Posts by ttdtt

personally i usually find the atheism views more compelling than the christian view point, however i value both insights and conversations when the comments are respectful.. as it's coming up to eater, could i therefore pose the question to christians can you offer compelling evidence for the resurrection of christ?

evidence is a fact or a set of facts, or maybe i should rephrase my question " the resurrection is reasonable to hold to because of reasonable evidence that can be submitted for that conclusion" .

ttdtt

Seems amazing to me that - if there was someone who could raise the dead, and heal any ailment, that maybe someone would have written about it earlier than 40 years after the "person" was killed.

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Eisenhower used WT Bible when sworn into office

by Bonnie_Clyde in

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joel rosenburg was on tv a few minutes ago talking about eisenhower's background.

he mentioned that his father left the religion after the end of the world did not happen in 1914 and that his mother continued.

then he mentioned that when he was sworn into office, he had his hands on a bible published by jehovah's witnesses.

ttdtt

ILoveTTATT2

I could find no reference to "The West Point Bible" being a gift, nor can do I have access to the NYT of that date.
So if that's the case, I stand (or sit) corrected:)

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1-2016 Circuit Overseer Mid week talk "Believe Inspired truth not inspired error" Crazy stuff

by Watchtower-Free in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba7j3shtbgy.

ttdtt

I know this CO - he is a VERY nice guy, and he DID go to college. He does have a slight speech impediment though. But really a nice person.

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Eisenhower used WT Bible when sworn into office

by Bonnie_Clyde in

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joel rosenburg was on tv a few minutes ago talking about eisenhower's background.

he mentioned that his father left the religion after the end of the world did not happen in 1914 and that his mother continued.

then he mentioned that when he was sworn into office, he had his hands on a bible published by jehovah's witnesses.

ttdtt

As you can see - was NOT a jw bible. It was a West Point Bible.

http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in/bibles

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2nd amendment right ... where should it end?

by Simon in

one thing i like to do to test a theory is to take things to extremes or to their logical conclusion to see if the premises still hold.

very often, a claim that seems to make sense at a superficial level falls apart when you start to stretch it a little.. so let's play a game.. suppose the 2nd amendment is valid, that some "well regulated militia" really is necessary to hold the government to account.. obviously when this was drafted the government had access to the weapons of it's day which would be muskets!

so muskets all round.

ttdtt

I think with Muskets and flintlocks.

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The memorial beauty pageant

by BlackWolf in

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since the memorial is coming up soon and its about time for me to go shopping for a new memorial ( aka easter) dress, i've realized what the memorial really is for us teenage girls, a beauty pageant!

the memorial is the day i spend painting my nails, curling my hair, and carefully applying makeup because my mother says i have to "represent jehovah" and look my best.

in reality its just to impress the newcomers and to compete with the other girls.

ttdtt

SO TRUE!

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Need confirmation: WT bought an entire mountain in China to mine the granite needed for new WT HQ

by WingCommander in

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someone asked for a second source on this, so i'm putting this out there to those who may have visited the new wt hq lately and know it to be true.

i had read from others on the ex-jw subreddit that had taken a tour recently at wt hq, that they had been shown photos of a mountain in china, and told that this is where all of the granite is being mined from and shipped over to new york to use at the site of the new wt hq.

apparently, it was cheaper for them to do this and have the local brothers in china mine it, then having to by tons upon tons of granite here in the usa, even wholesale.

ttdtt

The story is crazy. There would be NO cost savings.

Yea a Banned Religious group is going to start or buy a mining company in China to get some rocks cheep.

No problems with the Chinese government, you just bribe them to get what you want.

No problem getting skilled labor to run a mining company. We get the 32 underground JWs to work there from all over the country. And they can have Morning Text, and WT studies at lunch break.

And saying they are going to China for High Quality granite? :) Interesting little article about that - http://www.ehow.com/info_12183280_chinese-granite-problems.html

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Need confirmation: WT bought an entire mountain in China to mine the granite needed for new WT HQ

by WingCommander in

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someone asked for a second source on this, so i'm putting this out there to those who may have visited the new wt hq lately and know it to be true.

i had read from others on the ex-jw subreddit that had taken a tour recently at wt hq, that they had been shown photos of a mountain in china, and told that this is where all of the granite is being mined from and shipped over to new york to use at the site of the new wt hq.

apparently, it was cheaper for them to do this and have the local brothers in china mine it, then having to by tons upon tons of granite here in the usa, even wholesale.

ttdtt

That sound just nuts, and made up.

All the "brothers" in China are underground, and buying a mine would not be cheaper than buying granite which is just a commodity.

By the way - Tons of granite is not a big number when you are talking about rocks.