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  It's Groundhog Day Everyone!

  by Shakita in

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  important news just in........

  phil says six more weeks of winter!

  on gobbler's knob, punxsutawney, pennsylvania at 7:27 a.m. this groundhog day, february 2nd, 2003, punxsutawney phil, king of groundhogs, seer of seers, imitated but never equaled, responded to the summons of groundhog president bill cooper.

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  The Next Teaching to Fall

  by Blueblades in

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  while many have had their hopes dashed concerning the change on this "generation " teaching, there is yet another teaching yet to fall very soon.it must and will fall because it connected to the generation doctrine that has already been changed.. the teaching that could shortly cause the governing body a serious problem and could bring about a major change for the vast majority of the rank and file is "the great tribulation".while this teaching has been put off to the " indefinite future"the gb.continues to have a serious problem with it.if the great tribulation fails to occur reasonably soon,the doctrine concerning the earthly hope for the vast majority of jw's.will have proven to have been false.the' great crowd' are those who will have come out of the great tribulation.according to the society those persons began to be identified as present as early as 1932.so the youngest members are now in their 70's or 80's.. again, the time-line is running out!

  and has the potential of adversely affecting hundreds of thousands of other witnesses in the not to distant future,as time passes without the fulfilment of their hopes for a new heavens and a new earth.. also, some time ago,there was a watchtower study article, i don't remember which one it was .it spiritualized, armageddon!

  psalm 91,especially verse 7.it said that a thousand will fall at your very side and ten thousand at your right hand,applies to those leaving the org.

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  The Thread that "kills" the WTS

  by eyeslice in

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  many opinions have been expressed on this board as to what is killing the society today.

  i am positive that issues such as the un scandal, the pedophile issue, etc.

  are having a negative effect and contributing to a general slackening off and sense of malaise amongst the rank and file.

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  Bible is God's word?

  by Moxy in

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  2. bible

  id like to hear some *reasoned* explanations for why you believe the bible is gods word.

  ive been so fascinated by the study of *real* biblical scholarship since i began educating myself, i now find it incredulous that i used to take the bible as divine, along with all jws and tons of christians, including a good number here.

  so id like to entertain your very best lines of evidence that this is the real deal.. mox

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  Help on translation of Lord/Jehovah in NWT

  by eyeslice in

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  2. bible

  i am having great trouble with distinguishing between where the nwt refers to jehovah in the nt and where it should really read lord meaning, not god, but the lord; jesus.

  the problem comes to light in a passage quoted in this weeks watchtower study.. the passage in question was romans 14:8, though you really have to read verse 9 as well to a better flavour of what paul was talking about.. in the nwt, the passage reads;.

  9. for to this end christ died and came to life again, that he might be lord over both the dead and the living.. other translations, which do not attempt to substitute gods name, render the passage along the lines of;.

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  Is God just teasing us?

  by joannadandy in

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  ok yesterday i was talking to my dad (moe's thread reminded me) he said something about how bad satan was...and said, yeah but "wasn't it eve and adam's fault?

  i mean yeah satan laid out the sales pitch but they could have said no.

  you know gone home, talked it over with god, it wasn't even that high pressured a sales pitch.

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  Make me GAG: WTS website article

  by Scully in

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  it looks like the article with "those who simply leave the faith are not shunned" has been replaced by this one:.

  http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1988/4/15/article_01.htm.

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  Evidence for Evolution?

  by LucidSky in

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  2. beliefs

  all historical and archeological evidence aside, the biggest evidence that convinced me evolution is factual is speciation (also called "micro-evolution").

  this is the transformation of one species into two such that the two can no longer interbreed.

  there is no need for historical evidence to prove this -- cases of speciation have actually been observed.

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  The historicy of Jesus Christ: I need your help

  by Ginosko in

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  2. bible

  recently i was reading about the historicy of jesus christ and i found some documents quite perturbant, one of them is located in this url: http://www.courses.drew.edu/sp2000/bibst189.001/jesusmys.html .

  i found especially perturbant the parallels in the conclusion between jesus christ and osiris-dionysus.

  of course any kind of material could the published in the internet, but, are these parallels thrue ?

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  Therapy

  by Moxy in

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  2. friends

  im breaking a long absence to ask a question during this evening of soul-searching in what i believe to be the best place to ask it.

  i dont know how many people are still here who remember me well, so first a 'hi and miss you guys' to those who are.. im wondering about therapy.

  i always thought i had a pretty good handle on my life despite the upheaval of leaving the witnesses.

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