Posts by searcher

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Billy berates 'Keep on the Watch' #2: Love those Molesters

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

previous topic on cancellation of january "keep on the watch" campaign and contents of page 3 http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/147814/1.ashx.

i promised more... here it is.

the brochure attempted to cram everything into a brochure and made such sweeping generalities that would lead to strange conclusions.

searcher

Just as plaster and paint cover the imperfections of a wall, so love covers the imperfections of others.—Proverbs 17:9.

‘Whited sepulchres’?

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Agree to Disagree

by wanderlustguy in

jw
friends

i knew what i wrote and have written in the past would trigger a lot of different things in a lot of different people.

sometimes the hardest thing to accept is that what someone says is usually true, even if it's just for them.. as a person grows and learns, they draw conclusions about a great many things, from who god is to what kind of car is the best ever made.

it oversimplifies things, saying it like that, but at the same time, maybe it is perfect.

searcher

Ah, but a true god, who can do anything, could exist and not exist at the same time.

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Agree to Disagree

by wanderlustguy in

jw
friends

i knew what i wrote and have written in the past would trigger a lot of different things in a lot of different people.

sometimes the hardest thing to accept is that what someone says is usually true, even if it's just for them.. as a person grows and learns, they draw conclusions about a great many things, from who god is to what kind of car is the best ever made.

it oversimplifies things, saying it like that, but at the same time, maybe it is perfect.

searcher

I'll throw out the theist/atheist debate as an example.
The answers aren't easy and semantics cloud the issue, but there is a reality.
Both positions cannot be simultaneously true.

I believe they can.

For example, if 'you' believe in god, then god exists...................for you.

If 'I' don't believe in god, then god doesnt exist.......................for me.

So it just becomes 'you should think as I do' for both parties.

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Mr. Flippers Son makes Best Reply yet to Witness Mom's 4th E-Mail

by flipper in

jw
friends

so is this witness mother of my son a glutton for punishment or what ?

to avoid boring you all ( as if this isn't getting a bit redundant already ) i have edited bits and pieces of the best parts of her first e-mail , and his return e-mail, and her last e-mail after his reply so you can see what went down in conversation .

thanks for reading, here is his mom on sunday night .

searcher

Excellent reply from your son Mr Flipper.

I am still shaking my head over this (2nd email) does she actually have no understanding of what she wrote here? (seems not)

you are still listening to a source, and letting it lead you, so you are no different, than any organized group.

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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW about the history of the GOVERNING BODY??

by Terry in

a consideration of the history of the governing body.

the very first legal governing body of (jehovah's witnesses) bible students were seven persons which included pastor c.t.russell, his wife maria, and his controversial ward, rose ball.

five men and two women.

searcher

Source

http://www.pastor-russell.com/legacy/will_doc.html

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So is everyone signing up to JW.org and D-loading audio files???

by still_in74 in

jw
friends

i just heard this announced last night.

it starts jan 01-08 and i guess more is to come in the future.

you can even have them sent to you automatically when you go online.. all subscribers to cd's are asked to consider cancelling their subscribtions and download.

searcher

Looks like this is how they will 'deliver' the audio now instead of cassette or CD for the blind? Is that the idea?

I can just imagine it,

If you are blind, click here for audio presentation.

Harvest siftings

by searcher in

letter from rutherford.

source.

http://www.pastor-russell.com/legacy/will_.html.

searcher

Letter from Rutherford

Source

http://www.pastor-russell.com/legacy/will_.html

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Caught quite a doozy at the meeting Thursday night...

by B_Deserter in

ok, get this.... .

according to the man that gave this talk, we don't need to worry about whether it was possible for the jonah story to be true (surviving in the stomach of a sea-going animal for three days without dying), it was true because god said it, and that's what proves it to be true.