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  No wonder it's iron and clay mixed...

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249.

  i really didn't realise that words like "row" and "frock" are not common in the us.. glad to see "autumn", "queue", "numpty", "muppet" making a splash over there.. even "chav" and "innit" are being used apparently.. hey all you irish/scottish/welsh/english posters, what other words should our friends over the water be using?.

  wassock, fathead, plonker are three off the top of my head..

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  Einstein's God Letter Up For Auction

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  see what he really thought.... http://t.co/yz67nhuv.

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  Did Russell Believe Anything Witnesses Do Now?

  by konceptual99 in

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  this weeks wt study got me thinking as to if there was anything major that pre 1914 bible students believed that would be accepted by modern day witness.. as far as i can tell, they throught:.

  1 - the last days had started in 1799.

  2 - christ's presence had stated in 1874.

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  Our Bible "highlights"

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  ok, so this week the bh was from ezekiel.

  the brother starts by talking about a prophecy of egypt being laid desolate for 40 years.

  he then says there is no evidence in secular history that this happened.

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  What do you replace it with?

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  so... i am coming to the conclusion that pretty much all of the doctrinal stuff that i have believed for 25/30 years is built on a house of cards and it's about to come crashing down.

  question is what do i replace it with?.

  my intellectual head says that that whole thing is junk and there is almost certainly no god at all.

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  Daniel 8:20,21 - what do secular authorities say?

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  i am looking for anything that suggests there is a rational explaination for daniel apparently predicting the rise of greece as a world power.

  there is some stuff online suggesting that scholars years ago thought it was modified over time but evidence points to it having been written in the 6th centuary bc and they have been forced to correct their view.. is there anything anywhere that presents the accepted secular view of this passage?.

  cheers.

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  Reasoning on "It doesn't matter if the FDS are wrong"

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  i had a bit of chat with my wife last night after she was worried that i was less than enthusiastic about the ministry this morning.

  i expressed that i was slightly confused about the generations and how it's kept changing despite 1914 etc.

  being a core doctrine.

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  Crisis of Conscience, Apostacy and the Antichrist

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  i've just finished reading coc and it's truely a thought provoking book that's given me much to think about.. one thing that has struck me is the way rf was disfellowshipped and how he tried to reason with the elders on the jc.

  a key point of reasoning was that how the elders could define the disassocated one he ate with as "the antichrist" or one practicing the things described in 1 cor 9. apparently the elders either remain silent on the matter or said it was not for them to judge.. i thought the reasoning was really sound but i have been doing some checking on the definition of apostacy and the antichrist according to the society and it seems pretty clear to me that anyone guilt of apostacy becomes part of the antichrist.

  characteristics of apostacy as defined in the it-1 book are described as follows:.

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  How many doubting Thomases?

  by konceptual99 in

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  as an active witness atm i speak reguarly with friends and family who are also active.

  it seems however that there are some things that people are comfortable discussing such as beards (whats the problem) and birthdays (everyone would if they could) and, if you are with close friends, things like confusion over the generations, pressure of keeping all the balls juggled, harshness of rules around da/df ones along with long lapsed family and to some extent blood.. my guess is that there are many more who may be in a similar state of mind to me and wondering if it really is all worth it.

  it makes me wonder about how many with express themselves more if they could?

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  New here

  by konceptual99 in

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  i am new here, been lurking for a while but felt compeled to join as i would like to comment on more and more of the topics i come across.

  by way of an introduction here is some info about me.. i am an active jw, married with a family, living in the uk.

  i serve as a ms and have done for many years.

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