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  My letter to Bethel about the flood

  by Cornbread in

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  i've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.

  it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.

  that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.

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  Sir82- As someone who questions everything, I get my kill when archeologists come up with dates based on a simple science test called radio carbon dating. For example, they find a fossil in a rock of some fish they have never seen before. They carbon date the rock and bingo, it's 230 million years old? Where on earth do they come out with these figures?

  History can only be counted back in thousands of years by means of evidence such as writings etc. Before that it was prehistory. For me, believing archeologists estimates in years based pn carbon dating would be like believing the overlapping generation teaching
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  My letter to Bethel about the flood

  by Cornbread in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.

  it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.

  that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.

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  Though I am a believer in the flood. I do admire the fact that you are simply being honest in expressing your views. We need more people like you that can stand up and express ourselves freely than bottling up our thoughts because of fear of man. Your letter was very well written by the way. TE
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  What's all the whispering about...during the meetings, what are the brothers saying to one another...is it important? & other stuff

  by tor1500 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering, during the meetings, what do the brothers whisper about.

  at most of the meetings i see brothers coming up to other brothers during the meetings...always whispering something...you got it i'm nosy...what is it they have to say that's so important during the meeting.

  it's not just every now & again, it's all the time.... anyone here been a brother or have privy to what you whispered about ?

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  'Can you do the microphone in the second half on the left side'. ' bro submarine isnt here' .....'Yeah sure brother'
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  Interesting Wallpaper

  by NeonMadman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife and i live in a small town in northern new jersey.

  there is a building near our house that, many decades ago, used to be the local post office.

  it sat idle for many years, but a couple of years ago, some folks bought it and renovated it into a nice little cafe.

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  Man, that is incredible.
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  So can you pray for others that are not JW's ? Or only JW's

  by tor1500 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm a witness, so i need to know...can we pray for someone that isn't a jw.

  reason i ask, once a friend of mine was going for an operation.

  i asked an elder could he pray with her before she goes into the hospital.

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  When you take the JW blinkers off, you find that Christian love reaches out to people. The prayer of faith makes the indisposed one well. James 5:15

  I once attended an Ms and elders meeting where the CO instructed us when praying from the platform to not pray for those who had been missing meetings for a long time. His attitude was if they are not here, why are we praying for them. Totally heartless and unchristian attitude from a CO
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  YOUNG PEOPLE ASK Should I Grow a Beard?

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. humour

  ok, ok, so the actual title of the article released today on jw-org is "young people askshould i get a tattoo?

  ", but i thought i'd replace some words and phrases from the actual article, as follows:"regardless of the motive, you should think long and hard before deciding to have anything growing out of .

  your skin!

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  This could so easily have been the kind of look we see at Bethel today if Judge Rutherford never became president of the wtb&ts
  
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  The question of who man/woman actually is...

  by The Rebel in

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  naturally leads to the question of god.

  why does man need god?

  why does man create god?

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  Vidiot.....that's how bady life was before lol :-)
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  The question of who man/woman actually is...

  by The Rebel in

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  naturally leads to the question of god.

  why does man need god?

  why does man create god?

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  Belief in God comes down to 'faith'. You either beleive in God or you don't. For me I believe in God as cannot believe everything came about by chance, On the other hand I have a relative who I enjoy having debates with who believes in evolution. We simply agree to disagree.

  Belief in God for me gives me hope and that helps me personally to be a better person. It has helped me give up drugs, smoking and listening to Barry Manilo records. It comes down to faith.
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  WT's 2 BOE Letters Flip-Flop!

  by JW GoneBad in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  everyone knows about the recent across-the-board okay to use electronic devices in jw worship.

  few, though, know about how not long ago it was considered a taboo.. first, there was that dc talk a couple of years back where they nearly demonized simply the ownership of a smart phone, ipads (i phones, blackberries, etc) let alone the use of them at meetings.

  they brought out that they were a waste of time, expensive and that they exposed a christian to satan's world on the internet.

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  This simply highlights the control factor once again. It also highlights how rules are made up as they go along. No hawks among them when they wrote that first letter.
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  Today's Study - Shun Disfellowshipped Family, Don't Marry Outsiders, Tell On Others!

  by Divergent in

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  urghhh... what a disgusting study!7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.

  for example, a sister named anne received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.

  the mother wanted to visit anne because she felt pained by her isolation from the family.

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  On the topic of shunning. Listen to the young woman in the recording on jw facts. Scroll down (near bottom of page) to the recording on this link.

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/disfellowship-shunning.php

  The elders come across as heartless when they question her for the fact HER OWN PARENTS came round to help her and her child, or for simply giving her and her child a lift to the airport. It's absolutely disgusting to think that she is condemned by the elders for the fact that her own mum and dad were simply giving her a little needed support.