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  Give my Cubbies some love!

  by JRK in

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  how many of you think the cubs deserve a world series championship for the first time in 108 years!?.

  jk.

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  Cubs vs. Indians in the World Series: definitely a sign that The End Is Near (or at least that Hell has frozen over)!

  The Cubs are an NL team, where pitchers are ballplayers and take their own at-bats. That is reason enough to say "Go Cubs!"
  
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  Technological singularity

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/technological_singularity.

  the singularity" redirects here.

  for other uses, see singularity (disambiguation).the technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1][2] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

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  Prophecies that assume endless improvements in computing machinery are assuming endless decreases in the size of electronic switches. State of the art designs now have feature sizes of 15nm (150 Angstroms, about 100 silicon atoms wide), which means the end of the road is in sight. Device density will hit the hard limit of single atom features if Moore's Observation continues for a few decades more, and practical considerations (including fabrication quality and connecting the bits together at an acceptable cost) must be overcome to get there. While quite not as unlikely as the Watchtower's 1975 prophecy, talk of "the singularity" is more science fiction than engineering reality.
  
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  I need help, I'm falling in love with a JW girl

  by nebula-- in

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  2. relationships

  so i met her at my last job that i worked & we started off as friends.

  i didn't know her faith at the time & i honestly couldn't have cared less, seeing as i'm agnostic.

  after about a year, i began developing emotions for her & sure enough, we ended up dating for a little while.

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  I want to spend the rest of my days with her but I know I can't & she knows it as well... I'm falling in love with someone I can't have

  Please listen to yourself. Your head is recognizing things that the heart prefers to ignore.

  Here are some things to consider:

  - Witnesses are not supposed to date casually. Dating among Witnesses is for serious appraisal of a potential spouse, not mere socializing or enjoyable company. Dating is to be done in groups, not one on one, to avoid temptations of the flesh.
  

  - Witnesses are pressured to marry young, especially the young ladies.
  

  - Kingdom Halls have an unbalanced male-female ratio. It's a sad twist on Jan & Dean's hit, Surf City ("Two girls to every boy!") There are not enough single Brothers to go around, so the Sisters must compete for them...or...
  

  - Young ladies who find no worhty prospects in the Kingdom Hall often drift away from the religion long enough to find and wed a Worldly (i.e. non-Witness) man. Then, after some time in the Kingdom Hall's penalty box (sitting in the back row, being ignored for the most part), they will earn reinstatement. After that, it is their duty to try to bring their Worldly Non-Believing Mate to the Kingdom Hall, out in the never-ending the door-to-door pamphlet distribution campaign, and into the baptismal pool.

  Don't put yourself or her through anything you are not willing to commit to 100%, with eyes wide open to what may lay ahead.
  
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses and Disaster Relief

  by mildren53 in

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  2. bible

  i'm looking for this brochure mentioned in god's kingdom book.

  i've heard it's only for gubernamental authorities.

  otherwise someone would have it in pdf format?

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  Disaster relief for Jehovah's Witnesses!? What a joke

  That is not a joke, but a truthful commentary about what they are offering. They will assist only Jehovah's Witnesses (and perhaps some who are making progress down the recruitment pipeline.)

  My ex-Elder-in-Law worked on a WTBTS relief crew after a major hurricane, and he was quite candid that they were there to help their own--not those most in need, regardless of creed.
  
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  Necessary Family Business (NFB) is now acceptable according to the weekly WT Study

  by Quarterback in

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  2. beliefs

  during the last decade i've seen so many articles, and top speakers try to downplay that nfb policy.

  now, this weeks wt study mentions a positive experience of someone applying having, "contact and applying nfb with a df relative".

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  Unconditionally loving your parents, spouse, and children is Necessary Family Business. Forgiving them "seventy times seven" times for whatever they might have done is Necessary Family Business. Neglecting them because they don't go to meetings and the Kingdom Hall and spend every weekend peddling WTBTS publications is NOT family business.
  
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  jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

  "i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

  here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

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  There is nothing really original or meaningful in either one. They are typical political speeches: a string of trite platitudes, phrases that only Scrooge would disagree with.

  "Let's hear it for Motherhood! Apple Pie! Baseball!"

  It shows how meaningless the party conventions have become: the outcomes are already known, so they look hard for something, anything, new to say about these quadrennial non-events.
  
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  Words omitted from a Watchtower article

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a short time ago i sought information regarding a quotation in the watchtower of april 1, 2010, which did not identify the exact source of the quotation from professor oskar skarsaune.

  my interest was heightened because words had been omitted from the source.. the wts provided a copy of the original 29-page article, which is in norwegian.. here is my very unofficial personal translation of the passage from professor skarsaune's article that the watchtower is quoting.

  firstly i provide the text as it appears in the watchtower magazine, highlighting where the text has been omitted.

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  "Which writings were to be included in the New Testament, and which were not, was never passed by any church fashion or by any individual, but was the result of a process in which many churches in all parts of the church were involved..."

  In other words, the New Testament canon is a doctrinal Tradition of the church. Since the WTBTS rejects Traditions as false teachings, do they reject the New Testament?
  
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  Hey, Y'all

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how is everybody doing?.

  it's been 8 months since i've been here.. so many newbies!.

  lol.. sylvia.

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  Hello Sylvia! Good to see that you are still around, and doing well it seems.
  
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  Was Adam "born" Circumsized ?

  by RubaDub in

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  2. beliefs

  i guess we have to assume that jesus was circumcised on the 8th day but what about adam?

  he was "perfect", so did he have the weenie cut or not?.

  i would like to bring this question up at a "get-together".. rub a dub .

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  IIRC, circumcision is first mentioned in the passages about Abraham. Genesis chapter 17.
  
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  Has a 'Christian' ever murdered somebody?

  by goddidit in

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  2. beliefs

  a jw made the claim "no christian [jw] has ever murdered anyone".. when i showed examples of such, the goalposts moved a bit with "was he a baptized, dedicated witness?".

  can anyone provide examples of murders committed by "baptized, dedicated" jws?.

  thanks.

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  It's a case of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. If he puts sugar on his porridge, he is not A True Scotsman. If a JW murders, he was not A True Christian.