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  WHY ARE BAT VIRUSES SO DEADLY?- Science Daily.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  useful information for students of history - why are bat viruses so deadly.. a bat virus may be responsible for the highly infectious coronavirus respiratory illness in wuhan china.. long ago, when i was growing up in a tiny fishing village on the far south coast of new south wales, some people still ate flying foxes, which were a type of bat.

  they were kept in cages "to fatten them up," then killed and cooked.

  i do not recall any specific sicknesses that may have swept that village.. other wild creatures were also eaten.

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  RubaDub

  Maybe it was BatGirl ? ,after all it was a female Eve that started all of human-kinds problems in the first place wasn`t it ?

  GEEEZ did I really post this ?

  
  
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  JWs closer to Islam than to Christianity.

  by Lost in the fog in

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  ok, so i know that the following article is from a roman catholic church blogger, but i thought that his ratios and comparisons were very well set out, if anyone else is interested.

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  https://completechristianity.blog/2020/02/09/on-jehovahs-witnesses/.

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  Catholicism has a very long and evil history, including endless scandals they're guilty of in the century and a half since Watchtower has come into existence.

  And WTB&TS /Jehovah`s Witnesses have done a pretty good job of achieving endless scandals of sexual child abuse all around the world in only their what, 100+ 36 years of existence ?

  As to the OP Islam doesn`t pay much attention Jesus regarding him as only a prophet.

  Jehovah`s Witnesses don`t give Jesus that much credit either , their focus is on the God of the Old Testament who they call Jehovah / Yahweh the more correct pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.
  
  
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  Do You Support Police and Law Enforcement?

  by minimus in

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  recently black lives matter representatives have encouraged people to spit in law enforcement officials foods.

  some people are going into police stations and trying to kill innocent officers.

  federal officials are marked for death because they try to administer the law.. what is your opinion of this type of lawlessness?.

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  Without police and law enforcement you would have anarchy .

  So of course I support law enforcement.

  Every now and again you might get a few bad apples in their ,but hey, overall they do a fantastic job putting their own lives on the line for you and me.

  The examples minimus gives in the OP these people should have the book thrown at them and throw away the key .That should not be tolerated under any circumstance .
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  Are Watchtower/ Awake considered religious magazines by Christians?

  by dydeonwl in

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  the watchtower and awake have been considered as the most read magazines by christians.

  do you think that all christians agree on it?.

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  This has been brought up before and all it means is that the WT and Awake are the most PRINTED religious magazines in the world and certainly not the most read.

  I was a JW for 32 years and I cant tell you how many mags I had to dump in waste bins because the family couldn`t place them over the years.And I certainly wasn`t alone in doing this .

  I would hazard a guess that about 75% of magazines printed ever reached the public and even fewer were ever read by anyone.

  Even congregations I was in had designated months when the publishers were given x amount of mags to give away free because they were overstocked and had become out of date.

  This was when we asked for contributions for the magazines.

  Even back then 30-40 years ago I said why put a date on the mags ? Isn`t it a truth for all time ? apparently not.

  What the fall guy said is true It's only a publishing statistic.

  The illusion is when you have anywhere near upwards of 8 million volunteers distributing these mags ,whatever the X number is and you have a publishing house that Prints X amount of mags.has no bearing on how many Christians are reading these magazines .

  Mainline Christians do not consider Jehovah`s Witnesses christian ,the Catholics and the mainstream Protestant churches would not read JW publications and the smaller sects are very one eyed they are not going to read anything from another sect.

  The only people that do read ,no correction, I should say take a magazine from a JW is a non practicing christian of many faiths who do so thinking they are helping a charity cause .

  And their is no indication that anybody ever reads them .
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  To kill a Mockingbird quote

  by lancelink in

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  saw this and immediately thought of the witnesses : .

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  Maybe this quote should be made known to Anthony Morris 111 in his case he has a whiskey bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other .

  The two spirits just dont seem to gel.
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  My email to JW Following Trolley Conversation

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  a few weeks ago i had an really interesting conversation with three male jws who were loitering around a trolley at the west end of princes street in edinburgh.. i managed to completely avoid giving any hint about my jw past and focussed on why they thought the bible was a reliable moral guide.

  i used the subject of slavery to illustrate my concerns.. one of the three was in his early twenties, knew a lot about his own beliefs but nothing about the real life and it was difficult to get through his thought-bubble.

  the second one was in his 60s and not very bright.

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  I had a couple of JW`s at my door a few months ago ,one was about in her mid 50`s early 60`s and the other was about in her 20`s.

  The discussion they started off on was how bad the world is today using the scripture she pointed me to .

  I countered about how really this is the best of times to be living with the advancements in technology , health ,living conditions and so forth.

  I tried to say I was just an interested person in religions in general and what they taught.

  The mistake I probably made was I said I knew about C.T.Russell as the founder of JW`s as I also knew of the founder of the SDA`s ,Christadelphians ,Mormons etc.

  And mentioned he predicted the end of the world in 1914 .Anyway to cut a long story short ,they thanked me for our discussion and how nice it was to talk to someone who had an interest in the bible,scriptural things and the younger one asked if it would be ok to come back some other time to talk again .

  I said sure anytime your welcome to do so .

  They never came back.
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  JWs closer to Islam than to Christianity.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
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  ok, so i know that the following article is from a roman catholic church blogger, but i thought that his ratios and comparisons were very well set out, if anyone else is interested.

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  https://completechristianity.blog/2020/02/09/on-jehovahs-witnesses/.

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  Sisters to be suddenly quiet at the meetings ? Yeah right ,pull the other leg.
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  I wanted to give an update on my niece

  by Tameria2001 in

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  about a month ago i had mentioned my niece who's jw parents kicked her out.

  i let her know that she is welcome to my home if she wanted to come.

  well, i found out through another relative that her jw parents (my sister) learned that i was more than happy to take in their daughter.

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  You shamed her Tameria good for you .I wonder how long she will be welcomed at their home.? You may very well have that opportunity to make that offer to her again or maybe she will feel that she could be more comfortable at your home than at her parents in a few weeks time.

  I just had a quick browse on your first post about this and apparently she just doesn`t want to be a JW anymore and who could blame her ? So obviously they will be putting pressure on her to get back to meetings etc,and you will start believing again so on and so on.

  So don`t be surprised if she does take your kind offer up and if she does try not to be the meat in the sandwich and let her find out abut TTATT with maybe just a few helpful hints along the way from you.

  I hope everything works out fine for both you and your niece.
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  JWs closer to Islam than to Christianity.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, so i know that the following article is from a roman catholic church blogger, but i thought that his ratios and comparisons were very well set out, if anyone else is interested.

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  https://completechristianity.blog/2020/02/09/on-jehovahs-witnesses/.

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  I find it interesting that the JW`s adopted the same Bible books as inspired as the Catholics and only excluded what the Catholics describe as Deuterocanonicals or Apocrypha ,the same as the Protestant religions.

  And not all Christian religions have the same number of books in their Bible .
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  My kids are watching Atheist Content on Youtube!

  by Miriam in

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  i was looking at my children's watch history on youtube when i saw that they were watching atheist content!!!

  what should i do?

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  Give her time stan ,she is a newbie and its only been one day.