Posts by redvip2000

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New building

by asp59 in

you think the new building addition to warwick ,that will house 1000 audiovisual and art production volunteers is a push to go online with the meetings?

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redvip2000

to go online with the meetings?

There is no doubt they are moving more and more into the digital space, but if you mean making members attend meetings online instead, this will never happen.

The only thing I think that keeps things together is the social aspect of the congregation and meetings, and the get togethers. If you replace that with some virtual connection, it will slowly eat away at the bond, and this would spell disaster for them.

They probably just want to continue to create more digital content to feed to the flock.

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Approximately 40 authors wrote the Bible considered as GOd`s inspired word .Jesus never wrote one sentence in the bible.

by smiddy3 in

the bible from genesis to revelation and some apocrypha books are considered "god`s inspired word" written by imperfect men over the centuries.. yet jesus christ who never wrote a single sentence yet claimed to be the son of god and changed the history of the world not by what he said and did ,but by what others claimed he said and did.. moses wrote five books jesus wrote none .. how can jesus be considered greater than moses ?.

did the political powers that be in those days see an advantage of making jesus and christianity an opportunity for power and authority over the population of the time ?.

redvip2000

Actually Moses didn't write the first 5 books, especially considering that the 5th book describes Moses's death.

Nobody knows who wrote these fairy tale books. There is nothing special about the bible. A book that is full of nonsense and contradictions.

Even the things in the bible that you could say are good, are not impressive in anyway. Ohh, "don't kill", "don't rob", "don't sleep with your neighbors wife". We are supposed to be impressed by that? Even other people around the world who don't believe in the bible have figured that out.

You can walk into any book store and find self help books that far ahead of the bible. Books that provide real strategies and methods for living healthy, balanced lives, not the vague and redundant drivel based on middle eastern peasant philosophy.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Came to My Neighborhood

by Juan Viejo2 in

for nearly two years i have not seen any jehovah's witnesses going door to door in my neighborhood.

that was not the case when my wife and i first moved here (north central oregon).

in fact, our neighborhood was visited at least once every 4 to 5 months - even in the coldest winter months.

redvip2000

This cart thing is brilliant.

And like someone said here, sometimes there are 3 jdubs standing next to a cart, when not a single conversation is had during the entire shift, and they are all counting the same time.

Why not put a big billboard on top of each kingdom hall with a message to go to Jw.org and then just count 24 hours of preach of daily work for the entire congregation

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Question from yesterdays persecution article...

by JW_Rogue in

what are you resolved to do if under ban?.

i wonder how many people were thinking about how that would be a great excuse to leave!

finally, a good out, you were just too afraid of the persecution.

redvip2000

The Watchtower has been preaching that this supposed persecution is one of the expected steps toward the end. Why worry about it? If it's just part of God's plan, why is there even a need to hide. Surely Jellohoba will have his angelic apparatus tasked to protected the jdubs.

Too bad they don't realize that nobody gives a shit about Jdubs. There will be no ban on any religion, and certainly no ban on a minuscule religion that nobody cares about.

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The urgent, lifesaving work of Jehovah's witnesses......hardly!!

by RayoFlight2014 in

since june 2016 i have kept a journal of my encounters with jehovah's witnesses at my door or in my street.

i'm a a nosey bastard and a bit of a home body when i'm not at work so i don't miss much of who comes past my home or knocks at the door.. will and dill.. they came to my door on a wednesday morning around 10:30am mid june 2016, i was on afternoon shift and had been reading bart ehrman "misquoting jesus".. what follows is the conversation as best i could recount after they left;.

of the two young gentlemen, dillon, the younger in appearance introduced will and himself, he then proceeded to present me with a brochure about world conditions supposedly getting worse.. me: i could stand at the door nodding in agreement if you like?

redvip2000

I like reading about encounters with Jdubs. There really should be more posts about those situations.

Well done.

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Does Today’s Comedy Offend You?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.

someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.

we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.

redvip2000

Trudeau is one of those droves of idiots who find offence in everything.

Sure, but I don't care about Trudeau either way. I'll call shots based on issues. Good thing about not belonging to a team. You can call it as you see it.

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Do You Think Trump Should Be Impeached?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some democrats are zealously pushing the impeachment route to get rid of trump.

even if you don’t like him, do you support impeachment proceedings?.

redvip2000

Trump is too busy having a Tweeter war with John Legend's wife to care about war or anything else.

Don't worry folks it's just another day in the Banana Republic.

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Does Today’s Comedy Offend You?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.

someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.

we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.

redvip2000

Justin Trudeau has apparently been caught in 'brown face'.A picture has emerged of him 'browning up' at an Arabian themed party from 2001.

And he should be allowed to dress as anybody he wants to, as long as it's not in the intent of disparaging. If someone decides they will dress up as a character who happens to be of another skin color at halloween, and it's done in good spirit, then this is totally fine.

The issue are the droves of idiots, that spend their days trying to come with things to complain about. Just part of the outrage society we live it.

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Thoughts on Sundays wt about persecution

by nowwhat? in

so let me get this straight.

even though law enforcement has their hands full with illegal drugs and guns on the street, child traffickers, dangerous gangs and such.

they are going to now pool all their resources to confiscate bibles and religious literature?!

redvip2000

As I told my mother recently, when we start hearing about western countries changing their constitutions to abolish freedom of religion, then I will start attending meetings again. Until then there is simply no evidence that any of this stuff will happen.

No politician is looking to have mass rioting on the streets to deal with because religion is suddenly outlawed.

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The JW's Creationist mindset?

by Doug Mason in

i am mapping out part 3 of my critiques on the watchtower's (jws) brochure, "the origin of life".

i drafted a sketch to help me visualise the task and thus develop the structure and reasoning.

the sketch is available at:.

redvip2000

In other words rejection of evolution starts from a fear of contravening "sacred scripture" and therefore displeasing God.

Well said. in fact i've never hard a JW using the complexity of DNA to support creationism. Dare I say that most JWs don't even know how complex DNA is.

The main reason are always the fact that Bible says God created everything, and the disbelief that human could actually have come from "monkeys" ( as they put it).