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  The effect we are having on the Watchtower is HUGE

  by jwfacts in

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  i was inspired by a recent thread i know i aint gunna crumble the wt, but a girl can dream to look at the effect we as individuals are having on the watchtower society.. 3dogs1husband quoted a story to show that even helping only one person is worth it.. it is encouraging to note that the one person you may have helped has lead to millions being helped, due to the power of compounding growth.. compounding growth is well illustrated by the rice on a chessboard problem.

  if you start with 1 grain of rice on square one, and double it to 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the fourth, by the last (64th) square there would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice.. likewise, if you help one person out of the grip of the watchtower this year, then next year you help one more and they help one, in a few years that is going to have a formidable result on the number of jehovahs witnesses.

  look at the following statistics.

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  Making a fetish out of bible inerrancy

  by Terry in

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  the catholic church dominated christianity for a thousand and a half years without any successful christian competitor.. challenges came and went, but, the central authority won out.. catholic power stemmed from a simple idea: peter was bestowed by jesus and installed as the first leader or pope.. peter, then, passed his authority down successively; one pope followed another.. the central authority of catholicism was magisterium.. if you don't know what magisterium means you might want to look hard at the definition:.

  the divinely appointed authority in the catholic church consisting of the pope and bishops whose purpose is to teach and establish the true faith without error.

  the magisterium alone, according to catholicism, has the right to interpret the word of god.. www.carm.org/catholic-terminology.

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  Are you smarter than an Atheist? I found the results to be amusing.

  by jam in

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  a survey of 32 question of religious knowledge given by the.

  pew forum on the religion and public life.. get this, on average, americans got 16 of 32 right.. number one group, yes, the atheists and agnostics got.

  an average of (20.9), jews (20.5), mormons(20.3), protestants(16).

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  To my fellow atheists:

  by NomadSoul in

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  just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

  just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

  1. learned that evolution had credibility.

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  Does the Christian message fall apart without a literal interpretation of Genesis?

  by nicolaou in

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  what's the point of jesus if adam & eve did not 'fall' and condemn us all to sin?.

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  Who Moved My Cheese?

  by mrsjones5 in

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  i'm reading this book 'who moved my cheese?

  ' and i like it.

  i have friends who are the mice (which i think if funny) and i think i've been hem for too long and now want to be haw.. has anyone read this book and what did you think of it?.

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  Sayings of Everlasting Life heard "Nowhere Else" but in JW Organization?

  by InterestedOne in

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  i just finished reading the 9/15/2010 wt study edition article for nov 8-14, and the last few sentences of paragraph 7 on page 18 jumped out at me.

  referring to the "one association" which i assume means the jw organization, the author says "... where else can we turn?

  nowhere else can we hear the sayings of everlasting life.

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  New here..

  by breakfree in

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  just wanted to introduce myself.

  i've been reading your posts for a couple of months now and i think i finally have the courage to join in.

  i have written and deleted this post many times.

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  P90x

  by megaflower in

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  for any of you who may doubt this fitness routine, it is for real.

  iam in my 6th week(phase 2) and i have never felt of looked better.

  i was fit before p90x (ran 4-5 miles, kayaked, weight training etc), but this program has allowed me to break through the wall.

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  It's OK Lurkers, Paranoid former JW's, and even you current JW's....

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  it's ok.... to post here on the internet, on jwn, and other jw related forums.. first of all, as we all know, the governing body doesn't provide a forum for jw's to "associate" with their brothers and sisters.

  i'm just guessing, and i could be wrong, that its harder to control the flock when they have free access to information and each other.

  damn electricity and the technology it brings..... anyway, i realize that for anyone leaving, or for practicing jw's, to post is a nervous thing.

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