Topics Started by waton
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wt study: May 28, Apply things written
by waton inwt mag march 2017 page 26. par.
.....heart become haughty, like hezekiahl.
i thought wow!, .. if "god" stopped the rotation of the earth and reversed it, -to give me a changed shadow, - then stopped it again, reversed it back to normal,*** just to give me a personal sign, i would be impressed too?
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WE CAN'T BECOME OLD LOSERS
by TerryWalstrom ingod has never been just one idea.god is always changing in the mind of true believers to fit the current situation.it's like a virus.
adaptation is part of evolutionary principles.change is powerful.superstition has almost always played a part in manipulating public opinion around the exploits of ruling powers.however...in the 20th century, the hold of superstition was sorely tested and found wanting.
"god is with us" became threadbare.communism promised a worker's paradise.
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Kingsday
by Gorbatchov inthe netherlands have a long tradition celebrating queensday and since the king has taken over, kingsday, april 27.. jw's are taking full part of the organized activities.. remembering my youth years, it was great to be part of it.. .
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SWITZERLAND: Thousands of sexual assaults in JWs
by darkspilver inanother major article regardng the report into sex abuse in the jws that was published a week ago.
tages anzeiger, 6 march 2017. thousands of sexual assaults in jehovah's witnesses.
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/tausende-sexuelle-uebergriffe-bei-den-zeugen-jehovas/story/22658338.
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If Freud was on the ministry...
by The Rebel inhouseholder " who is jehover?".
freud " he is simply wonderful.
but i am simply a man trying to describe my thoughts, feelings and moments".
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more beauty than wt decorated land
by waton inin thursday's daily text the wt article describes the "decorated land" as beautiful because of the [dismal] meetings.
here is a better "decorated through beauty" version, a tribute to our partners.
https://youtu.be/2w7gp47ot_q.
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Random thoughts on the Ransom
by waton inransom ramblings: 3 perfect lives lost, plus untold others, 1000s of religions formed, all over a badly told story.
inconsistencies, randomly selected: .
the tree of life was never a prohibited dietary supplement (if you have it you will not die).
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secret communion meal celebration.
by waton inthe last supper was a get together of renegade jews on a traditional holiday.
why should not wtbts inc, dissenter, like ray franz, celebrate apart , or later, not also have a communion meal, around the globe, to celebrate their shared unity and freedom?.
surely, even died - in - the - wool atheists could accept a community action like that, wine under the palms and the full spring moon?.
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"what not to say' preparing for an eclipse
by waton inin the self-congratulatory and bend oregon promotional on jworg, for the 2017 eclipse preparations.
there was a clip about a pre-eclipse wt meeting with: "what not to say" to visitors, followed by snickering from the jw audience.
i thought he speaker must have alluded to the precise to the second science predictions and wt being so often off the mark, by overlapping generations.
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silly bible based stories: rings of Saturn
by waton infound this quote on a science forum: .
hmm.
wiki has this to say about this notion:"according to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,[14][15] in the late 17th century the vatican librarian leo allatius wrote an unpublished[16] treatise entitled de praeputio domini nostri jesu christi diatriba (a discussion of the foreskin of our lord jesus christ), claiming that the holy prepuce ascended, like jesus himself, and was transformed into the rings of saturn.