Posts by prologos

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marrying younger spouses

by ssn587 in

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my wife passed away 2 years ago we had been married over 30 years, i have since remarried and my new wife is younger than 3 of my children from my first marriage.

i just wondering if there are any more like me out there.

i stay in excellent shape for my age, work out almost daily eat good and have absolutely no medical problems or at least none i can do anything about, bad knees, but my vitals are excellent, and i am known as the teenage because of them when i have my yearly medical checkup.. so was wondering if there are others out there like me, and what some may think about it, just for the record i am extremely happy once again, and we have a 18 month boy who delights me, have a whole new outlook on fatherhood and child raising.

prologos

botr said: " a woman over 40 does not trigger me" that being the case, what would be the incentive, justification, rationale to marry into such arrangement ??? lets just say that

Many people are trigger happy or would like to be TRIGGER HAPPY!

we know of a couple married decades that just had a new daughter the husband an octogenarian, the wife half his age, the best pictures on the beach show the husband and his teenage son riding the same wave.

of course there are a lot of sour grapes. incest? no,

you might be looking at exeptional marriges in the best sense of the word.

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"Sit at my right hand" - WHEN?

by EdenOne in

i recently started thinking if there could be a way to refute the entire 1914 doctrine without having to go into discussing chronology - like proving if jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce or not; if the "gentile times" have anything to to with the kingdom; if "7 times" are really 2520 years"; if those are solar years or lunar years .... and i came to this conclusion: nothing of that matters!

when will the lord sit at the right hand of jehovah?

therefore, the fulfillment of psalm 110:1, when the lord sits by the right hand of jehovah god took place sometime between 35 ce and 60 ce.. .

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eden 1 how about the kingdom of the Love of his son mentioned in Col. 1:13?

surely the ruler of that early Christian kingdom would be in "session" sitting?

it should not be missing from your dedicated website.

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New Flying cars by 2021

by Quarterback in

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now this really must be the end.

fearful things in the sky.

senior citizens flying with their new cadillacs just above you.

prologos

The concept is wrong. looking at evolved creation: we have waddling/ flying and water diving birds the Gannets, the under water hunting but not flying penguins, we have the roadrunner, but only shortrange flyer. The superb flying Albatross, floater and waddler, but these are all small an best in only one field, compromises. for the same money: get a gorgeous drive, a gorgeous flight*. The flying cars will /would be a nightmare. particulaely if you would not be the pilot, just levitated by robotic control.

*google south african glider fly-by.

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JULY 15th Study Watchtower - NEW LIGHT IS FANTASY

by The Searcher in

the july 15 study watchtower uses all 4 study articles to try to inculcate into every witnesses' mind that the governing body is indisputably god's sole channel of communication on earth.

to do so, it uses a multitude of scriptures along with seriously flawed un-inspired reasoning.

the foundation stone of this watchtower's blatant agenda is the claim that when jesus used only a few to dispense the physical food to the many, he was setting a principle which would be applied to the distribution of spiritual food after he returned to heaven.

prologos

searcher: good !! -- another wt illustration gone wrong. if we think about it. it was originally

The MANY feeding the FEW-- all Israelites providing through the tithe -- food right up to the top in that food pyramid scheme.

If only wt would have listened to the many letters received in Brooklyn, they would not be in the doctrinal mess they are in now.

good sound spiritual food was availble to them from the many. The MANY in Daniel 12 . not the few-- 8 in NY USofA

Eden one: there were at least 500 "brothers" before pentecost to who The "resurrected" Christ is reported to have appeared to - before "going to heaven".

wt uses illustrations to illustrate the illustrations about Jesu' illustrations. muddling, not illuminating.

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Who really are the FOOD SERVERS?

by irondork in

at a convention in washington, d.c., 1935, j.f.

rutherford announced the identity of the great multitude, of revelation 7:9 as being the other sheep of john 10:16.. i dont remember if i heard it in a talk or read it in a piece of literature, but i remember some commentary about how the governing body of that time finally came to this understanding.

they had been struggling with the identity of this great crowd, even speculating that this group would occupy a lower station in heaven than those who would serve with christ as kings and priests.

prologos

vox populi vox dei.

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Global Cooling

by Jomavrick in

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so if i send money to al gore to pay for carbon credits, will it warm up the 30 degree temperature outside today?

pearly on years ago when i realized a few people and organizations were using junk science as away to build a cottage industry of money making and taxing, i knew it was a hoax.

then when the data came back to show the earth has been cooling instead of warming, the con artists changed the label from global warming to climate change.. believe what you want to, i don't care, but blind allegiance to the gw idea is so similar to jw belief in my mind, blind!.

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@lost: you are right, at easter island they cut down the trees to work those statues, religion did them in.

geia is healing herself, she did after the dinosaur closure.

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Skydiving/Parachuting. A disfellowship offense?

by stealthmode-brazil in

i'm an active witness from brazil (who would leave if it weren't for my family/friends inside) and always dreamed about practicing skydiving.

but as radical sports are a no-no for witnesses... i wonder if any elder or ex-elder on this forum knows if an active jw, practices skydiving/parachuting once and/or regularly, can he or she be disfellowship on that basis?

i'm considering secretly jumping but afraid if someone finds out.

prologos

A noisy motorcycle is a safer motorcycle,

The might not see you (a major cause of collissions) but they can hear you.

wear blinking Christmas decorations* while you bike. catch their attention.

The irony: youth are wiiling to squander 70 years for a cheap thrill,

70 year olds might tremble at a 3 ft fall, that could shorten their life by 2 years.

talk about golden( valued) years.

* a cartoon suggestion from a prominent Bike manufacturers' handbook.

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How to Recognize Counterfeit Christian Religions

by smartwater in

by their fruits you will know them.

a good tree (religion) does not bear bad fruit, neither can a rotten tree bear good fruits.

true faith is followed by good fruits/works.. dead faith is followed by bad works or no works at all.. 30 bad fruits/works of counterfeit christian religions.

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mp. thank you: in the shown scriptures, Jesus reportedly did not pay attention to etiquette, but taught the lesson that all do-gooders, that not just the "anointed" are his spiritual brothers, family , :as his blood relatives would be later too.

my tongue-in cheek comments on the Jesus' conversation with a lady over a drink shows how I thing these stories should be viewed.

what do you think of Jesus spending 48 hours in a palestinian city without a shared meal? not his character!.

This was the wt assigned bible reading, so it is good stuff for questioning thoughts.

A counterfeit religion would disfellowship Jesus for questionable conduct violating WT er pharisees human traditions.

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Global Cooling

by Jomavrick in

jw
friends

so if i send money to al gore to pay for carbon credits, will it warm up the 30 degree temperature outside today?

pearly on years ago when i realized a few people and organizations were using junk science as away to build a cottage industry of money making and taxing, i knew it was a hoax.

then when the data came back to show the earth has been cooling instead of warming, the con artists changed the label from global warming to climate change.. believe what you want to, i don't care, but blind allegiance to the gw idea is so similar to jw belief in my mind, blind!.

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wtwizard : the 40% of "wasted" energy??? from light bulbs and even the 60 % of visible light, when used indoors are all heating the many houses, that need heating all year round ( any that dont need aircon).

not surprisingly, with the longer days nearer the poles, very little indoor light is needed in the summer there.

destroying the earth Rev.11:18 might be in a different league, like using nuclear outside reactors, bio and chemicals that kill.

The Gaia theory has it that it will all self adjust in a feedback cycle.

all that carbon will be sequestered again.

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How to Recognize Counterfeit Christian Religions

by smartwater in

by their fruits you will know them.

a good tree (religion) does not bear bad fruit, neither can a rotten tree bear good fruits.

true faith is followed by good fruits/works.. dead faith is followed by bad works or no works at all.. 30 bad fruits/works of counterfeit christian religions.

prologos

mp: before you call names, read your bible: John 4: 40-42, he stayed in a Samaetain (non- jewish), (palestiniann) city for 2 days, of course he perhaps did not eat , fasted for 40 days before, but of course had a good conversation over a drink (of water) with the non Jewish lady at the well. it would have been easil make that spiritual too, like at the Canaa wedding the water to wine thing. . so, you are arguing from very scanty bible knowledge. its safer to stick to topics you are top at.