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If you were in the Governing Body, how would YOU change the generation prophecy?
by sabastious ini personally would lose the overlapping terminology and just say that the generation refers to the entire jehovah's witness movement.
jesus is basically saying that the movement would not be gone when end comes to fruition.
this will give us hope during the great tribulation because there will be times when our extermination seems imminent.. what about you?.
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Are the Gospels Astrological Allegories?
by sabastious ini have been doing a lot of reading and thinking about this the past year.
i have come to the conclusion that if the story of jesus is not fully an astrological allegory than at the very least astrology was interjected into his biography.. http://members.cox.net/deleyd/religion/solarmyth/christ2002.htm.
yes, i know not everything on this website is accurate, but that is not the point.
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Jehovah correcting the organization
by sabastious inread the account of moses taking the credit for the water provision miracle and that of king david's folly and his consequences.. ...read them.... ...you are still reading.... ...ok now you have that fresh in your mind.. jehovah had a correctional arrangement in place for all his spokesmen.
story of jonah would work great too.
the point being that in the bible god has always had this correctional arrangement for the leaders of his earthly organization.. that being said, where did that arrangement go?
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The JW "We don't live for dates" argument
by sabastious ini have ran into this a few times lately.
there is so much wrong with this statement, but i want to just focus on the points that have the highest chance of setting into the jw's mind.. .
what first comes to mind is the fact that jw's have been peddling the "end of the world" being right around the corning for over 100 years.... .
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Things in the past that show you that your doubts started earlier than you thought
by sabastious ini was just talking to my wife this morning about underlining or highlighting the wt paragraphs.. when i was 13 years old i would fight with my dad because i refused to highlight the answers.. the reason was because i wanted my comment to be genuine.
i felt that highlighting the "answer" made me lean on just using that as a crutch and not truly putting it in my own words.. i still hold that argument now, and i am 26. the only reason you would ever have to highlight something in a study book would be if you needed to remember it, maybe it is fairly complicated or subtle information that could be easily forgotten.. so many times in the wt the "question" has the same phrase that's in the paragraph!
it's literally like playing connect the dots.. so what i would do is not highlight during the family study.
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Kingdom Hall Hypnosis
by sabastious ini read a thread a while back about the theory of the kingdom hall meeting framework applying a form of hypnosis.. .
ever since i read that i have been really mulling it over.. .
the kingdom hall meetings have two main formats:.
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All paths lead somehwere
by sabastious ini know it's obvious, but the only things in life that can be quantified are obvious.. i'm not talking physics or math here.
talking psychology and philosophy.. all paths lead somewhere.
every person chooses a path, no matter where they came from, and that path leads somewhere.. it's a bleak outlook to some.
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Probable Doom - Episode 1
by sabastious inthought ex-jws might enjoy this, just finished it:.
http://www.xtranormal.com/profile/2630777/?listtype=series&listid=12507235.
feedback welcomed :).
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- Change is Coming -
by sabastious ini find it ironic that the current president of the united states political campaign was "change.".
he lived up to his word.
change is in the works, it's on the mind and soon it will be at our doorstep.. what will this change be?.
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Can't believe the rubish in the new "Was Life Created" brochure!
by sabastious inscient ists in the united states, asia,.
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