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  The copper serpent....drives me nuts!

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  graven images are so thoroughly criticized in the bible....totally forbidden.

  yet any idols made where powerless...just a piece of wood you can also cook on.

  yet god sent out zillions of vipers (thanks dude) to bite everybody....and actually has a scary viper impage made an put on a pole....with some serious power attached.

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  lrkr

  Sorry you missed the sarcasm.

  I must have forgotten the "".

  No you put it- I just missed it- too much coffee this morning.
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  JWs Run Over Dog and Fail to Stop

  by fjtoth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  milledgeville, georgia.

  reports from the milledgeville police department and baldwin county sheriff's office for the day.. crime digest, may 30, 2008. .

  daniel mcdonald and scott teague.

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  lrkr

  Not much news in Georgia, eh????
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  The copper serpent....drives me nuts!

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  graven images are so thoroughly criticized in the bible....totally forbidden.

  yet any idols made where powerless...just a piece of wood you can also cook on.

  yet god sent out zillions of vipers (thanks dude) to bite everybody....and actually has a scary viper impage made an put on a pole....with some serious power attached.

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  lrkr

  That sounds a little blasphemous, Awakened.

  What- so now we cant be blasphemous on this board??? What is that anyway? Is the all powerful creator of heaven and earth really extremely sensitive about people questioning him??? The most forgiving deity in the universe gets really pissed at name calling??? Sounds petty. Sounds human.
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  WT SOCIETY IS WRONG ON BLOOD

  by Vinny in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  still not sure the jw's are wrong on blood?.

  still not sure the jw's are wrong on blood?

  still not sure the jw's are wrong on blood?

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  lrkr

  BTTT
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  The copper serpent....drives me nuts!

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  graven images are so thoroughly criticized in the bible....totally forbidden.

  yet any idols made where powerless...just a piece of wood you can also cook on.

  yet god sent out zillions of vipers (thanks dude) to bite everybody....and actually has a scary viper impage made an put on a pole....with some serious power attached.

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  lrkr

  Its great how they take about 6 lines in the bible about some ancient snake curse and draw a picture of it and have us teach it to our kids (nice bedtime story) so that they know that if you disobey God he will send snakes to kill you.

  (Why don't we make a story about St. Patrick in Ireland chasing off the snakes too. Has about as much credibility.)
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  Did you return to celebrating holidays?

  by song19 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with this new light, i am starting to try and figure out what to do with my life and my time... now that the world is opened up for me to finally explore.. i have been wondering if i will return to celebrating the holidays with my 'worldly' relatives.

  my parents, brother, and in-laws are all witnesses.

  i have pretty much rejected the holidays say for 25 years.

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  Yes, and I find that I have to be careful, because sometimes I go a little overboard. I'm living vicariously through my kid. His birthday parties are great and we don't dare miss his friends parties!!!
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  Congratulations Awakened @ Gilead!!!!

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  graduating from college right next to bethel........and a gilead grad......too much.........and did you guys know he is the valedictorian.....like top score there.........awesome!.............inspirational!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  but you may want to slow down a bit dammit.............oompa.

  you are now a serious pain in the ass for wt.........college and bailing on your gilead skills......hope that does not need two l's bthw.

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  I'll add my voice to that. Congratulations A@G!!!
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  Why I will NEVER be an elder again

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so the po confirmed what many on this board already know.

  at latest round of co to elders meeting, the co quoted from the society outline.

  any elder or ms who encourages college for his kids or others or who allows his children to go to college will no longer qualify.. he then asked if i was going to take the cos encouragement and reach out again to be an elder and get my hours on the ministry up.. i replied "i will never be an elder again - i strongly approve of further education and college and have been through college myself.

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  Outrageous!! Amazing!!! I am in shock that they went that far. I have never been much of an "avatar" kind of guy but I would like to borrow OTWO's.

  I think this may be the start of a great implosion. Or the furthering of a great dumbing down.

  I am more resolved than ever to make sure and innoculate my kid against this mind control cult (There I said it- been resisting for a year- but this is really shocking to me.)
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  Did I hear this right....?

  by Lo-ru-hamah in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was speaking with a dfed jw tonight and he wants to return to jw land.

  he believes they have the truth.

  well, i asked him if he felt that everyone else except jw's would die at armageddon.

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  Oh- its a great double think- they (we formerly) go to meetings, go in service, run ourselves ragged out of fear of being destroyed at Armageddon- but when pressed, they will all say- "We don't believe that everyone who is not a Witness will die at Armageddon" WTF- which is it? Do you die for not going to meetings or not???
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  science!

  by Chameleon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after hearing the stupidity of last sunday's watchtower about trusting the bible over science, no matter what, i'm ready to educate myself.. science wasn't one of my strong subjects in high school; didn't like formulas and all that, but i'm ready to learn now.. so, where should i start?.

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  I'm reading this right now:

  http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0767908171

  It is a summary of the history and status of science of every branch- astrophysics, quantum mechanics, particle theory, geology, biology, age of the earth, age of the universe, shape of the universe, dark matter, etc, etc, etc. It is written by a journalist- not a scientist- so its not too dense and written for the layperson.