Topics Started by Lore
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Everyone who disagrees with me is closed-minded
by Lore inyou know how witnesses will say they have to go to a lot of doors looking for someone 'with an open mind'.. they might even study with someone for months and then if they eventually call off the study they'll be considered 'closed-minded'.
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i find that funny..
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Why are letters from John and Paul included in the Bible?
by Lore ini don't see much difference between paul writing a letter to the corinthian congregation and the gb writing a letter to the timbucktoo congregation.. is what paul wrote to the ephesians just as fallible and subject to 'new light' as the letters the wts writes to congregations today?.
if a letter from the governing body today which says it's immoral to have an organ transplant can be dead wrong and changed later.
can the letter from paul which says it's wrong to eat blood be dead wrong and subject to change later?.
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What good is punishment after you die?
by Lore inwhen your child disobeys, you punish him.
simple answer: so he will listen next time and won't disobey again.. if the child has a learning disorder and is incapable of learning from the punishment, odds are you will stop punishing him and will deal with his condition in other ways.. we punish children in order to change their behavior.
if the punishment does not promote a change in behavior the punishment is useless and possibly evil.. .
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Ugly people and crimes.
by Lore ini like to think that i'm perfectly rational at all times.. so in the interest of making myself more awesome i'd like to admit to and try to to fix a prejudice i think i may have.
but i'd also like to make sure it's not grounded in reality.. .
so earlier i saw a story about a woman who killed her baby in the microwave.
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Going to start talking figuratively now. . .
by Lore ini think from now on i should just start talking figuratively whenever i want.. but i'm not gonna tell you when i'm talking figuratively.
you'll just have to figure it out.. .
so in some other thread if you see me talking about the time i smothered a 2 year old i was babysitting, you'll have to guess whether i'm being literal or not.. and when i tell the tale about the time i laughed so hard i shot pepsi out my nose, i could be serious, or i could be being figurative.. and if i say that i'm a 32 year old billionaire heart surgeon with a third arm that helps me with surgury.
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Was it designed . . . TO KILL? The funnel-web spider. . .
by Lore inthe cow and the bear themselves will feed; together their young ones will lie down.
and even the lion will eat straw just like the bull.
and the sucking child will certainly play upon the hole of the cobra .
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Suddenly looking up a definition of a common word
by Lore ini knew i'd draw you in with that incredibly fascinating thread title.
it just screams: "click me" doesn't it?
did you ever have to look up the definition of a word that you've heard used all your life?.
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The magazines didn't used to be so dumb and boring
by Lore inhere's an excerpt from this weeks watchtower study in 1950: .
*** w50 6/15 p. 180 a victory dedicated to jehovahs honor ***.
the strategy, and the attack.
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Noncommittal Prayers
by Lore inanyone else notice the growing trend towards prayers among witnesses to not actually ask for anything specific in prayers.. .
phrases like: "please help my husband get home from work safely today".
have changed to: "please be with my husband today".
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"If Armageddon came in '75, the new ones would have died"
by Lore inthat was the reasoning in a recent public talk at my hall.. namely: if the end of the world happened in 1975, then loads of people who had not yet converted or been born would have been destroyed, or never existed, so therefore we should be happy that yahweh was patient and armageddon hasn't come yet.. .
anyone else see like 5 blaringly horrible problems with this reasoning?.
#1 that will never stop being true!