My mother has MS and it didn’t seem to progress after a while, but she wasn’t going to most meetings either do to having to take care of a sick family member. She’s now going back to meetings regularly, it will be interesting to see if your MS now starts to progress or not. It will be interesting if there maybe a direct coalition between the the growth of the diseases and meetings attendance.
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Moving Back to Chicago - Don't care
by LevelThePlayingField inmy wife was diagnosed with ms about two years ago.
we have been living in ohio for the last 5 years but were recently assigned to a new congregation because of the dissolving and sale of our congregation/kh.
my wife's symptoms spiked after being relocated to our new hall back in january.
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Who wrote the Bible?
by Ireneus inthe wordings suggest much of the bible is written by false friends of god.
to mention a few:.
1) god planted a special tree to pay the way for suffering and death into the lives of his children.. 2) god protected cain who murdered his innocent brother out of sheer jealousy.
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I believe the Greeks wrote many of the books that found there way into the Bible. Many of these stories came from other cultures like Sumeria but were changed to suit the new narrative.
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Bumped Into One Of My Best Friends On The Carts This Morning
by pale.emperor inso this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.
and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.
one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.
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Wait wait back up the truck, your wife has a partner and your daughter lives with you? Ok I must of missed a thread you started. If not do tell!!
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Tax question: How are illegals paid at farms, lawn care, construction, etc?
by Bad_Wolf ini was wondering how exactly is it that illegals can get paid and be under the radar?
a business takes in cash.
at farms, construction, etc, most probably comes in from checks and credit.
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I know of an illegal that was able to get a SS# number from a dead person about his same age. From there he was able to move on and became this person. He now has credit a business a home and everything else a legal can have.
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Is the blood doctrine idolatrous?
by Fred Franztone ini'm not a god-fearing individual, but when i was still a believer, many suns ago, it occurred to me that the blood doctrine had an idolatrous foundation; it was one of the initial anti-wt thoughts in my mind that eventually led to me leaving the religion and ultimately (and somewhat ironically) to atheism.. the bible says that one should 'abstain from blood', and putting aside whether this is a mistranslation of bloodshed (which i've never bought), the wt are quite picky about which commandments they follow; they don't observe the sabbath, and they've even provided justifications for lying, so why the preoccupation with the blood commandment?
and why is it so serious a matter that it's a disfellowship-worthy offence?
the justification i was always given by elders was that blood is sacred, it's a symbol of life, and whilst the commandment to abstain from blood clearly meant that one shouldn't eat it, it's not unreasonable on the surface to extrapolate it to include transfusions (although some would disagree).. the problem with this reasoning of course is that by abstaining from blood transfusions, death from massive blood-loss is a possibility, unlike with abstaining from eating it.
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“Nothing entering into a man can defile him” Jesus.
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Their Last Message of Damnation
by new boy inthe leaders of the witnesses are preparing their flock for the day when they will have to give that last message of damnation.
they will soon be announcing how their loving god jehovah will soon becoming to kill off the vast majority of mankind.
billions of men women and children,.
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This is the same crap they pull ever few years , just rinse and repeat! This is scare tactics to keep ones in and working for the cult.
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Anyone else get a message from Hanged Man?
by pale.emperor ini dont know why i'd want to argue over something like this.
i've been aware of this theory for years.
as interesting as it is - it's still bullshit.. for future reference, i believe the bible to be a collection of fantasy, myth, real locations and crazy ramblings of psychedelic bloke stuck on patmos.. my reply:.
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Crazyguy
Well the most important thing to remember is the WT said that Jehovah resides in the Pleiades star cluster.
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Anyone else get a message from Hanged Man?
by pale.emperor ini dont know why i'd want to argue over something like this.
i've been aware of this theory for years.
as interesting as it is - it's still bullshit.. for future reference, i believe the bible to be a collection of fantasy, myth, real locations and crazy ramblings of psychedelic bloke stuck on patmos.. my reply:.
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There’s definitely some Astro theology is the Bible one example is Ezekiel chapter 1 I think, but it’s where he sees god chariot and the 4 living creatures well those creatures are the 4 cardinal points of the zodiac. I don’t think the whole Bible is all about Astro theology though like this man claims. Many of the stories in the Bible are just retellings of stories from Sumeria and I can find know correlation to Astro theology.
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How were God’s true worshipers to determine virginity of pagan girls?
by Ireneus inin the genocidal instructions supposedly given by god we find this interesting command: “now kill all the boys.
and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (numbers 31:17, 18).
in the midst of killing and plundering, how were the israelites to determine whether each girl “has slept with a man” or not?.
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Let’s be clear, some Jewish or Greek guys got together and pulled some writings from the library at Alexandria then did their best to make these writings fit their ideals and a story about a newly invented people called the Israelites. They then used a god their god at the time and molded these stories around their narrative.
The book of Genesis and its stories originated from Sumeria so they substituted the gods Enlil and Enki for El and an adversary. The story of Moses was probably lifted from a story a legend about the Hyksos. Sampson story was clearly a retelling of Hercules.
Parts of the book of Deuteronomy is older and pure propaganda about a god proping up Hezzekia but even this god maybe not the god we’re led to believe it is today since this king clearly had ties to Egypt. Some of the other biblical writings like the minor prophets were clearly talking about a Egyptian god and even parts of the book of proverbs was lifted word for word from and Egyptian writing. So in the end the stories about Israelites conquering pagans in the Levant and raping girls was some made up fantasy and the archlogical evidence backs this up.
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why the watchtower is so short of money
by pepperheart inthe watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.
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WT isn’t a store chain like Sears people will stick around because it’s their religion their faith. WT isn’t going anywhere soon but the good news is as they close down Halls they loose footprint in the community. When Sears closed a store thats one less place for customers to go and these customers quickly forgot about them as a place to shop.
As WT looses foortprint in the comunity they become even more irrelevant. Pretty soon they’ll be like the Hari Krishna that we used to see at the airports. The JWs are already at the airports and already like the Krishna look crazy to the public. All they need to do next is shave their heads and wear some crazy clothes.
Anyway they’ll still be around in 20 years but as their footprint gets smaller it will be even that much easier for kids to leave and the Internet makes it easy for these kids to find the reasons not to come back, all good news in my book.