bob1999
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What's missing from this forum is ....
by Spectrum in... enough jws and non ex-jws to have a two sided debate that can give more depth than the current one sided debates that are typical of almost every thread apart from creation/evolution threads.
these manage to polarise us in informative albeit heated debates.
an argument should have a counter argument so that as much ground is covered as possible on both sides of the debate.
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Living in the Worst Times? NOT
by ICBehindtheCurtain ini just saw this article in us news, just thought i'de share it.
the wts and other religions love to push the idea that things are so bad now, that we are living in the worst times in history so we will only live for the "new system" bs, but the reality is that i wouldn't trade where we are now for any other time in history.
if we on this board would have lived in the inquisition we would have been burned at the stake after endless hours of torture only for disagreeing with the church and choosing to be a free thinker.
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Are we going to Hell?
by catbert inlets discuss the origins of hell, and whether we are going there.
i don't want to...
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foods that contain blood
by loosie in.
ok i have googled this and can't find a list of foods that contain blood.. i have learned from this board that chocolate, milk and hotdogs contain blood.. does anyone know of more or when i can find a list of foods that contain blood?.
i would love to see some friends of mine change their diet....lol
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Today's the day for the lord's witneses
by bob1999 insometime between sundown today and sundown saturday the u.n. building in nyc will be attacked with a nuke.
it's a 85% certainty!
i guess that means it a 15% certainty that it won't happen.
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The December 31, 1924 Golden Age magazine
by cabasilas inrecently, i obtained some pdf copies of old golden age magazines.
i haven't had much time to read these but i just came across the december 31, 1924 issue.
i had heard the golden age was a bit odd...this confirms it.
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Once saved always saved?
by greendawn inat one extreme are people like the jws that we criticise for relying too much on works for their salvation and so they have to live through a lot of anxiety day after day out of fear of failing.
at the other extreme are those that say "i am saved by faith alone, once saved always saved, that's why jesus died for us" and seem to ignore completely the good works factor.
obviously the right balance is somewhere between the two but we need more sophisticated thinking to grasp it than just: i need works to be saved or i need only faith to be saved.
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Dubs and witchcraft
by kittyeatzjdubs indoes anyone remember the awake (or was it watchtower?
) article that the borg put out about witchcraft?
i remember the picture of the women dancing on the front cover in front of the alter w/ the pentagram and everything on it.
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He Wouldn't Sell to Me Because I'm Not a JW
by JW_Researcher inthis has got to be one of the silliest things i've had happen in a bit:
i wrote steve searle ([email protected]) who has literature for sale on e-bay (marley coles books on cd) and on his website at
http://www.geocities.com/searlsa123/watchtowerantiquarian
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John 5:28,29
by stapler99 inthe witnesses understanding of this scripture was one of the things that i could never grasp.
"28 do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
they believe that the resurrection is the upcoming resurrection, but because death cleansed the resurrected ones of sin, it would be pointless to judge them on their past deeds, so "did good things" actually refers to what they did after their resurrection, and the judgement comes at the end of the 1000 years.