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  Bestseller book “Jesus Was Schizophrenic” now available in English !

  by yalbmert99 in

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  2. beliefs

  bestseller book “jesus was schizophrenic” now available in english !

  free in digital format!

  paperback version available.. https://www.watchtowerlies.com/jesus_was_schizophrenic.html.

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  john.prestor

  That's more or less what I think too, mickbobcat.
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  Bethelout?

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the sunday speaker was one of those very smooth younger ones with the "look".

  store bought haircut and a very pretty wife ( the kind that makeup isn't needed, side point).. i tongue tied a comment to my wife about maybe he was a bethelite who was reassigned and said bethelout by mistake.

  i like the word.

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  john.prestor

  Bethelout, heh. That's the ones that got the boot a few years ago, right?
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  Non Believers, how do you respond ?

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently had this in a message from a jw, a lovely person, but mind controlled, he wrote " a life without hope is no life for me".. how should i respond to that ?

  i am an atheist, but want to respond in as kindly a way as possible.. i was thinking along the lies of saying i got no comfort from what i knew to be false hope, but need to say it in a kindly way.. ideas please ?.

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  john.prestor

  We have hope too. We have different hopes, but hope in real things, in real people, in real opportunities. We do not live our lives for empty promises, empty hopes that will never come to be.
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  2021 Lapel Cards!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this should work.

  i don't know how long the link will be active.. .

  https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:us:8f3da700-8e37-4e57-904a-56912cf53407.

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  john.prestor

  Every convention is the best convention ever. It's so creepy and Orwellian.
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  Jewish Hatred Is Nothing New

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jews have been vilified for centuries!

  they were nomads looking for the promised land.

  they have been nearly exterminated and yet they are still in the middle east as well as a brotherhood throughout the world.

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  john.prestor

  Woh there Cookiemaster, what do you mean by that? A good reason? Like what?
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  Jewish Hatred Is Nothing New

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jews have been vilified for centuries!

  they were nomads looking for the promised land.

  they have been nearly exterminated and yet they are still in the middle east as well as a brotherhood throughout the world.

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  john.prestor

  I don't know man, wish I did.
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  Jewish Hatred Is Nothing New

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jews have been vilified for centuries!

  they were nomads looking for the promised land.

  they have been nearly exterminated and yet they are still in the middle east as well as a brotherhood throughout the world.

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  john.prestor

  I agree with you Minimus. Antisemitism is abominable.
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  Birthdays

  by Mufasa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have an honest question, so i hope someone will explain this to me to the best of their ability.

  i'm fascinated with learning about religion!

  and i've been looking for a place to ask this, believe me it wasn't an easy find.

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  john.prestor

  I second BluesBrother. Everything in Jehovah's Witnesses comes down to what the Governing Body says. If they decided tomorrow that birthdays should be celebrated, JWs would be on that shit immediately.
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  Did Jesus lie about his generation?

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all know the scripture where jesus says 'this generation will by no means pass away before the end will come'.

  the jw interpret this as the destruction of the jewish state in jerusalem by the romans and the dispersal of the jewish people.

  however, while researching the history of judea, i come across various facts about the region.. so jesus died about 30ce and his disciples were likewise well in their thirties or older, the 'generation' by definition would've lasted until ~50ce (the time during which children are born and raised to have children of their own).

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  john.prestor

  Well said and well documented, Phizzy. Yeah, the earliest tradition we have about Matthew writing Matthew, and Mark writing Mark, is Papias. Wrote sometime in the early 2nd century. That's a long time between when the events of Jesus' life supposedly took place and when these writings appeared on the scene.
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  How to hug: a BBC guide

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  there is now a guide from the bbc on how to hug, seeing as the uk government has now officially given us permission to indulge in this normal human behaviour.. yep.. a guide on how to hug.. not creepy, weird or orwellian at all, lol.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9587759/bbc-slammed-creepy-weird-guide-safer-hugging-pandemic.html.

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  john.prestor

  I agree with you: this is Orwellian to the max.