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  Whats up with that

  by showme in

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  okay, i have heard mention here a couple of times about how jw's are not supposed to drive a two door car.

  whats up with that?

  last place i read it was the stupid rules topic some one posted(which was very entertaining by the way) i am really curious what the reasons for all those stupid rules are for?

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  Okay, I have heard mention here a couple of times about how JW's are not supposed to drive a two door car. Whats up with that? Last place I read it was the stupid rules topic some one posted(which was very entertaining by the way) I am really curious what the reasons for all those stupid rules are for?
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  Buzz Words

  by showme in

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  2. beliefs

  alot of folks here use abbreviations.

  some are easy to pick up.

  like jw or dub.

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  dfed, borg, stuff like that . Anything that gets abbreviated.
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  Buzz Words

  by showme in

  1. watchtower
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  alot of folks here use abbreviations.

  some are easy to pick up.

  like jw or dub.

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  Alot of folks here use abbreviations. Some are easy to pick up. I have used some too. Like jw or dub. But some times I can't figure them out. Can somebody fill me in on some of them. Also, when first reading about Jehovahs' witnesses, I read some thing that said the use alot of buzz words that help them identify each other. What are some of those?
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  more excuses, other than libary card?

  by lulu in

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  i have heard that the wt are offering other excuses other than wanting a libary czard.

  does anyone know of any, and where if so can i get the information.

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  What is a library card? What kind of suffering are you talking about?
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  Everlasting life?

  by DanTheMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  maybe i dreamed this, but i swear that there was a wt article sometime in 2001 that, in discussing john 17:3, made some mysterious (mysterious in light of their long-time teaching on this issue) that the greek word translated "everlasting" had different shades of meaning, that it may have referred to "quality, not quantity".

  in other words, knowing jah and the one he sent forth would result in an abundance of quality life, not necessarily endless life in the chronological sense.

  i was in such a wt mental stupor at the time that i didn't think much of it, but now that i think about it, it seems that this may have been the very first teeny little baby step in a gradual and huge doctrinal shift.. then again, maybe i dreamed this.

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  Double edge
  So then Eternal Life would equate to some thing like life with God? Sounds like a good study. Eternal, everlasting, any other phrases?
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  Drugs

  by Satanus in

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  during my watchtower days, from their 'college level education', i had the impression that all street drugs were terribly addictive, as soon as someone did a drug one time, he was hooked.

  that drugs reduced people to souless protoplasm.

  street drugs are actually classified into two basic groups: .

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  Extacy came from Texas. In the 80's you could buy it out of vending machines around Austin. It was mostly perscribed to couples having marital problems.
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  movies to make them think

  by showme in

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  2. entertainment

  any suggestions on movie rentals that might make a jw think.

  or maybe present new or other possibilities?

  "what dreams may come" is a good one that i know of, so....any sugestions?

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  Scott Stapp, the singer from "Creed" is definatley a Christian. That band gets alot of crap for it. But I think thier great.
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  Help a lurking dub with doubts

  by undercover in

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  2. scandals

  i've been lurking about, checking out some of the evidence against the wtbs.

  i am currently inactive but still an approved/baptized member.

  i have seen all the 1914/607bce evidence; the blood transfusion quandry evidence; the current child abuse problem evidence and several other things that are damning to the wt doctrines.

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  Lisa Bobeesa
  Can you elaborate on some of those scriptures you actually looked up or some of the other info you used that day. it is some of the stuff I am looking for. It probally will help undercover as well.
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  Dying you will not die?

  by Kagloo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have a question that has puzzled me since i got my large print bible...... in genesis 2:17 it states.... but as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.".

  the footnote reads.... lit.. " dying you will die.

  " okay i understand that... .

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  I have a relative that had a very bad car accident. during the trauma, he clinicly died. During this time, he described floating above his body seeing the hospital workers try to revive him. Then he tells of a tunnel that transported him before a two large doors. As he stood in front of the doors, they opened. A light he said that is completely indescribeble to any one on earth shined out. He said it was the most beautiful thing you could possible see. this light passed through his body. A voice told him it was not yet his turn, that he needed to return. he said he traveled back through the tunnel and was once again above the hospital workers reviving his body. Then he felt the physical pain from his injuries and opened his eyes. It took him over a year to walk again. How do you describe this if the soul is dead at death? How do you describe spirits of loved ones returning to places they once lived? One of the first things you learn in Chemistry is that you can not create or destroy energy. Why is it that a human body loses a fraction of wieght at the moment brain waves stop?
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  Dying you will not die?

  by Kagloo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have a question that has puzzled me since i got my large print bible...... in genesis 2:17 it states.... but as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.".

  the footnote reads.... lit.. " dying you will die.

  " okay i understand that... .

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  I have a relative that had a very bad car accident. during the trauma, he clinicly died. During this time, he described floating above his body seeing the hospital workers try to revive him. Then he tells of a tunnel that transported him before a two large doors. As he stood in front of the doors, they opened. A light he said that is completely indescribeble to any one on earth shined out. He said it was the most beautiful thing you could possible see. this light passed through his body. A voice told him it was not yet his turn, that he needed to return. he said he traveled back through the tunnel and was once again above the hospital workers reviving his body. Then he felt the physical pain from his injuries and opened his eyes. It took him over a year to walk again. How do you describe this if the soul is dead at death? How do you describe spirits of loved ones returning to places they once lived? One of the first things you learn in Chemistry is that you can not create or destroy energy. Why is it that a human body loses a fraction of wieght at the moment brain waves stop?