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  The wonders of God's creation - Example 1, the tsetse fly

  by jambon1 in

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  there are 23 species of tsetse flies.

  diseases transmitted by tsetse flies kill 250,000300,000 people per year.. why create such a thing?.

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  Sab,

  A pefect, loving designer would not:

  1. Create something without foresight of the suffering his creation could cause.

  2. Create something that had to cause suffering out of necessity for its own survival.

  These flies serve no purpose but to their own ends. Even reciprocal altruism arises in nature from a selfish desire of a species to protect its own life, or its genetic descendants.

  Why should purpose involve suffering? Is there a law somewhere about that? Show it to me. Your position that suffering is required because we suffer is rather unfounded. If you were coming from an evolutionary standpoint, I could understand. However, this all seems a bit too clumsy for a grand designer.
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  Don't Forget--McDonald's Has The Memorial Fillet Of Fish Special Still!

  by minimus in

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  2 for $3.33!.

  just sayin'..

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  Is the roast beef combo still $9.95?
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  The Watchtower is trying bring back Ancient Israel

  by sabastious in

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  think about the conventions of old.

  they were long, brutal and completely dominated by men who considered themselves good speakers.

  why did they feel they had a right to command everyone to gather to these conventions?

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  Trust WT to suck all the fun out of something. Though I suppose they get round the feasting thing with the 'fine spiritual banquet that Jehoopla has provided'. I always hated that saying. It got me thinking about food, and so waiting another 4 hours till lunch time became even more agonizing.
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  The annointed remnant figure rising - a question

  by jambon1 in

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  having been out of the loop for a while on here, it dawned on me that the figure of memorial partakers has risen substantially from when i was a jw.. i think i bowed out at around 8500 in 2006.. can anyone briefly explain what the main reasons for this increase are and if it is ever discussed among jw's because if i remember correctly, the figure should be going down, not up.. thanks.. j.

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  They blame it on the Catholics. ;D
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  End of the Preaching Work?

  by Slidin Fast in

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  there is a rumour (from someone who should know better) that members of the gb are going round saying that the preaching work is accomplished.

  this comes from a seniour elder and i therefore take it a bit more seriously than some sources.. if this is true then it kinda links in with the reduction of the half awake and the watch slightly-higher-mound-look-out magazines.. has any one else heard anything?.

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  Sounds interesting, but I wouldn't buy into it until i've seen a letter from HQ.

  Did the elder tell you directly, or have you got this info from hearsay?

  Either way it's quite possible that the Elders, who already know about the Awake reduction/Internet push have jumped to the conclusion that this is a sign of the preaching being accomplished. Any kind of change, in the minds of the witnesses, will always be taken as getting closer to the end.
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  Let's get this memorial party started!

  by Megachusen in

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  i'm being forced to go to this one by my family members so i thought i'd write this out in disgust: http://apostarad.blogspot.com/2012/04/memorial-time-again.html.

  i'm serious about getting wasted before i go, by the way.

  this will be a night to be remembered..

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  I'm already very tired, so I wont be partaking in any revelries or drunken bouts tonight.

  Have fun.
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  Who would like to Skype?

  by freetosee in

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  i finally started skyping.

  if you would like to talk, feel free to pm me.

  we don't need to have the camera on.. .

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  add me,

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  Are you attending the Memorial this year?

  by XPeterX in

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  dunno about you but i'm going..

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  Doesn't seem like it. I thought i'd get more pressure from my parents but they haven't said a thing.

  I recieved an invitation with a written letter from an Elder I know. But really to go is pointless, it's of no benefit to me, and it gives everyone there false hope.

  Good luck to those of you going tonight. Hope it's not too stressful/boring.
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  Animal sin?

  by jambon1 in

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  the doctrine of sin = death.. .

  if it is the case that the reason people die is due to the original sin of the man adam (romans 5:12) then why do animals also get sick and die of the same illnesses as humans?

  did an animal transgress in a similar manner?.

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  There is that scripture in Genesis about the snake being cursed. Maybe the other animals in Eden were accessories to the crime :P

  The other point I make with arguments like this is - if only humans are sinful then why do at least 1,500 species display homosexual activity (a supposedly unnatural, sinful trait)

  http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/20718.aspx
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  Are you an athiest and why?

  by LouBelle in

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  i'm interested in finding out people's reasons as to why they are athiest.. i have simply through life experience, my research into religions over the years come to that conclusion.

  never thought i would come to a day that i did not believe in a god.

  believing in a god is like believing in super man, it would be great if he existed but well it's just a fairy tale.

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  I studied the WT's biblical literalist views and realised they were dead wrong. But for everything the WT has said about other religions, on some things they were right, I feel. So I thought that true christianity was not being practiced in our time.

  Later I discovered the all too human origins of these holy books, and there ya go.