Truthseeker DATA-DOG is right, technically as a Christian all sins are as one...paid for by the blood of Christ should you ask for forgiveness in his name. There is no mention of one being worse than another - the Watchtower got that wrong ( obviously a Franze BS issue)- except for the mysterious " unforgivable sin against the holy spirit" and frack knows what that is!!
Diogenesister
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Here's a view on homosexuality for you...
by konceptual99 in...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.
all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.
homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.
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Galatians 5:26 was used in and before the 1960`s to not be involved in competitive sports for yourself or for your children
by smiddy inmyself and my peers in the jw organization in the 1960`s discouraged our children from entering into competitive sports because of the jw policy , regarding that scripture .. has their been a radical change since then ?
a re-interpretation of that scripture ?.
why i ask this question is : here in victoria australia where afl football ( aussie rules ) is often regarded as a religion , especially to the state, victoria , we have, according to the media , a devout jehovah`s witness playing professional afl football at a competitive level.. and at their latest win , the team , including alec rance a jw of the richmond club was enthusiastically singing the club victory song along with his teammates on their win .. are their other examples of this in other parts of the world or is this an australian hiccup.. smiddy.
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Flying Scotsman Visits My Town
by cofty inthe iconic steam engine the flying scotsman has been restored and is back on tour along the east coast main line between london and edinburgh.
this evening it crossed the royal border bridge in berwick-on-tweed for the first time since it was put out of service in january 1963.. here are few shots.. .
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Beautiful...I also saw it once though I don't remember, just a wee baby . I have a minuture version though! Its the Hornby version. -
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My possibly " Unique" Trolly Witness....
by The Rebel ini don't usually anti-witness anymore, but being out of town and bored i went up and introduced myself to a couple of sisters " trolly witnessing" then a voice from behind me spoke " if you don't mind i think i was in front of you".
i stepped back, apologising as i did so, and decided to continue with my day.. anyway this trivial incident i post because it may be quite unique, i mean i really can't imagine anywhere else in the world where people are queing up to speak to these people manning " trolly carts" can you?.
and on the whole i think that's a good thing, even if he was ahead of me only to anti-witness?.
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PZH You may have fared better at Armageddon had she not spoken to you.
No I think Perry means that real ( non dub) Christians ALSO believe in a paradise earth...they just have a different term for it - and I may be wrong so I stand to be corrected ( by Perry or any others )- but I also believe they don't see it as the " end game" as it were, unlike Jehovah's Witnesses. -
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Hi everyone!
by cognac inwas just listening to a song that made me think of the jws so thought i'd say hi and see how everyone is.
i'm doing ok. kids are fine.
i'm good, making tons of friends, very successful in my career, bla bla bla.
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Hi....did you win your bet??!!!
I love the song!!! How can anyone not see its power!
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Thankful for my babies
by BeautifulMind ini hope everyone is having a good day/night.
so i was just reflecting on how happy i am to have my babies, despite the orgs.
not so subtle requests that married couples not have babies in order to further serve the org.
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he WTBTS says a lot of things, but we as individuals choose whatever, especially these days when all their doomsday predictions have expired.
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I'm sorry to say in the 70s and 80s we thought the wtbts was speaking for god so EVERY little word..no matter how seemingly just a " suggestion" was a suggestion from god, we thought it selfish to have kids when peoples lives depended on our being free to go in service..........not so many born- in fashion plates who use KH as a social calendar filler- upper, then for " keep up with the jonses" House beautiful demos and to show our fashion forward credentials....Jesus? Jesus who? Take your sandals off before you come in, that's a Conran rug dear.
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Thankful for my babies
by BeautifulMind ini hope everyone is having a good day/night.
so i was just reflecting on how happy i am to have my babies, despite the orgs.
not so subtle requests that married couples not have babies in order to further serve the org.
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I'm another late bloomer....caught at 38 and unexpectedly pregnant with twins!
I look back at my thoughts to never bring children into this wicked system..but also because my self esteem was zero thinking I was too imperfect to have kids, too evil, thanks to childhood indoctrination, anyway it fills me with utter horror that I may not have brought my beautiful boys into this hard, yes at times painful but ultimately wonderful world..given them a shot at life...giving life, bringing forth life...words fail me.
Of all the evils the org has brought upon the trusting ones childlessness is what angers me most, we all have our pet hate and this is mine.and I literally weep with Alive! and others betrayed so scandeously, so evilly, to play on their selflessness like that...it denies not just the parents but EVERYBODY joy.
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This is what Real Charity Work is all About
by rebelfighter ini love this organization.
i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.
i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.
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Show me! Show me the teeny cars!
My son is under Great Ormond street for a disfiguring and dangerous skull condition - our surgeons made him a new forehead and top skull and stopped pressure on the brain and cruel bullying. This Dr is amazing he travels the world with a musculo- skeletal Charity operating on disfigured children who hide at home because the superstitious villagers think its caused by demons......and yet 2 miles down the road in 21st century London, a small boy in my local Cong of JW's needs but will never have that operation. Because his parents believe a 3,000 yr old superstion that a vindictive desert God will kill their son for eternity should they allow the operation, and the transfusion he will surely need with it.
Edited to say...yes JW snoops look at REBELFIGHTER'S and my post and tell us these kids should wait on Jehovah!
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Well, they came again. Really this time an Elder.
by rebelfighter inso after the 2 special pioneers visited i thought i had given them an earful about the arc and the pedophile problem in their organization surely they would have put me on the do not call list.. oh, no not my luck i get an elder and his lovely little mute wife with infant child in the stroller this morning at 9 am.
don't these people have a job to go to?
it was a car with 3 men & a woman.. we go through the standard do you read the bible yada yada, i tell them i know the routine very familiar with your game.
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Fantastic...enjoyed reading it, great job. Sounds like he was OK, his authentic self is telling him its wrong to be prejudiced, let's hope it wins through some day! -
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45 Minute Bethel Video about Changes (downsizing) at Watchtower
by OnTheWayOut ini don't see this posted elsewhere, and i don't have the links besides this facebook one.. but here is a 45-minute long bethel talk about the changes at bethel including addressing the hard feelings of people who were given the axe.
basically, everything must change.
we gave remaining bethelites saturday off to do our bidding in "the field" and we give bethelites over 70 an extra day a week off (if you can find any such bethelites).
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Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice to the hungry beast Jehovah and his insatiable appetite for sacrifice!
Sparrowdown how right you are! I wish I could give that post a million likes!