Topics Started by liam

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Is 1st Century advice on marriage still relevant in today’s modern world?
by liam in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
republicans want to make a law that forbids ‘uncontested divorce”.

they based this on this scripture.. matthew 19. is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”.

4 “haven’t you read,” jesus replied, “that at the beginning the creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ so they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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God won't lift a finger to help you.
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sea breeze: @nicolau,i stated my case rather succiently, which you failed to address.

if you have a better solution to the problem of evil than what jesus offers, then why don't you present that in a new topic?.

pathetic diversion.
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How many JW in the 1920's
by xaminewt in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i'm trying to find out how many jw there were globally in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928. the watchtower of 1926 says that there were 25,000 in attendance at the magdeburg convention for the public address, but the same watchtower say that one the last day of the convention there were 15,000 present, so i assume at least 10,000 were interested persons - non jw.

the watchtower 1955 says: "for this year of 1927 the number in attendance at the spring memorial internationally was 88,544, yet of these only some 18,602 were active as house-to-house kingdom announcers".

these statistics would seem to imply that the majority of jw in 1926 were at the magdeburg convention.
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Will there ever be any new GB members?
by Mikejw in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the last two seem very young.. will there be any further new gb members or will they all die off?.

i still remember when tony morris and a few other joined many were disappointed thinking the current crop would be the last.

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Jehovah's Witness Governing Body, (New Light Division) Are Vegetable Oils not more important than Beards?
by was a new boy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
'use vegetable oil and soft margarine in place of animal fat,'.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101997444?q=vegetable+oil&p=par.

'when possible, cook with unsaturated vegetable oils.'.
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Ukraine - Nato - US crisis
by mikeflood in
1. social
2. current
don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....
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Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
good pick?

bad pick?

helpful to president biden?
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You need to marry a ministerial Servant!
by John Aquila in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.

i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.

my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESS STUPID: a special category of ignorance
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
worse than being stupid is thinking you are smart while you are stupid.. i should know.. for many years i was a special category of "stupid"; i was jehovah's witness stupid.. .

what does that entail?

listen and i'll tell you.. ___________________________________________________________.
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Military Spending; Corruption or Incompetance?
by Abaddon in
1. jw
2. friends
enron was small beer; worry about the pentagon!.

http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,325985-412,00.shtml?.

just last week president bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending.