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  What if WBTS is right?

  by african GB Member in

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  people, please don't be angry at me, but do you sometimes ask yourselves this question?

  i do..

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  Would love to read opinions on this.

  by dgp in

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  hebrews 6:18: it is impossible for god to lie".. is he all powerful, then?.

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  Interesting experience on SL...JeHOvah's Witness and I have an encounter

  by mindmelda in

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  i go to a women's discussion group on sl, second life, which is a virtual community where you do all sorts of things, including entertainment, discussion groups, media, and just socializing through the use of animated avatars which can be quite realistically human or whatever you want them to be, really, aliens, elves, dragons, vampires, etc.. anyway, a woman there brought to the discussion a situation where she had her real life husband wants to divorce her for a witness woman he had met..and get this...she had come to his door after the couple separated and offered him a bible study, and apparently instead, it turned into a romance and then, according to the woman, her husband and this woman are hitting the sheets.

  (you're not supposed to call on the opposite sex alone, and do doubt this is one reason...too many lonely witness women who'd jump on the first piece of dude they meet!

  lol).

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  If you exclude anything BUT direct commenting on matters , as represented by "this is what Jehovah has said"...and you exclude any idea that because someone wrote a note down and it got passed around that the note is magical

  by gubberningbody in

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  what do you get?.

  if you stop treating the book like it's a magical device, what do you get?.

  what is it really saying?.

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  Do you believe the Bible?

  by Cagefighter in

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  i don't want to high jack african gb's thread but something got me thinking.... moses, abraham were inbred and hearing god's voice... paul never met jesus yet he is the only apostle coming down like a hammer of gays and has this "close bond" with timothy.

  then there is the issue of "horus" the egyptian god and is this where the story of jesus comes from.

  i have searched the internet for information on horus and have not had much luck finding anything authorative either way.. my question is do you or don't you believe in the bible and why or why not?

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  The Journey Continues.... :)

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  -goodbye yellowbrick road- elton john and bernie taupin.

  when are you gonna come down .

  when are you going to land .

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  MrsJones

  by Blue Grass in

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  mrsjones claims after 17 years of marriage she has never cheated on her husband, not even once.

  this is a direct contradiction of what billy paul tells us.

  i'll let you decide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfr6jmjoga8.

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  Worldly Shunning

  by alice.in.wonderland in

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  i hear quite a bit of criticism about jehovah's witnesses enforcing 1 corinthians 5:9-13. while jehovah's witnesses have a formal system of maintaining the organization's core values; egocentric, self-worshiping secularists have an informal system of rejecting those of whom they have nothing in common with.

  http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-390-religion.aspx.

  most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies governed by causal laws, the world we perceive with our senses and can study by rational methods.

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  RE: reading people's hearts

  by ana_dote in

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  i didn't want to hijack highdose's thread because i apparently went off on a rant when attempting to simply comment, so i thought i'd start my own thread.

  this has been something that has just recently become more apparent in my thinking and bugs the crap outta me!:.

  if it is a universal fact that god exists and can read people's hearts.....then why is there the statement that only jw's and those "ignorant" of jw teachings will live?.

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  The boldly stupid remain so while those not so inclined act with undue restraint

  by gubberningbody in

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  interesting study..... .

  the dunningkruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

  "[1] the unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.

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