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  Arizona massacre -- Where does JW line of self defense get crossed?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses are peaceful folks, just ask them.

  having been one till many years ago i used to know the stock answers to questions about that fine line between being peaceable and defending oneself.. this came to front and center during the past several days with that horrific arizona shooting where some 7 folks have lost their lives.

  it could have been more if it weren't for several onlookers ganging up on the perpetrator after he emptied the first magazine of bullets, getting ready for his spare magazine.. these onlookers instinctively became aggressive and restrained the perpetrator, one of them choking the man when needed, etc., and etc.. heroes, all of them, in my opinion.. none of them remained passive, thinking that this man wasn't really a threat to them personally so why get involved.

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  Lion Cask

  Put all this into the context of the OT massacres and genocides at the hands of God's chosen people. Hypocrisy.
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  JW MIL having surgery - Elders there are the "blood nazis"

  by Robert7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my jw mother-in-law is having some rather major abdominal surgery today.

  given the type of surgery, there is a chance that the blood issue may come up, where in worst case if there's a loss of blood she may need a transfusion.. so in the waiting room for the entire 3 1/2 hour surgery are two elders.

  these guys don't know my mil that well, and they are not there to support her... when it comes down to it:.

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  Lion Cask

  Have you considered politely asking them what they're doing there and then asking them to leave? In your place I would be making it uncomfortable for them, asking them pointed questions about the blood policy, like the number of people who died needlessly before the changes that were effected in 2000, like the dead kids on the cover of the May 22, 1994 Awake! magazine.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Here's a bit of an apropos eye openner.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
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  Adam's sin

  by The Finger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today if i think of the flesh and how i would like to sin i firstly think of sex.

  adultery.

  then i think of drunkeness and gambling and gluttonly ect.

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  Acid, maybe?
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  Does God Create Evil?

  by rvalich in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the view held by christian theology is that god did not create evil.

  you may argue this point using scripture to support either side.

  however that argument is but a symptom of a much larger problem which is choice and free will.. the concept among christians is that sin, suffering, and evil deeds began with the original sin.

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  Your question presumes two givens. One, that God exists and two, that capital-E Evil exists.

  Whether the motive is greed, lust, fear, hatred, pleasure or just plain survival men do evil because it is inate. In an effort to reconcile the disconnect between the perceived existence of a higher power and the evil done by men it was necessary for man to create a story about how Evil came into a perfect world created by a Good God. And that's what it is. A story. If only people would really analyse it, they would realise how irrational and nonsensical it is.

  The answer is no.
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  Adam's sin

  by The Finger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today if i think of the flesh and how i would like to sin i firstly think of sex.

  adultery.

  then i think of drunkeness and gambling and gluttonly ect.

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  Its the Rusty Nails.

  And here I thought it was the shrooms.
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  Adam's sin

  by The Finger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today if i think of the flesh and how i would like to sin i firstly think of sex.

  adultery.

  then i think of drunkeness and gambling and gluttonly ect.

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  Lion Cask

  I once worked with a woman who talked to herself. One day I walked into an otherwise empty room and she was in the middle of a conversation with herself but she abrupty stopped speaking. After about five minutes she said, "Do you think people who talk to themselves are strange?". I replied, "Well, no, not really. I sometimes talk to myself, too." To which she turned to me and said, "Mind your own business. I wasn't talking to you."
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  Still going at it, I see. Tilting at windmills, I mean.
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  Lion Cask

  Are you happy, cofty? If other people are happy and they're not hurting anyone, what's wrong with that? Enlightenment is important to your happiness, I can tell. Mine too. Others are satisfied with the enlightenment they have. If it is that you have a problem with people who are deliriously happy insisting on you sharing in the same delirium as they, I understand your point.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Take Pride In Being Ignorant

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  witnesses love to say they are in the best school available---the theocratic ministry school.

  witnesses don't want you to express research on a subject when giving a comment during a meeting.

  just read verbatim what is in the paragraph.

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  Education and intelligence are mutually exclusive, Amazing.