Topics Started by garbonzo

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Latest Study Article: Was Jephthah surprised at his daughter coming out?
by garbonzo in
1. watchtower
2. bible
paragraph 15: "he vowed that if god gave ammon into jephthah's hand, the first one to come out of the door when he returned home would be jehovah's.

as jephthah returned home from subduing ammon, his daughter came running to meet him.

(judg.
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Beware of other religions, as they will highlight our un-bliblical teachings!
by garbonzo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
should you investigate other religions?.

i had attended christian meetings for nearly a year, and i enjoyed telling others about gods kingdom, says miguel, who is now one of jehovahs witnesses in south america.

then i started listening to religious programs on the radio and watching religious preachers on television.
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Just owned (and pwned) a Jehovah's Witness website owner! Must Read!
by garbonzo in
1. jw
2. friends
so i emailed the owner website that sells various jw and creationsit stuff, a guy who is supposedly a jw with these simple words:

why is your website so hard to navigate?

to which he must have taken negatively, and went on the defensive in an instant.
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Gentile Times?
by garbonzo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
why do they believe in the gentile times again?

why would god wait so long to have an earthly organization of truth?

is this explained?
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How do elders deal with Hermeraphrodites / intersex?
by garbonzo in
1. watchtower
2. bible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intersex.

how do they deal with it?

most religious views of homosexuality and intersex individuals if one of the major reasons why i am an athiest now (of course with all the contradictions of the bible and other books, etc.).
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Funny Watchtower Article on Homosexuality
by garbonzo in
1. watchtower
2. bible
transsexualism is a word appearing with growing frequency in the news.

a transsexual is not merely a transvestite (one who dresses in clothes of the opposite sex), nor necessarily a homosexual (though that may be the case).

a transsexual is a person who rejects the sex with which he or she was born and takes up the life of the other sex.
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Hypnotism
by garbonzo in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as a jw child growing up, i was always taught that hypnotism was a bad word, even though it's harmless and nothing to do with the occult at all.

i found this article about it: g03 7/8 .

the bibles viewpoint.
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Is there anyone here with a meeting on Tuesday or Monday? Need some help.
by garbonzo in
1. jw
2. friends
doubt there will be a monday meeting, but i know there are tuesday meetings.

obviously this is for people who are still in, or at least have the phone number for the phone hook up.. .

anyway, i was wondering if someone could help me out.
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Why are men not allowed to do the bible study parts at the service meeting?
by garbonzo in
1. jw
2. friends
i know why they do it, because the women would complain, but it's not logical, the men need to be trained on how to conduct a bible study with a student, also.

if it doesn't matter, why are the sisters doing it?

just to give them something to do?
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New Here, Hello Guys - New website idea
by garbonzo in
1. jw
2. friends
hello, i'm a 'active' 17 yr. old jw, saw this site before when i was still searching for answers, i gotta say, it's not a good site to convert jws, because most of the people on here seem to hate the "borg" (as you call it on here?

i rather had to go on a scientific forum to get answers to my questions about jw (or rather the bible in general) with a very open mind, and actually thinking to convert some of them if i was lucky.

rather, i saw that everything the society gave us was easily refutable, or on shaky grounds.