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Does hollywood affect peoples view of history and world events?
by sleepy inhow much do you think movies, effect people knowledge of history or even world events today?
there was a programme on channel4 a fews weeks back basically revealing conspiracy theroies about jfk assasination to be a load of nonsense.oliver stone defended his film (which this programe had torn apart) by saying well people know its just a film and dont believe everything in movies.
but his missed a vital point , what if the film is all a person knows of that event.
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Are Jehovah?s witnesses and football fans the same?
by sleepy inare jehovah?s witnesses and football fans the same?
this does have something to do with jw?s just bear with me.
something that has always perplexed me are football fans and their loyalty to a particular club.
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Whats the Biggest JW contradiction?
by sleepy inwhat do you think the biggest contradiction was in jw teaching or logic?
i remember people confronted us with the argument that maybe over thousands of years the bible has changed, we would probably say any changes were minor, and we have the dead sea scrolls etc that don't vary much from the bible today.
yet when asked by people with a little knowledge about the bible why the name jehovah was not in any manuscripts of the new testament, we would effectivly says its because they have been changed over time.
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should crisis of conscience be on the net?
by sleepy ingot to be honest an say i'm supprissed cofc is not on the net in some offical form.
any good reason why its not there?
lets think, if i was a executive in a pharmaceutical company that gave out drug that were harmful, i then realised the drugs were bad, but the rest of the exectives didn't want to know and chucked you out,you lost your money and pension but you had the infomation to help people who had taken the bad drugs , would you, .
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Is there any film footage of Russell or Rutherford?
by sleepy injust wondering if there was any film footage of the oldy governing body type people such as russell and rutherford knocking about.
it would be interesting to see what they looked like in action.
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How often do you have witness related dreams?
by sleepy inhow often do you have dreams relating to your past life as a witness?
i?ve left about 3 years ago and quite regularly have dreams featuring my witness friend and often i am in a kingdom hall or assembly and i can tell my friends don?t like me because i?m having doubts or i tell them outright they are wrong.
my brain seems to think subconsciously i?m still a witness while another part, the brainier bit, is telling it no.
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Dont walk on the grass.New system rules.
by sleepy inwhat rules do you think we would have had in a watchtower run new system?
when my local assembly hall was built it had grounds around it , which had a very large amount of money spent on them.brothers would come every week to look after them.you would think then that you could have a taste of the new system in these surroundings.the assembly hall with its large gardens could be a glimpse into the new system.the brothers and sisters just like the cover of the paradise tract sitting on the grass.but you havent bargined of the insanity of watchtower rules.we were told dont walk on the grass.
now why in gods name build an enormass garden around the assembly hall only to be told you carn't use it?all you could do was stand on the concrete pathway and look.
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Bristol assemly hall ,trees for the Governing Body
by sleepy ini might have mentioned this before but something in another thread just reminded me.
an assembly hall was built in the bristol area of england around 10 years ago.
it was coming to completion and a governing body member was going to dedicated the hall(how the hell do you do that!).
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Swearing on the platform
by sleepy indid you every hear anyone say something really dodgy from the platform when giving a talk?
i heard a couple of stories of people getting really enthusiastic when giving a talk or pray accidently swearing.
one time in my book study group a sister called someone a dickhead in her answer, it was very hard not to laught.
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Now you dont believe the Bible , which characters sound dodgy?
by sleepy inwhen you stop believing the bible to be the word of god the motives behind the actions of gods prophets and followers come across rather differently.
in fact much like fundlmentlists today.you have joshua comiting genocide , and paul moving in and tacking control of the christians and changing the religion to his own beliefs.
which other characters actions can be interpreted differenly when you see them just as ordinary humans with more selfish motives?