Posts by Barrold Bonds

sure, "they realize that when a child becomes an adult, he or she will make a personal choice with regard to worship" but if their decision is to not be a jw, they are cut off from their family.. talk about deception, these guys are masterful... .

Barrold Bonds

Hahaha. That answer doesn't even answer the question. The fact is, parents ARE told to drag their kids to the meetings and field service.

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WhiteHouse.gov petitions

by bottleofwater in

can we make a whitehouse.gov petition to audit the wtbts?.

just a thought..

Barrold Bonds

and those petitions do precisely nothing. it's just there so the government can say 'hey we listen to the common folk'

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Special Local Needs From Branch This Week

by kneehighmiah in

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i hear there will be a special local needs outline provided by the branch this week.

does anyone have details?

will this be a regional thing only?

Barrold Bonds

Every once in a while they get a letter from the branch with an outline or something that's supposed to be discussed at a local needs part. It's probably going to be related to the memorial or the international conventions.

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Apostate NT Canon

by Pterist in

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as mentioned in july 15th 2013 watchtower "the apostasy started in the first century and flourished by the fourth century" or words to that effect.. as i was reading ff bruce's "the bible canon" ($14 kindle ver.

on amazon) i was very surprised to read that there are no original nt documents from the first century, just copies of copies of copies of many documents from that period.

apparently the 27 book nt canon was not set until about the fourth century by trinitarian church fathers.

Barrold Bonds

they jw's and other christians beleive that god made sure those books were picked. it's pretty weird why other books were dropped. for example, jesus celebrated hannaukah which comes from the events found in the books of Maccabees. It's legit as far as christians go so why were they dropped? The Book of Enoch is name dropped in the NT, but it's dropped from most bibles. why?

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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!

by DuvanMuvan in

title pretty much explains it all.

lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?

maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .

Barrold Bonds

OH BOY a gay marriage thread. These are always best. Let me get my flame retardant suit ready.

Here, I'll make it simple. If you're against gay marriage you are a regressive bigot. There's no sensible argument to ban it.

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

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Don't miss the health care sign up deadline.

by FlyingHighNow in

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sign up deadline is the 31st, in a couple of days.

if you have problems with the website and youve been there before, try cleaning out your cookies and cache, then restart your computer.

that worked for me.

Barrold Bonds

the ACA helps the poor, which is great, but it totally fucks over the middle-class. It's a terrible bill and I still have no clue as to why UHC wasn't put into law, especially since the Dems had the majority in both houses at the time. Instead a law was passed that does nothing but keep health insurance companies in business, which is a horrible thing

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Anybody have experience selling on Ebay or Amazon?

by EndofMysteries in

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there are a few collectibles i am wanting to sell.

my concern is that if i accept payment w/ credit card, etc, that i ship the item and they either open it (destroying the value), or just lie about not getting it, or any other thing to cause ebay/amazon to chargeback.

i was wondering if anybody sells on them is there a protection for sellers and how often does that type of thing happen?

Barrold Bonds

I would also suggest opening a separate bank account AT A DIFFERENT BANK for Paypal. They are known to take funds from bank accounts to cover refunds if the paypal account is short that amount.

Basically Paypal (and ebay) are evil horrible companies so assume they will do everything in their power to fuck you over.