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  Re: Only using one sheet of toilet paper at assemblies

  by Luo bou to in

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  i have been living in china for several years now and my only fear was that one day, i would need to use one of their squat toilets.

  i cant squat that close to the ground but the chinese can with their feet flat on the ground and without raising their heels .

  so the day finally came when for several weeks i was forced to use one.

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  Alfred

  Lou bou to... you're the coolest... it's been a while since I laughed so hard... thanks!
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  Does The Watchtower even try to prove 607BCE anymore?

  by VM44 in

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  2. beliefs

  when was the last time that the watchtower published an article that attempted to prove the year 607 b.c.e.

  was correct over the year 587 b.c.e.?.

  the watchtower now simply mentions the year in its publications without attempting to justify it.. proof through repetition?.

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  Alfred

  Lasinger... Since the Bible states in no amiguous terms that "these nations will have to serve the king of Babylon seventy years", exactly how was it possible for the jews to continue serving the king of Babylon between 539BCE and 537BCE when this king was killed in 539???

  Also, if you carefully read the full Biblical account in the book of Jeremiah, you'll start to realize that the "desolation" of any of the nations (that served the king of babylon) only came after that nation rebelled against the king of babylon. If, for example, one of those nations only served the king of Babylon for some 20 years (out of the 70) and then rebelled against the king, the remaining 50 years of servitude would have to be completed while in full captivity/slavery and while that nation's land lied desolate for those remaining years. by the way, that's exactly what happened to the nation of Judah...

  But the WT continuously ignores this and insists on subtituting the phrase "70 years of servitude" with "70 years of desolation"... I think it's plainly obvious why they choose to do this... it's their only way to push the 70-year thing to arrive at 607BCE...
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  UN & Watchtower : link deleted....

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hi everyone, someone just made me notice that the pdf document on the u.n. website proving that the watchtower associated itself as ngo from 1991(demand) to 2001 has been deleted or is missing.

  http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/pdfs/watchtower.pdf i sent an email (very short since they don't allow more than 200 characters) to the un to inquire.

  i doubt that they'll respond.i suspect that the watchtower pressured the un to deleted that link.....

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  Alfred

  Does anyone have the "Contact Us" UN Link? I'd like to write also...
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  Does The Watchtower even try to prove 607BCE anymore?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when was the last time that the watchtower published an article that attempted to prove the year 607 b.c.e.

  was correct over the year 587 b.c.e.?.

  the watchtower now simply mentions the year in its publications without attempting to justify it.. proof through repetition?.

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  Alfred

  I would say Chapter 14 appendix of Let Your Kindom Come (1980) and then the 2 Insight volumes (1988)... extremely weak and misleading arguments made in both... ever since then, there really hasn't been any further attempt to prove that 607 is "Biblical"... I'm guessing they decided to quit rather than dig themselves any deeper into this BS.
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  Want to excorise "bad spirts" from my home how to do this???

  by highdose in

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  2. friends

  i ought to explain what i meant in the subject line.... yesterday i had a horrible (non jw) person come to my home.

  he strutted around smug, arrogant and with a typicaly " i yam cypriot!, i yam am a maaaaan!

  i have a penis!

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  Alfred

  I remember giving a 5-min talk in the KH some years ago about a JW sister who accepted a gift from her worldly co-worker (who happened to be a spiritualist). Anyway, cutting to the chase... my talk concluded dramatically when I explained how the elders in her congo eventually came to her rescue and burned the gift (sorry... I can't even remember what the gift was)... All her woes suddenly disappeared... her chronic ilnesses, her bad luck, etc... As I stepped off the stage, I remember thinking: "what an incredibly ridiculous made-up story"... but it was my assignment and I had to stick with the outline (which required me to refer to an old WT mag)...

  High dose... you just need a high dose of love from the people who care about you... it'll be fine...
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  Update on my daughter Ali....Amazing

  by coffee_black in

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  i wrote here about my daughter ali's severe heart failure.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/203661/1/update-on-ali-my-daughter.

  it has been a few months since the whole nightmare began.. today her cardiologist released her to return to work.

  she starts in 2 weeks.

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  Alfred

  Excellent news! thanks for sharing
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  Why the GB can get away with saying whatever the HELL they want--even literally

  by Pika_Chu in

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  2. friends

  has anyone noticed that...no, no, i'm joking!

  of course you all know what it's like to debate the r and f. you tell them about actual logical arguments that contradict the gb, and eventually all your "discussions" descend into a sort of "la,la,la, can't hear you!

  i can't let those apostate ideas touch my ears!

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  Alfred

  What Diamond said... there's not one shred of evidence that even remotely points to 607BCE as the date for the destruction of Jerusalem... not one... zilch... nada... so, even though there's a "mountain of evidence" against that date, this evidence isn't even needed when you consider the fact that WT fell flat on their face with this one a long time ago and have been scrambling ever since... Nevertheless, we all know they're the world's best experts at piling up one lie after another, each lie meticulously covering up the previous one with carefully orchestrated verbal gymnastics until it eventually becomes unintelligeable noise to the R&F who will generally find it much easier to simply believe whatever the GB feeds them...
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  Bethel Heavy...How is this determined?

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've read the term "bethel heavy" here and heard it once and a while when i was a jw.

  as someone who has never even visited bethel, i was wondering if a few of you can fill me in on the details.. i know of course this is an unofficial title, but what is the main factor in reaching this status?

  is it mainly given to those who head certain departments, or even work high up in certain departments?

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  Alfred

  it means that the Society put them through law school...
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  Why does the sun burn my eyes?

  by sabastious in

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  2. friends

  the sun is impossible to look at too long before permanent eye damage is caused.

  after the eye was fully evolved in whatever creature it formed first on was unable to look at the sun.

  why did natural selection ignore what rightly cannot be ignored?

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  Alfred
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  Email from mom: First Prophecy in at least 20 years fulfilled in the last two weeks ...

  by Soldier77 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you get a chance, read the latest daniel publication (about 11 years old ...) on page 59-60. whats happening in the middle east and north africa is a fulfillment of that prophecy.. love,.

  mom.

  so i dust off the ole cdrom and look it up and this is what it says:.

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  Alfred

  The Great Tribulation and Armageddon are just around the corner (again)...