Topics Started by Moxy
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happy new service year's eve!
by Moxy injust thought id like to remind all the former pioneers that today would be the last day to get in your time for the year.
unless you were one of those annoying elite pioneers that got your time in early - i hated you folks.
actually i suspect that most of the former pioneers here didnt get their time in that often at all.
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Welcome to hell
by Moxy ina classic and delightfully irreverant skit from rowan atkinson (shame on you if you know him only as mr bean!
) which ill be serving up for a little while for your listening enjoyment.. it seems perfectly appropriate to this gang.. http://members.home.com/aghull/devil.mp3.
this skit always reminds me of how id wonder just what jehovah was going to do at armageddon to make sure 'all will know' just why theyre gettin the big brush-off.
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Isaiah, Jeremiah and prophecy
by Moxy inscholars generally understand the prophets isaiah and jeremiah to have been historical figures that lived during the times they were purported to.
the books that bear their names were generally considered to have been legitimately composed by them.
(first isaiah that is, ch 1-39.
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WT and Ghostbusters
by Moxy inthe jw obsession with demons has been a theme of late, but i haven't heard much about the wt views on the physical processes actually involved in demonic activity.
ever heard of ectoplasm?
you know, like 'i've been slimed!
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persecution of a sensitive kind
by Moxy inbizarre..... http://www.news24.co.za/city_press/city_press_news/0,1885,186-187_1055817,00.html.
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1st door-to-door?
by Moxy inthe society tries very hard to present the idea that the door-to-door work was essentially the same in the 1st century as now.
the rendering of 'door to door' in ac5:42 creates that impression.
so do the talks that discuss the missionary efforts then in modern terms (eg "paul was making a return visit here on an interested one") philo's hospitality question earlier shows that we have all been a bit taken in by this.. wt covers like this (4/1/01) sure help too:.
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Flood and bristlecone pine
by Moxy ini mentioned that the dc in our area featured a talk where the speaker, as an illustration of endurance, mentioned methusaleh, the bristlecone pine that had lived for 4700+ years.
i asked here for some possible explanations of this that allow for the wt flood dating.
i had assumed that the standard response would be that the dating of the tree was wrong, that the rings had gotten doubled a few times or something.
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Watching the Wheels
by Moxy inpeople say i'm crazy doing what i'm doing.
well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin.
well they look at me kind of strange.
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UK pub rules?
by Moxy inwas at a gathering yesterday where i was told about a sister from here in canada who had visited the uk and asked to go to a 'pub' just to see an authentic english pub.
the brothers apparently were shocked at her suggestion since uk jws do not go to pubs.
it would be equivalent to a north american going to a niteclub.
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suicide controversy
by Moxy inive just heard about a suicide here in toronto, a brother, sounds like a family man.
i dont know any details but i was kind of disturbed because its apparently a matter of some controversy.
some feel that they should not attend the funeral since it was a suicide.