I think the difference is Christianity tells you that helping people like this is more important then meeting at places and boasting about how bad or good you are. At a bar/ballgame/work your not being guilt tripped in to giving away your money....errr I mean raising your faith.
Burger Time
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I don't really wish to "Attack" Religion - but this is hard to ignore!
by AK - Jeff innot my words.
not my total sentiments.
but it made me think, and that is the only reason i posted it.
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Busted Dreams--11/1/1989 Style (Big puke alert)
by WTWizard inso here is the dreaded 11/1/1989 puketower article.
this is the one that said "you are not going to do fornication, and you are not going to marry outside the cult".
effectively, this has killed many a dream marriage, and stopped people from having any fun.. oddly enough, the opening paragraph tells us that jehovah is not out to bust up our fun.
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Burger Time
Didn't England start exploring it's sexual side in the 1800's? I mean then you could go to a brothel and pick up a 15 year old boy and you were only looked at as weird if "buggery" was involved.
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Paul's belief in Christ - Lets get it STRAIGHT this time!
by lovelylil ini need to vent.
i am sick and tired of people claiming that paul did not believe in the jesus christ of the bible.
there are many articles on the web (someone sent me one today) that claims that paul's writings deny that a historical jesus existed.
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Burger Time
lovelylil, please don't take this the wrong way, but when I see post like this it always makes me chuckle a little bit. It reminds me of when someone posts a scholarly theory and someone comes back with a religious theory as if this is going to put the scholarly theory to rest. Well it never does. As Nark pointed out the debate isn't about Paul denying or not believing in the Christ of the gospels. It's just a scholarly debate that if you really truly believe in the bible shouldn't make one hill of beans.
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Paul's belief in Christ - Lets get it STRAIGHT this time!
by lovelylil ini need to vent.
i am sick and tired of people claiming that paul did not believe in the jesus christ of the bible.
there are many articles on the web (someone sent me one today) that claims that paul's writings deny that a historical jesus existed.
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Burger Time
lovelylil, please don't take this the wrong way, but when I see post like this it always makes me chuckle a little bit. It reminds me of when someone posts a scholarly theory and someone comes back with a religious theory as if this is going to put the scholarly theory to rest. Well it never does. As Nark pointed out the debate isn't about Paul denying or not believing in the Christ of the gospels. It's just a scholarly debate that if you really truly believe in the bible shouldn't make one hill of beans.
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Has my mom given up?
by Princess Daisy Boo inso with the memorial a mere 3 days away i was not heard a word from her about it?
each year i am told at what time it will be at the local congregation and some years she has even got one of the local witnesses to contact me to invite me (they even offered to fetch me once!)..
i am assuming that she has decided not to bring up the subject after the talk we had a few weeks ago, but this must be eating away at her big time!.
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Burger Time
My parents have yet to bring up the issue either.
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JW LOOPHOLE ON BLOOD IN PRINT!!
by Burger Time inok just read this article and didn't see it anywhere else.
anyways in this article the liason committee gives permission for a "forced" transfusion.
the article basically points out the loophole!!
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Burger Time
Well this article implies that there was a think tank and it was decided by all parties the best option would be to have a court order for the transfusion. I don't think it has ever been implied that this is an option. It's only a last ditch effort by courts you can't fight. My Mom read it and said, "What the sister said, was true....they did all they could in obedience to the command to abstain from blood.".
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Is Paul constantly disagreeing with Christ?
by yknot inokay i am re reading without wt blinders...... i was noticing that paul appears to contradict christ on several occasions.
now that i recognize that i am still bible ignorant outside of jw understanding i was hoping some of our more knowledgeable posters would address this issue for us bible babies.. thank you.
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Burger Time
I think Leolaia or Narkosis can explain this the best. A lot of where Paul differs with the theology of Christ in the Gospels is from later works such as Timothy and Titus which could have been influenced by those trying to stamp out gnostic influences. Leolaia had a great article written on Women in the NT and Paul's view.
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JW LOOPHOLE ON BLOOD IN PRINT!!
by Burger Time inok just read this article and didn't see it anywhere else.
anyways in this article the liason committee gives permission for a "forced" transfusion.
the article basically points out the loophole!!
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Burger Time
You just have to be talking about something cool! Just be glad you don't have to keep up with internet fads! OK enough of hijacking threads!
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"We NEVER PROPHESIED about 1975"
by Honesty in2:24 through 5:12 of the following video says they did:.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiezx74p5ck&feature=related.
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Haha well I should probably clarify as an example of someone who did something with good intentions but was still punished.
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JW LOOPHOLE ON BLOOD IN PRINT!!
by Burger Time inok just read this article and didn't see it anywhere else.
anyways in this article the liason committee gives permission for a "forced" transfusion.
the article basically points out the loophole!!
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The article is actually well worth the read, even if I were a non JW I would appreciate the article and not lean either way on the issue.