Saintbertholdt

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  New here

  by MarkofCane in

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  hello and thanks to everyone for participating on this forum it has really been of much value, for those of you that post here know that your words are not lost you never know who is reading your expressions, lives are being changed and nonsense challenged.

  i’m not much of a writer so excuse my untrained writing style and grammar but i want to share my story to help anyone who is visiting here to see that we are real people, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have come here for answers, there is no agenda, just searching for truth.

  i hope my story will help others as so many here have helped me..

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  Saintbertholdt

  Seeing the Russell pyramid sure could shock a witness who has been brought up with the very specific historic interpretation of the Watchtower. There is much that they choose to obfuscate.

  Well welcome and thanks for your story so far.
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  Fisticuffs Erupts Between Mormons and JWs at Montreal Airport... WTF?

  by Room 215 in

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  apologies if someone else has posted this before: .

  http://vaticanenquirer.com/canadas-mormons-and-jehovahs-witnesses-brawl-trying-to-get-to-refugees-first/.

  sorry, meant to say "fighting erupts" ... my bad.

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  Saintbertholdt

  "Seconds later violent cognitive dissonance erupted." Ah hahahahahaha. That was funny Watchtower-Free

  From the article: "And the new Canadian family was startled and confused."
  

  ...Take the kids and get back on the plane Aleah, we're going back to Syria. These Romans are crazy.
  

  
  
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  looks like the org. stopped all the "leaks"

  by nowwhat? in

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  cedars site hasn't had anything new since september when the new mid week meeting was disclosed.

  wonder if the moles were caught.

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  Saintbertholdt

  I heard they were all taken behind the chemical shed and shot.

  Then again my inside source is my cat.
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  Even the Overlapping Generations isn't an original concept

  by paradisebeauty in

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  2. beliefs

  to my surprise, i found this: .

  the overlapping generations model is an economic model .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/overlapping_generations_model.

  if those people from wt are inspired, why can't they at least come up with something original .....

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  Saintbertholdt

  The model comes from Irving Fisher... that great calculator of interest and creator of the Fisher transform.

  Who knew he was also the FDS... This universe is amazing!

  
  
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  First time here

  by BarelyThere in

  1. jw
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  okay so here goes...this is my first time on here.

  i'm lost and confused and am feeling very hopeless.

  i was dfed in september and i am still wrapping my head around everything.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Le double post. Je suis désolé.
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  First time here

  by BarelyThere in

  1. jw
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  okay so here goes...this is my first time on here.

  i'm lost and confused and am feeling very hopeless.

  i was dfed in september and i am still wrapping my head around everything.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Everybody has already said everything good and relevant.

  So hey there, welcome.
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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

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  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  Saintbertholdt

  Why didn't I factor in the death rate? The simple answer is, I don't really know how to.

  You could always use the annual average U.S. death rate per 1000 as a guide and proxy.

  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005131.html

  Is there a reason that you're using average publishers and not peak publishers in this particular instance?
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  Lurkers: Is it true that no servant of Jehovah in the bible celebrated birthdays?

  by juandefiero in

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  did you know that job's family celebrated birthdays?

  the word translated "his own day" at job 1:4 is the same word translated "day of his birth" in job 3:1. .

  seems deceptive, does it not, to change that translation.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Russell was moving away from any sort of inter denominational Christian fellowship by the end of his career/life. Rutherford just continued the process to its logical conclusion: That being the total destruction of any form of ecumenical feelings between the Bible students and all other Christian denominations. This was done to demarcate the separateness and exclusivity of the Bible students.

  That same attitude is cultivated in Jehovah's Witnesses today. If Christians have a practice or a new trend then Jehovah's Witnesses are automatically suspicious even if the Governing Body has made no specific pronouncement on the matter. Why? Because the idea of separateness is what counts and correctness or being reasonable is secondary. Case and point: Clambake just posted a topic where his wife and the congregation held a party on January 2 but she could not go to the Nov 15 end of year company shindig. Its all about separateness. The idea that you're in a new spiritual Israel and like the Israel of the OT you have to keep away from everybody and everything because Yahweh will have a conniption fit if you don't.

  The practices the Witnesses object to are actually irrelevant. Its just done to contradict and disagree with every other denomination.

  BTW I love your avatar and the word ecumenical, therefore a quote by Jack Sparrow: [to Weatherby Swann]

  "I think we've all arrived at a very special place... spiritually, ecumenically... grammatically."

  
  
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  Question about the number 2,520 and the book “New Heavens and a New Earth” (1953)

  by Hecce in

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  2. bible

  question about the number 2,520 and the book “new heavens and a new earth” (1953).

  there is a footnote on page 138 of this book; it has to do with the number 2,520 being a perfect number and the result of multiplying the four perfect numbers in sequence.

  i have done the math and it works.

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  Saintbertholdt

  This is just one of those I have to bookmark.

  Numerology. Great!
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  Evolution is a Fact #3 - ERVs

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
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  part 1 - protein functional redundancy.... part 2 - dna functional redundancy.... imagine you are teacher with suspicions that some of your pupils have been copying from each other.

  comparing the correct answers in all of their assignments might not provide conclusive evidence.

  they could simply claim they had all carefully revised the same textbooks so it shouldn't be surprising that they all gave the same answers.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Clambake, here are topics on JWN that people have responded to in the past 24 hours:

  • Will Western Democratic Nations , someday rue the day they welcomed Muslim migrants / Asylum seekers in their midst?
  • Is reality getting a right-wing bias? (the lefts tea-party moment)
  • Results of an international survey - Love, Health, Money, Power etc, what do you most want in life?
  • David Bowie
  • Powerball Jackpot up to 1.3 Billion Dollars. Do you think the governing body bought any tickets?
  • Cannabis And the Brain (The risk factors)

  But you're on to Cofty's posts specifically because its about very solid evidence for evolution.

  You're being confronted with a paradigm shift.

  What are you going to do about it?