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  Adam could have put Jehovah In Paradox!

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm going to be the first and throw this out there for others but, from careful study of the scriptures i've found a loophole that even adam who was perfect at the time missed!

  i'm sure everyone has heard the conundrum about ,"can god create a rock he can't lift?

  " and if he can't create one he can't lift, then god cannot do everything" well that doesn't really matter since we know jehovah says himself he cannot lie right?

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  redvip2000

  Adam may have been perfect but had the intelligence of a little kid. It wasn't until they ate the fruit and became like God they realized they were naked.

  How nice of a loving god to leave a "kid" exposed to a much wiser and shrewd being like Satan.

  It's as loving as a parent leaving a kid at home alone, with the absolute prohibition of not touching one toy, and then introduce an adult in the picture whose entire job is to spend the day convincing the kid to touch the toy.

  Thanks Jellohoba, you're a real asshole.
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  IRAN - An inevitable clash of civilizations just up ahead (1953-1979)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  satan peeks over the horizon in qatar :).

  arbitrary borders on a map of the middle east, post wwi.. .

  civilizations were uprooted.. .

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  We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression

  Of course they don't. They would be obliterated. Now, they also don't to be looked at as being pushovers, so they retaliated with what really amounted to a token attack -- a few missiles launched into a low value area, with advance warning as to not kill anybody.

  All of this nonsense is posturing from both sides, which should not be believed.

  The US finds out about a plan a few days away that will kill Americans and decides to kill a general. This is as stupid as the US finding out about 9/11 a few days earlier and decide the best course of action is to kill Bin Laden, as if that would stop a plan already in motion.

  What was the plan? What did we do to actually stop it? Silence...

  The orange agent walks away from this with an image boost, while American idiots pat themselves on the back, because they think the President cares about them.
  
  
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  Current JW growth in the United States in historical perspective and in comparison with other groups

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  current jw growth is slower than during most of their history.

  the only probable exceptions are following 1975 when there was a brief worldwide decrease, the late 1920s when around half of the members left the movement, perhaps around the 1917 schism, and various schisms during russell’s time.

  there were also periods of sluggish growth during the 1950/60s and around 2000. .

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  I think most of the jokehovian numbers are also bogus. Unlike the mor[m]ons, they do not have systemic doctoring of the numbers.

  Yeah it's a good point, because the reality is that JWs are determined to be viewed as the best, unique, approved, yadda yadda. They completely massage the numbers. Also because they are smaller, any small uptick translates into a bigger percentage.

  I think most other religions are not as obsessed with that.
  
  
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  JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.

  definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.

  the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .

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  I know this is not broken down by country/region, but i suspect that if it was broken down that way, we would see different results. Nevertheless it's interesting to see how for example, the number of baptisms are going up, though I doubt it's in the West, since on any given assembly, there is only a handful of suckers.
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

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  good move or bad?

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  I've read an awful lot of authoritative books on the modern history of the Middle East Redvip. Saudi did not do 9/11.

  I was drawing a connection between Saudi Arabia and ISIS, which exists. I was not making one with 9/11 which is a lot more tenuous.
  
  
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good move or bad?

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  Right, cause sanctions will not affect the "Iranian people".. *facepalm*
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  Jesus said Truly I tell you This Day...

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  adam was told not to eat from the tree of knowledge for upon the very day of eating from it, he would die.

  i had someone say that god lied because, adam didn't die that day but, the scriptures say to god a day is as a thousand years so, since adam lived 900+ years after eating , he indeed died within god's view of a day.

  methuselah the oldest to ever live 969 years still within god's set time of a day.

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  Adam didn't die that day but, the scriptures say to God a Day is as a thousand years so, since Adam lived 900+ years after eating , he indeed died within God's view of a day.

  So the hardest thing to square off is the concoction about what constitutes a day? How about the fact that the fairy tale book is asserting that people lived 900+ years?

  Right, 900+ years at at time when people didn't even know they had to wash their hands after shitting.
  
  
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  IRAN - An inevitable clash of civilizations just up ahead (1953-1979)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  satan peeks over the horizon in qatar :).

  arbitrary borders on a map of the middle east, post wwi.. .

  civilizations were uprooted.. .

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  redvip2000

  If we want to do some real good in the middle east, the west must completely abandon all fossil fuels and remove its military presence.

  I could not have said it better. After all, once that hell hole loses its appeal to the west because of oil, we can finally leave those people to their own devices. Eventually they too will evolve into enlightenment and hopefully start living 2020 lives. For now, they are stuck in the middle ages.
  
  
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  confused with nowhere to turn

  by Rebecca in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm 43 and a divorced mother of 2. in january 2019 i met the man i thought i could spend the rest of my life with.

  we were happy and even though our relationship wasn't perfect (like all relationships) i thought we had a chance and were building a life together with our young kids.

  background on me - i've been divorced since 2012 after 12 years of marriage.

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  redvip2000

  I'm so confused, why would God take him away from us?

  The good news is.. he didn't do that. And he also didn't feed, clothe or treat any of the hungry and sick, or homeless either. He doesn't exist.

  Now, could it be your bf is using his new-found moral ground as an excuse to end things? As shocking as it might seem, men go to great lengths to dream up excuses to end relationships in order to move to other things.
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  good move or bad?

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  redvip2000

  Anybody that analyses the root ideology of ISIS say, and thinks that it has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia is either blind, or didn't take the time to do research.