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  Do You Think Trump Should Be Impeached?

  by minimus in

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  some democrats are zealously pushing the impeachment route to get rid of trump.

  even if you don’t like him, do you support impeachment proceedings?.

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  I think Pelosi is dragging her feet on impeachment because she knows that all the bad stuff that went on under Obama will be dragged out into the light at the hearings. I assume that she's working on the assumption that a Democrat next year. That may be a big assumption, its what everybody said about Hilary.

  Simon: Impeaching Obama is a waste of time, he's already not President, which is the only possible punishment for impeachment. He can still be criminally charged if a crime becomes known (see above).
  
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  The myth, lie that Christendom has hid Gods name, all of these Centuries.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it has been well documented that jehovah`s witnesses have long claimed that christendom has hidden the name of god for centuries.. and that they alone have restored that name in the last century,.

  making it known in all of the earth for a witness.. nothing could be further from the truth .. 1.justus martinus a 13th century spanish monk took the four hebrew letters of the tetragrammaton for gods name and added vowels to those consonants and came up with hebrew letters to english jhvh and the vowels he added e o a. which amounted to jehovah ,remember this was in the thirteenth century by a spanish catholic monk.. 2.this name persisted throughout the centuries to this day ,in many so of christendoms writings etc,etc.. 3.churches of christendoms religions throughout the world have the name jehovah in stone on them engraved since that 13th century .

  4.in the 1970`s if i remember correctly their was an international convention held around the world in which the jw`s released a publication of the conventions and the churches of christendom to the delegates showing these churches many of which had the name jehovah engraved in stone on them.......centuries old churches.

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  A can't reconcile the Watchtower's claim that we can trust the Bible becauce God saw to that it was translated and preserved for us with complete accuracy; with the Watchtower's claim that some how Satan scrubbed God's own name out of the text with impunity.

  It can be one or the other, not both.
  
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  How Affected By Jehovah’s Witness News Are You At This Point In Your Life?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i’ve been out for many many years.

  i still like to know the latest jw news although i find myself not as excited by things..

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  Zero impact, but I do find some items interesting. Mostly I'm glad I got out a long time ago.
  
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  Is It Israel or Palestine??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  does palestine actually exist?

  does israel have the right to exist!.

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  Anybody want to name all the middle-eastern countries that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Stonewall with a parade?
  
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  Ever heard of this angel power?

  by blondie in

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  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1961047#h=16:285-23:710. we may also safely conclude that angels, god’s spirit messengers, travel at tremendous speeds.

  thus once when daniel began to pray, god dispatched an angel to him in answer to his prayer.

  this angel, although coming from beyond the realms of outer space, reached daniel before he had concluded his prayer.—dan.

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  Do angels have mass? If not, then they can travel at infinite speeds. Since the WTBS says they don't have physical bodies, I would take that to mean they have no mass and get from one place to another instantly.
  
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  Questions About the Watchtower's View on Blood Transfusions.

  by Pallbearer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i admit to not being very well informed about the watchtower's view on blood transfusions.

  i have a couple of questions that i hope someone here is able to answer.. i understand that the watchtower now considers it to be okay to receive blood fractions.. my first question is: are all fractions considered to be permissible?

  and if not, specifically which fractions are not permissible?.

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  The Watchtower's position on blood is also unscientific. Medicine does not recognize "major" vs "minor" components of blood. Transfusions of whole blood are relatively rare these days. Current practice is to give you the component you need.
  
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  Who In The Hell Is This Guy?

  by The Bethelite in

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  i got this pm from edgar james adams.

  hello my fellow brethren!.

  i am trying to educate people about the positive influence that jehovah's witnesses can have on humanity and on my local community in general!

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  Who in the bleep names their kid Edgar?

  Jose and Christina Salgado Martinez. Their son Edgar was just inducted into the baseball hall of fame.
  
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  If You Could Pick Just One Title Of A Song That Would Describe Your Life

  by The Bethelite in

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  what would it be?.

  mine would be "rocket man" by elton john.

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  "We're not gonna take it" from the Rock Opera Tommy, if I had to pick one. With out that restriction I'd say the whole album. It came out before I was assimilated (I was about to graduate High School), and I always like the music. Since I left the WTBS I've thought the salvation via pinball meme was a good allegory for trying to sell enough Watchtowers.
  
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  Disaster Preparedness Training - WTF is that?

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm making plans for next weekend and my wife says she's not available saturday.

  "is there an assembly?

  " i asked.. no, disaster preparedness course (or something like that) at the kingdom hall.. is this new?

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  I also remember what Spiral said. When I became a Dub in 1973 people at the KH were making fun of Mormons and the like for their disaster plans. The JW plan then consisted entirely of "Trust in Jehovah." Apparently, they are making more concrete plans now.
  
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  The idiots Hollyweird destroys the Bond Franchise

  by rockemsockem in

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  99% of the people who go to bond films want a straight white english bond with a bit of light sexism and some bond girls thrown in.

  they do not want a tranny bond or a gay or lesbian bond.

  and they do not want a black woman bond.

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  The original James Bond (the one in Ian Fleming's books) is a product of the fifties: he drinks martinis 24/7, drives an exotic car, regards every woman in the world as a sex object, and fights communists for a living. He's the kind of man that teenage boys wanted to be when they grew up, its the same image of the world that Hugh Hefner conjured up in the pages of Playboy.

  For all our current problems, that world is fortunatly a thing of the past, and I don't think the character can be translated into today's world. His doctor would lecture him about his drinking, he couldn't afford the car on a government salary, and every woman he spoke to would slap him and file a harrassment suit. .