Island Man

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  A New Words With Friends Player Just Told Me That She Was a Jehovah's Witness And That's Why She's So Smart!

  by minimus in

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  i saw she went under the handle of lovejahforever.....she said she is very smart and had cleaning jobs and was going in the ministry this morning.. when she told me she looked forward to beating me (she won the first game) she sid she was smart because she's a jehovah's witness.

  my response was we will see how smart she is.. what next?

  any suggestions??

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  Island Man

  Ask her if she's seen the new series called "The Path".
  
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  Jake and Steph Introduction

  by Jehalapeno in

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  a new exjw couple started a youtube channel.

  found on reddit.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wenk0_vhp9k.

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  Island Man

  wow! wow! wow!

  that is sooo subliminal :-0

  That's all folks!
  
  DarK SpilveR

  That comment was very subliminal from the use of the 3 wows to the use of the bugs bunny-esque "That's all folks!" What are you trying to do to our minds, darkspilver?
  
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  2016 Convention Video Trailers

  by wifibandit in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpr0je0g1e

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  When a supposedly christian religion has to start imitating Hollywood to attract attendance at a convention, then the ends no longer justify the means. For such a religion is now imitating the very world that christians are told not to love. (1 John 2:15-17)
  

  Watchtower now imitates the things of the world by its use of:

  • Music videos
  • Movie trailers
  • Technological fads (tablets and smart phones)
  • Televangelism
  • Disingenuous and misleading P.R. Spin
  • Boasting in accomplishments (number of language lit. translated into, combined hours preached, etc)
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  Has Anybody Hear a Rumour That Prince Died?

  by cofty in

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  why do people care so much about celebrities?

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  Island Man

  I honestly don't get what's so special about his music. I don't find his music to be all that remarkable.
  
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  What was there before the Big Bang?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

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  Island Man

  There may have been a big crunch. Maybe the universe is eternal and oscillates between banging and crunching. Bang --> Expand --> Stop --> Recede --> Crunch --> (Repeat)
  
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  Leaving The Cult is Exactly Like This...

  by cofty in

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  Island Man

  So true, Cofty. JWs are always talking about how the system of things is draining them and how the truth is like a protection for them. But little do they know that it is actually the Watchtower system that is draining them and that life is so much more stress-free and enjoyable without the Watchtower indoctrination influencing their thoughts, emotions and life decisions and creating unnecessary stress.
  
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  JW drives car through Kingdom Hall

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  a 78-year-old female driver escaped with cuts and bruises after crashing into the kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses in berrimah.

  picture: nt policea parishioner arriving at the kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses in berrimah crashed through two church walls, missing occupants waiting for a service to start.. the 78-year-old female driver was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises.

  police believed she may also be suffering from shock.. the kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses suffered significant damage when a female parishioner crashed through two walls in her car.

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  Island Man

  "Police sources on the scene report that the woman was in severe shock and that she kept repeating: "He's dead ... he's dead ... Prince is dead ... the Purple One is dead...""
  
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  Evolution: The Deal Breaker

  by Hadriel in

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  first off i do believe there are some evidences of evolution or i should probably say adaptation.

  i do believe this exists in various forms.. however the deal breaker for me with evolution is the chick or egg problem.

  there are tons of theories that get passed around as proof of evolution however these are usually examples much further down the evolutionary chain.. what i mean is let's start at the beginning!

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  Island Man

  Hadriel, read and understand the following statement:

  So by attempting to suggest that a lack of explanation of the origin of DNA is somehow a "deal breaker" for evolution, you're actually revealing that you have not yet come to understand and appreciate the difference between evolution and abiogenesis and the total irrelevance of the mysteries of abiogenesis to the proven reality of evolution. Your whole line of reasoning is fundamentally flawed because it is premised on a lack of acceptance and understanding that evolution by natural selection has already been shown definitively to be the case. Whether life was initially designed in such a way that it would evolve by natural selection; or whether this happens naturally without any deliberate intelligent purpose, does not change the reality that life is evolving by natural selection.
  

  Let me illustrate it this way Hadriel: Imagine two primitive cave men are arguing over why a child is dying. The more intelligent cave man is saying that the child is dying of poisoning. He cites evidence of the child having very recently been in an area where a certain plant grows which has in the past caused the deaths of animals that ate it. He cites the child's face being dirty with the juice of the fruit of that very plant. He cites evidence of the seeds of the fruit of that very plant being seen in the liquid vomited up by the child.

  The other cave man writes on the wall of the cave: "Poisoning: the deal breaker". Then he starts telling the other one that maybe he should not be so quick to say that it's poisoning. What if a another cave person force fed the child the fruit? If the child was force-fed the fruit then that would be a whole different matter, because you see the child would be dying of murder and not poisoning, because there would be an initial, separate intelligent force or being driving the child's action of eating that fruit. So until we can determine exactly how that fruit got into the child's system we need to keep an open mind to the possibility that the child was murdered and is not just dying from having eaten a poisonous fruit.

  Do you see what I'm trying to say Hadriel?
  
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  Was just mentioned on MSNBC that Prince turned down Double Hip Replacement

  by ShirleyW in

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  by a journalist, can't remember her name, but he turned down the operation because of the blood issue, she said he was hoping that perhaps their was another way to correct the problem.

  i certainly hope that one line woke some of his many fans about the jws.

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  Did he die because he needed new hips? I doubt it.
  
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  When a crime is commited?

  by Drifting Away in

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  i responded to someone on another thread, but would love to know this answer.. if a victim adult or child goes to elders and claims they were abused, don't they have to have clergy confidentiality?

  so i was told that they encourage the victim to contact authorities , and they contact bethel, but arent there hands tied if the victim does not want to go to authorities?

  an elder made the comment to me once.

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  Island Man

  But JWs claim that they do not have a clergy. They also condemn the catholic practice of confessing sins to a priest. So according to JWs' own claims about their religion, clergy client privilege of confidentiality does not apply to them. That they are using it to justify their refusal to do the right thing, demonstrates how utterly hypocritical and fork-tongued they are!