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  The plague, livestock. Question

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sorry if this have been covered.

  exodus 9;6-7 and exodus 9:19-25.. livestock killed twice by god??

  contradiction?

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  TheOldHippie

  If you check various translations and footnotes, you will se that "all" in Exodus 9:6 also is translated as "all sorts of". So all is not always all of a species, but a certain amount of all of the different species.
  
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  Is disfellowshipping as popular as it was years ago?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i seldom hear of people getting df'd anymore.

  years ago it seemed there were a few per year in a congregation.

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  TheOldHippie

  Must be close to 20 years since the last one in my congregation.
  
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  When did you realize evolution was true?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ) which person/source first made you reconsider your position on creationism?.

  ) how long a period of time did it take to fully convince you?.

  ) what books and videos did you read and watch?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Never.
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  Neanderthal man

  by scary21 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).

  he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.

  i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .

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  TheOldHippie

  Neanderthals were human, and your ex husband has not paid attention. He should read the Life and other books.
  
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  A sensible fix for the Jehovah's Witness "two witness rule" when dealing with child sex abuse

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  jehovah's witnesses could retain their two witness rule for internal judicial.

  congregation matters .

  but in the case of a child abuse allegation they should .

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  TheOldHippie

  Watchtower-Free:

  What you recommend, is exactly what they are doing in European countries.
  
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  Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (the david bowie song in case you're wondering).

  there seems to be a lot of talk and speculation about the changes that are coming at the next district conventions.

  there have certainly been quite a few articles and talks (esp.

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  TheOldHippie

  Changes will NOT come at district/regional conventions. If they did, some would receive the news before others, and the South Americans would have to wait half a year to get it because their conventions are held is what is Winter on the Northern half. Changes come either at the annual meeting or in the study WT - or on the tv channel.
  
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  Andromeda awaits the "Great Crowd of Other Sheep"

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the great crowd, the other sheep will live forever on planet earth.. years will move from centuries, millennia, and millions of years to billions of years.

  after 4 billion years, the sky will fill as their milky way galaxy and its neighbouring andomeda galaxy collide, with amazing changes in gravitational forces.

  what an amazing sight!.

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  TheOldHippie

  Move on to another galaxy, to another planet, colonise it. And perhaps some day it will be clear that we will be transformed to spiritual beings. Or perhaps we can explore the other possible Universes, the parallell ones that perhaps exist. There are endless possibilities in an endless future, my friend. In an endless Universe, everything than CAN happen, WILL happen.
  
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  DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

  by cantleave in

  1. social
  2. current

  an incredible lecture that uses statistics to show that the world is much better than many people think.. the challenge of population explosion - has been solved.. the challenge of extreme poverty is within our grasp.. the challenge of climate change - well that's something we need to focus on,,,,,,,,, take an hour watch this, it dispels the doom and gloom preached by many.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fack2knc08e.

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  TheOldHippie

  splash, "Living standards increasing all over the world"

  .... and especially so in Syria, Iraq, Northern Nigeria and other vast areas under IS attack ...........
  
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  77-year-old Jehovah's Witness murdered by her bible study.(Japan)

  by jwstudy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  19-year-old girl arrested for killing 77-year-old woman in nagoya.

  crime jan. 28, 2015 - 03:00pm jst .

  nagoya .

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  TheOldHippie

  smitty, "Knowing also how Jehovah Witnesses reason , sadly to say they may be thinking , she had a hidden sin that was uncovered and Jehovah punished her .Their was a reason he did not  protect her."

  Shame on you, shame on you.
  
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  No such thing as history

  by woodforde in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why do you think it is that wts limit accessibility to watchtowers and awakes to only issues since year 2000 on jworg?

  a whiff of something slightly orwellian?

  not a case of re-writing history but nixing it altogether?

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  TheOldHippie

  They are all there, on the CD-Rom. I am surprised at how much IS published on the .org, such as KM, study WTs etc.