Haereticus
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Firearms in USA
by Haereticus inhow common it is in usa that a jw has a legal firearms?
i have no recollection of wtbs publications handling this matter specifically.
of course general attitude towards firearms in usa is different from europe but so is also legislation.. it is just that once being a concsientious objector i cannot, even after almost 40 years, imagine myself having one.
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Dancing today
by Haereticus inif i am not mistaken then about forty years ago there was a study article in wt, which quite clearly stated that a mature christian should not dance with anybody else than ones spouse.
somehow i remember that the article gave an example of a couple visiting another couple and let's say the male host would grab the female visitor and lean on her going together circles for few minutes.
then the article went on asking what the visiting male would feel in this situation and what diffrence music would make?
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Smoking as an DF'n offence, since when?
by Haereticus inas far as i can remember (195x) smoking was not accepted among dubs.
somewhere along the line it was classified as a df'n offence.
when this change came about?.
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The extent of JW preaching world wide
by Haereticus ini have a feeling that tens of years ago jw's had the idea that matt.
24:14 preaching work was understood to cover literally places like china, india etc.
todays trend and figures do not really support this interpretation and i wonder what is the "present truth" about the expected extent of preaching work?
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Memorial talk outline link was too much for dubs?
by Haereticus inlast night i posted watch tower observer link about the memorial talk outline onto a finnish forum.
by noon the thread had about dozen posts.
i just checked and found out that the thread was being removed.
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Living in a bottle
by Haereticus inthrough the years jw are taught not to read this and that, ham radio was evil (altghough awake listed frequencies and sceduled times for jw hams), today this is applied to internet as well.
i hope this ngo/dpi alone will prove the dangers associated here.
blind faith simply does not pay off.. here is one way of describing the difference how faith can be based either on assumption or a proven knowledge.
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2006 July 15 QFR
by Haereticus inin our version of the qfr there is one passage that is worded somewhat "foggy".
i would like to see the original text and all i am interested is the paragraph that deals with anal and oral sex and has porneia-related subheading.
in finnish version it is the last paragraph on page 29.. i would appreciate a quotation of the original text in english.. mark.
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Baby shower
by Haereticus inbeing just ignorant former dub i just decided to give our children names and that was it.
i admit i had to twist her (never jw) arm a bit, but no problem (also we did not celebrate xmas.).
a while ago i saw mention about baby shower and (as a native finn) i had no idea what was the meaning of the words.
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Biblical grounds for reinstatement?
by Haereticus inno i am not even contenplating of pleading for it.. i was reading pay attention to and i paid attention to 2 cor.
2:6,7 which were about the only next to appropriate verses quoted for the purpose.
reading around the verses (not normally recommended for dubs) did not assure me that those verses apply to reinstatement.
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Russell and Matt. 24:14
by Haereticus inin his book ?the plan of the ages?
russell wrote that the preaching obligation of matt.24:14 was already fulfilled by his time (italics original):
there are two texts chiefly relied upon by those who claim that the lord will not come until after the millenium, to which we would here call attention.