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  SO WHAT if I don't know what ARMAGEDDON means?

  by Nathan Natas in

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  Guys... guys! This was posted in "Jokes & HUMOR"! Lighten up a bit!

  I thought it was amusing wordplay, not a theological tract.
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  Do you celebrate Christmas?

  by LovingLifeNow in

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  do you celebrate and how long have you been out?

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  3 years for me and yes i do..

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  Many have said that they just can't be bothered. I understand that.

  If a person is raised JW, the holidays of Christendom have as much emotional context for them as the holidays celebrated by South American headhunters or the residents of ancient Tartessos.

  Zip, Zero, Nada.

  This is no shortcoming on their part - it is an example of how cultural heritage can pass along buckets of nothing.
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  Does anybody have any idea how many ex JW sites their are around the world ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  in a conversation i had with a jw at the door some time ago he mentioned that their were heaps of apostate websites dishing out false information about jehovah`s witnesses .. i mentioned to him that if they were ex jw`s , so they knew about the religion ,maybe they are trying to tell you something.?.

  it just went over his head and that they all had an axe to grind.. anyway i was just wondering if anybody has done a count as to how many do exist in the whole world ?.

  even approximate guess-timations ?.

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  Zeb asked, "what does ."About 43.500.000 results (0,44 seconds)"..mean, please."

  "About n results" are the number of matches the search engine company has in their database for the keyword [or phrase] you searched for.
  

  "n seconds" is the how long it took for the search engine to give you an answer.

  Be aware that even though a search engine will tell you it has found forty-three million results, it will only show you about one thousand of them. If you went through all the results displayed you would find that often before you reach page 100 the search engine will stop giving you results.

  Also you should no that just because Google (for example) says it has forty-three million results does not mean that there are precisely forty-three million XJW sites (for example) on the internet. The internet is HUGE and it is unregulated. Search engine companies like Google employ the service of "Cleaners" (censors) who remove inappropriate search results from the DATABASE - not from the internet - so they can't be accused of promoting child porn or snuff movie (actual murder) sites. These exist but you can't find them by the usual means.

  You will also often find that some of your search results are repeated a couple of times or more. The bottom line is that "forty-three million" is essentially a meaningless number. If they said they had "speen squared times minus i" results it would be almost as helpful, unless you are doing some kind of geeky results-measuring contest.

  A recent TV show on PBS in the USA dealt with the matter of "The Cleaners." It is very interesting, and you might be able to view it here;

  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-cleaners/

  The people who do this work are poorly prepared for their jobs, I think, and some show signs of PTSD after viewing material they find repugnant for a few hours. Others find a new "secret vice" and enjoy some of the subjects with which they were previously unfamiliar.

  The world is wonderful, brilliant, full of hope and depraved, dark, abusive and uncaring at the same time.
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  Do you celebrate Christmas?

  by LovingLifeNow in

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  do you celebrate and how long have you been out?

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  3 years for me and yes i do..

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  I don't celebrate the birth of a messiah, nor do I attempt to interfere with anyone who feels compelled to do so.

  Generally speaking, I overeat ALL THE TIME. It is my favorite sport. National Holidays inspire me to atempt a new PR! Yay!

  I DO NOT give Xmas gifts but I do give gifts - all the time.

  "Here - I though you could use a toaster knob."

  "Well now all you need is a boat to put under those twin Evinrude E-TEC G2 engines. Call me when you got one!"
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  SO WHAT if I don't know what ARMAGEDDON means?

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  Yesterday's WT slip up

  by neat blue dog in

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  when the israelites left egypt in 1513 b.c.e., they may have numbered more than three million.

  spanning three or even four generations.

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  For the sake of argument, let's say this 3,000,000 figure is correct.

  Is it not AMAZING beyond belief that three million people LEFT NO TRACE in the desert - the same desert in which ground-penetrating-radar has revealed ancient campsites of as few as three individuals.

  Jehovah must have deployed the same anti-matter cleanup crew he will be using after Armageddon!
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  Is it POSSIBLE that Mars is filled with delicious CHEESE?

  by Nathan Natas in

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  perhaps not, but some of my posts may be!.

  prepare for touchdown on mars!

  good luck, mars insight probe!.

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  Perhaps not, but some of my posts may be!

  Prepare for touchdown on Mars! GOOD LUCK, Mars InSight probe!
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  The Latest "Peoples Magazine" on Occults

  by new boy in

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  of course they talk about all the really wacky ones everyone knows about, jones town, charles mason, heaven's gate and branch dravidian.

  however if you add up all the unnecessary deaths these cults have contributed too (a thousand and fifty people) it pales in comparison to the number of people who have been directly or indirectly killed my the jehovah's witnesses.

  by the way all of the cults mention above are no more, except for the watchtower bible and truck society.. the little ones seem to get all the attention and the big ones just slide on by.. .

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  "New boy, can you provide the link or reference?"

  ...and don't give us none of that unreliable 'dictionary' stuff!
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  The Latest "Peoples Magazine" on Occults

  by new boy in

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  of course they talk about all the really wacky ones everyone knows about, jones town, charles mason, heaven's gate and branch dravidian.

  however if you add up all the unnecessary deaths these cults have contributed too (a thousand and fifty people) it pales in comparison to the number of people who have been directly or indirectly killed my the jehovah's witnesses.

  by the way all of the cults mention above are no more, except for the watchtower bible and truck society.. the little ones seem to get all the attention and the big ones just slide on by.. .

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  Occults?

  WTF?

  I never knew there was a plural form of adjectives!

  This is better than 4 years of AWAKE!
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  Apostasy Movie - Available on Amazon Prime Video (plus Review)

  by Simon in

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  in case anyone is looking for a way to watch it, it's on amazon prime video.. (apologies if it's already been mentioned).

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  Actually, my one criticism of the movie is that there really isn't a whole lot of apostasy in it at all...

  "Pardon me - we're British; we'd like a bit more apostasy with our chips, please."