when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.
which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?
sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.
Yes, several.
I always liked horror movies as a kid. When I became a JW, no more horror movies.
I always was very interested in animals and paleontology, too. But I also stopped that as a JW - because it featured evolution.
Luckily, I now enjoy horror films (among other types of film) and have got a degree in animal biology.
i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.
so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.
a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.
People always knock philosophy as being useless - Philosophy is good, as long as it tells you how to think, not what to think.
Ricky Gervais studied philosophy at UCL, and he can think critically, hold a conversation, debate in an argument, etc.
i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.
so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.
a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.
There are plenty of useless qualifications, at high school and college/university levels ...
Gender Studies
Black Studies
Queer Studies
... I could go on, but you get the gist.
Yes, plenty of graduates will be flipping burgers in the near future, lol
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Where is his proof that none of the dozens of sex workers he visited had been coerced or trafficked? Given the percentages of of underage and forced victims in the countries where admits using sex workers dozens of times at least
^^^ This.
PS - and let's not forget this: using sex workers is illegal, no matter what their age is ...
what`s wrong with you people lol isn`t it time to button up ?
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Lloyd Evans is a joke, but a joke that has hurt is wife and put the stability of his marriage in jeopardy.
The long thread on Lloyd is a good thing.
If you have a snake in your back yard, you put on the light and shine it on the snake, you watch what it does
even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.
and so did jesus —because he was human.
so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.
Did Jesus have a Y chromosome? - yes, if he existed.
All men (adult human males) have a Y chromosome. Their sex chromosomes are typically XY.
NB - the Adam & Eve story is just that - a story!
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maybe divorce is a GOOD thing in the case, for everyone? - but what about the kids?
i know there was a painting of a woman being resurrected naked and someone coming to greet her holding clothes, but what about after perfection, after the thousand years?.
the idea is we're supposed to achieve what adam lost by returning to human perfection, so wouldn't that include not wearing clothes, especially as the act of adam and eve hiding in the trees and sewing fig leaves signified shame, and imperfection passed on through the reproductive organs.
has the wt ever addressed this?
Yes, there will be nakedness in the New World.
But the brothers will still have to wear a tie when at the Kingdom Halls in the New World.
why has the watchtower failed spectacularly to evangelize to the muslims?
considering the recent influx of muslim people in european countries you would think that some attempt from the religion that touts the are preaching the good news of the kingdom in all the inhabited earth would have been made.instead the only meaningful attempt dates back to 1953 ,almost 70 years ago!!!!
book " man's search for god.what do you think?
There are publications available in Arabic ... There must be sufficient interest to warrant these translations - maybe, but that doesn't really address the question asked in the OP.
The WTS has been pretty silent on Islam and Islamic terrorism.
Just imagine if 9/11 had been done by Catholic extremists. I can't imagine the WTS staying silent if that was the case ...
why has the watchtower failed spectacularly to evangelize to the muslims?
considering the recent influx of muslim people in european countries you would think that some attempt from the religion that touts the are preaching the good news of the kingdom in all the inhabited earth would have been made.instead the only meaningful attempt dates back to 1953 ,almost 70 years ago!!!!
book " man's search for god.what do you think?
We are the only Christian denomination that doesn't believe in the Trinity like Mudlims do too, maybe thats what your friend had in mind - yes, you're right. He also had in mind Muslims don't believe in idols, too.
But, still, how can *not* believing in the trinity or idols or christmas mean that 'they believe the same as us'?
It's absolutely ridiculous, a comment from a mind which cannot reason properly
