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  Theists, why does God allow suffering..

  by The Quiet One in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ..specifically, the suffering of animals.

  you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.

  i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.

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  What's This Thing Called Consciousness?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/consciousness.

  vedanta.

  according to vedanta, awareness is not a product of physical processes and can be considered under four aspects.

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  Atheist believe in aliens but not God?

  by StopTheTears in

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  2. friends

  if you are a professed atheist, i ask you the question: do you believe in aliens?

  could not god be an alien?

  how do you know that there is no alien life?

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  Tower of Babel built by Babies!

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the weekly tms bible reading assignment is not read, or not carefully read, by most of the sheeples.

  it doesn't really matter, because the consideration of the bible reading material is one of the shortest parts on the meeting with a limited number of comments, and those comments are restricted to less than 30 seconds or you will get counselled.

  over and over, the dubs are told to read the bible, yet the organization gives no real encouragement to read the bible by keeping everyone busy in the recruiting work and using relatively few scriptures in their "talks".. why?

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  What other ancient Greek Manuscripts contained the divine name?

  by yaddayadda in

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  2. bible

  the society in appendix 1a of their 'kingdom interlinear translation of the christian greek scriptures' refers to nine other greek manuscripts as containing the divine name, and they quote from jerome as referring to certain 'greek volumes' containing the tetragrammaton.

  can anyone shed any light on what these greek manuscripts and volumes are and their dates of writing?

  here is what the society says in full: .

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  THE BIBLE ADVOCATES GENOCIDE?

  by steve2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have biblical apologists satisfactorily explained the blood-drenched biblical passages in which jehovah orders his people to wipe out every living soul - young, old, men, women, child, infirm - in the territory they're told to invade?.

  who needs bin laden when you've got jehovah?

  or is jehovah excused because he's truly mightier, like, because he's the creator he can call the shots, no matter how much and who's blood is shed?

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  Golden Age Goodies

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  recently i had the pleasure to examine a stash of 1920s and 1930s golden age magazines, among the rarest of watchtower publications.

  i thought it would be a fun idea to have a thread in which i share with you some of the amazing, ridiculous, hilarious things contained therein.

  hence, this is the first post of a series of excerpts, scans, etc.

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  Jesus was a liar.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  firstly, it is not my intention here to offend anyone so if you are likely to get upset at reading 'blasphemous' statements or criticism of jesus then perhaps you should go to another topic.

  also, i am not in the habit of making personal attacks on other posters, if you decide to stay and read this - don't attack me!

  by all means rip my post to pieces and explain where i got it all wrong, but don't shoot the messenger.. and remember, i come from the same place as most of you, i was one of jehovah's witnesses for over thirty years.

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  Does the Watchtower "deny" its own for "legal" purposes?

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  just thought this was an interesting quote!

  does the watchtower "deny" its own for "legal" purposes?

  *** km 2/89 pp.

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  Resurrection of the men of Sodom and Gomorrah...the complete story

  by MacHislopp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sometime ago a friend of mine was very surprised when i did tell him about the many changes concerning the resurrection of the men from sodom and gomlorrah.

  he didn't want to accept just the statements i.e.

  yes/no + publication + date, so to make him a much happier person i did send him this:

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