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  THE TRUTH is an estimate

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was growing up in a household with my grandparents, i heard a certain phrase hundreds of times, "well, you know what they say .

  and i wondered: "who are "they"?.

  it was my first encounter with shapeless, formless, invisible, abstract, non-descript, and anonymous authority.. the premise seemed to say:.

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  Perry

  Truth is not an absolute

  Are you absolutely sure?
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  Where was the dead body of Jesus? Did the disciples disappear it?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am currently an skeptic, but i have to admit that i can't assure that all the stuff of early christianity was false.. for instance, we know that the genuine letters of paul were written before the destruction of jerusalem.

  so, paul affirmed that jesus resurrected, though he was not there when it supposedly happened.

  but, if jesus did not resurrect, why didn't the jews expose this falsehood?.

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  Jesus didn't stay dead. This was the lighning rod that set the Roman world on fire through EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY.
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  I had an encounter today...

  by lriddle80 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.

  she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.

  i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.

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  I kept bringing Jesus up as the only way to salvation. And she kept pushing him aside and I kept mentioning that that is the most important thing and he shouldn't be pushed aside..... But she would laugh at me and say "WOOOW" I can't believe you knew the truth (which I quickly said Jesus is the truth)

  Wow, that is powerful. DO NOT underestimate the seeds you plant. The way the kingdom of God works - is that you do not get confirmation on the effects of your acts of obedience most of the time.

  I am where I am today because a lady at a door took the time to expalin to me that Christians believe in a paradise earth nearly the same as the Watchtower teaches. After she told me that, and after I brought up Christmas and a couple other ridiculous things, I realized that I was just attacking a woman who believed virtually the same thing I did, minus the ORG and plus Jesus. I didn't have a reason for going door to door anymore if Christians already new about the paradise earth. I walked away from that door feeling shame for the first time, as a Watchtower water boy.

  I'll never forget that woman, and she may even feel she has failed in some way as a Christian. Isn't that funny?
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  Low Disk Space Persists

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my c drive is running out of space.

  and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.

  i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.

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  I know what you mean.... these low flying space disks seem to be the rage almost every night on the Discovery chanel. Why do they persist?
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  THE TRUTH is an estimate

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was growing up in a household with my grandparents, i heard a certain phrase hundreds of times, "well, you know what they say .

  and i wondered: "who are "they"?.

  it was my first encounter with shapeless, formless, invisible, abstract, non-descript, and anonymous authority.. the premise seemed to say:.

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  TTATT it is not an estimate.

  So, some truth does exist then. I wonder what other truths are out there?
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  Where was the dead body of Jesus? Did the disciples disappear it?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am currently an skeptic, but i have to admit that i can't assure that all the stuff of early christianity was false.. for instance, we know that the genuine letters of paul were written before the destruction of jerusalem.

  so, paul affirmed that jesus resurrected, though he was not there when it supposedly happened.

  but, if jesus did not resurrect, why didn't the jews expose this falsehood?.

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  Plenty of facts to consider here.
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  Jehovah told to Moses: "....kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man"

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in numbers 31 we read the following:.

  jehovah then told moses:2 take vengeance for the israelites on the midianites.

  afterward you will be gathered to your people.3 so moses spoke to the people, saying: equip men from among you for battle against midian and to execute jehovahs vengeance on midian.4 you should send 1,000 of each tribe of all the tribes of israel into the army............ 7 they waged war against midian, just as jehovah had commanded moses, and they killed every male.8 along with the others slain, they killed the kings of midian, namely, evi, rekem, zur, hur, and reba, the five kings of midian.

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  This is a reasoned treatment of the subject.

  And also here.
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  It's been a long time....

  by Yizuman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  long time, no posts.... .

  those that remember me, well, i'm doing ok, so far.. those that remember my wife, she passed away as of june 26th this year after a long battle with various health issues for the past 6 years.. thought i'd drop a note to say hello to everyone that knew me.. .

  i hope everyone is well.. .

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  Perry

  So sorry to hear about your wife's passing.
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  THE TRUTH is an estimate

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was growing up in a household with my grandparents, i heard a certain phrase hundreds of times, "well, you know what they say .

  and i wondered: "who are "they"?.

  it was my first encounter with shapeless, formless, invisible, abstract, non-descript, and anonymous authority.. the premise seemed to say:.

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  Perry

  Does this apply to "the truth about the truth"? So is it an estimate about the truth? And another thing while my head is spinning - If there is no "Truth", then that statement cannot be true .... meaning that truth does exist? Right? Ohhh the pain of it all.
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  The teaching (God will destroy the world) arose from a wrong notion of what EVIL is

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  evil is opposite of live, means not really living, but wasting!

  if you are in harmony with yourself, fellow-humans and nature (and god if you believe in such an entity), then you feel light, at ease, hence you can say you are really living.. on the contrary, if you are not in harmony with yourself, fellow-humans and nature (and god), then you feel burdened, at dis-ease, draining energy, hence you can say you are not really living, but wasting your lifesomething which the biblical word for evil really means.compare mathew 7:17 where the word evil is used to refer to bad fruit (of a literal tree).. hence one can say evil is half-real!

  if you think evil exists or doesnt exist, both are right.

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  I think Evil is like darkness, uncreated by God.

  Have a safe trip!