robhic
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Would like opinions, additions and subtractions -- help needed
by robhic ini had seen and saved a little "test" to ask jws about beliefs and their actually being bible-based.
just for an exercise, i took the "eight questions" list and added (where i could find them at "quotes" site) the quotes and cites from the wt publications that seem to say these things.
please look this over and give me a critique of the wt quotes i matched up, feel free to add some that might be better and please supply ones where i couldn't find appropriate quotes.
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House-to-house confusion
by robhic ini know i've seen both sides of the house-to-house argument.
of course, jws say it is approved in the bible while non-jws say it is the opposite.
but on reading in another topic i happened upon a quote implying paul wrote in favor of house-to-house preaching so i looked it up in the american standard version bible.. the ones i usually see that speak against going house-to-house are the following:.
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To all the other atheists/agnostics out there
by robhic inafter you got from behind the barrier that was keeping you from thinking logically and had removed the blinders that prevented you from processing information using common sense rather than the 2000+ year old superstitions of some nomadic goat-herders, did you start to find that religious-centric or god-related statements made you shake your head in incredulity?.
case in point: just yesterday as i watched the 5:00 news, a story came on about a young man who had moved from here to california.
while in california he died but the family was so poor they could not afford to have the body shipped back to new orleans.
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Recycled, retitled, ridiculous.
by robhic ini have read here how there are so few "new" items coming from the wts these days.
that most all of the books, talks, wts, meetings, conventions, etc.
are just repeats repackaged from ones gone by.
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See the JW, not the person
by robhic ini've written before about my poor jw gilfriend and her health problems (i am not a jw).
she was in the hospital for an infection the last 3 days and, like usual, a few jws visited her.
(the hospital is conveniently located 5 blocks from their kh...) in speaking with her at times she would mention that "some ladies from my church came to visit" followed immediately by stating her lack of familiarity or even recognition of one or more of the ladies visiting.. she has had jws visit her in hospital and at home many times before.
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Specific Last Days Question
by robhic ini have a document i found somewhere a while ago of 9 questions to ask "where in the bible is this clearly stated?
" it is a few of the common jw doctrines that are not spelled out any place in the bible (1914, etc.).
number 6 is:.
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Christmas celebration in old days
by robhic ini seem to remember reading more than a few times how christmas was celebrated in the "old days" along with wearing the lapel pin with the cross & crown insignia.
seems christmas got the boot from rutherford but was celebrated for a while in brooklyn and even had some pictures from one of the parties.
problem is, i can't seem to find anything.
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If the Israelites had labeling laws
by robhic in.
if only the israelites had had the labeling laws we have today, a whole bunch of problems could have been averted!.
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Why not just hide?
by robhic inafter reading "running man's" excellent piece regarding cain and able the thought hit me: why not just hide from jehovah when armeggedon comes around?
he had to ask where able was after cain killed him.
adam and eve effectively hid from him in the garden after eating the apple.
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Six Million Can't be Wrong .... part II
by robhic inas a non-jw, i read with interest and amusement the thread "six million jws can't be wrong..." thread.
all great posts but as i was digesting them a thought occurred to me: the jw position is self-contradicting.
i know that's probably not a surprise to ex-jws, but i found it amusing.