Posts by Amelia Ashton

No one single big aha moment but seeing lots of "unchristian like" and un loving behaviour that stayed in my mind and niggle away making me dissatisfied.

The first apostate website I stumbled across showed the plagiarized images and mentioned Jimmy Swaggart.

I faded and now 9 years later they've forgotten I ever existed.

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Born again or born from above

by Steel in

last year i was at the memorial and the speaker was saying something about how the phrase born again was actually a mistake and it should say born from above.

jesus was actually referring to those with a heavenly hope.

last night i was flipping the channels and there is a religious program talking about being born again.

From my understanding all JWs were all considered "born again" and going to heaven until the numbers grew to more than their very limiting and short sighted number of 144,000 and then "new light" had to be invented to account for the rising numbers of those selling their literature and still recruiting more but no Armageddon and where would these go if heavenly places were already taken.

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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.

by fulltimestudent in

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i'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.

as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.

and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).

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And some comments from Daily Mail readers show many have not evolved very far at all.

Check out @Grumples_’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Grumples_/status/961212982045892609?s=09

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Using Watchtowers Own Reasoning Against Them RE: The Governing Body

by pale.emperor in

something occurred to me today.

quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.

here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.

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That illustration always bothered me.

How many children woud need to die before the teacher stepped in and stopped the "experiment" and deemed it a fail?

If God was really settling an argument about letting humans rule themsves then he shouldn't have interfered with a flood. (I know it didnt happen but bear with).

What if one of those who drowned was the one person who could have risen up to rule fairly, wisely and unite all mankind to end injustice, poverty and war. God killed them.

If God reads hearts so well and he wouldn't have drowned this one person why save Noah (and drown innocent animals) which achieved diddly squat?

If this was really all true the first death (Abel) should have been the end of the experiment.

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