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  Why does god kill children?

  by Comatose in

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  i was thinking about all the accounts in the bible that indicate god kills children as a punishment or teaching experience.

  1. kills all of egypts firstborn sons, who were innocent kids who did nothing to him or his people, who had no control over the decisions pharoah made.

  how many times have you read that account or thought about it without realizing the devastating pain dealt to all those parents, and remembered those were innocent kids?.

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  iCeltic

  Tec - I guess since we don't hear Jesus talking to us then this is where we mostly see things differently. You are coming at this from the point of view that since you feel you hear Jesus then it's all real, most of us hear don't hear Jesus and we feel, based on the evidence available, that he doesn't exist. I've sent you a pm saying as much.

  i would like to feel connected to something, some form of spirituality, but the longer I go on and read and learn the less I feel there's a chance that there is a god. I don't see why god would see to it that there's a book written that so full of holes and things that makes absolutely no sense and then expect mankind to know what on earth it all means. It should be pretty simple, I'm god and this is the facts. More or less.
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  One cute canadian sister

  by thomyorke in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i like her videos about self-injury and other mental and physical problems, that could happened to young people.... she say that she is an active jw and regularly visit the meetings and go to service.. http://www.youtube.com/user/idranktheseawater.

  but... what can you say about her wearing and hair style?.

  it's cool, but it's "non-spiritual" style, not for "true" jw, isn't it ?!

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  iCeltic

  They definitely used that phrase.

  and I have some friends and family members who have suffered with self harm and eating disorders, I have on occasion tried to talk about it but I'm sometimes at a loss as to what to say :(
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  Is it common to,,,

  by label licker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have a local needs on apostasy, have everyone shun you, have no shepherding calls since you left for over a year, and now a jc tomorrow evening????????.

  spoke to branch committee as well as co and they said to go and if we were treated unfairly then to call the co. don't get it.

  the co would have known about the local needs talk on apostasy and says if we were treated unfairly to call him.

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  iCeltic

  Newly Enlightened - Do you have a 1969 Kingdom Interlinear? Romans 10:13 is a good one

  whats that about? Sorry, it's been a while..
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  Why does god kill children?

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was thinking about all the accounts in the bible that indicate god kills children as a punishment or teaching experience.

  1. kills all of egypts firstborn sons, who were innocent kids who did nothing to him or his people, who had no control over the decisions pharoah made.

  how many times have you read that account or thought about it without realizing the devastating pain dealt to all those parents, and remembered those were innocent kids?.

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  iCeltic

  I understand Tec why you answer like that, I can remember being a jw and I would have said similar, I would have done so not realising that I was making excuses for what it actually says. It's hard to get around that god commanded Abraham to murder his son and he went on his way to do it. The question isn't anything to do with what Abraham might have thought inwardly, all that matters is what it says. Hebrews 11 shows that Abraham would have had faith in a resurrection, in order to be resurrected you'd need to be dead, and Abraham was willing to kill based on his faith whether we like it or not.
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  I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

  by sosoconfused in

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  2. entertainment

  since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

  shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

  i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

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  iCeltic

  I've never watched the US The Office except for maybe 2 mins at most, I didn't like what I saw and it put me off. Alan Partridge and Saxondale are two comedies I loved. The bbc 6 parter 'The Trip' was outstanding as well.
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  I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

  by sosoconfused in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

  shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

  i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

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  iCeltic

  Another excellent series is Wallander, both the Swedish and UK remake.
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  Fun Facts learned this week in my reading...

  by Terry in

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  the temperature of the earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun 9900 degrees farenheit.. .

  below the amazon river lies another river called the rio hamza.

  only 14% of the earth's species have been identified.. .

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  iCeltic

  Indeed, I think he's half swed half american.
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  I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

  by sosoconfused in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

  shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

  i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

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  iCeltic

  Game of Thrones is a tv adaptation of George R R Martins fantasy novels. It's HBO which is normally good quality.

  if its comedy yo are after it's hard to beat Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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  One cute canadian sister

  by thomyorke in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i like her videos about self-injury and other mental and physical problems, that could happened to young people.... she say that she is an active jw and regularly visit the meetings and go to service.. http://www.youtube.com/user/idranktheseawater.

  but... what can you say about her wearing and hair style?.

  it's cool, but it's "non-spiritual" style, not for "true" jw, isn't it ?!

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  iCeltic

  Welcome. I'm not 100% sure you know where you are but a warm welcome anyway.
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  I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

  by sosoconfused in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

  shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

  i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

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  iCeltic

  Breaking bad

  The Americans

  The Vikings

  Game of Thrones (it drags a bit but good)

  Hannibal

  Homeland

  The Walking Dead (although it could be better, I still like it)

  The Killing (the original is best but US version is good too)

  The Bridge (outstanding. There's a US remake coming soon too)