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Anyone here drunk the wine or ate the bread at the Memorial?
by biometrics inafter being put under a lot of pressure by family and ex-friends to attend the memorial this year (i didn't).
i'm thinking of attending next year and drinking the wine and eating the bread.
because i beleive the whole memorial to be a rejection of christ ceremony.. i'm prepared to receive a lot of weird death stare looks.. has anyone here ever partaken?
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Just had an elder drop in for a visit
by biometrics injust had an elder drop in for a visit.
asking why i hadn't been to the meetings for over two years.
i told him there's a lot of things i don't agree with.. .
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Are you now ashamed of how gullible you were as a JW?
by biometrics innow that you realise how idiotic some of the jw beliefs are/were, do you feel ashamed of how gullible you were to believe them?.
if anything my past as an adult jw makes me understand how easily manipulated people are by the people and environment around them.
and that even intelligent people can be influenced beyond what is rational..
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The most logical thing I've heard from an elder
by biometrics inhe said: "<biometrics>, if you can't see 1914, and don't beleive the gb is god's only channel, there's not much point in discussing this any further"..
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Afterlife - why would Satan promote it?
by biometrics inso the watchtower says that the afterlife is purely an invention of satan, because of the 'you won't die' lie told to eve.
(even though the bible is littered with afterlife talk e.g.
luke 16:19-31, matthew 10:28, matthew 25:46, revelation 21:8,revelation 6:9-11, luke 23:43, john 3:16 ).
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Coming to terms with mortality
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ipads and laptops
by biometrics inmy wife went to the sunday meeting and said nearly everyone had ipads (tablet pcs) or laptops during the watchtower study with downloaded watctowers.. if they provide free wi-fi and coffee, i might start going again..
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jw.org - Terms and Conditions
by biometrics indoes anyone else find it ironic that the watchtower places literature on the internet, encourage people to download and share it, but then warns no to post it on the internet?
isn't posting on the internet the no.1 method of sharing information in this day and age?
and what, exactly, constitutes "posting on the internet".. in their terms and conditions:.
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Abraham is not a son of God? So says the elder
by biometrics infollowing from my other thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/240360/1/nebuchadnezzars-accession-year-in-625-b-c-e. the elder made a statement that i knew was wrong, but wasn't sure where to look in the bible.. he said 'abraham was a friend of god, not a son of god' and he used this point to show that 'brothers' mentioned in matthew 25:31-46 (least of my brothers) can only mean the anointed (144,000).
and we will be judged eternally by our attitude toward the gb/watchtower.. this morning i found in luke 3:33 that abraham is listed as a 'son of god' by his lineage from adam.. the son of isaac, the son of abraham,.
the son of terah, the son of nahor,.
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Nebuchadnezzar's accession year in 625 B.C.E
by biometrics indoes anyone have info on why the watchtower's view that nebuchadnezzar's accession year was in 625 b.c.e is incorrect.. from the cd rom:.
jerusalem came under final siege in zedekiahs 9th year (609 b.c.e.
), and the city fell in his 11th year (607 b.c.e.