Strange that they look like besties in the photos in different locations rounds the planet, because Mark said he didn’t know anything about LE’s business, didn’t talk to him much outside the channel, and hadn’t heard spoken to him in months, in fact. Mmm.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
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slimboyfat
That’s Genetically Modified Skeptic with TellTale. Cosmic Skeptic is a different, English, YouTuber.
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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!
by Simon ini know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.
it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.
plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.
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slimboyfat
I don’t believe the constitution has any baring on this issue.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
It’s definitely Paul Grundy. Is it definitely inside Australia bethel? How did they manage that?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
How did LE and PG get into Australia bethel?
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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!
by Simon ini know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.
it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.
plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.
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slimboyfat
Do you think this is revenge from the patriarchy for #metoo movement and so on? The Depp/Heard judgement now this, things seems to be swinging the other way.
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Watchtower July 22 - JWs being interrogated need to muzzle their mouths
by Listener inthe watchtower has printed a disturbing article about self control and gives this instruction to the r & f .
self-control also allows us to remain silent when opposers try to trick us into revealing things that could endanger our brothers and sisters.
this might occur when we are being interrogated by the police in a land where our work is banned or restricted.
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slimboyfat
Yes I remember some were beheaded in the Philippines around about 2000? We were all talking about it in the car group.
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The WT has failed to explain fundamental doctrines
by Kosonen insadly the wt failed to teach fundamental biblical doctrines.
i did never really understand the doctrine about ransom while i was still in the congregation.. i did not either understand what it really means that "god is love" as stated in the bible.
i did not either understand from the wt what is love.
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slimboyfat
Aha you are right, Watchtower says the ransom is paid to God. I don’t know how I missed that all these years.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1991123
17 To whom, though, would that ransom be paid? For centuries Christendom’s theologians argued that it was paid to Satan the Devil. The fact is that mankind has been “sold under” sin and thus has come under the control of Satan. (Romans 7:14; 1 John 5:19) Still, Jehovah, not Satan, “exacts punishment” for wrongdoing. (1 Thessalonians 4:6) Therefore, as Psalm 49:7 explicitly states, the ransom is to be paid “to God.” Jehovah makes the ransom available, but after the Lamb of God has been sacrificed, the value of his ransom must be paid to God. (Compare Genesis 22:7, 8, 11-13; Hebrews 11:17.) This does not reduce the ransom to a pointless, mechanical exchange, as if money were taken out of one pocket and put in another. The ransom involves not so much a physical exchange as a legal transaction. By insisting that a ransom be paid—even at great cost to himself—Jehovah affirmed his unwavering adherence to righteous principles.—James 1:17.
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The WT has failed to explain fundamental doctrines
by Kosonen insadly the wt failed to teach fundamental biblical doctrines.
i did never really understand the doctrine about ransom while i was still in the congregation.. i did not either understand what it really means that "god is love" as stated in the bible.
i did not either understand from the wt what is love.
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slimboyfat
I sometimes wondered who the ransom was paid to. There were articles that discussed this but didn’t really reach a conclusion I could understand. They said people in the past speculated that the devil was paid the ransom but that this was a wrong teaching. Another option might be to think that the ransom was paid to God but this was also said to be wrong. Was the ransom paid to the concept of justice rather than a person? Again, I think this was ruled out. I think Watchtower ended up implying that the ransom wasn’t paid anyone as such, it was just paid. Did I pick that up wrong?
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Watchtower July 22 - JWs being interrogated need to muzzle their mouths
by Listener inthe watchtower has printed a disturbing article about self control and gives this instruction to the r & f .
self-control also allows us to remain silent when opposers try to trick us into revealing things that could endanger our brothers and sisters.
this might occur when we are being interrogated by the police in a land where our work is banned or restricted.
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slimboyfat
There are possibly brothers in Russia, Ukraine and other countries in this kind of situation. So I don't think it’s entirely irrelevant.
There are reasonable exceptions to any good advice, but as a general principle, preparing yourself mentally, ahead of time, for the possibility of having to withhold information from threatening authorities, in order to ensure the safety of others, doesn’t seem to me entirely unreasonable or out of place.