Posts by sabastious

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A World Suddenly Teeming with Believers!

by wannabe in

a world suddenly teeming with believers!.

i'm wondering if it's for the following, prophecies that the majority of this world have no respect for the god of the bible?

try telling him at this time when it occurs that you have your own beliefs, and don't care to listen to what he has to say to you.

sabastious

There were a lot of people who didn't want Revalation in the Bible cannon...

I seem to understand why more and more every day.

-Sab

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Not Allowed to read other religious literature? Quotes Required Please

by ThomasCovenant in

i've tried some searching but can't find instances where reading other religious literature is discouraged.. is it true?.

thanks.

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sabastious

The Bible says "Keep proving your faith"

The WT says "Keep proving your faith... using but one source, ours."

-Sab

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All paths lead somehwere

by sabastious in

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i know it's obvious, but the only things in life that can be quantified are obvious.. i'm not talking physics or math here.

talking psychology and philosophy.. all paths lead somewhere.

every person chooses a path, no matter where they came from, and that path leads somewhere.. it's a bleak outlook to some.

sabastious

I know it's obvious, but the only things in life that can be quantified are obvious.

I'm not talking physics or math here. Talking psychology and philosophy.

All paths lead somewhere. Every person chooses a path, no matter where they came from, and that path leads somewhere.

It's a bleak outlook to some. Others it's exciting and adventerous. Some, it's just the path.

Humans are extraordinary to some and ordinary to others. Humans are dangerous to some and helpful to others. They are boring to some and enlightening to others. We are what we are and I am what I am.

That statement sounds monotonous to some and exhilerating to others.

That is the nature of things. We think what we think and we come to the conclusions based on what we think the facts should be and what the evidence should say.

Are we all bias or objective? Some would say the latter and some would say the former.

You get my point.

Is debate useful or burdensome?

Is truth possible, probable or impossible?

You get my point.

Or do you?

Are you offended?

Are you applauding?

Are you laughing?

Are you complacent?

You are something, I know that. I also know that some agree with you and some disagree.

That is the nature of things.

-Sab

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The Writing Department's use of "Exclamation Points". Anybody else find their use cheesy? Or motivating possibly?

by miseryloveselders in

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something i've been meaning to ask for a while since coming here, is wsup with the writing department's use of exclamation points?

i'm no literature buff or anything, but to me personally, the exclamation points cheapen whatever they're trying to get across.

here's some examples from the new jeremiah book.. how thankful we can be for the teaching done by christian shepherds!.

sabastious

It's not just the punctuation.

I first have to laugh at the whole sentence. I love your old batman analogy, it fits perfect!

The exclamation point just "tops off" the ridiculous sentiment of the entire sentence!

-Sab

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Generation - topic dedicated to debator

by teel in

there was a heated discussion between debator and a few others by hijacking this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/194187/1.

i posted here every post on this subject, so you can continue the debate, and leave that thread to its original purpose.

hopefully i got all the relevant posts.

sabastious

Mincing words is mincing words.

Creating a logical difference between "inspired" and "spirit directed guidance" is a blatent form of pretzel logic.

-Sab

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Generation - topic dedicated to debator

by teel in

there was a heated discussion between debator and a few others by hijacking this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/194187/1.

i posted here every post on this subject, so you can continue the debate, and leave that thread to its original purpose.

hopefully i got all the relevant posts.

sabastious

Probably one of the most headache inducing threads I have ever skimmed.

-Sab

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Some things you did as a JW that you look back at and laugh about

by gubberningbody in

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i remember that right after france did a job on the wtbs w/taxes on donations i used an email-harvester and spammed about 250,000 french email addresses with an advertisement for free bible studies and a link to the french site.. .

i remember getting some replies, like "you can't do that, that's illegal.

" and i said "i'm an american, and it's legal here.