JWs do celebrate birthdays. Only the first one. Henceforward all others banned.
lastmanstanding
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It’s Stupid That JWs Wont Recognize Birthdays Yet If A Baby Is Born They Will Give Gifts!
by minimus ina witness can’t celebrate and give gifts on a birthday except on the day they are born.
giving a baby shower is ok as well as gift giving—- but only once!
soooo dumb!.
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Can the Borg tell what sites I've been to?
by purrpurr inif i go to the jw website and then afterward to say this website, is it likely that the jw website has then tracked what websites i go to after visiting theirs?.
i don't know how cookies work btw .
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lastmanstanding
When you go to JW.bORG the cookies on your system are available to some extent and demonstrate where you’ve been.
I imagine that so many elders have no idea about that, and they go to porn and then JW.bORG and viola... the CO is counseling against porn.
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Warwick is an ASS
by lastmanstanding ingoogle earth warwick and turn the map upside down.
it’s as clear as a bell.. i have been looking at satellite images of assembly halls because of the one in denmark being a pagan design of an all seeing eye like on the us dollar etc.. so i said, what the hell does warwick look like from space?.
question answered.
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Warwick is an ASS
by lastmanstanding ingoogle earth warwick and turn the map upside down.
it’s as clear as a bell.. i have been looking at satellite images of assembly halls because of the one in denmark being a pagan design of an all seeing eye like on the us dollar etc.. so i said, what the hell does warwick look like from space?.
question answered.
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lastmanstanding
Hee Haw
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Warwick is an ASS
by lastmanstanding ingoogle earth warwick and turn the map upside down.
it’s as clear as a bell.. i have been looking at satellite images of assembly halls because of the one in denmark being a pagan design of an all seeing eye like on the us dollar etc.. so i said, what the hell does warwick look like from space?.
question answered.
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Warwick is an ASS
by lastmanstanding ingoogle earth warwick and turn the map upside down.
it’s as clear as a bell.. i have been looking at satellite images of assembly halls because of the one in denmark being a pagan design of an all seeing eye like on the us dollar etc.. so i said, what the hell does warwick look like from space?.
question answered.
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lastmanstanding
Google Earth Warwick and turn the map upside down. It’s as clear as a bell.
I have been looking at satellite images of assembly halls because of the one in Denmark being a pagan design of an all seeing eye like on the US dollar etc.
So I said, what the hell does Warwick look like from space?
Question answered. It’s an ass.
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Remark at memorial about growing annointed numbers
by Gorbatchov indon’t know if it was part of the script.. at the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).. reason for the growing numbers could be:.
- feeling annointed because of former believe.
- psychical reasons.
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lastmanstanding
Flipp said
The GB will pull any reason out of their anus to make anything work.
Thats good.
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The implement of Christ’s death
by lastmanstanding insimple physics.. the timber that was used to execute jesus had to be substantial.
thus, its weight could not have been carried entirely, but rather it had to be dragged.. get a log with no crosspiece, one substantial enough to nail a man to, and try to drag it through town.
try to get a hold of it without it sliding out of your grip.
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lastmanstanding
Wearing a cross, to me, is sad and speaks to a false faith.
Jesus was almost certainly “lifted up” on a cross, because that was the Roman method.
And if a cross was used today as a symbol, or a fish as some have used, as a reference, then it is just a method of communicating that what lies beyond it is connected to Christ.
But that is not why Catholicity involves the wearing of a cross. Catholics wear a cross in a superstitious way, like people wearing garlic to chase away evil spirits. And they used other idols, Mary dolls etc, for the same superstitious reason.
I personally am fully convinced, by the Scriptures and by history, that Jesus was “lifted up” on a timber with a crossbeam.
I am also fully convinced that wearing a cross is not Christian. It’s superstition.
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The implement of Christ’s death
by lastmanstanding insimple physics.. the timber that was used to execute jesus had to be substantial.
thus, its weight could not have been carried entirely, but rather it had to be dragged.. get a log with no crosspiece, one substantial enough to nail a man to, and try to drag it through town.
try to get a hold of it without it sliding out of your grip.
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lastmanstanding
Ratt
Your first statement, out the gate, is false and is the product of Watchtower brainwashing.
The scriptures you quote say nothing about the timber that the Christ was “lifted up” with.
The Scriptures, quite to the contrary, say “tree” and a “tree” is NOT a straight post. A tree has branches. Acts 5:30 says tree.
The serpent in the wilderness was lifted up, it what it was lifted up on is irrelevant, one way or the other. The Israelites needed to look at the serpent, not the stick it was on.
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The implement of Christ’s death
by lastmanstanding insimple physics.. the timber that was used to execute jesus had to be substantial.
thus, its weight could not have been carried entirely, but rather it had to be dragged.. get a log with no crosspiece, one substantial enough to nail a man to, and try to drag it through town.
try to get a hold of it without it sliding out of your grip.
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lastmanstanding
The Romans were doing the executing factory style. Jesus was not the first ever and it was not as if their method was just invented that day. They had a system. It was a regular event. The poles and such would get reused over and over.
The condemned were subjected to all kinds of brutality prior to the actual lifting up. They would be exhausted. Jesus all the more so. There’s no way a person who was beaten and abused as was Jesus, could drag a pole, without even a way to grip it, the distance.
In fact, Simon from Cyrene was impressed into carrying whatever Jesus crucifiction required, Jesus was beat that bad.
I am not going to say that I know exactly how it was done, but certain things shine through. According to the Gospels, Jesus was nailed hand and foot. He would not have been nailed until he was on site at Golgotha. So, the idea that he was tied with ropes to a crosspiece and then later untied and nailed does not add up to an efficient Roman system.
The timbers used would have been brought into town as part of the system. It was part of the whole action to first force the condemned to carry their timber the distance through town, a public humiliation and torture meant for all to see, such that people learned to fear the Romans. It was for effect. It was terrorism.
Jesus was abused beyond the norm, such that even the Romans could see it was not business as usual. Hence Simon was employed.
Yes, a condemned prisoner could drag a pole, with a crosspiece to grab on to, through town and up to Golgotha. It would have been difficult, for sure. But that was the point, as the condemned was going to be killed. And it was a painful spectacle.
But a single pole, with no means to grip it, would be ridiculous. And it would be historically inconsistent.
If Jesus was tied to a crosspiece first, and that is all He had to manage, did they then unite him from it and tie Simon to it? I think not.
The Roman system needed to be simple and uncomplicated and able to be reused efficiently. And the site at Golgotha would certainly have had prepared and fortified holes for the timbers to drop into. It was, after all, a public torture and execution chamber. They didn’t dig the holes that day.
To have the condemned using every ounce of energy trying to grasp the straight pole would mean they would tire long before getting to the site. I’d like to see it tried.