Posts by scratchme1010

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Found Another Medieval Coin This Evening

by cofty in

i got in an hour metal detecting this evening and found this almost immediately.. it is a silver penny of henry ii minted in london by "davi" between 1180 and 1189. this adds a king i didn't have in my collection.

i now have the series of henry ii - john - henry iii - edward i - edward ii - edward iii.. i now need richard the lionheart to fill in the gap.

he was the brother of john and reigned after the death of henry ii.

scratchme1010

That's great! Now I wonder if you are on some kind of archaeological site.

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Joseph and his generation

by maninthemiddle in

so the wt used ex 1:6 to define a generation from the very beginning.

then in the this september broadcast the same person (splain) who spent 20 min with charts to explain a generation, makes a point that joseph and his brothers were very close in age?

(min 4:29).

scratchme1010

Am I missing something here that they could contradict themselves so easily? I know they do, but this really tops the list for things I've noticed.

I find interesting the things that make people notice. Just out of curiosity, why this piece of information in particular, and not many of their other more noticeable discrepancies?

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Shepherding Visit Riposte

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

if an elder approaches you and wants to arrange a shepherding call one possible response is..... "well thankyou brother, but jehovah is my shepherd.

i shall lack nothing.

(ps 23:1) but thanks again anyway".

scratchme1010

If an Elder approaches you and wants to arrange a shepherding call one possible response is....
"Well thankyou Brother, but Jehovah is my shepherd. I shall lack nothing. (Ps 23:1) But thanks again anyway".

I know that's not going to happen since they wouldn't dare coming anywhere near me, not even my own JW family dare mentioning anything Jehovah to me. The JWs who know me know very well what their place is.

But if one of them decides to take the risk, I don't think I'd need to use their own bible words against them. I can just tell them to eff off. Probably just once.

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Read the bible in context!

by stuckinarut2 in

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7p7uzff5o

scratchme1010

So typical of people like them. Good, so we can move on and keep it on the topic,

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Daughter doesn't want me to push my beliefs on her

by jws in

jw
friends

so i was talking with my daughter the other day and she tells me that she doesn't want me to push my beliefs on her.i am agnostic.

which isn't a belief.

it's a lack of belief.

scratchme1010

I am with Steve2. I agree.

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Caption Competition

by Tallon in

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"my dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking dom perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees fahrenheit.".

over to you ....

scratchme1010

"And so like, she was like OMG!, and then like I told her, and then she was like, no way!"

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Jehovah's Witnesses - a religion of displaced people?

by slimboyfat in

i've had a theory for a long time that jws historically have appealed to people who have been displaced or find themselves in a new environment away from family and friends.

i also read an article recently that suggested that internal migration in italy was a big boost for jw growth.

more generally it has long been theorised that new religious movements are a phenomenon particularly associated with disruptive features of modernity, including the hyper-mobility of people in the modern age.

scratchme1010

I wonder if other people have noticed, in their family or old congregations, that older JWs tended to come into the religion when they moved to a new location?

My take, I think that many people move for a fresh start and too look for new beginnings. They are in a place where they have hope that new (and good) things will start coming their way. So I can see how they may be more welcoming of some stranger visiting and offering them something that resembles their new hopes for their new lives.

I think it will be interesting if there was some kind of study to quantify the number of people who join based on the factors that compels them to become part of that organization.

@Crazygyu, what I have heard is that there are different reasons for people to join, some are things that range from being in a vulnerable time in their lives when they have lost something or somebody, or the JW message speaks to them because they are very disappointed with the state of their lives or life in general or the world, or maybe they think that joining them will help them find a suitable decent mate.

If you look at the makeup of the JWs, and ex-JWs we come from all walks of life, so though there are more vulnerable populations in society, there are other things that appeal to many different people in many different ways.

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no words or score on the jw page yet.

can't say that it sounds any different than any of the other songs they produce now.

scratchme1010

It's you. Ok, no, they are getting more cultish.