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  Who thinks JW is a cult?

  by therealtruthsayer in

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  willy_think

  Cult
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  Catholic Answers comment on the REASONING book

  by Dogpatch in

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  strategies of the jehovah's witnesses .

  there may be no religious organization that engages in more publishing, proportionately to its membership, than the watch tower bible and tract society (watch tower society or wts for short)?the publishing arm of the jehovah?s witnesses.

  each month jehovah?s witnesses (jws) distribute millions of books, magazines, and pamphlets, in dozens of languages.

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  Hondo,

  Little typo there. hehe... Don't worry about it, on another thread i called Hussein a non-practicing Christian, when i meant Muslim. How's that for a mess up? lol what can you do none is perfect.
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  Star Trek Enterprise

  by Big Tex in

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  when does the new season of enterprise start?

  i've been looking and i haven't seen an episode in weeks now.. .

  chris

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  Anyone else find the captain too weak in his command style and the Vulcan to emotional?
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  Watchtower takes down JWD!

  by confusedjw in

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  watchtower takes down jwd.. .

  ap news sept 25, 2004. .

  according to watchtower watchdog simon green his website came under attack by the watchtower bible and track society of ny.. .

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  lol

  You had me going untill the 4 tons of Watchtower...Like the Bethel would give 8 thousend pounds of product away...
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  Questions on Adam & Eve?

  by kls in

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  it has been a long time since i opened a bible but these questions keep coming up in my head so i thought i would ask our all knowing here.

  according to the bible adam & eve ate the forbidden fruit and became embarrassed of their bodies so they covered up.

  this makes no sense since they had been naked and where having sex so why were they embarrassed?

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  Willy,

  According to the fairy tale, they were perfect, they didn't have any flaws

  Recoveringjw,

  I'm sorry, I missed your statement or I would have replayed before now.

  The creation myth of genesis does not say they had no flaws nor does it say that they were perfect, the WT declares that. Good, evil and nakedness existed in the garden before Adam and eve could comprehend them. The mythology is one representing a new understanding of what already was.

  kls,

  It is the WT that says the bible is literal, not the bible and not me. It is what it is, old works compiled and canonized by the Catholic Church. But as in all mythology it express transcendental truths of the human experience.
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  Questions on Adam & Eve?

  by kls in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it has been a long time since i opened a bible but these questions keep coming up in my head so i thought i would ask our all knowing here.

  according to the bible adam & eve ate the forbidden fruit and became embarrassed of their bodies so they covered up.

  this makes no sense since they had been naked and where having sex so why were they embarrassed?

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  Sorry for the double bubble
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  Questions on Adam & Eve?

  by kls in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it has been a long time since i opened a bible but these questions keep coming up in my head so i thought i would ask our all knowing here.

  according to the bible adam & eve ate the forbidden fruit and became embarrassed of their bodies so they covered up.

  this makes no sense since they had been naked and where having sex so why were they embarrassed?

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  Willy, i understand that but it still does answer why they would be embarrassed of each other being naked . They were having sex and the only ones alive so why? They weren't worried of having sex but they couldn't see each other naked ? It just all seems made up.

  The Bible does not say that they were "embarrassed" of each other being naked. (Gen 2.25) uses shame. (Gen 3.7) the story said that they, like animals, didn't know that they were naked and like animals they could not sin or do wrong. Adam became aware and ashamed of his own nakedness and eve hers. The end of innocence. I believe this story is a representation of the moment of human enlightenment. Of course it's made up. It's not teaching history it's teaching the nature of the relationships between man, the universe and God.

  I think what conflicts you most about the story might be, that it was taught to you as a history of actual events. Teaching it now to your children you see that belief as absurd and you may be having difficulty separating what you were taught the bible said from what the bible said.
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  Questions on Adam & Eve?

  by kls in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it has been a long time since i opened a bible but these questions keep coming up in my head so i thought i would ask our all knowing here.

  according to the bible adam & eve ate the forbidden fruit and became embarrassed of their bodies so they covered up.

  this makes no sense since they had been naked and where having sex so why were they embarrassed?

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  willy_think

  As i understand the metaphor, the forbidden tree contained the the knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, perfect and flawed, and so on. When the fruit was eaten Adam and Eve became aware of there flaws and filet shame.
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  I propose a bare fisted match between Bush and Kerry

  by lawrence in

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  i propose a bare fisted match between bush and kerry, locked cage, one man comes out alive, that doesn't mean we want either as president, just let em fight it out, to the death, and save the airwaves.

  after that maybe barbara boxer versus ruth ginsburg, both in 'lingerie of hollywood' getups.. now, i'd buy tickets for that, you?

  how much would you pay?.

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  willy_think

  LOL...

  I just got a visual of Bush laying dead with FOX news and CNN declaring him the winner.
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  Ethics, aesthetics, and morals

  by onacruse in

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  so, in the course of tonight's prolonged conversation with one of you jwd recalcitrants .

  if, in fact, this life, this life, is all there is, and nothing remains after...no resurrection, no reincarnation, no transformation, no metamorphosis; that is to say--these bags of salt, water (and a few hydrocarbons and genetic variations thrown in for good measure) are all that we are, and all that we ever will be, and then "poof":.

  why should we refrain from whatever brings the "greatest" personal pleasure to our measured and time-limited existence?

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  It was one of my favorite French philosophers, Camus, who said in his fictional work The Stranger, "We stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot."

  If there is no reason maybe society should make up a belief system to control that kind of behavior.