lol, looking at the comments on the care2 blog. Vomiting truth is still vomiting, and no one wants to see that. Some of us in the "vast apostate" army really need to learn how to effectively communicate. It's news story on blood transfusions but there will just be a random rant about how jehovah's witnesses are a pedophile paradise, and how they are a love bombing cult, or evidence that god never chose them to be his people. Most of the posts are about the story, and mostly by people who are and never were affiliated with the witnesses. The few that seem to be ex or current witnesses both come off kind of crazy. There is a time and a place but just tossing out random things against this witnesses completely out of context or without reason doesn't make the detractors seem any more reasonable than the people politely feeding out Watchtower PR. There should really be some kind of training course when you leave "the truth" on how to do effective counter PR.
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BIG-JW Sues over Blood demand
by Refriedtruth injehovah's witness battles in kansas court for bloodless transplant .... kansas city star - brad cooper-1 hour ago.
but she also would have to compromise her jehovah's witness principles, because she would receive a blood transfusion, something she believes violates god's ...transplant case pits religion, medicaid rules -kansas.com.
get in and comment expose deadly watchtower dogma shows how unpractical bloodless elective surgeries can be wants $250.000 k for operation.
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JW's don't have a lock on loony prophecies.
by JeffT inhttp://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/04/27/save-the-date-signs-advertise-return-of-jesus-on-may-21/?gta=commentform#commentform.
seattle's big blogcovering seattle news, weather, arts and conversation, along with a grab bag of stuff that's just plain interesting dont pet the armadillo unless youre immune to leprosy (science news) | main |.
save the date?
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JonathanH
I got one of those things in the mail. I really wonder what will happen on the 22nd.
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How do one respond 'If everyone in the world were of the same Religion"?
by jam inif everyone in the world were of the same religion, which one.
would show love to it,s members, not kill it,s members, trust.
it,s god to rule them, practice the golden rule and keep the.
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Probably none of them. They would without fail put some guy or guys in charge that clearly aren't god, but insist that they speak for him, and it would be all down hill from there.
But really it would be interchangeable. The source of most problems is conflict between people of different ideals and backgrounds. If you give everyone the same ideals, and a similar cultural upbringing the world would be more peaceful regardless of how ridiculous or ill advised those ideals may be...until of course somebody disagreed with them.
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What constitutes a wicked person?
by SuperSpook indo you agree with the bible's definition of wickedness?.
do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit gods kingdom?
do not be misled.
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No. Wickedness is a very strong term. An alcoholic I would consider to have an addiction, but I would not consider him "wicked". I do not see gays or lesbians as being wicked as they have done no harm and are in consenting adult relationships. The same goes for fornication, two consenting adults have commited no crime for using their bodies for pleasure, or engaging in a psychological bond expressed physically outside of a legal union. Greed while I would consider it a vice, I would not consider it wicked. The acts committed that are fueled by greed could make some one so corrupt as to be deemed "wicked", however greed in and of itself is not horrible enough to be termed "wickedness". Idolatry is just silly, not wicked. The only things in that list I could possibly list as wicked would be Adultery (and even that would be conditional, and not absolute) and possibly extortion (while also not a good act, it can only in certain circumstances reach the status of "wicked".)
Going around killing off alcholics and gays however, I would consider to be extremely wicked. It would take a truly punitive and cruel mind to justify that.
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What's the Watchtower's current stance on...
by FifthOfNovember inthe big bang?
-do they leave room for it as a possibility for jehovah to have created the universe?
(i heard an elder say once that the society doesn't necessarily rule out the big bang as a possiblity).
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JonathanH
I still can't tell if jdh is a joke account or not. I ALMOST start to reply then I think to myself "I'm beig punked aren't I?" and then stop.
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Who Or What Influenced You The Most To Leave The Organization?
by minimus inany person or situation ?.
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Logic, reason, a love of knowledge and learning, and a necessity to follow truth even if that truth was going to be hard.
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This is why atheists cannot take the creationists seriously...
by Elsewhere inif anyone reads the item below and still does not get my point... i'm sorry, there isn't much i can do for you.. .
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216596_10150230192374276_595279275_8545086_2474506_n.jpg.
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I can only hope this is poe's law in action.
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They caught me house-sitting in Houston this morning
by Fatfreek ini went outside and to the car this morning for some items and saw some walkers (very slow walkers) approaching, in pairs, a few homes away.
i knew i had a little time to think.
when the doorbell rang i was ready.. we've got a few more days here in houston, just north of braes bayou and near stella link rd.
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JonathanH
That is an interesting question to ask a witness though. How many lies (or "untruths" if you want to be diplomatic) have you personally taught or proliferated about the bible? You just have to look at how long they've been an active publisher and then go down the list of how many times the teachings have changed in that time period. You can then point out, "you taught falsehoods about the bible, god, and his purposes." I wonder what their response to that could possibly be?
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Unemployment Rates For College v. High School
by skeeter1 inyoung people with only high school diplomas or less are hardest hit by unemploymentpublished: friday, april 22, 2011, 1:46 pm ap graphiconly about a third of young people with a high school education or less are working full time.
ie6 hack ie6 hack young people who try to find work straight out of high school aren't faring well in today's tough economy.. .
four in 10 of those surveyed whose education stopped at high school are unemployed.
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Your second post moshe, I think says more about todays youth than college. You get out what you put in, and alot of kids go to college thinking it's just like highschool but with more booze, and they move through it without appreciating it or being serious about it, just doing it because it's what you do after highschool. Somebody that actually wants to learn can pick up a tremendous amount from actually learning from a professor, and having an organized curriculum.
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Everything i knew was wrong
by StopTheTears inlooking through the internet i learned that everything i have ever know to be true is a lie at the beginning of time god and his celestial family created the earth and the heavens.
they are the greater force and also the fallen angels that are prophesized in the bible.
they sped up the evolution in people separating them from monkeys.
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JonathanH
Should this one and lars duke it out to see who is Satan's REAL archnemesis? I would like to see that very much.