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  Why Does God Need A Name Anyway?

  by Room 215 in

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  if he is the lord god almighty, solely the creator and sustainer of the universe, why the need for a name other than that?

  doesn't monotheism require belief that the other, named gods worshipped by the pagans don't exist in a place beyond the imaginations of their worshippers?

  why then the need for a name, if it isn't to reinforce a differentiation between him and lesser gods?

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  Branding.
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  Circuit Letters/Numbers

  by Palimpsest in

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  2. friends

  i'm wondering if anyone has a list of circuit letters/numbers?

  or can explain a bit more how they work?.

  i can never remember if i was in connecticut circuit 2a or 2b (i think it was b), and i've always wondered if our "2" meant the second circuit in our state or the second circuit in our district.. i don't know why i care, but i've always been curious.

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  I'm wondering if anyone has a list of circuit letters/numbers? Or can explain a bit more how they work?

  I can never remember if I was in Connecticut Circuit 2A or 2B (I think it was B), and I've always wondered if our "2" meant the second circuit in our state or the second circuit in our district.

  I don't know why I care, but I've always been curious. Does anyone else remember their circuit numbers/letters?
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  If JWs Come To Your Door How Will You React?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you engage them in conversation?

  would you be home but hiding?

  would you let them have it?

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  Being friendly and cordial. Treating them like human beings. Debunking their ideas about all apostates being mean and angry.
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  Music-related jw urban myths

  by rebel8 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was researching a few....whew...did they ever bother to *think for themselves* or did they just believe every demon-related rumor they heard?

  (rhetorical question).

  stevie nicks was a witch.

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  I think the whole "Stevie Nicks is a witch!" thing came from her clothing and the fact that "Rhiannon" is loosely based on a mythical Welsh goddess. I remember being told several times to stop wearing broomstick skirts because "they look pagan." Silliness. And she's come out pretty aggressively in saying that she's not Wiccan and that she wishes people would stop saying that.

  The one I always heard was that every time Michael Jackson grabbed his crotch, it was his way of saying F-U to Jehovah. He personally debunked that in interviews, but Dubs still believe it.
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  I've invited the Witnesses to my house

  by maksym in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  im recent here and thought i would properly introduce myself.

  i have posted a few times but mostly i like to read because i gather good insight into reaching the hearts of jehovahs witnesses.

  the short of it is i was born into a large family of jehovahs witnesses.

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  I think the Steve Hassan approach is a pretty good route. I just don't have the book.

  It would be interesting to see what, if anything, he'd have to say about Liberty U. Most anti-cult writers aren't exactly fans.
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  Why do Witnesses think they preach the "Good News"

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the "good news" is a heavy buzz term that any witness will need no elaboration to understand unquestionably.

  it seems illogical, to me, for the witnesses to call their message the "good news.".

  i used to go door to door with a message of "whatever you are doing right now is wrong and will get you killed unless you preach door to door like me.

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  Ding beat me to it! They believe whatever they're told, and they'll use whatever cant is spoken around them.
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  Closing a number of Branches is an EXCITING Development???

  by Rank&FileGuy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is an exerpt from the aug. 15, 2011 wt p.18:.

  why is down-sizing an "exciting development"?

  amazing how they spin it..

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  I know that all of the Spanish-speaking Central American branches are being consolidated into the Mexican branch, but does anyone know what's up with the English-speaking Caribbean branches? I know several Bethelites in the region and have spent time myself at one of the branches, so I'm curious about what's going to happen. It seems weird to me that a full list of closings/mergers hasn't leaked yet.
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  A few old JW books free to a good Apostate home

  by Bumble Bee in

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  2. friends

  i have a few old books of my fathers that i'd like to give away to a good apostate home, free if anyone wants them.. i have "the kingdom is at hand" i don't see a date on it anywhere so i don't know how old it is exactly.. i also have "the new world" copyright 1942. and i have "jehovah's witnesses, the new world society" second printing edition june 1955, written by marley cole, published by vantage press, inc of ny, library of congress card 54-12633. .

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  It's probably too late, but if anyone else is reading... http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8358

  I would gladly take materials off anyone's hands for this project. It's growing nicely but we still need a lot of items.
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  What Did You Not Do Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness That You Wanted To Do?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i didn't go to college and of course, "higher education" was never recommended.

  still, i never felt terribly deprived because of not going further in my education.. yet, i did wish that i could've had "normal" aka "worldly friends".

  i wish that as witnesses, we could've been better integrated with other people.

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  Long way to go for a corny joke, LostGeneration. ;)

  I wish I'd had fun as a teenager. I don't have many good teenage stories like so many of my friends do. And, of course, dating earlier.
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  "In science, empirical evidence always trumps theory"

  by botchtowersociety in

  1. social
  2. current

  this article is buy someone that has, in the past, been a big proponent of runaway agw.

  that he has changed his mind is, i think, significant.

  he says that co2's contribution to global warming is too small to really matter, and that the the climate models have been wrong.. climate models go cold.

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  Also, if you go to the original article at http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/04/07/climate-models-go-cold/, there are some interesting comments. Someone makes the valid point that while Evans has studied and earned degrees in "science," he is by his own admission not trained or proficient in climatology. I think people salivate whenever they see that a "scientist!" has come out against global warming, but I'll be a lot more impressed when it's the majority of people actually trained in climatology and not people from other fields who are really hobbyists.