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  2 Letters Arrived-English and Spanish-Announcement!--(as of 2020-07-17)

  by Atlantis in

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  2020-07-10--announcement.

  (2 letters--one in english and one in spanish.).

  use of messaging apps to share video files:.

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  amiable atheist

  Hello Petra. I would like to have those letters. Please PM me the dnld link
  
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  4 Letters Arrived--English and Spanish! (as of 2020-06-19)

  by Atlantis in

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  1.--2020-06-18-- english--instructions for our online meetings.. distractions.

  noisepreparations.

  personal appearance .

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  amiable atheist

  Yes, send me the link, too. Thank you
  
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  A question about the contemporary generation teaching following a conversation with a JW apologist

  by Giles Gray in

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  i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

  i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

  i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

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  amiable atheist

  Overlapping Generation comprehensively explained by Goatlike Personality:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcnryekW2c
  
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  Set ptermber AT study article: "Armaggedon Is Good News!

  by Room 215 in

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  omg, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?

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  amiable atheist

  The GB ( Garrulous Bullshitters, Greedy Bastards, Glib Barnacles, ... ):" Do our bidding, or else your dead meat!"
  
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  Evolution or Creation Poll

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  evolution is how we got here.. demonstrate that you believe that all species evolved from a single cell over/within 3.5 billion years by tapping "like" below.. demonstrate that you believe in special creation by tapping "unlike" below..

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  amiable atheist

  I read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in 1976. That did the job. I like Jerry Coyne too, he gives some talks on evolution on YT.
  
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  This is my fav. pic of girl petting a lion.

  by rockemsockem in

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  [img]http://i63.tinypic.com/vpas74.jpg[/img].

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  amiable atheist

  Click on the "View raw image" link, (bottom left)
  
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  Bottlegate Revisited

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  hilarious,enjoy.found on reddit.

  this should set the mood for the weekend !.

  zing.

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  amiable atheist

  A frugal breakfast for a True Scotsman.
  
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  JUNE 2019 Watchtower: Higher Education - HQ & Bethels are populated with evil, educated folks!

  by The Fall Guy in

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  how alienated from jehovah and un-christian so many bethelites must be, who finished their higher education and gained their degrees!

  i don't know how they can live with their consciences!.

  pages 6 & 7, pars.

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  amiable atheist

  Thankfully, once I realized that being immersed in higher education was damaging my relationship with Jehovah, I knew I had to stop.

  This should read: "Thankfully, once I realized that being immersed in water was damaging my relationship with reality, I knew I had to stop."
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  North Korea official photos

  by neat blue dog in

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  official government photos:.

  hmmm.

  any thoughts?

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  amiable atheist

  Oh, nice. Photos from the Pyongyang national convention of JW.

  I am going to send this to my JW parents. As to whether they'll get the joke, I have severe doubts...
  
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  shunning of those who have "left da troof"

  by resolute Bandicoot in

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  hi friends, .

  can somebody please help me locate a recent thread that dealt with shunning of family members and the policy double standard, e.g.

  jw.borg explanation that the family relationship is unchanged and the recent daily text that suggested that we should shun them.. tried searching but could not find it.. thanks rb.

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  amiable atheist

  I just remembered this post from about 3 months ago: "They would Stone us if the law would allow"
  by ElderEtta, where Paul Grundy (author of jwfacts.com) had dug up this gem of Watchtower:

  "Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God's law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship. However, God's law requires us to recognize their being disfellowshiped from his congregation, and this despite the fact that the law of the land in which we live requires us under some natural obligation to live with and have dealings with such apostates under the same roof. Satan's influence through the disfellowshiped member of the family will be to cause the other member or members of the family who are in the truth to join the disfellowshiped member in his course or in his position toward God's organization. To do this would be disastrous, and so the faithful family member must recognize and conform to the disfellowship order. How would or could this be done while living under the same roof or in personal, physical contact daily with the disfellowshiped? In this way: By refusing to have religious relationship with the disfellowshiped." Watchtower1952 Nov 15 p.703