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  An important message from a PRACTICING Jehovah's witness

  by Sparks in

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  hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!

  i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.

  i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.

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  bohm

  haha good one; the op had me 100%
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  An important message from a PRACTICING Jehovah's witness

  by Sparks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!

  i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.

  i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.

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  bohm

  Sparks: If you want to see how friendly they really are,try sending them all a personal message asking them to loan you $10 [ £5] for a week or two....! yes,that's right, you have no chance of even getting a single penny out of them. These people are like cats.. they purrrr when you stroke them [ say all the right things] but will turn on you in the wink of an eye if you brush them-up the wrong way.

  I totally get your point. It's not like the Watchtower would ever ask you for money and not expect to borrow you any...

  Oh wait...
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  9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

  by EndofMysteries in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

  "a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

  another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

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  ADCMS: I am not sure which ADCMS i am talking to right now. What is for instance a controlled setting for a 9 year old to shoot an uzi? a setting in which the instructor ensures the uzi is properly loaded? a building with a roof over? A setting in which it is extremely dangerous and stupid for a 9 year old to shoot an uzi like you now believe? I am confused.

  Suppose someone let their 6 year old son drive the car and the car crashed. What if i said: Yes, but sometimes accident just happend despite all the precautions people take. One should also keep in mind bicycling is dangerous too.

  Would that indicate i agreed or disagreed with the parents actions in your mind?
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  Why did God/Jehovah/Jesus create Viruses and bacteria that can kill humans and animals?

  by Jon Preston in

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  i know this topic has been spoken about but i havent seen an official thead about it.

  so theists why did god create these and why does he co tinue to allow them?

  are they from the talking snake, satan?.

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  God made humans for his pleasure

  Why gosh darnit that explains it. Also, the only thing better than bying a pet-dog for your pleasure is to infest it with ebola and see it shit it's own guts out while it dies. Makes perfect sense! And the only thing better than that is to do it a billion times over.

  Great plan; a bit like a 10 year old who plan to microwave his hamster.
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

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  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  bohm

  Ruby: I agree on both counts. But the question you raised was "what if someone cannot enjoy life" not if all there is to life is enjoyment (at least if understood in a narrow sense; if "enjoyment" is understood very broadly to be "all that makes life worth living" then it is a tautologically true statement to say all that is to life is enjoyment, anyway i digress).
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  9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

  "a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

  another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

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  ADCMS: I've stated a number of times that this was an avoidable accident, I do not advocate that children shoot this kind of weapon, and I have no problem with laws that say as much. What the hell are you still arguing about???????

  Yes, it appears I may be confusing you with ADCMS from page 2 whom my comment was directed to.

  It's not as if the parents just handed their 9 year-old an Uzi and told her to go out and play.

  She was receiving instruction by a professional in a controlled setting.

  Sometimes accidents just happen regardless of all the safety precautions taken.

  Skateboards, archery, motorcycles, monkey bars, bikes, downhill skiing and gymnastics are also dangerous kid activities that carry varying degrees of risk (sometimes a high degree/potentially lethal).

  Try as you might to make everything risk-free, it just isn't realistic. It's always easy to dissect, criticize and condemn in hindsight.

  Seing we agree these things should be regulated and it was inexcuseable to give her this weapon in what was obviously not a controlled setting it seem we do not in fact disagree.
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

  1. jw
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  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  bohm

  Ruby: what if a person cannot enjoy their life? what then?

  What if a person cannot enjoy bacon? what then?

  Well it don't seem very plausible to say: And if you can't enjoy bacon, you will be given en infinite amount of bacon-like stuff that you CAN and WILL enjoy forever!

  What about the simple answer: If you cannot enjoy life or if you cannot enjoy bacon then you wont enjoy life and you wont enjoy bacon.
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  9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

  "a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

  another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

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  ADCMS: If it wasn't an accident, then the only other option is that it was deliberate

  It was an accident which could only happend because someone gave this girl a loaded uzi and told her to shoot it.

  A law preventing something this outrageously stupid would also very likely have prevented this accident.

  This is a very simple point and I got no idea why it seem so easy to miss. For instance, suppose the same parents had put the 9 year old in a car and let her drive on the freeway and suppose she then hit someone who died. We could then re-use all the same silly arguments: "Skiing is dangerous too! A nail gun is also dangerous! Some 9 year old can drive just fine! My grandpa let me drive a tractor when i was 8 and i didnt hit anyone!"; it would not change the fact there is no particular good reasons to let 9 year olds drive and plenty of reasons to assume it is fairly dangerous in general --- just like handing them a loaded military-graded weapon they are not strong enough to shoot safely and ask them to shoot it.

  Now ofcourse driving is not a moralized issue for you like gun control and so you don't loose your ability to sense nuances. Also, you are not up in arms with a number of silly arguments to "protect" driving rights by insisting 9 year olds should drive on the freeway.
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  What did ants evolve from?

  by Pinku in

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  an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!

  (not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.

  http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).

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  bohm

  Pinku: and we do not find anything to suggest that they evolved from any other species.

  i find nothing to suggest you read the links provided to you in this thread.
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  JW.org to be regarded as fulfillment of the signs of the last days.

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  i struggled as a jw to accept that the good news of the kingdom was ever going to be preached in all the inhabited world by jws, as there were many parts of the world with few to no jws.

  there are not enough to cover the 3 billion plus people in asia to allow everyone to get a chance to hear the message.

  it also was offensive to me that jehovah would kill those billions that had never had a chance to accept the watchtower message.

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  bohm

  I wonder if the "great door" may be a snapchat Jehovah will send to all people just before the end?