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  Why, Why, Why did God create such a difference between Jews and Gentile....?

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why such a difference between jew and gentiles, so that the jew is at once.

  recognized, no matter what race he lives among.. and how did the jews come to have such strange traditions setting apart, racially.

  and religiously from gentiles???.

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  Syme

  I'm not a believer anymore, but back when I was, I would have given you this answer:

  God did not choose the Jews as a people, discriminating all other peoples. God chose Abraham, a person, not a people. And he chose him because of Abraham's qualities as a person. He made a covenant with Abraham as a person, which covered his (non-born yet) descendants. So, God was 'compelled' to stick with Abraham's descendants, due to His friendship with Abraham, not because Jews were superior in any way to other nations.

  Of course, that applies if you still believe in the Abrahamic deity.
  
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  Was Anyone Disfellowshipped Twice? How About Three Times?

  by anewme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  years ago there was this guy ****** ******* i'll never forget him.

  disfellowshipped 3 times!!!!

  at the last dfing announcement the brother got up there and yelled into the mic .

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  Syme

  Yes, in fact we once disfellowshipped a guy that was DF'ed again earlier. The first time was (I think) for smoking and maybe premarital sex; the second was for admitting having sex with his wife before they were married.

  Oh god, now that I recall this stuff... What on earth was I doing, meddling with other peoples private lives?

  (Everyone that has played as an elder the role of Inquisitor in a JC, will always feel a burden of guilt and sorrow upon him, even long after he wakes up.)
  
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  Epigenetics and Why Women are Stripey

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  take five minutes to learn something new today.... here is a very brief introduction to epigenetics with an interesting practical example.. ....

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  Syme

  Cofty, I've read that epigenetics somehow vindicates Lamarck. Of course, evolutionary textbooks referred to Lamarckism as a theory that is proved completely wrong. Could this new discovery be used by the creationists in their struggle to convince that evolutionary biologists made a mistake in their rejection of Lamarckism, and hence that Darwinian evolution is not to be considered completely stable?

  P.S. Thanks for the video :)
  
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  Why Me?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?

  i wonder many times why me.

  i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.

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  Syme

  I'll tell you why: Because you're a DEVIL-DRIVEN MENTALLY DISEASED BLASPHEMOUS EVIL APOSTATE, that's why.
  
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  Evolution is not even a theory! So says the WTBTS writing dept!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone read the new awake ragazine??

  it's a doozy!!

  i thought we had a thread concerning this subject, but i can't find it.

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  Syme

  Oh, man, not again. Not another anti-evolution loony article. I won't be able to read not even one line.

  It is funny that my jw father, who is also pro-science, tries to match WT and evolution together. He hopes that WT will come in terms with the proven facts of evolution, some day. Like that's gonna happen; in 50-80 years perhaps...
  
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  Governing Body member is in Australia right now!

  by Anonymous1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  sorry i have to remain completely anonymous about this but you will see why.

  i have first hand knowledge that geoffrey jackson of the governing body is staying with his parents in toowoomba, queensland for the next few weeks.

  he has already been in australia for a couple of weeks.

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  Syme

  It may indeed be a hard time for him, but, on the other hand, it does not stop him from attending the meetings, probably giving talks, meeting with elders, going to field service etc. When a "high-up" visits another area for family reasons, he always finds time (and strength) for "theocratic" activities. So, why not find time and strength for this as well?
  
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  Will there be a Service Meeting part on how to handle sex abuse questions?

  by Zoos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  every week there is some sort of demonstration on how to offer the latest magazines or monthly offer.. will hq prepare the flock for the inevitable flood a questions about the abuse scandal or will the poor sheep be left to navigate that field on their own?.

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  Syme

  If it becomes too widely spread, they'll have to give some instructions regarding the field work.

  But, the most possible is they'll present it as a form of "prosecution", parallelizing it with Russia, Eritrea etc. The logical fallacies are at the core of this (and every) religion.
  
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  AUSTRALIA - All large JW Regional Conventions cancelled for 2015

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  now we know why the governing body of jehovah's witnesses cancelled all the major regional conventions of jehovah's witnesses for 2015 and are only holding smaller conventions at the jw assembly halls.

  "imitate jesus" convention series australia schedule .

  interestingly the first round of regional conventions are due this weekend in the jw assembly halls in sydney (new south wales), melbourne (victoria), and brisbane (queensland).

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  Syme

  No, I don't think the cancellation of the large stadiums and the transfer to small assembly halls has anything to do with the pedo investigation. It is due to shortage of money. It is a small fraction of the greater consolidation and shrinking procedure. In my country (with no investigations going on) the same has happened: almost not one RC takes place in rented locations, but only in WT-owned assembly halls.
  
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  Just wrote my DA letter....

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife and i planned on fading but the elders now want a shepherding call and we are just done.

  i know that many play the game to try to stay in, but i'm not a game player and neither is my wife.

  our families already shun us because we reached out to a disfellowshipped family member.

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  Syme

  @dubstepped,

  I completely share your point of view.

  DA instead of fading may be an extreme solution, but sometimes the extreme solution is the only solution.

  The announcement of the DA will not take long, the policy says it can be done in the very next service meeting. (Only when there's a DFing decision a 7-day space is given, in case one wants to appeal, but in the DA the appeal does not apply, obviously.)
  
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  Inside the famous Denisova cave in Siberia

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  when our ancestors first migrated out of africa around 60,000 years ago, they were not alone.

  at that time, at least two other species of hominid cousins walked the eurasian landmassneanderthals and denisovans.

  as our modern human ancestors migrated through eurasia, they encountered the neanderthals and interbred.

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  Syme

  I've done a DNA sequence, and I have 2.7% of Neanderthal DNA in my body, which is the average for a person of European ancestry.

  Next time you see a typically white American creationist (jw or not), tell them that they carry the evidence for evolution (and for Neanderthal relation) in their own bodies, and the only way to get rid of it is, you know, get rid of their own bodies.