Fred E Hathaway

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  What is your first Truth memory?

  by 5thGeneration in

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  mine was a black and orange wt with the topic "will armageddon be fought in the middle east?".

  1977???.

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  OKAY THIS IS IT MY NUMBER IS 3000

  by orangefatcat in

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  well it took me a few years to make it but finally after the absenses from the board due to illness i am proud of myself.

  still not that well but better then some of you who are and others who have been quite ill. i know how all of you feel.

  your in my prayers.. so who will be first in line to give me 3,000 paddy wacks?????????

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  You will love this

  by TooBad TooSad in

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  2. scandals

  last week during the public talk on sunday (no one from the public was there), the speaker.

  was criticizing or making fun of the catholic church for having law suits and paying out large.

  cash settlements due to pedofiles who were priest.. what really honks me off is that jw's don't even know the problems that the wtbts has with.

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  Participation - Commenting - Answering-Up

  by IMHO in

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  call it what you want.

  is it a privilege?

  considering most do not want to do it given the choice.

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  How do JWs explain John 20:28?

  by Zico in

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  2. bible

  much is made of john 1:1 in trinitarian discussions and there's a lot of debate over how it should be correctly translated, depending on your particular bias on the jesus god issue, but surely there is no scripture more clear that jesus is god than the one where thomas directly calls him god in john 20:28?

  27next he said to thomas: put your finger here, and see my hands, and take your hand and stick it into my side, and stop being unbelieving but become believing.28in answer thomas said to him: my lord and my god!

  how do jehovah's witnesses deal with this scripture?

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  A guiding principal

  by lrkr in

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  like many of you whose posts i've read, i am having trouble not loosing all of my faith at once.

  when the cloak starts to fall, you begin to doubt everything.

  one thing i think i believe, though- a person needs a set of principles to use as a moral compass.

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  Why do the GB members live so long?

  by yaddayadda in

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  don't know if it's my imagination but a lot of these gb old boys seem to have a knack for living a really long time.

  i think freddy franz was 99 when he died?

  barber has just croaked at 102 (or 101?).

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  Is Fading a DF Offense?

  by besty in

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  2. beliefs

  wife sweet pea and i are just starting the 2nd phase of our fade, which as we are already inactive and at 50% meeting attendance, means stopping going altogether.. supposing the elders decide they want to make a shepherding call - which we naturally decline - could they announce us as 'no longer known as jw's' for declining the call, not being at meetings and being inactive?.

  what if we did take the shepherding call and told the elders we just weren't coming back, with no specific reasons given?

  they would be bound to ask if we still believed the fds doctrine, which we could lie about use theocratic warfare strategy and say we were just a bit depressed, with money worries, struggling with the routine etc and would probably be back soon.. thoughts?.

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  Did God ever Exist?

  by found-my-way in

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  2. beliefs

  reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

  if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

  maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

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  How'd you pick your Avatar and/or Username? (Share a little bio?)

  by Open mind in

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  even though you might think it's painfully obvious, explain why you chose your avatar and/or username.

  it could help us faceless "netizens" get to know each other a little better.

  open mind.

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