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  What were Jesus's 'Miracles' supposed to prove?

  by nicolaou in

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  the healings, feeding the five thousand, walking on water, resurrecting the dead.

  none of it happened of course but let's take the bible literally and say that it did.. so?.

  didn't magic practicing priests perform 'miracles' in a contest with aaron?

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  Half banana

  I can't believe that Jesus existed as a real person because his character with all his miraculous accomplishments had already existed as attributes of earlier "god-men".

  Nevertheless I would then answer your question by recognising these fantasy miracles were spoken of to convince the gullible that "Jesus is your man!" not Mithra or Dionysus, Attis or a dozen other god-men. So come along and get free food at the local Jesus- cult temple and we'll all worship together and get saved.

  A couple of thousand years earlier Horus walked on water as the sun god 'walks' on water when low on the horizon in the morning. And Horus also raised his friend Lazarus!
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  Will they change the Yearbook format?

  by freddo in

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  2. friends

  pure speculation here but i'm wondering if - with the numbers flat-lining - that the gb will stop giving country by country stats, or perhaps at least some of the statistics.. we used to get a monthly stat in the km - then that was "simplified" to "highlights".

  only the "good" stuff.

  then with the new clam workbook, no stats at all.. i wonder if the yearbook will soon only contain "positive" spun stats.

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  Half banana

  I agree Alan, it would be depressing for the bros to clinically observe the diminishing numbers of publishers and it would accelerate the decline so they must change their tactics.

  They would of course spin numbers decline by dredging up a scripture to show that it only proves that Big A is just around the corner.

  So I expect the yearbook to change its role in future, no figures just feel-good experiences for the faithful.

  Nothing they say ever has any critical meaning, it's all spin and waffle however and wherever they present it.
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  According to one JW there can only be 1 of 3 reasons why you left.

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i asked an old jw friend of mine why so many baptized individuals leave the jw religion.

  "did it ever occur to you, old friend, that maybe they know something that you don't know and have valid reasons for leaving?

  ", i asked.. his response set me back for an answer.

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  Lol Xanthippe!

  I realised that the idea of god is a human invention, there is no turning back after that.
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  "Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

  pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

  a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

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  Vidiot, I wuz thinking more that they are trying to steer blood treatment methods to favour themselves (by going "bloodless") rather than convert the medical establishment and doing it by stealth, underhandedly. The Australian hospitals have fallen for it already.

  It's a wonder no responsible medic can see through their cunning plan and expose them.
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  "Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

  pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

  a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

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  Generally I imagine that in the educated world of medicine no one expects or recognises that a religious fundamentalist trojan horse has arrived within their camp... but surely that is what the JW inspired Blood Management team seem to have achieved.

  Well done and thank you for your researches--- please carry on your good work Birdie.
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  Query - 1 Cor 5:11

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  “but now i am writing you to stop keeping company with anyone called a brother who is sexually immoral or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man” ... (bold & italics mine).

  my question is; if a brother or sister is disfellowshipped for whatever reason and therefore technically they are no longer a jw (brother or sister), then how can they use the above scripture as a basis to shun you..

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  Half banana

  Your query is very good ammunition for those who are shunned but who are no longer witnesses Brocky!

  And a very good reason to crank up the paranoia within the congo about those considered to be dodgy JWs.
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  Logical Problem with WT Anointed

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.

  prominent throughout much of the roman.

  empire, including the capital city.

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  Half banana

  Van, the Bible, the Watchtower and Polycarp and co are or were in the business of tall stories. John Fox however, apart from partisan remarks against popery and getting carried away with the sentiments of the period, was an early user of original source material for the historicity of some of the public burnings he recorded.

  We will remain naive and damaged with the gullibility and intellectual vulnerability of children all through our lives if we stick to the Bible as if it were true.
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  Who is attending the 2016 Annual Meeting this Saturday?

  by Londo111 in

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  i'm curious if we will have eyewitness reporters at the stanley theater like we do every year....

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  The question always is "Will this new doctrine make more money than the old doctrine?"
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  Three paths in life...

  by Fernando in

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  would you agree:.

  there are three main paths in life?.

  secular, religious or spiritual?.

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  Half banana

  There exist endless different opportunities and paths for everyone.
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  My Conclusion After Research

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since leaving the jws i have looked into many beliefs and have come to this conclusion.. paganism has a high regard for women, as they worship goddesses and respect the female for the ability to give birth to new life.

  christianity puts females in second place to males and blames women for male temptations which goes back to eve eating the fruit and tempting adam with it.

  they also created a devil with the appearance of the pagan god pan and built churches on pagan worship sites so that people would still go there to worship, but within a christian building.. i have come to the conclusion that paganism versus christianity is about a battle of the sexes.. the fear of demonic forces is taught by religions to deter you from straying.

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  Half banana

  Religion is about myth, identity and belonging.............. but once formalized by 'spiritual interpreters' it becomes slavery!