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  Is Satan Real ?

  by jdash in

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  i've been pondering on this question for awhile now, and i'm starting to think this malevolent spirit creature isn't real.

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  do you guys believe satan is real?

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  Yes, he is real. I think God created him to blame all the evil He had done and will continue doing after the time of Satan's creation, sometime in the Persian period. Before Satan's birth, he was only an employee of God doing his will (Angel of Yahweh) with similar name.

  Compare 1 Chronicles 21:1 (Satan's first and only evil act in the old testament) to 2 Samuel 24:1 (the real evil doer)

  By the time of the new testament Satan had had a lot of practice and had become really good at evil doing. Today, pretty much every evil act is caused by Satan and every good act is done by God. But any discerning person knows that the buck stops with God because he created Satan.

  Did I make any sense???
  
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  In one sentence, can you pinpoint a single event that woke you up?

  by Brian J in

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  my turning point: serving on a child abuse judicial case.

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  My waking up obviously was not from JWism, but from religion in general. I was about 13 or 14 y.o. and found science and religion incompatible, so I tossed religion. No regrets 40 years later.

  Welcome pometerre21!!, welcome to the forum and to freedom!!
  
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  What Do You Think of The News Media?

  by minimus in

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  i used to pretty much believe anything they would report.

  now, though, i find myself questioning “journalists “, with the realization that much of what is said may be inaccurate or slanted..

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  The news media is not much different from the rest of us, we all have biases. The media is not the big problem, the big problem is lazy people who don't apply critical thinking and don't do enough research before arriving to conclusions. The best way to force media to offer more objectivity is to stop watching. Unfortunately, there's few who care for objectivity, most of us want someone to tickle our ears.
  
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  2. entertainment

  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  That's it!
  
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  2. entertainment

  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  Can't post pictures. Honda Shadow 2002 750 blue.

  My training wheels. I came late in life to bike riding.
  
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  Morpheus,

  You sound like Bill Clinton: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is."
  
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  The book burning has started

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  don't know if this is a global thing but i've just been told by a pimo member of my old congregation that a min servant has been given the task of destroying all old books/literature in the kh library prior to 1992.. could be the elders (or even one of them) on a mission to stamp out dissent as my ex-wife used the same reasoning to her elder dad that i used in my jc: rutherfords books containing failed predictions.. anyone else heared anything?.

  the ms who's been given the task is a company man.

  no hope of him keeping them or selling them on ebay.. they have some russell books in that library too.

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  never a jw

  Bobo2446
  

  
  "Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. (Luke 21:32)

  "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16:28)

  
  

  Is it possible that Matthew and Luke used different wording for the same idea???
  
  
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  New here...

  by Jacobi in

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  2. friends

  my name is jacobi, i am a born-in but mentally out for more or less a decade at this point (although it was cradual) and about 40yo.

  i don't want to say a lot about my family, but it is a mix of going-through-the-motions, semi-actives (but mentally in), some who have left for a few reasons and one really depressed pioneer.

  because people fade in and out i have managed to slide under the radar and i keep up apperances of not being all-out apostate but i completed my fade about years ago (it also helped i moved to another part of the country).. i might rub some of you the wrong way because of my views on different things like politics.. i am not a trump supporter at all and neither are most people in my country.

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  "I might rub some of you the wrong way because of my views on different things like politics.. I am not a Trump supporter "

  How could you say that? Trump is the best president the world has ever known. Scratch that, he is the best human! You are out of your mind!!

  Welcome... I guess
  
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  Pillowgate makes headlines in Finland

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  local newspaper in finland has published an article concerning wtbs:s "pillowgate@ videos.

  the local "communications manager" of jehovah's witnesses - veikko leinonen - has declined to comment them.

  according to him they are for internal use only.

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  "out of context"??? Then release the full video so reporters can provide a fair commentary...
  
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  A conversation with M. James Penton (Watchtower historian, author and former elder)

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  john cedars' youtube channel has a new video interview with james penton.

  lloyd asks some good questions and jim provides excellent insights about jw history and where the movement may be headed.. i had the pleasure of meeting jim and his former wife, now passed away, at the christian believers conference (of bible students).

  http://www.cbconference.com/.

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  My three favorite ex-JW writers:
  

  James Penton was the scholar with encyclopedic knowledge about the history of JW's

  Carl Olof Jonsson was the indefatigable researcher who left no stones unturned

  Raymond Franz was sweet grandpa with the best and most moving story

  All three wrote excellent books, each with a personal and unique, but very professional style.