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Why would Jehovah wait so long?
by schnare injehovah's witnesses and many other religions believe jesus will return or has returned (invisibly .
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How many have read Gunnar Samuelsson's Crucifixion in Antiquity?
by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat inthis is a great read for those interested in an exhaustive work in recent times on the subject.. it may be available in pdf or kindle by now?.
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Watchtower and Anonymous Links, Updates, News, etc.
by DT ini wanted to consolidate a lot of the information about the attack of anonymous against the watchtower society.
if you disagree with the tactics of anonymous, that's fine.
this information may still be useful as the public is made more aware of the the dangerous policies of the watchtower society.
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Spelling counts, folks. Anyone who can't even spell "pedophiles" is not likely sharp enough to hack anything (aside from the Engrish language).
Anonymous has hackers from all of the world. That means that many don't speak English as their native language. Spelling is hard enough for many native English speakers, let alone non natives.
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Why would Jehovah wait so long?
by schnare injehovah's witnesses and many other religions believe jesus will return or has returned (invisibly .
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Okay, so here's my crazy conjecture. I read that genetically modified foods (well I don't know if all GM foods, I've only read of soy so far) are linked to sterility and infant mortality in hamsters, and approx. 10% of the world's crop lands that were planted in 2010 were GM crops . So if the percentage of GM crops planted increases, along with mankind ruining the earth, cancer, disease, antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains, etc., there will pretty soon be less and less people. That’s all I got so far. I still don’t know how everyone is going to receive the message of the Good News.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/genetically-modified-soy_b_544575.html
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Why would Jehovah wait so long?
by schnare injehovah's witnesses and many other religions believe jesus will return or has returned (invisibly .
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I've never understood this either and have been wanting to start a thread on crazy conjectures. I actually have one right now that sounds good. Who wants to hear it?
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Getting rid of your blood card may not be enough
by maksym ini want to share a potential problem that could come up in regards to those that have left the watchtower corporation and no longer accept their doctrines concerning blood.. obviously step one would be to get rid of the blood card; however.... recently i was put in the hospital to have an apendectomy.
the usual occurs in which a screening process is performed and records are updated before a major surgery; at least if your conscience.. one question the adminstrator nurse asked was whether i was still a jehovahs witness member of that church and if i still refused to accept blood.
i quickly updated my files telling them my current status and said i would accept blood.. the blood card was an indicator in an emergency if you were to be rushed to a hospital you did not know.. hospital records are not updated unless we choose to inform them.
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Thank you Rebel8 and Blondie for your replies. Although I do not expect to be hospitalized any time soon, you never know what tomorrow will bring. There's still that paranoid JW inside of me, lol. And yes, I do live in the U.S and will mention it to my doctor when I see him. Thank you for mentioning RHIO.
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Getting rid of your blood card may not be enough
by maksym ini want to share a potential problem that could come up in regards to those that have left the watchtower corporation and no longer accept their doctrines concerning blood.. obviously step one would be to get rid of the blood card; however.... recently i was put in the hospital to have an apendectomy.
the usual occurs in which a screening process is performed and records are updated before a major surgery; at least if your conscience.. one question the adminstrator nurse asked was whether i was still a jehovahs witness member of that church and if i still refused to accept blood.
i quickly updated my files telling them my current status and said i would accept blood.. the blood card was an indicator in an emergency if you were to be rushed to a hospital you did not know.. hospital records are not updated unless we choose to inform them.
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This is just what I needed. If I shred my blood card will my parents be able to do something? I am 20 and still live at home and can't move out yet. Remember we had to give two persons copies and I think the kingdom hall has one as well. Do those copies work? I really don't know if my local hospitals have any info about me being a JW. I also can't go to them now or my MD and update my info without raising suspicion.
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Tiresome Speculation
by Wayward Son inthe boys at wt hq seem pretty sincere about the end being just a whisper away.
much of what they are doing smells of a batten down the hatches and brace for impact mindset.
i know this is a drum they have been beating for decades, but.... [if !supportlists]- [endif]the intensity seems to be ramping up.. [if !supportlists]- [endif]they know more about the lawsuits, low baptisms, youth retention rate, apostate uprising, etc... than we do.. [if !supportlists]- [endif]i think many of them really believe they are gods one true organization and they view these events as prophesy-fulfilling.. [if !supportlists]- [endif]i think they foresee their own impending demise.. they are taking all the guess work out of the state of their stability.
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Wasblind- very true. They are so delusional that they think they alone hold the answer to everything in life.
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Thank you, Blondie. :)
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Jesus and the Apostles return in the 21st century......where ?
by Balaamsass inan old co-worker who trained to be a jesuit priest, is very intrigued with the ex-jw movement.
we share laughs and have some off-beat phone discussions at times on theology.
yesterday was about money, religion and "wwjd" what would jesus do if he and the apostles actually returned today.. we decided he and the apostles would probably be seated around a picnic table in a park with a laptop writing a "blog", have a facebook "fan page", and make press releases...making it entirely possible for "every eye to see him".. the pope and the governing body would denouce them as heritics.
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LOL! I can totally imagine that in my head. It would be so nice if Jesus were alive today.