Posts by will-be-apostate

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Discussion with some elders

by GoUnion in

hello everyone just wanted to relate a situation that occurred a few days ago.

so i have quit going to meetings for a few months now based on some issues i have with the explanations of current doctrines.

my wife is none too happy with this but over the last few months we have had some date nights and have tentitively agreed to disagree.

will-be-apostate

Hi GoUnion. Sounds like you are on the way out :) Best of luck for you.

I need to disagree with some of you, guys. I know a lot of elders who have liberal way of thinking about many things. This doesn't mean they are not ignorant and brainwashed in 80% of the time. The elders from my cong are aware of the fact that I'm reading apostate stuff and that I'm not afraid of sharing these things with others, yet they don't do anything. The last time they wanted to come to visit me I told them it had no use as I don't base my decisions on their shepherding. I beleive it's a teritorial thing.

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Memorial 2014: Wrong date?

by AnnOMaly in

this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.

so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.

sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.

will-be-apostate

I'd call the headquarters if I had international minutes on my cell phone ..just out of curiosity Maybe some of you could..

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Cosmos--any creationists watching? And what does EVEryONE think of it?

by Jon Preston in

jw
friends

i just finished the episode about the extinctions and the tree of life and how life evolved.

my wife asked me "what, do u believe in evolution now?

because im watching a science show?

will-be-apostate

Yes, I think some level of ambiguity enters into the discussion when it's about things we can only study remotely, but that's only when it comes to what was before the Big Bang, string theory, all those Morgan Freeman stuff :D However in most bracnhes of science that doesn't apply. I admit that I need to read more about how they get those figures, I always wondered about that. I'm gonna study geology in this semester; I finally get to understand how they calculate the age of the Earth and will be able to show jws that scientists don't just pull out those figures from their pocket.

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News article: Watchtower buys former motel

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20140322/biz/403220306 watchtower buys former motelgroup may also purchase site in tuxedo the former hampton inn on route 300 will provide housing for volunteers working on the watchtowers new headquarters being built in goshen.steve borland/times herald-record.

by james walshtimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 03/22/14town of newburgh the watchtower tract and bible society closed friday on the purchase of the hampton inn on route 300.. watchtower spokesman richard devine said the building will be used to provide housing for short-term volunteers working on the organization's world headquarters, which is under construction in warwick.. the sale price wasn't disclosed.. another property, sterling forest apartments in a rural area of the town of tuxedo, may also be purchased by watchtower.

that would provide housing for long-term volunteer construction workers at the headquarters.. "we talked to the owner there," devine said of the apartments, "but we're still investigating that.

will-be-apostate

I wonder if they will sell it after they finish the constructions.

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Cosmos--any creationists watching? And what does EVEryONE think of it?

by Jon Preston in

jw
friends

i just finished the episode about the extinctions and the tree of life and how life evolved.

my wife asked me "what, do u believe in evolution now?

because im watching a science show?

will-be-apostate

I agree with you, and regarding my college education: thank you. I'm studying petroleum engineering. Please don't judge, it was the best option for me in my country.

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Cosmos--any creationists watching? And what does EVEryONE think of it?

by Jon Preston in

jw
friends

i just finished the episode about the extinctions and the tree of life and how life evolved.

my wife asked me "what, do u believe in evolution now?

because im watching a science show?

will-be-apostate

DJS and the others: Can you please tell me which part of my post made you think that I don't accept evolutionism as a fact?

What I was trying to say is that I noticed a tendency of not respecting others' beleifs I'm an engineering student, I'm familiar with the methods and logic. After reading some posts around here I got this impression that there is no room for those who have other views.

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GB's letter regarding UN membership - How Do You Prove Them Wrong?

by will-be-apostate in

i was reading brant jones' experience (published on jwfacts.com).

i read both letters: the one he wrote to the gb and the one he recieved from them.

link: http://jwfacts.com/watchtower/experiences/brantjonesunresponse.pdf.

will-be-apostate

I've just posted this link on my facebook wall: http://ask.un.org/data/answers/files/571773/DPI_letter_re_Watchtower_2004.pdf

Let's see what my fellow brothers and sisters say about that. ;)

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What the world is coming too?? Interesting news in local paper.

by jam in

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first article, hawaii law lets police have sex with prostitutes.

honolulu police officers are urging lawmakers to keep an exemption.

in the stste law that lets undercover officers have sex with prostitutes.

will-be-apostate

Jam used a popular cliche in the title, but that doesn't conclude that he thinks Armageddon must be coming because Hawaii police officers now can have sex with prostitutes. Some people here are doing what they despise the most: making up rules about how one should think about certain things. Should we ignore every bad news now, because caring about morality means that you are still a brainwashed jw?

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