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  Who deserves the title of king of apostasy ?

  by Chook in

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  i think this would be a noble endeavour..

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  Popularity threads are ridiculous.
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  Blood Issue.......something for thought, where is the logic.

  by CovertsadJW in

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  2. medical

  i have yet to read about the contradictions in the jw teachings on blood, but i have personally witnessed one.

  i am a medical professional and have seen hemopure administered for an active jw who did refuse a blood transfusion.

  its not fda approved here, but given in special life saving circumstances.

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  You are right it is completely irrational.

  I think the GB have backed themselves into a corner. They cannot retract on their basic doctrine that blood transfusions are against god's law but they are trying to do everything to find loopholes to reduce the death count and the legal exposure that comes with that.
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  Another School Shooting: The Gun Violence/Mental Illness Debate Continues

  by jp1692 in

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  2. experiences

  in the aftermath of the valentine's day school shooting in florida, i have read quite a number of articles, blogs and posts about the event.

  it is disturbing--and i think inexcusable--that many people take the opportunity to use horrible tragedies such as this to push their own particular agenda.. in particularly insensitive and tone-deaf tweet, conservative political commentator tomi lahren wrote: "can the left let the families grieve for even 24 hours before they push their anti-gun and anti-gunowner agenda?

  my goodness.

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  Utah teacher shoots herself in the leg while at school.

  Just before 9 a.m., Michelle Ferguson-Montgomery accidentally discharged her gun while using a faculty restroom at Westbrook Elementary School in Taylorsville, the principal said in a letter to students’ parents. The incident occurred before school hours, and no children nor staff were present. The teacher was in legal possession of her gun on school property...

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  It's time to bear the cost of properly armed and well trained guards at every school in the USA. Then get on with working out how you got to this state and what can be done if anything.
  
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  They are all dead!

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower company and the jdubs talk so nonchalantly about the year 1914, the year they say jesus became king in the heavenly kingdom.

  they talk about the year like it was just a short time ago.

  the invisible king began ruling in the invisible kingdom.

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  Thank you ^^^
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  They are all dead!

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower company and the jdubs talk so nonchalantly about the year 1914, the year they say jesus became king in the heavenly kingdom.

  they talk about the year like it was just a short time ago.

  the invisible king began ruling in the invisible kingdom.

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  Don't forget it was the generation of people old enough to observe the events of 1914 until the cult lost its nerve and changed it to those born in that year. Fourteen years old in 1914 was the generally accepted limit. That would make them 118 now.
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  Another School Shooting: The Gun Violence/Mental Illness Debate Continues

  by jp1692 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the aftermath of the valentine's day school shooting in florida, i have read quite a number of articles, blogs and posts about the event.

  it is disturbing--and i think inexcusable--that many people take the opportunity to use horrible tragedies such as this to push their own particular agenda.. in particularly insensitive and tone-deaf tweet, conservative political commentator tomi lahren wrote: "can the left let the families grieve for even 24 hours before they push their anti-gun and anti-gunowner agenda?

  my goodness.

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  That teachers who are ex-military can't carry guns or even keep them in a nearby drawer

  Loaded guns in drawers in schools. Genius!
  
  
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  three score years and 10

  by stan livedeath in

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  yep--70 today.

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  cofty

  Happy birthday!
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  No Bible = No God?

  by menrov in

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  2. bible

  some doubt about the bible completely, some partially.

  what if the bible turns out to be a product of humans, nothing divine.

  would you still believe in a creator?.

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  Fink did you miss my point?
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  No Bible = No God?

  by menrov in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  some doubt about the bible completely, some partially.

  what if the bible turns out to be a product of humans, nothing divine.

  would you still believe in a creator?.

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  Guru Sathya Sri Baba only died in 1984. His list of 'miracles' including resurrections makes Jesus look like a child's party entertainer.

  In one example four men travelled from Australia to visit him in India. As they waited an attendant came out to ask one of them to come in as Sri Baba had a message for him. One of his family back home was ill and he needed to return urgently. He asked him to point out on a map on the wall where he was from. The man pointed to Australia and the guru touched the map which turned into a detailed map of Australia. He pointed again and again in increasing detail until he could identify his home. Then the guru invited him to step through the map and he would be transported immediately to his family.

  The man never came back out of the room.

  The attendants will testify to this miracle. So will the man's three friends and so will the man himself as will his family.

  This happened just a few decades ago. It was recorded within days. The names of the witnesses are known and still alive. How many 'indisputable facts' do you think we could enumerate?

  And yet we both know this story is bullshit. Probably based on wishful thinking, exaggeration, lies chinese whispers and self-promotion.

  Jesus' body almost certainly rotted in a mass grave or rubbish tip in Jerusalem. His presence with his followers was in the same sense that millions of others vividly feel the presence of dead loved ones. It is a human response to grief and loss. In time the 'spiritual' experience acquired literal details like a muddled story of an empty tomb as one disciple after another vied for the most profound experience of his presence.

  The truth is almost always more mundane.
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  In case you want to see mass quantities of ignorance / stupidity on display....a dinosaur thread on JWTalk

  by sir82 in

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  2. beliefs

  https://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/34840-what-does-the-bible-say-about-dinosaurs/.

  amazing how many words can be expended discussing things that people have utterly no clue about..

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  All of them terrified to consult an actual scientific source.

  They live in a bubble of ignorance that is matched by their certainty.