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  "New light": how and when did this idea start?

  by psyco in

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  how and when did the "understanding" of the progressive ("new light") understanding start?.

  anybody knows?.

  thanks!.

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  waton

  wt writers also introduced the 'sailboat tacking against the wind' analogy to justify their vacillation on many subjects.

  admitting that the crew is on a collision course with realityt most, if not all the time.
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  Child Smugglers Drop Children Over Border Wall

  by Bangalore in

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  https://news.sky.com/video/smugglers-drop-children-over-14ft-us-mexico-border-wall-12262371.

  https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/31/exclusive-leaked-video-human-smugglers-drop-small-children-from-border-wall-in-new-mexico/.

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  waton

  drop children? it is like dropping the anker. these are ankers. to which parents can winch themselves in.

  The wall needs a net to catch them, keeping them from hurting themselves, touching ground. catch and and reunite them with their parents. fingerprint them to stop reoffending. of course bidens bid is to bring in more fellow catholics, the more fellow lefties. the better for biden.
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  Social Trends - Male underwear as hot fashion

  by fulltimestudent in

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  during australia's lockdowns and other reactions to the batty virus.

  i've been spending more time studying my history interests via the internet and its many possibilities.

  one area is quite interesting.

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  waton

  temple underwear? tempting underwear? from the Mormon thread,
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  Mormon Apologetic Article - JW comparisons etc

  by dozy in

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  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-mormons-like-me-really-believe.

  from an ex-jw perspective , i was quite interested in the above article , which the spectator ( presumably ) felt obligated for legal reasons to publish to allow a response to a rather unfavourable article below.. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-troubling-history-of-mormonism.

  the arguments are fairly rehearsed and often used by jw "spokesmen".

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  waton

  Of course that could all be love bombing and things change once you sign up.

  mnil: and it sinks in, that your income is reduced by 10%, like it or not.
  
  
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  False memorial partakers deserve to die???

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  every memorial, much emphasis is placed on making sure that only the (self-proclaimed) anointed partake in the emblems.

  this year, however, the speaker at my wife's congregation presented it as an even more serious matter.

  he likened it to individuals in ancient israel who sought position of the priesthood despite never been appointed by jehovah.

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  waton

  deserve to die? if there is anything to the merit of partaking, they are the only ones that are destined to live.

  that they bucked the trend of wt doctrine will matter little. because wt doctrine has such little shelf life.
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  Name an Amazing or Unexpected Fact

  by Simon in

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  i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.

  that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.

  in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.

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  Jupiter & Saturn facts: they turn at the same speed ( 13, 10 km/sec.) as the move forward. which means with respect to the sun, their equator at noon is always at a near standstill. strange ? not at all:

  The wheels on your car stands still on the ground in your driveway, and again at your destination , right? You can see the tire marks in the snow, mud.!. but the tires stand still on the ground all the way, Check the tire pattern on the road!

  because like Jupiter , Saturn, your wheels turn backward, at the same rate as your car moves forward.

  cycloid motion. NSW university.

  http://www.sciforums.com/threads/jupiters-orbital-velocity-equatorial-velocity-cancel.159733/page-14
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  Did Jesus Have A Dog?

  by minimus in

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  a preteen asked me , “did jesus have a dog”?

  i thought the question was hysterical.

  why wouldn’t jesus have a dog or pet cat or sheep?

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  waton

  may be the child really really wanted a dog, and the daily text was " follow his steps closely "

  now, if it could be admittingly possible that the master had a dog. that would be a clinching argument.
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  Name an Amazing or Unexpected Fact

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.

  that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.

  in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.

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  waton

  Hi Waton, i think an elephant could make it! 🐘 It's the math .

  M: yeah, right. thank you! a baby elephant may be. so, a gap of ~ 3m .is created by adding only16 to 40 000 000.!

  math, the truth, is. amazingly, no matter how big a sphere, disk, adding only ~ 6.28 feet to the outside , will add a foot to the distance to the center.

  By the universe going through one second, moving a second into the future, at light speed, it will add only another 3 or 4 light seconds to its size of 88 billion light years.

  That is why I am not worried about the accelerating expansion of the universe
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  Name an Amazing or Unexpected Fact

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.

  that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.

  in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.

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  waton

  the Earth's circumference is ~ 40 000 000 meters. if you added 16 meters to a rope stretched around it, could a mouse get under it, everywhere? assuming a perfect bald ball, unstretchable rope?

  works for th universe too, > 88 billion light years around, the way light flies. ( not counting inflation )
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  False memorial partakers deserve to die???

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  every memorial, much emphasis is placed on making sure that only the (self-proclaimed) anointed partake in the emblems.

  this year, however, the speaker at my wife's congregation presented it as an even more serious matter.

  he likened it to individuals in ancient israel who sought position of the priesthood despite never been appointed by jehovah.

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  waton

  here we did not hear the threat of death for partaking " unworthily". The wt writers must be really nervous though, that the jws will discover, that all should partake to get the hope of life (John 6).

  Partaking has absolutely nothing to do with a monopoly requirement to go to heaven.

  stop the counting and let the individuals choose to partake, if they are worthy.