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  Changes & Clarifications on our belief. DOMINO EFFECT blamed for late coming into print

  by TheWonderofYou in

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  in the august broadcast bro splane explains this point deeper.. when the brothers are sitting together and joyfully speaking about clarification of jw belief, they often encounter and deal with that "domino-effect" when one scripture has effects on others.

  so all changes are carefully considered before they come into print, one after the other but late.. lately he mentions the "godfathers" brother jaracz , barr as good examples of reading the bible progressivly, they were very progressive at there time.

  what ever this could mean he did not explain it?.

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  George One Time

  Domino? House of Cards!
  
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  Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?

  by notjustyet in

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  while i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.

  for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.

  i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?

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  George One Time

  So the interesting question is: Did Jehovah God himself choose the decimal numeral system? (His son will reign for a thousand years etc.) Or did he adapt himself to a system that humans invented?

  Without a television at home ( to protect us children from bad influences), I read all the old Awake magazines. And yes, it was helpful eventually - to wake me up.
  
  

  *** g71 2/8 p. 11 What the “New Math” Teaches Your Child ***
  Different Numeral Systems
  The decimal system is called a base-ten numeral system. But any other numeral base can be used. Babylonians used a complex base-sixty system and the Mayas of Yucatán calculated in base twenty. Today computers use the base-two system. “New math” courses familiarize young children with different numeral systems. The purpose of this is to help them gain a better understanding of the familiar decimal system, and of arithmetic in general.
  The base-five system is perhaps the easiest one to learn, and it may be taught to your fourth or fifth grader. In this system, which uses only the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, each position has a value five times greater than the position to the right. Thus in the number 324, the first numeral represents itself, or 4. The second numeral, instead of representing 2 tens as in the decimal system, represents 2 fives. And the third numeral, instead of representing 3 hundreds, represents 3 twenty-fives. So 324 in the base-five numeral system is really 89 in the base-ten system!
  This same pattern is followed in every numeral system. Thus in the base-six system each position has a value six times greater than the position to the right. And in the base-eight system each position has a value eight times greater than the position to the right. Note the value of the number 324 in the numeral systems below as compared with its value in the decimal system.
  324 in base five = 75 + 10 + 4 or 89
  324 in base six = 108 + 12 + 4 or 124
  324 in base eight = 192 + 16 + 4 or 212
  
  
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  Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.

  for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.

  i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?

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  George One Time

  My favorite:

  (2 Chronicles 25:11, 12) 11 And Am·a·zi′ah, for his part, took courage and proceeded to lead his own people and go to the Valley of Salt; and he went striking down the sons of Se′ir, ten thousand [of them]. 12 And there were ten thousand that the sons of Judah captured alive. So they brought them to the top of the crag, and proceeded to throw them from the top of the crag; and they, one and all, burst apart.
  

  Not only round, but exaggerated too. Can you imagine such a number of bodies lying on the bottom?
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  jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

  by blondie in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

  "i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

  here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

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  Is is just me or do I hear the same public talks over and over again?
  
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  Little talk about blood fractions

  by wannaexit in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  it appears that watchtower is distancing itself from the blood fractions.

  the new "blood card" doesn't mention them and any mention of blood in the watchtower ignores fractions.

  i wander if they are going back to their hard stance.

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  George One Time

  I don't think so. It is just that so many witnesses get problems in hospital for not accepting blood fractions. So it is now included automaticly that you do accept these, unless a person states explicitly that he or she doesn't want blood fractions.
  
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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

  1. watchtower
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  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  George One Time

  As a teenager I placed a the 'Life - How was it created' book with another teen. When I came back he asked me: "What it meant by the expression 'peace between animals'"? It was one of those times I started to doubt my convictions.
  
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  I showed my stepson a pbs youtube video for kids about logical fallacies and my wife found out

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. family

  she told him to never watch that video again, which of course is going to make him even more curious about it, which is exactly what i wanted to happen.

  i am giddier than a schoolgirl right now.

  even the watchtower propaganda says to be careful and respectful with questioning teens and middle-schoolers in the congregation, and she comes up and does the opposite.

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  g90 5/22 p. 12 Five Common Fallacies—Don’t Be Fooled by Them!
  
  

  No problem, we have an Awake! article on the subject. Even when I still believed, when I read the article I concluded that we use the same fallacies to defend the "truth".
  
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  Convention Distances: Jamaica

  by jw07 in

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  for the past few years conventions in eastern jamaica have been held at a cricket stadium, in the capital city, known as sabina park.

  this venue is a central location for the bulk of the attendees who make it there from the capital kingston, as well as the adjoining areas of portmore and spanish town.

  yeah, that's where jws are concentrated, as well as their non-jw friends, work mates and family who they coerce into attendance.

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  George One Time

  I am curious too what will be the result next year when the new facilities in Swifterbant, the Netherlands will open. Instead of central locations, most people will have to travel a long distance. And we have a lot of older brothers and sisters here!
  
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  SCRIPTURE TO READ TO JWs

  by somebody in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  two jws came to my door recently.

  i asked one of them to read ecclesiastes 9:5 for me.

  i then asked them if all living jws are knowing or believing or are conscious that they will die.

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  George One Time

  As a child I was shocked when someone at the door stated that the sun will die eventually. I said to myself: if this is true, we must be wrong about eternal life on earth.

  Later I learned that stars do indeed die and that even the Bible says so:
  

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011489

  Scientists have since observed that stars may die violently in such explosions or burn out slowly or even collapse on themselves.

  In the 19th century, scientist William Thomson, also known as Lord Kelvin, discovered the second law of thermodynamics, which explains why, over time, natural systems tend to decay and break down. One factor that inspired him to reach this conclusion was a careful study of Psalm 102:25-27.

  So if stars die, so does our sun. No sun, no earth and no eternal life on earth. Now I understand why we always quote Psalm 104:5 and hardly ever Psalm 102:25-27.
  
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  SCRIPTURE TO READ TO JWs

  by somebody in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  two jws came to my door recently.

  i asked one of them to read ecclesiastes 9:5 for me.

  i then asked them if all living jws are knowing or believing or are conscious that they will die.

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  George One Time

  sorry, double post