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  This thread is for proof that God exists

  by juandefiero in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

  if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

  (1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

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  TheOldHippie

  sheperdless, "Surely God could not have always just existed; that makes no sense."

  But before matter existed, there existed no time. So "Jesus was with God for countless millions of years" - well, he wasn't because time did not exist before creation. If, of course, a spirit being is void of matter. But imgaining a "time" when time did not exist - gives me headache and makes me grab my daily bottle of wine. If God is outside the Universe, in an "area" where there is no matter - he could not have created during so and so many years, but then he created everything in an instant, whereas the results of that act of creation expanded, lasted, forwards in time.

  This evening is going to be long. And heavy.
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  This thread is for proof that God exists

  by juandefiero in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

  if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

  (1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

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  TheOldHippie

  Then I guess this is the thread that really would make you the most famous, revered and hailed person in the history of mankind! And imagine - finding that person and that argument - right here!
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  1950 Watchtower Bound Volume now Complete!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the 1950 september 15th watchtower is now complete and this will finish the 1950 watchtower bound volume.

  a big thank you to jaydee for all of his hard work of scanning the watchtowers into jpg files which i received and converted into pdf files and made them searchable.

  jaydee worked day and night to get these files finished for us and i really appreciate his kindness... we only had to darken out one name on one shipping label.

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  TheOldHippie

  What is the use in doing this when it is readily available on the CD - or DVD, as it is now? Some years ago they could be ordered at the counter, the Bethel reprints. So this work is already done, by the WT itself. And by the way, I have both the originals as single magazines, the bound reprints and the DVD, so what's the fuzz?
  
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  Caption This Photo From The January Study Edition

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so as some are probably aware the january study edition has two articles on the anointed.

  one basically discouraging people from believing they are anointed and another about how ones should view partakers.

  this photo is from the second article:.

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  TheOldHippie

  "Who wants to join a religion where they admit to having thousands of questionable members on record?

  Would you let you or your family or your children associate in a group with thousands of mentally unstable ones?"

  Exactly. That is why I would never join the Catholic or Protestant religion.
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  Again: Where is Jesus?

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower of december 2015 reports the following reaction of a family with four teenagers in the country of rwanda with the publication of the nwt, and how grateful they were for it.

  the wt magazine said: .

  things changed when the new world translation in their language became available.

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  TheOldHippie

  I think you should look at what is discussed. A Bible has been translated and printed, and I do not think too many Christians would believe that Jesus himself has translated or printed the Bible. The GB is responsible for the work carried out by the translators and the various aspects of the printing and these Africans therefore thank them. I don't see any reason for a whole lot of fuzz goin' on.
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  Apathy trolley chat

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was in a different city this weekend so i decided to natter to 2 bored jws on the apathy trolley.i just nattered, nothing thought provoking or anti witness.

  i was waiting for someone so hard time to spare.what struck me was, that no matter how many times i said that i don't believe in god, they spoke to me as if i did.

  they kept asking me how god would feel about stuff.

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  TheOldHippie

  was I like that once?

  You definitely are NOW.
  
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  Talk on "Reaching Out"-Only What BOE Thinks Matters

  by Simon Templar in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for the “living as christians” section of the workbook, “are you reaching out?” talk (15 min), the bethelite gave this talk at the meeting.

  he totally departed from the subject matter which is the watchtower of september 15, 2014, pages 3-6. he was so far off the reservation, it wasn't funny.

  here are a few highlights of what was said: 1) if any brother asked why they haven’t been appointed, and wants to know if there is a problem or condition that exists, that brother is too “presumptuous” and therefore, can’t be used.

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  He cannot have departed much, 'cause exactly the same was said here, and that is across the Atlantic.
  
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  If JWs are a religion why haven't they got a word?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the word for jw religion?

  is there any other religion that doesn't have a word?

  catholics => catholicism.

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  TheOldHippie

  Old Slimboy, you disappoint me, I thought you had been around long enough to know that:

  Catholics => Catholicism

  Mormons => Mormonism

  Jews => Judaism

  Muslims => Islam

  Protestants => Protestantism

  Hindus => Hindusim

  Scientologists => Scientology

  Calvnists => Calvinism

  Jehovah's Witnesses => True Christians or True Christianity
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  Why facts fail to reach the faithful, (even the intelligent ones)

  by done4good in

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  2. friends

  i posted this on another thread, and decided it deserves its own...thoughts?.

  an unfortunate artifact of evolution is that belief can, and often does trump fact.

  survival is at the core of what belief is about.

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  TheOldHippie

  But of course this is The Truth According To "Maslow's hierarchy of human needs"

  And who says Maslow's truth is The Ultimate Truth ......?
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  Most Translated Website

  by Pubsinger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wt claims their website is the 'most translated' and claims over 750 languages.

  but in the drop down language menu there are only about 50. so where are the others?

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  TheOldHippie

  Og to the publications, choose for example Watchtower, and the drop down language menu will give you hundreds. Likewise with some of the brochures, books etc. So the main menu is not in 750 languages, but the publications are.