"comparative anatomy, embryology" - don't mean a shit when it comes to evolution. Similar anatomy - but different evolutionary history. Embryology - a la Haeckel - fake.
TheOldHippie
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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty inthis excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .
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English to Spanish differences
by StarTrekAngel ini was wondering if someone here can guide me a bit.
i have been doing some research on wt publications, specifically those that have the key writtings regarding changing doctrine.
the problem is that i am native spanish speaker and i attend a spanish congregation.
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TheOldHippie
Do the same as with other languages: Go about four months further on, and you will find it (for example, a July article in the English magazines will be found in November issues of foreign-language editions),
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which book says it?
by sowhatnow inmy mom seems to railroad me into a debate at least once a week.. anyway long story short,.
she says 'there is no where in the literture that the wt writers claimed that a specfic year it was going to be armageddon.. well i thought there was, and id like to print it or show it to her, i have some older books but not many.. so, is there?
i told her that the wt claimed that 1975 was going to be the end, she said no, they said that was the beginning of the tribulation.. wow, she forgot about the most recent article ablout that already!.
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TheOldHippie
Anddontcallmeshirley - I think you should have included the part of the paragraph you left out in the WT68 quote: "If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes. Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” Why not? Because after his creation Adam lived some time during the “sixth day,” which unknown amount of time would need to be subtracted from Adam’s 930 years, to determine when the sixth seven-thousand-year period or “day” ended, and how long Adam lived into the “seventh day.” And yet the end of that sixth creative “day” could end within the same Gregorian calendar year of Adam’s creation."
While I find the whole paragraph - and others - "most unfortunate" to say the least, this one paragraph wih the missing part included shows that what is to happen or to run out within weeks or months, is the 6,000-year period, and as it says it remains to be seen whether that period will run parallell to the outbreak of Armageddon. So whereas the intention of the paragraph possibly can be read a you point out, one could just as easily state it calls for caution ................
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a young 14 year old girl was disfellowshipped in my former congregation last week
by alexandre ina baptized girl from my former cong.
was expelled out because she participated in more than one porn videos with classmates in the school and theses videos became public.
she is 14 years old and grew up as witnesses.but anybody knows she had many boyfriends and she-, but that thing was unbelievable!
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TheOldHippie
"a 14 yr old has no buisness being baptized to begn with"
Neither has a two months old ....................
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Convention new book reveals "GROUP 2" of the 1914 generation...the horror.
by Witness 007 ingods kingdom rules!
the convention book released yesterday....say hi to group 2 of the 1914 generation!!
a graph shows group 1 being fred franz john barr etc...with a group 2 consisting of the current young faithful slaves we "met" the "group ones.
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TheOldHippie
"there are more anointed than the GB, F&DS, maybe they can dig up (discover I mean) some 110 year old overlappers, that gives them another 20 years;-"
They have got have served together with group 1, so the younger anointed ones do not count.
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WHY are Watchtower leaders OBSCURANTIST and how can we fight them effectively?
by Terry into read and understand this topic you will need to know two things.. following my telling you these two things you'll need to sit and think about them before you react and respond.. ************.
1. understand what obscurantists are and what they do and why .. 2. decide if want to be effective in refraiming your identity (the label given to you) as an ex-jehovah's witness in fighting them.
watchtower society obscurantist leaders.
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TheOldHippie
"Jehovah's Witnesses are not allowed to decide what they will learn.
They are not allowed to go outside of the Watchtower Publications.
The are not allowed to consult with highly educated authorities or read their texts."
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I think, my friend, that you are somewhat gloomy. Sitting here with my pc after a couple of drinks and a bottle of wine, I read the lines you have written, and I know that nobody tells me what I am to learn or not, that I read whatever I want to read, right now McBirnie's "The search for the twelve apostles", and that I constantly read and consult with what present-day theology and history and biology have to tell.
We are in fact, some of us, educated people, following what is taking place within theological and other research, and I quite simply am so unhappy about this black and white picture that is painted.
Scorned by the traditionalists that one is too liberal. Scorned by the have-been-there's that one is not liberal enough.
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NWT departure from greek meaning
by aintenoughwiskey inthe new jw library app includes the kingdom interlinear.
just by looking up the scriptures at the meeting when i went, revealed the following "departures" from the other translations:.
rev 5:10 "over the earth" vs "upon the earth".
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TheOldHippie
"I attended a funeral service for a friend at the Presbyterian church across the street from the old KH I attended. The pastor had Doug in heaven with his dog and fishing gear, camping by a stream, joined by family and friends.
Its religion...."
When my 65-year old neighbour died, the pastor in his funeral service stated that "in my Father's house there are many rooms", so that one room would be filled with Barbie dolls to play with, another one with electric model trains to play with, so my (MALE, 60-year old friend) could play for years with Barbie dolls, then for added years with model trains, and he would never run out of finding new rooms with exiting toys ................
Must have been comforting for his wife and children to hear .....................
Me? I felt ashamed at calling myself a Christian.
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TheOldHippie
You cannot calculate like that. Peak publishers say nothing, because then you add the month of January in a declining country to the month of August in an increasing country. You must use the average number. But then, the fact ruining the whole spreadsheet is that you do not have to be baptised to be a publisher. Some unbaptised publishers report some months, then not for some months, then again, and the same do baptised publishers. There is a whole lot of people floating around in the system, and they ruin it. Disfellowshipped persons return etc. Furthermore, 1 per cent of the population die during a year, so that has be included in the system as well.
The spreadsheet is far too simple and can be used to nothing at all.
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How do Jehovah's Witnesses get around this one?
by runForever ini am the vine; you are the branches.
if you remain in me and i in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.if you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.".
according to jehovah's witnesses this only applies to the annointed brothers of christ.
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TheOldHippie
The parable does not only apply to rthe anointed, check http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2003084?q=I+am+the+vine&p=par
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Today's WT study (10/12/14) - a sales seminar!
by OneEyedJoe inthis cult is getting really shameless.
the wt study was always supposed to be for discussion of 'the deep truths' of the bible.
the wt may have always been filled with utter nonsense, but at least it had the appearance of a topical discussion of bible doctrine.
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TheOldHippie
"Am I right that this is a first, or was I just not paying attention before I woke up to ttatt?"
It was NOT a first, there have been similar studies earlier, after new pieces of literature have been issued, including tracts, so I am afraid you have not been paying attention ............