Amelia Ashton

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  Hate Crime against Members of a Congregation

  by cantleave in

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  i recieved this email from an active witness regarding "hate crimes" against members of the congregation he/she attends.

  it is interesting as to how the elders are dealing with it.. .

  for some time our hall has been suffering minor vandalism.

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  This is horrendous. Where is the love?
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  Seven Thousand Year Creative Day still being taught (as of 2005)

  by VM44 in

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  here is a photo of a gilead instructor (br.

  liverance) teaching a class on chronology.. the photo appears in a blog entry dated 5-21-2005.. note the "6,000" and "1,000" periods in the timeline drawn on the whiteboard.. i thought the 7,000 year creative day was no longer taught, but apparently it still is at gilead, at least in the year 2005.. (picture cannot be embedded here for some reason, so here is the link to it).

  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ydnht0xya-4/sbukuolyzei/aaaaaaaaacs/t-rgxaammbg/s1600-h/chronology+%28br.+liverance%29.jpg.

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  When ancient men wrote the Bible they knew very little of what we know today hence

  (Genesis 1:3-5) 3?And God proceeded to say: “Let light come to be.” Then there came to be light. 4?After that God saw that the light was good, and God brought about a division between the light and the darkness. 5?And God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day.

  6?And God went on to say: “Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the waters.” 7?Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse. And it came to be so. 8?And God began to call the expanse Heaven. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a second day.

  Anything taught since is just spin.
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  March 2013 KM in our cong.....are BLUE

  by monkeyman in

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  download from this site is pink.

  is this a sneaky way to ferret out those who get theirs from this site?.

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  Ours were black and white in Spain
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  Millions Now Living: Part Deux Sept. 2012

  by pixel in

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  2. bible

  ok, so i was check this out from the watchtower study edition september 2012 page 11 paragraph 14:.

  the bible points to the time when as the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.

  (1 cor.

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  They should have said "may" not "will". Don't they ever learn?
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  The bible is a letter to the 144,000

  by sosoconfused in

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  i don't really remember where i heard this... either at a public talk or a district convention or c.o.

  visit or something.. .

  my question is, has anyone else in there time with the org heard that said?

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  I heard the bible was only for the 144,000 too. I couldn't understand why us non anointed used the words "through Christ" if he was only mediator for anointed ones.

  Shouldn't we have been ending our prayers through the "faithful and discreet slave" if we are only saved by hanging onto their coat-tails?
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  Hello

  by newdawnfades in

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  i am a long time lurker who has finally decided to post.

  i am still in along with my wife, kids and extended family.

  i am in my 40s and was raised in the org.

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  Welcome
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  Argo

  by TD in

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  so, who liked it?

  --or not?.

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  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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  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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  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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  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.