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  Giant fruit in Canaan/TNS

  by rebel8 in

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  ok bible scholars, do i have this right?.

  jehoopla promised the israelites lots of great stuff in the promised land, but they didn't believe him so they sent spies to check it out.

  they came back with fruit so large it had to be carried on a branch by 2 men.. from this, dubs believe they are going to have strawberries the size of king king's skull when they get to their own promised land (the new system).

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  Giant Canaanites need giant food.
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  Jeroboam Vs Man of God

  by John Aquila in

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  jeroboam built high places for calve worship, created his own priests, created his own sacred day of worship, and was just all around a bad man.

  1 kings chapter 12.

  man of god did not engage in false worship, did not have tons of money, did not have a harem of beautiful women, and did not have the power of a kingdom.

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  God, Moses and some firewood:

  32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 15:32-36 New International Version
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  Ties at the Kingdom Hall

  by CloseTheDoor in

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  2. beliefs

  couple of weeks ago an elder took a young man aside and crawled all over him after the tms for wearing a "skinny" tie.

  it was one of those 2 inch wide ties.

  nothing bright or scandalous about.

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  I was counseled for forgetting my tie when I gave a talk at the theocratic ministry school.
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  Atheist Miracles

  by Perry in

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  i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

  no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

  they keep me from getting bored.

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  prologos

  IMHO if you daily look at the grand spectacle of existence, AND the more you know about how it all works, the work involved, the more you could at least put a "possible" in the concept of a deist originating worker.

  But Perry believes that Deists are going to hell. It isn't so much creationism as it is his brand of it which is that of Christian Fundamentalists.
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  Atheist Miracles

  by Perry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

  no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

  they keep me from getting bored.

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  redvip2000,

  "Isn't it great how history continuously repeats itself? Here we are in 2015, and we are still attributing to magic what we can't yet explain with science."

  Here in the United States we are only two election cycles away from rank superstition.
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  New on here

  by Tony Stark in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey so i'm new on here.

  just wanted to introduce myself.

  in my 20's and was rasied one, and very popular among the jw community.

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  Tony Stark,

  "I still go to meetings so that i am reinstated and can feel normal again, but my beliefs are different now as i've done a lot of research."

  I suggest that you don't go back just for the loneliness especially if your beliefs have changed. You'll be living a double life and the friends you make there will not be sincere.

  You're young and you have the social skills to make real friends outside of that pathetic religion.
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  Apostate views?

  by Richard C B in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the jw organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body.

  what steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking.

  and also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?.

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  Richard C B,

  "If a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the JW organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body. What steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking."

  The congregation in the Jehovah's Witnesses has no power; it is the elders that deal with such matters. They are likely to simply form a judicial committee and interrogate the person as to whether he still believes that the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" is Jehovah's organization.

  "And also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?"

  That individual will snitch on him to the elders. Just confiding anything to an individual will be considered causing "divisions" as the apostle Paul mentioned in Romans 16:17. That could easily be a disfelowshipping issue.
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  Atheist Miracles

  by Perry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

  no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

  they keep me from getting bored.

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  Perry,

  "Without a shed of evidence, the multi-verse idea was trotted out as an atheist response to real observable evidence about the uniqueness of our universe."

  As I said before it is Cosmologists, irrespective of their religious faith, who are making those statements. You might as well claim that atheists are behind the idea that the earth is 4.5 billion years old when in fact there are Christians who believe that (though you'll claim that they are misled).

  And, once more, can you even understand the arguments that proponents of the multi-verse use? Have you ever looked up the other side of this issue in order to see whether or not they do have evidence? All you do is cut and paste things which you yourself cannot understand. In psychology this is called confirmatory bias.
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  Atheist Miracles

  by Perry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

  no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

  they keep me from getting bored.

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  Perry,

  "To deal with this problem, atheist professors come up with stuff like parallel universes to try and explain away the fine tuning."

  What would you know about quantum physics? As far as "explaining away" the fine tuning this is their explanation:

  You can have a gazillion universes which are not fine tuned such as ours in giving rise to everything including life. Furthermore such fine tuned universes would be in a drastic minority. If our universe were not to be one of the fine tuned ones (by forces that have nothing to do with God) we would not be here discussing it. Another universe would have those features.
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  Atheist Miracles

  by Perry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

  no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

  they keep me from getting bored.

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  Perry, "Atheists say, "in the beginning, nothing"."

  I corrected that on two previous posts. Cosmologists are now making reference to a Multi-verse. If the Atheist is not aware of that then he needs to do some research. You just cut and paste without truly understanding what either side is saying.

  The video that you put up concerning the Multiverse is probably something that you did not watch. And where are the Cosmologists to give a rebuttal?