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  New World Population BOOM!

  by nicolaou in

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  let's assume that there are about 20 ,000,000 armageddon survivors (baptised jw's and their children), after just 30 years every survivor will be sexually mature and with increased vigour and health.

  chemical contraception, condoms, i.u.d's etc will all be long gone so any married couple with a normal sex-drive will be producing children at an average rate of about 1 per year.

  world population at the beginning of the 20th century was less than 1.5 billion.

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  bats in the belfry

  Exactly. The medical term for the procedure is: Master J vasectomy / tubal ligation
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  Cheery new Awake! cover - should make it easy to place...

  by cedars in

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  Marital problems - advice (or support) please

  by jamesmahon in

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  completely non-jw related this but value the diversity of experience and viewpoint on this forum.

  i am going to sketch this out quick as i can but please ask any questions if the gaps need filling.. as some may know, i have been married for 12 years with two children (8 and 4).

  my wife stopped work when the eldest was born and has been a stay at home mum since.

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  bats in the belfry

  You need to identify your type of toxic relationship to come out of it on top.
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  German court rules religious circumcision on boys an assault

  by mind blown in

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  2. beliefs

  wonder how jw germans get around the blood/issue doctrine?.

  http://news.yahoo.com/german-court-outlaws-religious-circumcision-172728400.html.

  circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a german court ruled tuesday in a landmark decision that the jewish community said trampled on parents' religious rights.. the regional court in cologne, western germany, ruled that the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed thefundamental rights of the parents", a judgement that is expected to set a legal precedent.. "the religious freedom of the parents and their right to educate their child would not be unacceptably compromised, if they were obliged to wait until the child could himself decide to becircumcised," the court added.. the case was brought against a doctor in cologne who had circumcised a four-year-old muslim boy on his parents' wishes.. a few days after the operation, his parents took him to hospital as he was bleeding heavily.

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  When created, man was deemed to be in a state of perfection with foreskin .

  "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh"

  Jeremiah 9:25 (NIV)

  It seems while we have to 'wait on God' once more, 'Caesar' decided to start punishing.
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  marriage without affection/sex/touching

  by zeb in

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  2. relationships

  yes thats my situation.

  some where along the path of life the wt guilt trip was dumped on our marriage and we havent had sex for years.. anyone else?

  the hearts and flowers and gifts and doing the cleaning, the house work and paying the daily accounts never being drunk on drugs playing the horses or screwing others yep its all there but nothing coming back due to the wt guilt trip.. they made so much of 'oral sex' and 'pornea' incorrectly quoted at that and ventured thereby into areas they were patently very ill equipped to comment on.

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  bats in the belfry

  Ask yourself:

  What is better? To have a sexless marriage or marriageless sex?
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  does the wts have other religious franchises?

  by mP in

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  im not sure if others have noticed but in general the catholic church and muslims respect the territories of each other.

  they never attempt try and steal souls and prostelycize.

  this same pattern is true of the wts.

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  bats in the belfry

  No, not to my knowledge.

  But, they do a little sidekick selling of used vehicles on circuitvehicles.com
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  Instead of magazine placements ....

  by bats in the belfry in

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  .... just refer the householder to pick up the current issues from the jw.org site.. .

  zero to report and, i guess, your next partner in field service will be dumbfounded.

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  .... just refer the householder to pick up the current issues from the jw.org site.

  Zero to report and, I guess, your next partner in field service will be dumbfounded.
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  ok, we are all pretty hyped up now...what if the WT wins the appeal?

  by Aussie Oz in

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  2. child-abuse

  i have a saying, repeated here at times, ''the law is an ass''.. we know how excited we were when the unthank case was hot and how the magistrate slam dunked it into the trash can.

  not wanting to debate the how and why's of stevens methods, just that the law had an opportunity to actually uphold the law and chose not to.

  the law allowed the wt to trample on the law and did nothing.

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  bats in the belfry

  At times, to "just wait on Jehovah" for two years can be a real bitch.
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  How long until we see a "Sunday School" program?

  by Cinciguy74 in

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  so we are seeing wt videos aimed at children, a feature for children in the watchtower aimed at young children, just how long until we start seeing some form of a sunday school for young children?.

  i know in the past it has been ridiculed by the wts, but the reality is that it is a better method for teaching children than sitting in the kh where they can't sit still for more than 5 minutes anyway..

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  bats in the belfry

  What do you think? They will teach their kids the same stuff like the missionaries teach their students.

  The message will be as life-saving for them as it is for those without any education whatsoever.

  Best of all, the diploma granted is exceptionally qualifying for higher education later on, if so desired.

  

  2011 Yearbook, page 89
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  Best book for counter-evangelism

  by peggaloon in

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  2. bible
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  bats in the belfry

  

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