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  Dreading the news this week

  by Coded Logic in

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  tens of thousands of protesters are expected to show up in cleveland this week for the republican national convention.

  muslim groups.

  mexican groups.

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  I can`t believe the insanity of the Governor of Ohio or his advisors , party members , allowing such weapons to be carried at such an assembly in Cleveland ,for the Republican National Convention

  What planet are they on ? Sheeeeshhh

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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

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  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  Welcome carl ,glad to have you on board.If you are up to it tell us about yourself.

  Every living thing on this planet lives off the life of some other living thing .And it always has.

  Whether it be on the land , animals , in the sky Birds of heaven , or under the sea every sea creature you can think of,. Just think about it.

  Mankind eats animals and marine life and birds , Birds eat animals and marine life and humans if they find them dead , , Marine life eats animals birds and humans if they get the chance.

  It`s a never ending cycle that has gone on since the dawn of time.

  And no GOD has ever intervened in that cycle.

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  A new celebrity JW . . . albeit from Nigeria.

  by neat blue dog in

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  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/clarion-chukwurah-turns-jehovahs-witness/.

  this is begging for some nigerian scam jokes, i'm just not clever enough to think of them 😜.

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  The checks in the mail Yeshua ben Yousef

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  Question of the Day: Why are so very few of Jesus ACTUAL WORDS...

  by Terry in

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  why are so very few of jesus actual words recorded exactly?.

  the new testament is almost entirely written in greek.. jesus spoke aramaic.

  maybe a bit of what was called "market greek".

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  This is worth a bump .

  Isn`t it stated somewhere in Scripture , if all of Jesus sayings were written down , the world wouldn`t be able to contain them ? , or some such statement alluding to that ?

  The actual sayings attributed to Jesus in the Christian Greek Scriptures would not even fill one of the Bible books attributed to the New Testament.

  Jesus obviously did not think his sayings were worth recording for all mankind , because he never wrote anything down himself ,unlike Moses ,who Jesus was supposed to be a greater prophet of.

  Jesus apparently said a great deal to the Jews of his day without having most of it recorded by himself or anybody else for future generations.

  So obviously he did not think whatever he said , was worth while for future generations to know about , only applicable to the Jews of his day.

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  Any Predictions on what happens to the participants of the failed coup in Turkey?

  by OneGenTwoGroups in

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  they are rounding them, i'm guessing there will be a mass execution?

  one like we haven't seen in a long time i'm guessing..

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  Time will tell
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  TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  top ten reasons.

  (why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.

  the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.

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  That about sums it up for me.

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  " you will never grow old..."

  by mrquik in

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  " you will never grow old..." a more grievous lie is hard to imagine.

  i heard this one first in 1957. i was 6. my mother had just converted.

  i heard it many times after that.

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  Not only that my wife and I would never grow old , but our children would never go to high school .

  My wife and I are in our 70`s , and not only did our children go to high school ,they married and had children of their own ,who also have gone through high school , and married and had children.

  And the WTB&TS today , takes no responsibility for "Witnesses" who took them at their word and never had children .

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  Education, Indoctrination, or Propaganda?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  can anyone remember that classic magazine article that stated:.

  "education teaches one how to think, but propaganda tells one what to think" ?.

  (if someone can post that quote and article that would be great!).

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  LTPF , that quote just about sums up all of the Watchtowers publications to a tee....Propaganda !

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  Is it me or were the experiences at the assemblies really contrived?

  by keyser soze in

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  my favorite were the ones where they were reading a wt publication in the break room at work, and an inquisitive co-worker, thirsty for spiritual knowledge approaches them.

  this leads to an informal witness, which eventually leads to bible study and baptism.. in all my years of working, i've never had anyone show the slightest bit of interest in what i was reading while i was on my break at work.

  but as i said, maybe it's just me..

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  I must admit nobody ever inquired about what I was reading in my lunch breaks ,for the many years I did it.

  However dumbass me was converted by a co-worker.

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  My daughter graduated Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours yesterday.

  by Xanthippe in

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  May I offer to you both my congratulations also .

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