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  Have you ever considered how bizarre the idea of "War in Heaven" really is?

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  when you grow up and look back on childhood belief you have to laugh at how.

  easter bunnies and santa were all too plausible for children because trusted adults who were otherwise unimpeachable sources of truth and reality assured and reassured kids.

  why wouldn't they accept it?jehovah's witness kids didn't have santa, we had armageddon.only this morning i suddenly asked myself why i ever accepted the idea of a war in heaven as even remotely sane.

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  I don`t get this focus in the book of Revelation that Satan and presumably his Demons being cast out of Heaven and cast down to the earth after a war in heaven that J.W`s believe happened around 1918-19 ?

  According to the Bible in both the O.T and the N.T. Satan and his Demons have ALWAYS been active causing mayhem down here on the earth for Centuries ?

  So what the bloody hell was different ?

  The real question we should be asking is ....Why was Satan and his Demons allowed to reside in heaven at all after they rebelled in Eden ? and apparently so for thousands of years up until 1919 and coming and going apparently as they pleased even before the presence of Jehovah God. ?

  Jehovah never shunned him and neither did his son Jesus according to scripture.

  As attested to in the Scriptures
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  Please explain the meaning of this wt 2018/10 article

  by Gorbatchov in

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  a very strange article, suggestive.. what do you think about it?.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-october-2018/1918-one-hundred-years-ago/.

  g..

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  Jehovah`s Witnesses speak with a forked tongue , they speak out of both sides of their mouth .
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  What happened to Caleb and Sofia?

  by Sliced in

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  where are the "golden children" lately?

  lol .

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  I think that`s more realistic than the WT versions of Caleb and Sophia.
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  The bread pan illustration is totally flawed

  by purrpurr in

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  it just suddenly occured to me today.... you know the jws always say about adams sin being passed on to his descendants that its like you have a bread pan with a dent in it and that every loaf of bread will then have a dent?

  well that's fine for bread, cos your using the same pan.

  but that's not how genetics work?.

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  Maybe Adams sperm had a dent in it and he passed it along to his children and then their children passed along a dent in their sperm to their children and so on and so on and so on

  What about all of the scriptures that state the sins of the father will be poured out on the offspring to the third and fourth generations ?
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  Mosquitos....

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i’m watching a discovery movie about the mosquito.

  scientists tell us that mosquitos are the most dangerous creature on earth.

  nothing kills more than the mosquito.

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  Their are 3500 known species of mosquitoes 438,000 deaths from malaria worldwide in 2015 the majority being children under five.

  Other diseases they transmit include Zika,and West Nile viruses;dengue,yellow and Ross river fevers,chikungunya ;and various forms of encephalitis .

  Animals are not safe from the mozzies either.

  "When it comes to killing humans ,no other animal even comes close" Bill Gates.

  Courtesy R.D.

  "Using insect repellent is the best way to prevent diseases like Zika,dengue,and chikungunya that are spread by mosquitoes"

  US centers for Disease Control And Prevention

  { Jehovah God only told Adam he would die if he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad , he didn`t explain the myriads of ways that God would devise to bring that death about some of which are the most painful and undignified ways imaginable } So much for a God of Love
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  Why a Belief or Non Belief in the existence of "A God" or "The God" is Futile {In My Opinion}

  by smiddy3 in

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  because their are so many different god`s worshiped in the world today and none of them have made themselves known to us in this 21st century for all of mankind to see and verify .. all of the gods worshiped today are from hundreds and even thousands of years ago derived from ancient writings and texts in languages that are no longer in use today.. that of course brings up problems of another sort translating an ancient language into its modern day equivalent.. and nobody is in total agreement that such translations are accurate or correct anyway.. and their is no god coming to the rescue of translators to say which is the right interpretation.

  they are mute.. i`m not just talking about christianity/ judaism either, the same goes for all non christian religions too.. its a total cop out to say one must have faith to believe in god .

  "faith, belief in religious doctrines divine truth without proof" and no verification from any god christian/islam/judaism or otherwise ..

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  In my OP I`m speaking primarily about belief in the God of the Bible ,Jewish ,Christian ,Islam seeing they all have roots from the same tree.

  My OP is not talking about a concept of a "God" outside of those parameters just so their is no misunderstanding.
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  "One drop of poison in a glass of water"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  time to revive this well known, and often used jw illustration!.

  "if you are in desperate need of a drink of water, and the glass in front of you is 99% clean, but contains just 1% poison, would you drink it??".

  how often we heard this trotted out from the platform.. recently though, i have heard many examples of still-in jws sharing their observations about things that don't seem quite right with the current activities, direction and culture of the organization.

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  How many poisons are their in a single cigarette yet people smoke them into their 80`s and 90`s and die with no ill effects apart from a lack of breath .

  Lets face it one drop of poison in a glass of water is not going to kill you,lets be realistic.
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  Child sacrifice and Jesus' sacrifice

  by Whynot in

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  jeremiah 7:31 says, "they have built the high places of toʹpheth, which is in the valley of the son of hinʹnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, something that i had not commanded and that had never even come into my heart.’".

  according to this scripture it's unthinkable for jehovah to be pleased with child sacrifices.

  but yet he sent his son to be killed as a sacrifice for all?.

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  Sorry Whynot if I seem to be pedantic but "children" are not mentioned in the scripture you quote and Jesus when he was sacrificed was 30 years old and not a child.

  However having said that Jehovah`s Witnesses don`t seem to have any qualms about sacrificing adults and children to Jehovah with their doctrine/policy of no blood transfusions to save a life.

  Any reputable Bible scholar knows that the blood ban is a diet restriction of not eating/consuming blood in this way.

  And a blood transfusion is not eating blood ,if a person was only given blood and no food he/she would die of starvation .

  Correct me if I am wrong but wasn`t King David `s men excused from this law when they fell to eating meat that wasn`t bled according to the law because they were starving ?

  In other words their life was in danger so it was O.K. to disobey that law.

  And isnt that why Jesus on occasion broke the sabbath law to save a life ? even if it was a sheep ?

  How many lives have needlessly been lost in sacrifice , both children and adults because Jehovah`s Witnesses /Governing Body adopted this policy only since the 1940`s .
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  JW Nut Telling His Story Online

  by pale.emperor in

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  while searching for some jw related stuff online, i stumbled across this page created by a pimi.

  his name is steve mcdowell and a watered down version of his story was published in the watchtower https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20150701/bad-to-worse-life-story/.

  however, this version, he says, is the full version.

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  I went through about 3 quarters of the way through his testimony and I just couldnt go any more .

  Can someone please tell me the end result ?
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  Blade Runner mentioned in the Watchtower

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  can anyone remember or point me to a quote in either the watchtower or awake where they spoke adversely about some of the violent scenes in the original blade runner film.

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  So they talk about movies LONG after they come out? How is that supposed to warn anybody

  Good point jws

  That reminds me of a direction given in the 1980`s that the only "News" worth reading was "Watching The World " at the inside back cover of the "Awake" magazine

  The only trouble was that it was biased and about 3 months behind the times