J. Hofer

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  Do you beleive in ghosts??

  by quellycatface in

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  i was always told it was satan and his demons making people think they exist.

  not sure.

  i always thought the guy that excavated king tutenkahmun had a curse on him though.. .

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  i believe in daemons. have a lot of them running on my linux boxes.
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  Is it true? John Denver asks any Witnesses to leave his concert!

  by Witness 007 in

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  version 1. john denver at his concert asks "if there are any jehovah's witnesses in the audience can you please leave.".

  version 2. on the johnny carson show he said the same before singing a patriotic song.

  johnny carson told denver "see that cameraman there..and that lighting guy...there jehovahs witnesses, alot of witnesses work for me because their honest people..so now you can leave.".

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  i heard similar nonsense about van halen and other rock/metal bands.
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  Did you think Dinosaurs were destroyed in the Flood?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  in our jw bible, they placed a friendly dinosaur on the inside front cover on the old time map of the middle east.. you look at that, and see where the placement to where the garden of eden is and that was the image i got in my mind.

  dinosaurs lived, but were too big to save in the flood, and besides they had outlived their purpose of fertilizing the earth.

  i feel stupid for the thinking i had when i was 'in'.. is that how you 'thought' when you were 'in'?.

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  oh and t-rexes weren't carnivores of course. carnivores only existed after the flood. t-rex teeth were perfectly formed to eat all those big ass ferns and other plants. i wonder what sharks ate back then.
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  Did you think Dinosaurs were destroyed in the Flood?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in our jw bible, they placed a friendly dinosaur on the inside front cover on the old time map of the middle east.. you look at that, and see where the placement to where the garden of eden is and that was the image i got in my mind.

  dinosaurs lived, but were too big to save in the flood, and besides they had outlived their purpose of fertilizing the earth.

  i feel stupid for the thinking i had when i was 'in'.. is that how you 'thought' when you were 'in'?.

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  a few years ago when i still was vocal about the inconsistencies in that religion when talking to my family, my mother told me that the dinosaurs were used to eat all the huge vegetation that existed before the garden of eden was created. some sort of godly lawn mowers in other words. and of course to provide fuel in our days.
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  We’re visiting briefly to try to clear up a misconception about Genesis 1:1

  by suavojr in

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  this to me is simply unreal!

  imagine having to answer the following:.

  km 2014. awake march 2014. were visiting briefly to try to clear up a misconception that many have about this bible verse.

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  sir82, the funny part is that the 10,000 year people laugh at the JWs as well ;) just look at unstopableravens.
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  Raised On the Third Day?

  by TTATTelder in

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  i have some potentially controversial questions.. i have always wondered about these things in the back of my mind, but i would immediately dismiss them.

  now i am giving myself permission to explore them further.... a lot of attention is given to how big the sacrifice was on the part of jesus and god when jesus laid down his life.

  as the story goes, jesus gave his life for our sins and then was miraculously raised back to life a couple of days later.. consider this.

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  the whole sacrifice theology doesn't make much sense, but you got a good point there. it's even less than 3 days, supposedly jesus went to preach to the dead souls in the meantime (in non-jw christian theology of course).
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  plesase help me: examples of true prophets being wrong

  by nonjwspouse in

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  my husband insists all the men chosen to be prophets were inperfect men.

  i agreed.

  i do not agree that what they prophacied about; said was from the word of god; could ever be wrong.

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  there's not a single true prophecy in the bible, so you're fighting over a moot point.

  http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/proph/long.html
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  I Want Your Thoughts On This: A 80 Year Old Man Lost His Wife....

  by minimus in

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  and within a month, he has been seeing a 69 year old woman who lived upstairs from him.

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  the wife has been sick for a year and she passed away in october.. now, the 80 year old man is like a teenager with this woman, making out in public places with this woman and introducing her to family and friends as his new girlfriend that he "loves".. the father's family thinks this is weird and are concerned about it.. any thoughts?

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  and what do you want him to do? go kill himself?
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  What are the best questions?

  by MissyM in

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  what would you say are the best questions to ask a jw which they will not be able to answer and may make them question their beliefs?.

  what (if you are a former jw) made you question the "truth"?.

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  for me one of the most important points was 607. question: can you show me one single history book that dates the destruction of jerusalem at 607 bc?
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  abortion vs holocaust

  by unstopableravens in

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  it supports polygamy, sharing wifes and concubines, incest etc.