Posts by bottleofwater

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Can we understand the Bible without the Watchtower?

by brotherdan in

not according to c.t russell.

in the september 15, 1910 wt he made these shocking claims regarding the 6 scripture studies that he wrote:.

"that is to say, they are not merely comments on the bible, but they are practically the bible itself...".

bottleofwater

I honestly believe that Russell had the best intentions (some room for doubt though).

However no matter how good they were, what has come down to today is an entity that is a powerful entity.

You know how they say that power corrupts?

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i don't read too much jw material because it's pretty much all the same old rubbish and the constant lies and propaganda drives me nuts.. however, i've noticed a common theme with the 'argument from design' articles.

you know, look at the eye, isn't it complex, evolution is wrong, blah blah.

all the ones i've seen end in a question like "what do you think, is this a product of random chance or design?".

bottleofwater

Well... the first thing that could be considered living would have to have been random chance...

Somewhere something had to have been random to begin with...

Big Bang... random?

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MJ's mom still goes out in service ? ! ? !

by ShirleyW in

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she just said that on oprah, those checks she must write to the society each month must be astronomical !.

probably the same size as the checks serena williams must write after her nude spread in that magazine.

i mean, can we not all smell the hyprocrisy here?

bottleofwater

I bet the WTS legal department got involved somehow. "Say the opposite of what you're supposed to say..." (cough cough legal proceedings in child custody booklet)

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"Man With No Face" a Jehovah's Witness

by BabaYaga in

...and that is the reason the tumor grew to such proportions, due to abstinence of a blood transfusion.. sorry if this has already been mentioned, and it probably has.

i was just shocked as i have never been aware of this "small detail" of the story before.. the following is a paste from http://www.amateurscientist.org/2007_12_01_archive.html.

jehovah's witness without a face .fullpost{display:none;} when jose maestre was 14, a tumor began growing on his face.

bottleofwater

I don't understand how people pull out false information like that from their ass... "he died"... seriously WTF

Anyone from the Russian congregations in NYC?

by bottleofwater in

just wondering.

we need to have like a "find someone you knew from the past who left" section..

bottleofwater

Just wondering. We need to have like a "find someone you knew from the past who left" section.

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"Man With No Face" a Jehovah's Witness

by BabaYaga in

...and that is the reason the tumor grew to such proportions, due to abstinence of a blood transfusion.. sorry if this has already been mentioned, and it probably has.

i was just shocked as i have never been aware of this "small detail" of the story before.. the following is a paste from http://www.amateurscientist.org/2007_12_01_archive.html.

jehovah's witness without a face .fullpost{display:none;} when jose maestre was 14, a tumor began growing on his face.

bottleofwater

For God's sake, HE DIDN'T DIE. Just read his Wikipedia page. He's getting treatment.

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blood trans whos had one and said nothing

by serein in

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whos not told docs about not wanting one and whos kept quiet and said they would if they needed it,.

who beleives the jws on the blood isuse and who thinks its taken out of context,.

what is the for it proof with out a dout, and what is the against not having one,.

bottleofwater

Better to be alive and DF than dead and "righteous".

The definition of "righteous" is subject to change as the GB sees fit.

Pretty much - righteous today, unrighteous tomorrow.

In other words: Better to be alive and DF than dead and under the mercy of a two-thirds majority vote of old geezers.

(Oh wait, I just shit myself!)

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Scriptures out of context

by Lady Lee in

i'm working on my column nad came across this thought by ray franz regarding how often the wts takes things out of context.

they take a scripture from one places in the bbiel and match it up with a couple of other scriptures from 2 or more other places and piece them together liek one huge jigsaw puzzle.

and then present some kind of doctrinal picture based on their out-of-context jigsaw pieces.. that is like taking 3 sentences from various books on history and putting them together to create a new theory.