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  What would happen?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  a thrift store down the street is run by members of a small, local christian congregation.

  evangelical but not sure what religion they are affiliated with.

  they have set up the store as a non-profit and have a specific use for the funds they acquire.

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  Ohhh...and a playground for little kids too...please.
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  Is There Life After Death

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.

  it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.

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  Of course there's an afterlife, just remember the parable about the rich man and Lazarus....ohh...wait....were in JW land...no there isn't an afterlife.
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  Satan temping Eve. Had she not ate

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  being the loving god that he is :).

  how do you imagine this playing out.

  let's say eve didn't eat and so we didn't fall into sin.. what do you think god would have done with satan and his demons?.

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  The thing that baffles me is how something perfect could turn to the 'dark side'. Adam and Eve is a children's tale. What about the angels that choose to make themselves a body so the could have sex with women!. Imagine perfect entities that had lived forever choose the dark side. On the other hand imagine Jesus and the history of having the option to have 'all the kingdoms of the world' , he as a perfect entity could have accepted. I mean those literary tales are so powerful that is not a mystery why people get so fanatic sometimes.
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  Cain - where's the critical thinking skills?

  by jws in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read a post on facebook where somebody is making some wild crazy-talk about the descendants of cain being the beast of revelation or something.. cain was always a strange tale to me.

  don't people use any critical thinking skills when they read this stuff?

  everybody knows cain killed his brother abel, but do they ever look at the surrounding tale?.

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  Why Abel wasn't able to defend himself? Why this crimen was allowed? Why the 'eye by eye' law was not used? And the discussion continues, on and on....
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  Very little that is factual in the Bible?

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. bible

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mryipltf3i.

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  mikeflood

  I've found a NRSV Catholic Youth Bible, lots of comments everywhere...like don't take the six creation days literally...pretty reasonable seems...
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  Kingdom Hall ... BURGER KING?

  by sparky1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i live in a very rural part of the northeastern united states.

  after 9 years of waiting, the local witnesses are getting their new kingdom hall.

  it is being built on a back road next to a sandpit.

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  mikeflood

  How about... .Kingdom Burgers !

  Name's catchy
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  Drop Off in Mentioning 1914

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

  paranoia rules supreme!.

  curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.

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  Change in Borg land is always so slow....they paved the way when said "no more types and antitypes" that nulight is gonna make them more mainstream. JW are gonna be so different from now as it is now from Russell & Ruthford years...but here's the catch...come here to JW land in 40 years in the future.
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  "This Good news Of The Kingdom Will Be Preached In All The Inhabited Earth" ........

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ..".for a witness to all the nations and then the end will come" .matt.24:14.. the religion of jehovah`s witnesses kid themselves into thinking they are filling or have fulfilled this prophecy/scripture .. given that you take the jehovah`s witnesses and the international bible students association as one and the same religion , then they have been preaching their message primarily within lands that are predominantly christian based.....and certainly do not cover "all the inhabited earth " as their are many populous non christian nations nations that do not allow, even forbid any proselytizing in their lands.

  i would estimate about one third of the current world population.. but that is not all .. given that you take the jehovah`s witnesses and the international bible students association as one and the same religion ,then they have about 140 years of preaching their beliefs to the public specifically to preach "this good news of the kingdom " as they claim to do in obedience to j.c.commands at matt.24:14.. take a survey no matter where you live on this planet earth of the people in your locality and if you asked them "what was the message jehovah`s witnesses left you and no one would be able to say "they told me about and explained to me the good news of the kingdom" and what it would mean to me.. no one would be able to say that .after 140 years of preaching and witnessing by what is now 8 million plus jehovah`s witnesses .. what a waste of time and energy and lives .. after 140 years of preaching what do the public know about jehovah`s witnesses ?.

  they don`t take blood transfusions .

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  I bet there's gonna be "new light" pretty soon. The problem is resources, new material is practically inexistent. So, downsizing, a.k.a. simplification. Let's say no more pounding apathetic neighborhoods, better an emphasis in living a Christian exemplary life ... (like the midweek meeting). And leave the preaching for special campaigns once other month...
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  Separating children at the border....

  by mikeflood in

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  2. current

  i mean, the law about separating children from their fathers crossing southern us border have been in the books since before obama's era.

  the thing is that enforcing that law it has become a public relations disaster for the trump administration.

  there's also to much animosity in latin america too, remember the classic agitator "u.s. is the evil empire that treat us badly just to see always their own interests".

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  I mean, the law about separating children from their fathers crossing southern US border have been in the books since before Obama's era. The thing is that enforcing that law it has become a public relations disaster for the Trump administration. There's also to much animosity in Latin America too, remember the classic agitator "U.S. is the evil empire that treat us badly just to see always their own interests".

  And all this mess, for free.
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  If shunning was not a tool used by jw what would happen

  by poopie in

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  Probably not too much... Catholics for example practice excommunication for really serious offenses....the only thing is that without widespread shunning like in in JW land, there would be there a lot more of dissent....exactly the way they don't like it.