Apognophos

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  Not on JW.org: Just another day in paradise..Jehovah's Witnesses pedophile paradise. Another JW Servant rapes child and Elders do cover-up in California.

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  southern california:.

  monday pervy monday: ex-teacher's aide, butt slapping, tbn, mormons, jehovah witnesses.

  by matt coker mon., nov. 24 2014 at 6:02 am 3 comments categories: court, crime-iny, gimme that oc religion, long beach, school daze .

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  That Mormon guy looks totally insane in both the "before" and "after" pictures. His eyes are following me as I scroll down the page.
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  Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

  by Coded Logic in

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  chris tann,.

  in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

  however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

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  Caedes: I mourn for your reading comprehension. I'm done repeating myself.
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  Your favourite WTS publication?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i realise that starting this thread may make me as popular as a ginger stepchild but was there any wts publication that you liked, or at least comfortably tolerated?.

  my memory may be deceiving me but i think the greatest man book was pretty good, leaving out the gruesome detail of the crucifixtion and wts doctrine.. also, can anyone tell me the list of books that ray franz authored/co-authored?.

  thanks.

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  I enjoyed the Greatest Man book and the Revelation book. Hey, I was a kid when it came out, cut me some slack. I liked the vivid paintings and I liked the way they included each verse in boldface in the paragraph that discussed it. It was an appealing layout.
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  Another subliminal picture in the WT!!!!

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i just happend to wonder if the current issue had any hidden goodies.

  imagine my delight!.

  a gold star to the first person to correctly identify the image!.

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  No offense, but this is sad, and makes me shake my head sadly.
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  WT Study Article Nov. 23, 2014--Adam understood "day" to be 24 hours

  by Cadellin in

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  interesting admission in today's wt: adam may have understood "day" (as in "in the day you eat from it, you will positively die") to be a literal 24-hour period.

  i don't think the wt has ever said this before; the usual emphasis is that jah meant it as a figurative day, a day from his standpoint which is 1,000 years (and the article does state that, later).. however, if adam understood god's warning to be carried out in a 24 hour period, and god did nothing to alleviate that, then who did the lying?

  actually, regardless of adam's understanding, the question still stands but moving toward an admission of the use of day in that context to be 24-hours only makes the question even more valid.

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  Well, I haven't heard it for myself, but Band on the Run had reported in the past that she heard Franz give a talk where he explained that the time of the end (1975, or thereabouts) might be delayed by Eve's menstrual cycle or something. I'm not really sure what that has to do with the start of the seventh day, which was supposed to have started after God performed his last act of creation, making Eve.
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  Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

  by Coded Logic in

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  chris tann,.

  in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

  however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

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  I also suggested on the last page that there might be more options we can't conceive of yet: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/287553/2/Creationist-Should-Dismiss-Genesis-Quickly#5137293
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  Scientific explanation of how spirit creatures could materialize

  by EndofMysteries in

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  in my science class book i was just reading about particles and antiparticles.. i'll just quote a few parts, "every type of particle in nature must also have an alter ego, an antiparticle........one fascinating property of particle-antiparticles pairs is that if you bring such a pair together, the two particles will annihilate each other......when the pair annihilates, the mass of the two particles is converted into energy which is carried away by a pair of photons.....the reverse is also possible, two photons may collide to produce a particle and it's antiparticle-by a process called pair production.. so assuming spirit creatures are made of energy, there is a scientific explanation of how energy can become physical mass, and physical mass to energy.

  whether you believe they exist or not, i thought that was an interesting read and a way to explain how they could materialize and de-materialize.. .

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  Guys, just wait until EoM gets in another couple chapters and discovers dark matter and dark energy.
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  TYRED OF SPELING ERURS? SIK OF BAD GRAMMUR?

  by Terry in

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  I agree that it looks as if some posters are not even trying. As a language lover, it's too painful for me to read some people's posts here. Sometimes it's not spelling that's the issue, but a lack of paragraphs, or rampant Capitalization of random Words for No Reason. I just skate right on by those posts.

  Lately I am also noticing people getting waylaid by their autocorrect feature, which is apparently making wrong guesses when fixing their typos. Please, just read your post over before hitting Submit?

  lurkernomore: The problem pointed out earlier was writing "babtize" with two 'b's.
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  When Was Jerusalem Destroyed By The Babylonians?

  by Smart in

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  can someone explain in easy to understand language what this argument is all about.

  i am not that clever.

  i am hoping to talk to the elders about this as well as whoever is willing to talk about it on here.

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  Maybe I can get them to think for themselves at least

  Now why would they want to do that? Do you really think you've just discovered something they couldn't learn for themselves at any time if they wanted to?

  I believe that at one time (up to the early 20th century?), 607 was the date used by many historians.

  Never for Jerusalem's destruction.

  Oh, hmm, sorry. Not sure where I thought I read that.
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  shortsighted subjective thinking...

  by purrpurr in

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  i overheard a comment recently at the meeting.

  it was said how beautiful jehovah had made the earth and how awfull would the earth be if we didn't have the green plants and vegetation?.

  but surely as an indigenous species of this planet we would always find our home beautiful?

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  This is just my personal thoughts, but I imagine that our sophisticated minds probably require a fair amount of pleasure to enable us to offset the existential and emotional anxieties that we face, and stay sane. Recreation is just part of our need for pleasant experiences. The other part is the appreciation of beauty.

  The pathways in the brain that release pleasure chemicals would have come about by chance, and the ones that were most useful stuck around in our gene pool. So as you mentioned, if the sky was only ever gray, then we would find some gray skies as beautiful as we currently find blue skies to be. Because it's the only way we can enjoy life enough to keep our morale up.