Would that approach still be valid if I was following the Lord of Rings books as a religion and I asserted to you that Sauron and Gandalf were real -- is the burden on you to disprove it?
Apognophos
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The power of thought
by Doug Mason ini find it so interesting to see the intensity that results from intangible thoughts.
no one living today has any personal direct experience with the people who wrote and rewrote the jews' and christians' scriptures.
all that people have is in their imagination, yet they will demand that others have the identical mental model.. people are prepared to fight and argue over ideas, to the point of torture and murder.
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Implications of Dropping "Types/Anti-Types"
by Antioch ini've seen this part of the agm folded in with other topics and poked around, but no really critical discussion of the implications.. .
the hermenuetics of the type/anti-type practice was a big deal to me in realizing the tatt.
i searched high and low for a rational basis for concluding that god was communicating in a type/anti-type format that wasn't special pleading and circular.
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Apognophos
It's religion by idiocracy
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Killing In Self Defense
by Cold Steel inthe man was moving around in the darkness of j's home with a gun.
he was certain j. and his family weren't there, but he was wrong.
when a door suddenly opened and a dark figure fumbled for the hallway light, he had only a moment to act.
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Apognophos
"No" to guns for self-defense, "yes" to guns for hunting, "no" to killing in self-defense, "yes" to killing accidentally while defending oneself without a weapon, "no" to learning how to defend yourself. What's so complicated?
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Implications of Dropping "Types/Anti-Types"
by Antioch ini've seen this part of the agm folded in with other topics and poked around, but no really critical discussion of the implications.. .
the hermenuetics of the type/anti-type practice was a big deal to me in realizing the tatt.
i searched high and low for a rational basis for concluding that god was communicating in a type/anti-type format that wasn't special pleading and circular.
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Apognophos
Well, all they're really saying is that they won't read a type/antitype into a passage if it's not "warranted". This gives them plenty of license to still see types/antitypes where they want to. They're not dropping the concept of types/antitypes, just telling us that they're moving away from F. Franz's antitypophilia.
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JWs and Exclusivity
by Don Schneider injesus, mark 9-40 (nwt).
the jehovahs witnesses assert exclusivity.
that is, they are the only true christian faith.
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Apognophos
OEJ, myself, and many others here are born-ins. We didn't particularly ask to be born into it and are trying to claw our way out. However, this forum has a non-representative fraction of ex-JWs and "conscious class" JWs. Many ex-JWs still think it's the truth or might be the truth. The ones who are here are largely the ones who, active JWs or not, were unafraid of contrary information and tended to think for themselves a bit more. That being said, many of us believed it was the truth until we were well into adulthood.
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Killing In Self Defense
by Cold Steel inthe man was moving around in the darkness of j's home with a gun.
he was certain j. and his family weren't there, but he was wrong.
when a door suddenly opened and a dark figure fumbled for the hallway light, he had only a moment to act.
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Apognophos
Interesting suggestion, 3rdgen.
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Kennedy assassination....
by new hope and happiness into me its a great example of a totalitarian government's ability to manage information and keep us in the dark; .
all right it was a long time ago.
should we just forget about it?.
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Apognophos
The time a human lives in is always the most significant in history, funny how that works
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Apognophos
Hey, go for it. I enjoyed reading the WT when I was asked to. Make sure to read the whole lesson aloud beforehand at least once for practice.
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"Gog of Magog" NO LONGER Satan!!!
by gopher123 ini have heard that god of magog is no longer satan but a collection of nations yet to rise.. any confirmation of this?
please cite sources!.
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Apognophos
As Darth Fader said, yes, this is considered to be confirmed new light. Search around the forum and you'll find a few threads about the AGM.
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Killing In Self Defense
by Cold Steel inthe man was moving around in the darkness of j's home with a gun.
he was certain j. and his family weren't there, but he was wrong.
when a door suddenly opened and a dark figure fumbled for the hallway light, he had only a moment to act.
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Apognophos
Personally I think it's even sillier to ban martial arts for self-defense than guns. It's much less likely to kill someone and vastly less likely to injure someone by accident. If JWs can only defend with their hands then why not at least allow them to use their hands skillfully? It seems that they decided beforehand that they just didn't like martial arts and then looked for ways to impugn it, such as the tenuous connection to Eastern religion.