Laika

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  The JW cart/booth nonsense

  by Gypsy Sam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.christianpost.com/news/battle-of-beliefs-baptist-evangelist-nation-of-islam-muslim-and-jehovah-witnesses-vie-for-souls-at-new-yorks-subway-stations-112512/.

  will this wake any jw's up to how they have more in common with other sects than they believe?.

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  Laika

  Even during my most devout periods it used to drive me mad how often JWs would outright lie to people on the doors, and I find it gets more common the further up someone seems to get. Working with POs and COs was an embarrassment.
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  Are you materialistic?

  by Goldiver in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  why, yes i am according to the jws.

  this is an topic that has always irked me with the jws.

  anyone who had a good paying job and nice things was materialistic.

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  Laika

  I wish I had more money. :(
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  Laika

  Adam, do you even enjoy posting here? With the contempt you seem to treat everyone with I have to think it must be an incredible chore for you.
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  A mormon pm's me

  by paranoia agent in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just read your thread about oblivion to oblivion, watched the video you posted and wondered if you'd be willing to let me send you some videos on the book of mormon.

  as you may know, i'm lds and i believe there's substantial evidence for the historicity of the book.

  but i'm also aware there's evidence and proof.

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  Laika

  Trying to convince anyone of your beliefs over PM is definitely dodgy. Unless you send them questions keep that stuff in the open. If your ideas are good no reason why not.
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  The "Tree of Life and its meaning"

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi all.. just letting know that i've published a new article on my website, titled "the tree of life and its meaning".. you're welcome to visit, read and discuss it.. eden.

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  Laika

  Wow, Shelby used to write some long posts, and I thought Tammy was verbose... (Sorry tec )
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  Some vs Many

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it is interesting how the watchtower uses these two words.

  for instance, the word some is often used to minimize, and many used to maximize.

  and yet, it is so unspecific that some might be a greater quantity than many, yet the mind doesnt process these words this way.. for instance, if it is a failed prediction or a changed teaching, they might say, some believed... when it fact some means most or all, because this was food at the proper time coming from gods channel through the watchtower.

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  Laika

  Wow, that is interesting, I had never noticed that before.
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  Today's daily text: a contradiction

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so they publish this:.

  friday, january 10. you do not want to go also, do you?john 6:67.. peter responded to jesus question with these words: lord, whom shall we go away to?

  you have sayings of everlasting life; and we have believed and come to know that you are the holy one of god.

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  Laika

  One of the things that bothers me about the JWs use of this text applied to the Society is that Jesus was talking about Communion, something those same JWs are not allowed to do.
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  Jesus' Teachings - Helpful or Harmful?

  by jgnat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  spinning off from another thread, have jesus' teachings been less than universally helpful to mankind?

  how do we measure if a particular philosophy is helpful or harmful?.

  i am going to use the "universal morals" listed here.

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  Laika

  I thought I was leaving my family and friends behind for Jesus when I left the Watchtower. I read that verse "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life." about 6 times the day I told my parents about my conversion. It gave me a lot of comfort/encouragement at the time I left.

  I even weaved it into my testimony at church. Boy was I a hit that day.
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  If you were born in Afghanistan would you be a JW.

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  typical response from a jw, look at noah and job.

  jehovah will gather.

  his people no matter where they are.. your rebuttal..

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  Laika

  It's not very likely you'll be become a JW if you were born in the UK/US, let alone Afghanistan.
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  Will Moses have time for you in the New World?

  by bats in the belfry in

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  2. bible

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  2014 the watchtower, april 15, page 6.

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  Laika

  I wonder if Moses will be pissed that all his years in the wilderness earned him the reward of telling the same story over and over again while some posers from Brooklyn get to Lord it over him in heaven.