Alligator Wisdom

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  The Sleeping Spirit Doctrine...Can "You" Survive?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my late grandmother died in terror of having her spirit sleep at death.

  just before she died, she was inundated by reading material from my aunt (who's jw).

  it made her think of the cold clay in the grave as her destination after death, even if it was temporary.

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  There is only one original.

  I basically mentioned the same thing to an elder. I told him that if I took a photo with my digital camera, it thus became an original. Then I would e-mail him the photo as an attachment. Soon thereafter my computer crashed and I lost the original photo. But he would have a copy. Not the original. Only a copy of the original. Isn't it the same with the "resurrection"? He looked perplexed and said that Jehovah can do anything.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  What Do JWs Think About Dinosaurs?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've seen evangelical sites that show dinosaurs dying in the great flood.

  these people believe that god created the earth in seven 24-hour days, and have wondered that if god could just "speak" the earth into existence, why he would need the other six days.

  (couldn't he just will it into existence in a flash?).

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  I've heard (in an elder's opinion) that the main purpose dinosaurs were created was to act as giant lawnmowers by consuming plant life to control the outstanding growth of vegetation that was engulfing the earth. Of course, I then asked him about the carnivorous dinosaurs, and he answered that they were created to control the outstanding growth population of the giant lawnmower plant eating dinosaurs.

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  Older man marries younger woman, yes; younger man marries older woman?

  by dgp in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i understand that marriages between an older man and a much younger woman are a fact of jw life.

  the reasons i have seen include the lack of an available prospect, of the fact that the older man has some power in the congregation and therefore marrying him is something like an advantage.

  i wonder what the advantage can be, and i would appreciate any light on this (new or old).. but, how often does a younger man marry an older woman?

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  A few years ago I knew of an elder in his 50's who married a pioneer sister in her 70's. They ended up taking care of her 95 year old mother.

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  who does Jehovah hold accountable?

  by wasblind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an elder once told me "that if the spiritual food he recieves is wrong, and he follows it ,jehovah will not hold him accountable".

  all through out the bible it incourages a person to test, ask and seek, and to make sure of all things, so how can he not be accountable ?.

  what is the best scripture that would show him that he's accountable for what he recieves.

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  Luke 12:48

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  MP3s !!! 2010-2011 DC TALKS

  by yknot in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  commentary on mp3s: (in addition to circulate as you see fit!).

  in light of the wts's recent attempts to conceal it's talks from broader inspection and documentation, mp3s to the public are now mostly the works of the 'conscious class' and those exjws who force themselves to endure hours upon hours of control-laced presentations.

  kudos to all those who embody anonymous.

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  Much Thanks yknot!

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  If your AVATAR could speak then???

  by hamsterbait in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if your avatar could have a voice, (for the days when computers routinely read out posts audibly).

  whose voice would you choose?.

  a poster here thinks my avatar would speak with the mellifluous sexy "mel gibson baritone".

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  URGGGGHHH!
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  JW doctrines that annoyed or troubled you

  by Luo bou to in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bloodguilt a doctrine that really annoyed me when i was in.

  like i was responsible for who jehovah destroyed..

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  144,000 being a literal number of annointed Christians who are selected to go to heaven.

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  The accident of life

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i hear the arguement that life could not come about, as pure accident or without divine intervention.

  told that such a thing is too complex to happen on it's own, that it requires a divine intervention.

  while i am neither a extreme believer of evolution, there is proof and here it is ... that pure chaos can happen by chance.. i have these keys, about six attached on two link rings.

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  This happened to me before too!! So then, can this be considered as "chaos duplicating itself"?

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  Tuition PLEASE? How to post pics etc....

  by Lozhasleft in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can anyone please give me some basic tips on how to post pictures on here ????.

  another thing thats driving me mad is not being able to figure out how to quote in a box???.

  loz x.

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  Alligator Wisdom

  In your 'Post a reply ...' box below, click on the spot where you want the quote to be placed and then drop down the Drop Down menu box that normally says <Styles> to show <Quote>. Click this and a quote box will be inserted into which you can right click > paste the text you previously copied to the clipboard.

  Thanks! I was always wondering how.
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  Field service reporting

  by gutted in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so one of the elders called asking for my time.

  i lied, somewhat.

  yes i did talk to people about the "truth" but not in favourable terms.. has anyone simply stated, "i have not been in service this month"?

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  gutted,

  When the elders call you for your field service report, have him read Matthew 6:3,4 and say that you are using your Bible trained conscience in following the words of Jesus Christ in NOT turning in any report.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)