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  Which bible character do you hate the most?

  by Bonsai in

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  the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.

  he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".

  he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.

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  Heaven

  Definitely Yahweh. It all starts with this psychopath.
  
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  ATT: WARNING

  by EJ257 in

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  please be aware of everything that is happening around the world at this moment in time.

  this goes to anyone, ex-communicated, removed, serving, believer and non.

  at this point in my observations i have realized many religions/ideologies know there is some sort "end of time" or a transition into a new order of living in this earth.

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  Heaven

  Sooo... the OP was 19 hours ago. Did the world end yet? Just wondering 'cause I hadn't noticed.
  
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  I have been informed that if u are df and you appeal the decision and you loose appeal

  by poopie in

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  the elders will keep you out longer as payback for you appealing their decision how dare you peon appeal the secret weapons design you stupid publisher.

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  Heaven

  Sounds like another reason to leave the Borg and never return.
  
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  HAPPY THANKSGIVING ERRRRRRRRRR BODY.!!!

  by brandnew in

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  just wanna say.....im thankfull for y'all....n stuff

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  Heaven

  Happy Thanksgiving to all our American neighbours to the (mostly) south ... from all of us here in the "It's Getting Colder" north.
  
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  JW message becoming more and more relevant

  by lsw1961 in

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  mans requirements are limited which can be satisfied with a little and tension-free endeavor..

  however man attempts not only to collect but also to grab and amass everything to the excess.

  somehow he feels that he can be happy only when he has in abundance whereas others have nothingwhich seems to be the thread that runs throughout the history.

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  Heaven

  If I told you I was coming over to your house 'imminently' and over 100 years passed and I never showed up, would you still believe that I was coming 'soon' or would you conclude 'I don't think she's ever coming'.

  THE one requirement of Faith is that you must abandon logic and reason.
  
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  Decrease of numbers in Jehovah's Witnesses via Deaths, DFings, or Turning Inactive

  by flipper in

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  so i'm sure a good number of us saw the chart that i believe the poster splash put on another thread of figures since 1990 regarding how many baptized and % of increase each year .

  i started analyzing it ( and i know some referred to it briefly on the other thread ) and guessing of reasons the % of increase didn't match the number of newly baptized.

  and of course common sense tells us that either jw's leave the cult each year through death, fading into inactivity, or getting dfed.

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  Heaven

  My maternal grandfather, who introduced this religion into my family, died in 1967. I am not sure his wife, my maternal grandmother, ever 'dedicated' herself, however, she died in 1975.

  In the 1990s, I lost a cousin who refused a blood transfusion. Only 1 of her 3 children remained in the faith. (Her husband was not a JW).

  I also lost an uncle who was a JW.

  My mother died in 2002. She was a JW.
  

  I lost an aunt and uncle in the 2000-2007 timeframe who were both JWs.

  My father in inactive due to declining health from dementia.
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  My new Religion is The Truth.

  by LAWHFol in

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  what exactly is religion?

  why all of the pain?

  you either love religion (usually the one you call home), you hate it.. or you're somewhere in between, and you say "let bygones be bygones".

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  Heaven

  LAWHFol said: Simon - I agree that believing in a Fact is not discrimination. What fact are you referring to please?

  The fact is that Christian religions base themselves upon a factually inaccurate, genocidal, homophobic, misogynistic, pro-slavery book. When the foundation for what you believe in is false, then it logically follows that any beliefs derived from that foundation will also be false.

  Start with the order of creation listed in Genesis 1:11-18. According to God, the Earth, the water, the atmosphere, and soils were all formed before the sun. This is 100% false. The Bible calls the moon 'a light'. This is also false. It is a reflector of light not a source/emitter of light.

  "It's called Faith because it isn't Knowledge." - Christopher Hitchens
  
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  2016 WT printing reduction - Figures

  by Splash in

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  the wt has been reducing it's printed output of the public wt magazine since 2012.this is how the figures breakdown:.

  month ................. wt printing each issue ............. total pages per issue ..... languagesjanuary 2012 ....... 42,182,000 .................................. 1,349,824,000 ...................... 194january 2016 ....... 58,987,000 .................................. 943,792,000 ......................... 254. during 2012 the public wt had 32 pages, so there were 1.35 billion wt pages printed for the public to read each month.1,349,824,000 pages x 12 months = 16,197,888,000 (16.2 billion) pages per year.

  by 2016 the public wt has only 16 pages and is being printed only on alternate months.943,792,000 pages x 6 times per year = 5,662,752,000 (5.7 billion pages per year).

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  Heaven

  Wow, Jehovah's Chariot is definitely speeding up!
  
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  Old Books and Magazines

  by twice shy in

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  it's been a minute since i was here.

  question?

  what to do with old books and magazines?

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  Heaven

  I'd like to sell my parent's library of litter-a-trash. I don't care how much I get for them as long as my Dad gets some of his money back. He can use it now that he is in a nursing home.

  If they don't sell, I'll use them as compost.
  
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  JW message becoming more and more relevant

  by lsw1961 in

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  mans requirements are limited which can be satisfied with a little and tension-free endeavor..

  however man attempts not only to collect but also to grab and amass everything to the excess.

  somehow he feels that he can be happy only when he has in abundance whereas others have nothingwhich seems to be the thread that runs throughout the history.

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  Heaven

  FMF, that pic with the dog is funny. Interestingly enuf I was reading up a bit on canine ancestry. It is a bit more muddled than ours as domestic dog breeds have interspersedly bred with the wild wolf population over time so there is a lot more wolf in the dog ancestry than there is ape in the human one (I think... uh oh, mental image needs an exorcist... doh! )