Topics Started by Spoletta

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JW employing pre-teens to work religious propaganda phonebank
by oppostate in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
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what do you think about using pre-teens to work religious propaganda phonebank?.
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Noah a Preacher of Righteousness?
by Spoletta in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
during the watchtower study today, i browsed genesis and looked for evidence of noah ever preaching to anyone.

from what i could glean from the scriptures, it was a foregone conclusion that noah's family would be it on the ark.

(unless they towed some rafts behind) my wife says that building the ark could be considered a witness of his faith to the wicked world, but that seems kind of lame to me.. so, should i just assume that god decided not to give anyone else a chance for redemption?
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Shunning
by A Believer in
1. jw
2. experiences
you guys do know that if you just leave and never go back you wont be disfellowshiped right?

i know people who have done exactly this.

you have to commit a sin and you or someone else has to tell a elder.
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Geoffrey Jackson, Deuteronomy 18:22
by Spoletta in
1. watchtower
2. bible
not sure if this has been commented on, but while reading a discussion, deuteronomy 18:22 was mentioned.

i looked it up, and was struck by its connection to a remark made by geoffrey jackson during his arc testimony.

the gist of the scripture is that if a prophet declares something is from god and it doesn't come true, he is speaking presumptuously, and should not be feared.
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Mandatory Reporting Laws in Canada - Child Abuse
by OrphanCrow in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
the issue of whether or not the elders have a duty to report is clear cut in canada.

this will make it impossible for the wts to wriggle out of the wrongs that have been exposed in quebec recently.

the elders in those situations have received their instructions from the wts lawyers and they have been advised wrongly.. for several years (can't remember when this was made law...years back), it has been mandatory for everyone in canada to report suspected cases of child abuse, which, naturally, include the sexual abuse of minors.
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Has anyone thought about if a General strike take place by undocumented immigrants.
by James Mixon in
1. jw
2. friends
this would cripple the economy, don't know about other states in the union but it would.

be devastating for the border states.

here in california restaurants (no workers) closed, .
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Dear Syrian Refugees
by Simon in
1. social
2. current
welcome to canada from one immigrant to another !.

calgary is welcoming it's first refugees from syria and iraq so tomorrow i'm going to take all the winter clothing that we have and donate it to a women / children's charity.

it's not much (well, actually, it's a huge pile ... everything from when we first moved over!
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Eagerly anticipating the death of billions!
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
surely someone who eagerly looks forward to the death of billions of people (including babies and children) is not emotionally healthy?.

yet, that is the key belief "happily" anticipated by witnesses.... food for thought?.
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Series
by Berengaria in
1. social
2. entertainment
don't post much lately, but wondering what folks are watching.

i'm enjoying the heck out of "penny dreadful", "outlander", and "grace and frankie".

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1914 to be abandoned around 2016
by Alfred in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the other day i was doing some research about "1914" for a friend on my wt cd library (spanish) and i found it quite interesting that the number of times "1914" is mentioned in the watchtower magazine during the previous 3 decades has been dropping exponentially as follows.... 1980-1989: mentioned 854 times.

1990-1999: mentioned 492 times.

2000-2009: mentioned 222 times.