heavenly hope. Compare 1 Timothy 2:5 with what the WT says in their publication "Worldwide Security under the Prince of Peace" page 10.
According to the Watchtower's interpretation of the Greek scriptures, Jesus is A god in John 1:1 but THE God in John 20:28. Which one is He?
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/joh1.pdf
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/joh20.pdf

See my blog at http://garyneal.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/why-am-i-not-a-jehovahs-witness/ for a more detailed discourse on how I almost became a JW only to later reject the faith when I did a little research. The false dates alone, not to mention the fact that they once preached 1874 being the time of Christ's invisible return along with their 1919 teaching, should be enough for anyone to reject this religion as being the place to 'worship God the way He has set out in the Bible.'

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was noah under the law of moses? huh?

by sowhatnow in

im confused, a poster for the whole mamoth elephants and ark deal going on, with a gizillion pages, .

quoted genesis ch 7 about him bringing 7 clean animals.

and only two unclean, well i thought it wasnt till moses came along that all these requirements were done, so noah was under the law too?.

garyneal

Your questions do raise some interesting points, sowhatnow. How could Noah know the laws concerning unclean animals if that wasn't available until Moses.

Perhaps you heard of the Noahide laws that the Jews declare are binding to the people of the nations (Gentiles). It won't answer your specific questions though.

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is it possible to raise good kids with out religious morals?

by Princess Ashe in

making up my mind on how to teach my son values in life seems to be an on going struggle of what is right and wrong.

being raised in a sheltered jw life until after leaving high school seems like going from one extreme to another of being over restrictive or under.

trying to find that balance.

garyneal

Don't JWs and other Christians ever wonder how the heathen nations worked out that murder, stealing, lying, adultery, assault and envy are wrong, thousands of years before Moses climbed Mt Sinai?

Not my JW wife, she points out the passage in Acts where it says that the people of the nations are a law onto themselves and have the law written in their hearts.