Murray Smith

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  It's Carrots birthday

  by watersprout in

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  it's the big 3 0 for carrot today!.

  happy birthday you vegetable!.

  peace.

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  Murray Smith

  We've even erected this monument in your honour . . .
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  Just found my fourth memorial invitation.

  by FifthOfNovember in

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  it seems like i was really wanted at the memorial this year.. .

  first invite: saw a jw in a gas station while i was eating some food with my friend.

  he invited me to the memorial orally.. second invite: it was a saturday morning, i was in the shower when a jw came, mom answered the door and talked with him, he left a memorial tract and some magazines.. third invite: found a somewhat crumpled memorial tract with a few small tears on my porch.

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  Murray Smith

  Wow I am just so jealous! . . . although we did get a memorial invitation . . . scrunched into the mailbox with all the other junk mail . . . and I was home all day . . . Oh well.
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  Descended from animal? Explain language.

  by StopTheTears in

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  if, as evolutionists claim, all of mankind evolved from the same primitive life-source, then how did we end up with 7,000 different languages?

  did one gorilla get angry at another gorilla and decide to start a new language?

  i'm intrigued to know.. .

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  Murray Smith

  Understandable error BP . . . truth is we're a truly selfless and altruistic lot, dedicated to our task, regardless of the conditions we operate under.
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  Descended from animal? Explain language.

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if, as evolutionists claim, all of mankind evolved from the same primitive life-source, then how did we end up with 7,000 different languages?

  did one gorilla get angry at another gorilla and decide to start a new language?

  i'm intrigued to know.. .

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  Murray Smith

  Hey Oz . . . Us Kiwi's have always known we're further up the evolutionary scale than you guy's . . . that's why so many of us come over there to go on the dole and interbreed with you . . . we're trying to help.
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  July 2011 Awake, LMAO @ Cover

  by Yan Bibiyan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  mag available here.

  setting is obviously in the "new system", i'd say quite some time after the big a. everything looks neat and clean, so it can't be just few months or even years after the big slaughter.. let me point out few things that made me laugh:.

  every effort was made to depict natural materials, but you see leather straps with metal rivets holding the picnic basket lids.

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  Murray Smith

  HaHaHa . . . When I first saw that cover I thought it said "Life Without Surfing - When" . . . didn't seem outa place for some reason.
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  A reason christs ransom makes no sense to me

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you remember the old jeff bridges film ''the last starman''?.

  basic theme was an extra terestrial energy life transmogrified into a human and impregnated a woman with a seed that would become the savior of humanity.. hollywood is an old hand at using good v evil sort of messages that have ideoligical ties to the bible and the 'need' for mankind to be saved from themselves.. what gets me about this particular film is that the savior to come was there for all humanity.

  no conditions were placed on how many from what nations could benefit, nor was salvation only for those who 'believed' or were smart enough to read visions or hidden messages etc.

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  Murray Smith

  My understanding is that the serpent was also unashamedly naked! . . . dang I'm learnin so much here.
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  Want to quit Bible study

  by confusedstudent in

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  hi i was just looking for some advice.

  i have been studying with the jw's for over a year now, and attended 2 memorials and the district/assembly conventions.

  at first, and up until very recently i truly believed what i was learning was the truth.

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  Murray Smith

  That someone can progress as far as you have and then just pull out . . . that can be disconcerting to them and "shakes their faith" a little . . . it's an informed 'negative vote' for their religion . . . something they find almost impossible to come to terms with.

  They are "weeping" as much for themselves as for you . . . glad you had a great day . . . can almost sense your relief
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  Quick question, what does it mean when its announced that someone is no longer a Jehovah's witness?

  by Joey Jo-Jo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as the title asks, does this mean that the person has been disfellowship on the basis on what the wb&ts considers as a sin or would this more like the person no longer wants to be a jw?.

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  Murray Smith

  Good point WWIT . . . it obscures the numbers voluntarily leaving as opposed to being dirty little sinners and getting kicked out . . . a high volume of voluntary leavers doesn't look good on the books
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  A reason christs ransom makes no sense to me

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you remember the old jeff bridges film ''the last starman''?.

  basic theme was an extra terestrial energy life transmogrified into a human and impregnated a woman with a seed that would become the savior of humanity.. hollywood is an old hand at using good v evil sort of messages that have ideoligical ties to the bible and the 'need' for mankind to be saved from themselves.. what gets me about this particular film is that the savior to come was there for all humanity.

  no conditions were placed on how many from what nations could benefit, nor was salvation only for those who 'believed' or were smart enough to read visions or hidden messages etc.

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  Murray Smith

  Thanks for that explanation Heaven . . . it all makes perfect sense to me now (he said scratching his nakedness)
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  A reason christs ransom makes no sense to me

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you remember the old jeff bridges film ''the last starman''?.

  basic theme was an extra terestrial energy life transmogrified into a human and impregnated a woman with a seed that would become the savior of humanity.. hollywood is an old hand at using good v evil sort of messages that have ideoligical ties to the bible and the 'need' for mankind to be saved from themselves.. what gets me about this particular film is that the savior to come was there for all humanity.

  no conditions were placed on how many from what nations could benefit, nor was salvation only for those who 'believed' or were smart enough to read visions or hidden messages etc.

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  Murray Smith

  The Bible God and His Plan are remarkably inefficient, time-consuming, byzantine, bizarre and wasteful for the end result.

  LOL . . . I've seen politicians make a better fist of things . . . and that's saying something!