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Forty Days Motif
by JosephAlward in
1. watchtower
2. bible
after the flood which lasted forty days, it seems that there were an unusual number of bible events lasting exactly forty days.

there are eighteen separate events of duration greater than ten days, and 61% of the time the event lasted exactly forty days.

only seven of eighteen events did not last forty days [1], while the other eleven lasted forty days [2].
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Q & A on Jesus and God. The real TRUTH.
by apostate man in
1. watchtower
2. bible
23. if jesus is the first and the last, why did god say in isaiah 44:6 that he was the first and the last?

matthew 1:20 says that the holy ghost was the father, while romans 15:6, ii corinthians 11:31, and ephesians 1:3 say that god was the father.

51. does the bible say that jesus was god with us?
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No soliciting = Solicit, only if you're a JW!
by Preston in
1. jw
2. experiences
when i was an active jw in the field ministry, i was timid to the usual "no soliciting" sign and it was always an elder, or a po, or a c.o.

who reminded me to not skip the house (which i did) with a "no soliciting" sign out front because the field ministry was not the same thing as soliciting (of course we're not soliciting members for our church, we're just warning you that if you don't become a member of our religion you're toast!

) i was a rather timid witness, so didn't care if they joined the religion or not, but i never did liked the reasoning that was put into preaching to people who had conspicuously placed "no soliciting" signs (you know, maybe thay don't want anyone who they don't know knocking at their doors anyway).
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Response to RWC's Atheist Questions
by Liberty in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hi rwc,.

i'm sure you're a very nice person and i don't want to get into an argument but rather a civil debate.

i just wanted to point out that as ex-jws many of us are a little obsessed with truth (not to be confused with "the truth" tm) and that after being burned by the watchtower society and hating ourselves for being so stupid to have fallen for its bs we have now become highly skeptical of the bible as well.
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Question for Atheists
by RWC in
1. watchtower
2. bible
christians who believe in the bible and the teachings of christ use that as a moral core and code of conduct.

for those who don't believe in god, where do you get your sense of moral right and wrong?

what is your moral foundation?
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Any other churches call themselves the 'truth'??
by Beck_Melbourne in
1. jw
2. friends
old habits die hard...and quite often in my comments i will refer to the borg as the 'truth'.

does anyone know of any other churches that refer to their own particular church or religion as the 'truth'??

also, does anyone know how it originated...all my life i have used the term...comments like 'how long have u been in the truth?
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Jesus never existed!!
by jw_uncovered in
1. jw
2. friends
buddha of india .

he performed miracles and raised one man, el-azar-us, from the dead.

the sun is the "light of the world.
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C.T. Russell, Occultist
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
one aspect of the watchtower's history that has never been.

adequately explained is russell's fascination with the occult.. the end of the 19th century saw the prominence of many occult.

were obsessed with egyptian symbols and magick based on the.
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Crystal Blue Persuasion(was it about the truth bk)
by Big Jim in
1. jw
2. friends
i heard somewhere this song was about the truth book, does anyone have.

crystal blue persuasion, uh huh, it's a new vibration.

crystal blue persuasion, uh huh.
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Education
by jelly in
1. jw
2. friends
just a little about me: i live in the usa on the west coast, i am currently going to college, ( i know a lot of brothers dont do this but i have some reasons).

i am curious if any other brothers or sisters are in college, and how everybody feels about school?