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Question for our scholars...
by tenyearsafter in
1. jw
2. friends
i was asked an interesting question by a jw relative and was not exactly sure how to answer it...thought i would throw it out to the scholars on the board:.

what was the expectation of an afterlife for faithful ones living before jesus was sacrificed?...did they believe they would have an afterlife on earth or in heaven?.
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Is there a list of changes made in the New World Translation?
by Grammy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i would love to be able to show them to my husband so he can check them for himself since he thinks the only changes made were that the nwt is in a "modern language" he gets quite upset with me when he tells me he has read the bible front to back several times and i say "yes you have, but the bible you are reading has been changed from what the scriptures in other versions of the bible say" thanks in advance for any help with this.grammy
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Were dinosaurs part of a pre-Adamic "paradise"?
by M.J. in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the wts seems to affirm a lot that adam's blunder really screwed up the earth, and that the earth was not meant to be this place full of killing, disease, death, pain, etc.. but according to the wts version of the story, did god create the earth with these types of features before adam even came on the scene?

the wts does not deny the existance of dinosaurs, who in their words were created prior to mankind during the 5th or 6th symbolic day-ages.

yet its clear from fossilized remains that dinosaurs killed each other, had a high mortality rate, often died young, suffered from disease such as cancerous tumors: .
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Beards are evil, but do you know why?
by free2beme in
1. jw
2. friends
as a witness, i knew several men who attempted to grow beards.

when they did, and attended meetings, it did not take long to be talked to by elders and told, "as spiritual men, they should not display an outward form of rebellion.

" why was this a form of rebellion?
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Were you a JW trophy wife? Not necessarily a serious thread.
by FlyingHighNow in
1. social
2. relationships
sal, it's funny but things were much more shallow in the dubs.

i noticed some of the ugliest blokes getting pretty little trophy wives so long as they had a job or were the sons of elders.

my dad (an elder) even went so far as to encourage me to come back to the dubs because i would easily pull a good looking wife .
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do you believe in karma?
by SpiceItUp in
1. jw
2. friends
we have all heard the cliche' "what goes around comes around" but do you really believe it?.

i know this person that for many years has been unkind, devious and vengeful and then over more recent years has had bad luck everywhere they turned around.

i mean one thing after another.
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Disfellowshipped for Being Raped!
by UnDisfellowshipped in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
march 8th 1974 issue, pages 13-16:.

"scream!

scream!
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BEAT that Child!
by Farkel in
1. jw
2. friends
this is sort of a continuation of threads on dubs and how they are conditioned to discipline their children.

someone questioned whether the society actually encouraged dubs to whup their children.

i only had enough time to dig up a few salient quotes from the wt magazine.
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JW couple beats daughter to death
by saltiest in
1. jw
2. friends
i just read this article in the chicago sun times.

when i started reading the parents were religious and then saw home-schooling, i had a gut feeling they were jw's.

i read on and found out i was right.
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I am stunned!!...CharitablePlanning
by sf in
1. jw
2. friends
i feel like i did when i first read ray's book crisis of conscience"; like i was punched deep in the gut and can't catch my breath.. i took someones suggestion here to call the: .

charitable planning office.

watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania.