Amelia Ashton

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  Argo

  by TD in

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  so, who liked it?

  --or not?.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I saw this movie last month. I had completely forgotten about it until I saw this thread.
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  Who of you ever lied on your field service reports?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i've read a few people mention making up the figures for the field service reports, and i want to find out how common it is.

  i never lied on my report.

  sometimes i'd round up 15 minutes if i'd mentioned jw stuff to my brother that month, but that wasn't falsifying.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I used to be so worried about "cheating" I used to round down my hours.
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  Could the JWs sway you back...?

  by new22day in

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  2. experiences

  op based on mr. freeze's topic - could attending the meetings/studying again sway any of you back to the org.

  hearing the propaganda over and over again is pretty powerful i'm sure.

  (i'm a non-jw, non-christian (no offense), stubborn as a bull and even i had moments of pause based on some of the doctrine (lasted 30 seconds) but i never had family/friends at stake or a background in this.

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  No way even if they had "the truth" because there was no love amongst them.

  I value the company of all my exjw friends too much to lose them to the fake friendship on offer at a KH.
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  Just wondering what is the JWs stance on the existance of dinosaurs ???

  by AMO in

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  was pondering today on the jws stance on the existance of the dinosaurs.

  would be interested to know any belieavers stance on this eg.

  your own belief and that of the wts current understanding.. insidentally i tried to search this on jw.org and no search bar, or at least i didn't find one ????.

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  Amelia Ashton

  With no "noo lite" I guess this is still their stance and hasn't changed since 1973

  *** w73 7/15 p. 447 Questions From Readers ***

  Questions From Readers

  ? When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct?—U.S.A.

  The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim′] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.

  Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim′ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra′kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.
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  I called the police.

  by LouBelle in

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  i stay at my grandmother's house and pay a little rent to her (r500) as it is all i can afford.

  i do however buy and take care of all my own food, washing etc.. this morning at 6 am, my bedroom door opend, slammed shut, heard the key turn a couple of times, open and slam shut again.

  i woke up with a fright as that has never happened....first thought is someone is in the house.

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  Amelia Ashton

  How awful to not feel secure in your own home.

  Is there a support group for victims of violence near you who could offer advise and practical help? His behaviour is not acceptable.

  (((hugs)))
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  Was anyone converted after 1995 in the door to door ministry?

  by trujw in

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  i stole this from another forum and everyone was a born in.

  has anyone on here actually been converted in door to door ministry since 1995?

  all comments are welcome as to how you were sucked in.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I had my first study in 1984 when an elder out on field ministry knocked on my door. I was a depressed and struggling single Mum who had been studying the bible alone when he called. Big coincidence!

  I invited him in because he recognised me from when I lived in Norway. My dad had been his boss out there. Two huge coincidences!!!

  Baptised April 1998.

  It took so long because I just couldn't give up smoking for the prerequisite 6 months without relapsing to qualify.
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  Believing that god arranges for £50 to be put through your letterbox while he ignores the cries of abused children

  by jambon1 in

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  we've all heard these experiences.. in fact, jehovah's witnesses are obsessed with them.

  the pioneer who needed 80 to fix their car & somehow (without having told anyone .

  now, if you believe that these sort of experiences are true, you are basically saying that god is actively arranging help for someone who is in need.

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  Amelia Ashton

  When "brother respected" is sodomising a child, Almighty God, the all powerful, omnipotent and loving Father who has as one of his cardinal atributes justice has 2 choices. Let it continue or rescue the child.

  Nuff said!
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  Can You Make A Image Of The Governing Body Riding "The Wild Beast" UN?

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

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  how would someone photoshop the governing body riding the wild beast from the revelation climax book?

  i will print and pass out hundreds if i can get a good photo of this.

  let's preach "religion is a snare and a racket" .

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  Amelia Ashton

  

  This image is familiar to most witnesses and widely available.
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  Can You Make A Image Of The Governing Body Riding "The Wild Beast" UN?

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how would someone photoshop the governing body riding the wild beast from the revelation climax book?

  i will print and pass out hundreds if i can get a good photo of this.

  let's preach "religion is a snare and a racket" .

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  Amelia Ashton

  Babylon The Great is the Mother of the harlot who rides on the back of the scarlet coloured wild beast and is drunk with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.

  Sounds about right to me especially when I think of the front cover depicting the children sadly passed away but paraded on the front cover of Awake.
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  Channel 4 - Islam: The Untold Story (banned in the U.K.!)

  by mP in

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  http://vimeo.com/49439561.

  n this ground-breaking film, historian tom holland explores how a new religion - islam - emerged from the seedbed of the ancient world, and asks what we really know for certain about its rise.

  the result is an extraordinary detective story.

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  Amelia Ashton

  http://www.channel4.com/programmes/islam-the-untold-story

  It isn't banned here

  Tom Holland also responds to the programmes critics here

  http://www.channel4.com/programmes/islam-the-untold-story/articles/tom-holland-responds-to-the-programmes-critics