Topics Started by Ultimate Axiom

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Would You Like To Be God?
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we know there are a few on this forum who think they are, but consider this for a while.

if you are god, you are omniscient, therefore you have nothing to learn.

nothing to research, investigate or explore as there is nothing you don’t already know.
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What is the youngest a child has been baptised as a JW?
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the youngest reference i have come across is in the 1992 watchtower (march 1st page 27) - “in the summer of 1946, i was baptized at the international convention in cleveland, ohio.

although i was only six years of age…”.

i would like to find more examples of this, particularly of examples in more recent times.
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100 Dead, but God is Merciful
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a plane with 99 people on board has crashed into a populated area of karachi, but at least two of the passengers survive.

one of them is reported as saying, “god has been merciful”.

what kind of mercy was shown to the other 100 or more that died?.
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This thread is not about Covid-19
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. jw
2. experiences
every single news item, on every single news channel, and the majority of threads on this site, for the past three weeks seem to be either directly or indirectly related to covid-19.

is nothing else happening in the world?

has putin stopped slaughtering syrian civilians?
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Spare a thought for the nuisance callers
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. social
2. current
up till now i have generally received (on average) one or two nuisance calls a day –sometimes more, sometimes none.

although retired, i was out of the house about 20% of the time, but now that i’m home 100% of the time, i haven’t received a single nuisance call since the lockdown.

is this just me, or is covid19 having a sever impact of their incomes?
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Where is it written?
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
some time ago i came across this quote claiming to be from a watchtower publication;.

1953 –“bible chronology also fixes the time for christ's second presence and the assuming of his right to rule as at 1914; this date was published in the watchtower as early as 1879, 35 years before 1914.” (tscp 3).

this is of course misleading, for while the date was indeed published in watchtowers from the very beginning, christ’s second presence and his becoming king were not assigned to that year until many years after (1933 and 1922 respectively, to be precise)..
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Did you actually read the bible end to end?
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in my ten years as a witness i never read the whole bible end to end, what with four magazines a month, the book study, meetings and talk preparations, there just wasn’t the time.

i knew all the important references to ‘prove’ the various jw doctrines, and the cherry picked chapters that help foster the idea that it’s a good book, but that’s not reading it.

well after nearly forty years out, i decided i would do it.
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Seven Generations
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by chance i came across a watchtower of june 1, 2015, and it has an article in it, “a legacy that has lasted seven generations”.

it’s written by a guy called kevin williams and it starts with this ancestor thomas williams (1815-1891) and continues his story down to the present through his family.

but hold on a minute, how can this guy’s twelve relatives span seven generations?
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Women must not instruct men, even by singing a theocratic song.
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i did a quick search and this doesn’t appear to have been commented on here, but if it has been, i apologise in advance for starting an unnecessary thread.. regarding a change to a song title, the study article on page 7 paragraph 17 of november 2017 watchtower explained, “the change of the title “guard your heart” to “we guard our hearts” was most considerate.

in the audience at our meetings, assemblies, and conventions are many new ones, interested ones, young ones, and sisters who by singing the words would be put in the awkward position of telling others what to do.

so the title and the lyrics were modified.”.
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Well, I thought they were funny.
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. social
2. humour
like many others, our local church produces a newsletter.

church car park sign... “for members only.

trespassers will be baptised”.. a sunday school teacher asked, “johnny, do you think noah did a lot of fishing when he was in the ark?” “no,” replied johnny, “how could he, with just two worms?”.