Paralipomenon
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How many current teachings have not been altered at all?
by Paralipomenon ina point in another thread about the organization being directed by holy spirit made me think of this question.. is there a single teaching from the start of the witnesses that remains unchanged to this day?.
i've spent a few minutes and haven't come up with a single current teaching that hasn't been altered somehow.. - initially there wasn't a paradise earth, all were going to heaven.
- door to door was more public protests.
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Saw my JW father the other day
by Paralipomenon ini'm still a bit torn on the issue of associating with my parents.
they have made absolutely no effort to keep in touch and usually any contact results in a generic witness email reply.. i have been at the point that i really don't need or care for their influence in my life for a while but i keep flipping back and forth between cutting off all contact and being the bigger person and at least give them updates.. so, in light of their recent aniversary, i went to the store and tried to pick them out a card.
i never really realized how difficult that is if you're looking for a card to actually mean what you say.. unfortunately i didn't find a card that said "sorry you two are trapped in a loveless marriage and i could really care less about your opinions" so i settled for the least bit sappy i could find.. i put the kid's school pictures in and while out running errands dropped it off.
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Could humans become as powerful as Jehovah? WT says yes!
by Paralipomenon incoming to the end of my trying to rationalize and understand the witnesses i had a thought.. witnesses maintain that jesus was a physical human.
a perfect one, but human nonetheless.
this was to be a perfect sacrifice in place of adam, and it had to be human otherwise it wouldn't be a real test.. at the age of 30, jesus was baptised and with the holy spirit in the form of a dove, he regained his memories of his life in the heavens.. close books, applause, sing a song and pray.. whoa, wait... so if he was a normal human... that means that a normal human has the capacity to hold all the information of the universe from the creation of the stars, galaxies, to the intricices of dna structure of every living thing on the planet.. i researched this point and asked everyone i could.
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How old was God when he made the earth?
by Paralipomenon inin all, i enjoy numbers and math.
as such i can see problems from a mathmatical basis where they exist.. this thought came to me last night.. 1 in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth.. 2 now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was hovering over the waters.. 3 and god said, "let there be light," and there was light.
4 god saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
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Why is it so cold this winter? Science, not hype.
by Paralipomenon inwith this being a hot topic on the board right now (bad pun sorry) i discovered an interesting article offering an explanation from real scientists.. http://www2.ucar.edu/magazine/currents/brrr-ao-way-low.
the article does a nice generic explanation, then gets alot more technical if you are so inclined.
if you follow the climate change debate and have heard one side saying this is the result of the artic warming up from global warming, or another side saying the cold is evidence of a lack of warming, you'll be interested in hearing what they have to say on the topic specifically:.
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JW Meetings through the eyes of a 4 year old
by Paralipomenon inover christmas when we were having our family supper we mentioned that it was our 3rd christmas and thought to ask the kids how much they remember from before we had the holidays.. our oldest son vividly remembers not having christmas and remembers how boring and annoying going to meetings were.. our youngest is turning 5 and will grow up never knowing what a meeting is like or what it was like before we did the holidays.. our middle son said he remembered the meetings and liked them.
that comment both concerned me and puzzled me.
i was concerned that he would have some lingering affection for meetings and later on seek out witnesses and get trapped again.
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How do you confront someone abusing their daughter?
by Paralipomenon inseeing how child abuse has affected many people here, i am hoping for some advice.
we have friends of our family that have it on good authority that a father is abusing his four year old daughter.
he's always seemed rather creepy to me, which is a bit of the problem.
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Witnesses were right! Blood substitutes better than real blood!
by Paralipomenon inhttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/health/04/28/blood.substitutes/index.html?iref=werecommend.
hahaha, just kidding, they're now linked to heart disease and attacks.
let's just get some new light to clear up this little misunderstanding....
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Atheists - What is the meaning of life?
by Paralipomenon inpersonally i am a agnostic with a complete rejection of a personal god.
without the concept of salvation my belief structure states that when i die, very likely that is it.
no amount of good or bad deeds will extend my life past the point of my death.
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Christmas gift to myself arrived yesterday.
by Paralipomenon inhttp://www.rof.com/product_p/2290-pq.htm.
i'm not one much for car decals, but i saw this on someone's car in front of me during my commute and felt that it suited me.. i think some posters here would appreciate the meaning.
merry christmas!.