thomas15
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Wanna bet?
by John Doe ini'll wager $1,000,000 us dollars that you can not accurately predict the gender of the us president for the 2098 elections.
any takers?
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Why Christendom, believe in an 'unpure' God. NWT v's KJV
by Mosesjoel ini have seen in the kjv which most christians use who are not jw's.
and seen so many contradictions, here is one:.
isaiah 45:6that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me.
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A question for Christians on this board.
by loosie indo most christians believe in demons?
or can you believe in gpod w/o believing in demons?.
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Lexicon and concordance
by PSacramento ini used the lexicon and concordance over at blueletterbible.org, a very awesome site and one i higly recommend for all, but i would like to buy one for home, any suggestions?.
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Not Their Fault?
by PSacramento ina friend of mine say this, " if they had found the answers elsewhere, they wouldn't have turned to the jw's".. i recall my mother mentioning the samething to me when she became a jw, that they had the answers and that no one else did.. answers to questions that other religions just didn't have a "convincing" enought reply to.. of course i asked, "how do you know?
have you asked and researched?".
the answer typically comes back "well, er..yes..not really..or from what i was given by the wt...".
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Organized or unorganized?
by Wicaugen ina little background.. i've been stumbling with religion over the past year, making a change from agnostic to quasi-christian during the time period, journeying with many jehovah's witnesses, a few baptists, and even two families of evangelicals.. anyway, one of the serious problems i have with the jw's is following the 'governing body'.
you understand, of course.
but i have a more urgent question.
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"lucky punch"
by inbetween inafter some research and study here on the net and elsewhere, i know, that the doctrine of blood and the treaching of 1914 are not based on the bible, maybe just loosely related,.
however why are they so much accepted by jw ?.
i think one reason is, because both teachings hit something apparantly right, somehow on accident.. i`ll explain:.
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Advice for my DF'd friend
by wobble ini have a dear friend who has recently been df'd,which may not be relevant to the problem,but i told her she now has the time ,and the reason, to examine the religion,and i urged her to use the internet,esp.
freeminds.. her problem is her son,for years,15 or so,he has been on a downward spiral of drug abuse.although never baptised,he was brought up,until his teens,in the wt.he is now thinking that to turn his life around he will get properly involved in the religion.. his mother has said to me that she does not wish to dissuade him,as she fears for his future if he does nothing,conventional counselling,and some less conventional, has failed to help him in the past.she does not want to do an examination of wt at the present time as she feels whatever she discovers she will tell him, and he will go further off the rails ,because he believes it is the truth at the moment,and to take that away from him would leave him nowhere to go.. any helpfull words i can send to her would be appreciated.. many thanks,.
wobble.
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Article on Education and Belief in the bible
by maninthemiddle ini found this while sifting through old papers at my aunt's house.
even though it isn't a wts paper, it loooks like someone "studied" it very well.. there have been related topics in the past, but i think this goes to show it is not just jws.
the second page has a wonderful graph that i think says more than the article.. .
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a dub co-worker of mine...
by thomas15 inas i have mentioned before, i have a co-worker friend who is a long-time jw.
5 years ago, both of us (as well of a few others at my workplace) relocated to ne pa from the jersey shore.
my friend, who is at retirement age btw, lives about 30 miles from me.