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  Please help re:objections to Thanksgiving?

  by M.J. in

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  what are the standard jw objections to thanksgiving?

  do they claim there is any kind of a scriptural basis for condemning it?

  i plan on asking someone about this and i'm curious what types of reasoning they might try to throw at me.

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  Family Vacation in Colorado. Suggestions?

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  i would really love to take my family (including a couple of small kids...and maybe the dog) on a road trip to the colorado rockies in late summer.

  i'd like to spend at least a week out there.

  any ideas on places with some good scenery, activities, places to stay (a cabin would be cool).. i haven't been out there before, and i don't know if i want to just stay in one area or make some sort of "grand circuit".

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  Sunday's WT study

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  hi, just popped in to scan the board for some kind of review of this past sunday's wt study.

  i couldn't seem to find anything.. i'm assuming no one is doing a "wt comments" type of thread any more, but i missed it can someone point it out?

  i found a couple of interesting statements made and wanted to brush up on the implications (it's been a while so i need a refresher).

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  Blood doctrine vs. Theocratic War Strategy

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  in some cases, the wts's teaches that committing an act that the bible condemns is acceptable if it upholds a higher aim or principle.. one example of this is in the wts position on lying.. although the wts teaches that in general one should not lie, "protecting the interests of god's cause" is a higher aim than always being truthful (6-1-60 wt, p 352)...and so in such a case one can go ahead and lie.. incidentally, liars, aka "everyone who loves and practices lying" are classed with murderers, idolaters, abominable persons, etc., in the book of revelation.

  (rev 21:8; 26-27; 22:15)...yet, according to the wts, there is a heirarchy of commandments and aims involved.

  lying is permissible if it upholds the higher aim of furthering god's cause (i.e., protecting the organization).. conversely, the wts teaches that the dietary rule regarding the eating of blood must be followed without exception.

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  Virtually all JWs have been taking blood fractions and don't know it!

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  a notable member of this forum tipped me off to this fact, and i recently checked up on it.. check out the cdc's ingredient list for vaccines:.

  http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/b/excipient-table-2.pdf.

  any vaccine you see with the ingredients "bovine albumin", "bovine serum", "human serum albumin", are made from blood!.

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  The 10 Deadliest Storms in History (msnbc.com)

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  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24488385&gt1=43001.

  the casualty figures are notoriously difficult to pin down, but here is the list:.

  bhola cyclone, bangladesh (east pakistan), 1970. death toll estimated at 150,000 to 550,000. hooghly river cyclone, india and bangladesh, 1737. death toll: 350,000. haiphong typhoon, vietnam, 1881. death toll: 300,000. coringa cyclone, india, 1839. death toll: 300,000. backerganj cyclone, bangladesh, 1584. death toll: 200,000. great backerganj cyclone, bangladesh, 1876. death toll: 200,000. chittagong cyclone, bangladesh, 1897. death toll: 175,000. super typhoon nina, china, 1975. death toll: 171,000. cyclone 02b, bangladesh, 1991. death toll: 140,000. great bombay cyclone, india (from the arabian sea), 1882. death toll: 100,000.. this only goes back as far as our records indicate, i might add.. when taken as a % of the region's population, the earlier figures are staggering..

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  modern thought/approach to doctrine--foreign to biblical authors?

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  i am not knowledgeable when it comes to philosophy, or its history, so i'm hoping some of you can help me out here.

  i was wondering just why someone like paul never clearly and systematically laid out an overall explanation of eschatology, nature of god, etc...at least not in the way any modern commentator would.

  which made me wonder: is our whole way of thinking and arriving at conclusions different from the biblical authors?

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  New study shows JWs have the lowest retention rate of US religions

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  the pew forum has put out a report called the "us religious landscape survey.

  ", as reported in the boston globe: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/more_americans_2.html .

  of note is this quote from the actual report summary: .

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  New pro-JW book out on JWs in the Third Reich

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  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0299207943/ref=pe_5050_7762570_pe_snp_943 .

  now that i look more into it, i believe its a recent english translation of a 10 year old german book.

  i wonder if penton's book referenced the german version of it.

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  meaning of Rephaim...Firuli's argument

  by M.J. in

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  the nwt translates the hebrew world "rephaim" as used in job 26:5 and isaiah 14:9, as "those impotent in death".

  insight reports the following: .

  *** it-2 p. 778 rephaim *** .

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