Leolaia

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  Are You Ever Tempted To Talk To JWs When You See Them?

  by minimus in

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  either in your neighborhood, in the ministry, on vacation?

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  Leolaia

  Not really. When they come to my door, I just say a polite "Not interested".
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  Baptismal Questions CHANGE AGAIN!

  by raymond frantz in

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  i attended recently a circuit assembly and notice a change in the wording of the 2nd baptismal question .it used to be :.

  "do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of jehovah's witnesses in association with god's spirit-directed organization?

  now they changed it to :.

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  Leolaia

  Among other things, the wording is awful. In association with .... His association?
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  The Smartest Person Ever

  by frankiespeakin in

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  paste in address bar.. iq+200 smartest person ever.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mjio5yvaxo.

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  Leolaia

  Interesting stuff. I am very doubtful that the intricate interactive complexity of human intelligence can be reduced to a single number on a scale, and that IQ tests are any sort of direct measurement of cognitive ability.

  Child prodigies are pretty amazing.
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  Quotemining

  by goddidit in

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  i don't know if there are any fully-believing jws on this site but this is what i will attempt to put to them next time i meet one:.

  i can't convince you of the problems with your worldview or of the overwhelming evidence for evolution so let's ignore that.

  please just tell me why the writers of your publications tell blatant lies, as demonstrated here: http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/misquotations-in-creation-book.html.

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  Leolaia

  I had a friend who placed the Creation book in 1986 with a householder who then took the initiative to look up the original sources for some of the quotes. My friend went back to the house on an RV and asked the person what they thought of the book. The householder said that book was intellectually dishonest and he had ripped it up and thrown it away. Not exactly the "experience" you would hear at a convention, but it's a true story.
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  I totally understand why Michael Jackson took propofol

  by Hortensia in

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  i've had it a couple of times in the hospital.

  it's amazing stuff, one second you're awake, the next second you're asleep.

  they turn it off, and you immediately wake up.

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  Leolaia

  I try to be sparing with ambien. I use it only when I try to get over jetlag (that is, for 2-3 days tops) and otherwise if I happen to go to bed after 3am. And then generally I only use half of a pill. I only use a full pill sometimes on the second day of jetlag, if I feel I need a larger dose. And that's it. It's never failed me. If the day comes when this dose doesn't work anymore, then I know I've developed a tolerance and I would need to find some other method.
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  What I think about the "We just love this idea" of David Splane

  by Gorbatchov in

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  the jw.org video about the annual meeting contains david splane saying "we just love this idea", when talking about the adjusted fds doctrine.

  "we just love this idea"????

  when it becomes one of the fundament teachings of the organisational part of a religion, the rank-and-file witnesses are expected to be convinced about these kind of doctrines.

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  cedars.....Yeah I was thinking of posting a video of Indiana Jones saying just that, in fact.

  The comment reveals again that biblical interpretation mainly serves one purpose when it is done by the GB, justifying organizational policy. They don't care about what the text might actually have to say on its own terms. It's merely a prop for whatever changes they want to put into effect re how the R&F views them (the organization).

  The new light makes no sense from an exegetical POV, tho tbh the old view was also quite nonsensical.
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  Badass Female Bible Characters

  by Kudra in

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  hi, this thread is inspired by the "bible characters trading cards" thread.... can we come up with a great list of female bible characters that were strong, decisive and inspiring?.

  scully mentioned ja'el: drugging and driving a tent spike through the head (we all remember the awesome bible stories illustration) of the enemy general.. list yours along with a description of why they were so badass!.

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  Leolaia

  The Song of Deborah is, incidentally, one of the oldest parts of the OT.

  How about Salome Alexandra?

  Salome Alexandra was the only Jewish regnant queen (from 76 to 67 B.C.E.), with the exception of her own husband's mother whom he had prevented from ruling as his dying father had wished, and of the much earlier usurper Athaliah. The wife of Aristobulus I, and afterward of Alexander Jannaeus, [ 2 ] she was the last woman ruler of Judaea, and the last ruler of ancient Judaea to die as the ruler of an independent kingdom.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_Alexandra
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  Russia in COLOR, circa 1910

  by compound complex in

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  i just received this in the mail: i've never seen color photographs from pre-wwi .... .

  http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?p1=well_mostpop_emailed2.

  cc.

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  Leolaia

  That sucks, it looks like sometime after I posted those autochromes, Imageshack downsized them.
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  Post Pictures of Beautiful Sceneries-Sunsets, Sunrises, Flowers-Anything !

  by flipper in

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  i'll start.

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  Leolaia

  I took this a few days ago:

  
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  How credible is the dating of Daniel?

  by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

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  2. bible

  for example the hairy he-goat is very precise?

  i have read some works on the subject but would like your input..

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  brokethechain...First of all, there isn't any part of ch. 9-12 that has reference to the later Roman Empire. The only reference to Romans is the mention of the ships of Kittim in 11:30, which refers to the efforts of Popilius Laenus and his fleet in blocking Antiochus Epiphanes' invasion of Egypt in 168 BC. It was a later secondary interpretation that postponed fulfillment of the desecration of the Temple to the first century AD; the original reference was to the desecration of 168 BC. Second, the Dead Sea Scrolls imo are too fragmentary to definitively say that ch. 9-12 (or portions thereof) were not part of the MSS. There is a fragment with just the prayer in ch. 9 which might support the idea that it had an independent origin (also indicated by the quality of the Hebrew). There is also a separate work very close in content and style as the latter portion of ch. 11 (referring to the events of 168 BC), which some scholars believe may either be a source or a parallel writing to ch. 11. Finally a portion of ch. 12 is quoted in another DSS as a passage from the prophet Daniel. But if you know of someone claiming that the DSS attest a version lacking ch. 9 and portions of 11-12 I would be interested in seeing the argumentation.