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Proof WBTS is downgrading 1914
by yesidid inmaybe they're keeping the doctrine but they are not writing about it as much in the watchtower.. below are statistics from their 07 cd showing how many times 1914 was mentioned in the watchtower for each year 1950 to 2006 .
i have divided the years 1950 2006 into segments of eight excepting for the last, which is nine.. on the side i have the average for those years.
notice they have gone from 88.87 a year to 24.44. .
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers- Your Favorite Songs or Albums from Them ?
by flipper inmusic fans !
here is one of the more popular groups from the last 8 years or so !
my personal favorite group as of right now that is actively recording and playing still !
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GB = College of Cardinals and pope?
by hamilcarr inheard and seen on youtube:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlgppzmz0ne.
this [gb] is a group of individuals that have come from all over the world and whom we believe are directed by god to help us understand what is contained in scripture, just as other religions would have their religious leaders, those to whom they look so do jw, but the fact that we believe that there is a gb, a f&ds class that we call it whos helping us understand the bible no more makes us a sect than it would make catholics a sect because they believe that the pope and the college of cardinals have the ultimate truth for catholics - philip brumley, jw general counsel.
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We don't celebrate holidays because ........
by RubaDub ini just can't stomach the time wasted in meetings and in the literature about the jw stand on holidays.. we try to explain why we don't celebrate christmas, mothers day, halloween, thanksgiving day, etc, etc, etc.. yet in reality, other than the memorial and anniversaries, we don't celebrate anything, regardless of the origins of the holiday.
if a new holiday was created encouraging people to be nice to each other, we still wouldn't celebrate it ... it would be worldly!!!.
all the time and energy put into determining the origins of certains days is just a waste of time.
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Fun with study article April 2008
by hamilcarr inperhaps it is not surprising that in lands where many have received such an education [at college or university] belief in god is at an all-time low.. w2008-04-15 repudiate "valueless things".
perhaps it is not surprising too that in lands where many haven't received such an education, crime, violence, war, deprivation, starvation, child death, female suppression and mind control are at an all-time high.
is this not a clear fulfillment of the words paul wrote to timothy that we are living in critical times?
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Making a case for evolution: answer to ID advocates
by hamilcarr into all defenders of intelligent design: it is wrong to assume that evolutionary mechanisms cannot be empirically observed.. i'll give only one example to show evolution is all around us:.
fish are becoming smaller and growing more slowly in response to pressures introduced by fishing, scientists say (google ulf dieckmann).. researchers call this fisheries-induced adaptive change, showing that harvesting drives evolution towards smaller fishes.. many people think evolutionary mechanisms require millions of years to bring about such drastic changes and that it is therefore impossible to empirically observe adaptive change.. it is, however, becoming more and more clear that only two or three decades are needed to provoke large changes, in particular when pressures are high.. although some of darwin's are outmoded and easy targets of id advocates, these data perfectly fit in with the mechanisms he predicted to steer evolution..
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"Making a case for 'intelligent design'"
by inkling inthe following guest editoral ran in a mainstream fairly liberal city newspaper:.
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what is the official JW view on bible students?
by hamilcarr inwhile visiting some bible students sites, i wondered what the official jw view on these organizations is.
are they part of babylon the great simply because of refuting the post-1916 developments and the governing body?
as far as i know, they do not adhere to any of the false teachings jw like to refer to in debunking the rcc and traditional protestantism, such as hellfire, trinity, immortal soul.
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What is the motives of the GB?
by sweet pea inok guys and dolls, want your input here.
a friend of mine has a question...... .
"the brothers in bethel/headquarters seem very sincere and loving - what possible motive would they have in trying to deceive people, what do they get out of it?
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left brain (Christ ) right brain (God ) brilliant or B.S. ? comments
by caliber inmany sites on the webb have discussed left brain -right brain topics, but this one i think is very different !
"artifical intelligence from the bible !
http:www.rebelscience.org/seven/background.html.