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Is the literature free in your country(Voluntary donation)
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is the wtbts publications free in your respective countries or is there still a posted charge for it?.
i know us, canada, france and the land down under are free.....not exactly free they cost you your life but you know what i mean.
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Why was Adam not a leader or made a ruler?
by shotgun inas a dub it always made me wonder if the years spoken of in genesis were real years or something got lost in the translations.. consider the first man adam was alive at the same time methusela was.
methusela died the same year as the flood.
this means two mens lifetimes covered the period from creation to the flood.
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No more beard.
by shotgun ini just can't keep my mouth shut.... i was told on the weekend of a person who has been studying for a long time and finally made the commitment to be baptized.
how do they know this.....he shaved off his beard which he has had for forty years.
his beard covered a small growth on his neck and he always kept it nice and trim..looked great on him.. anyway i asked what publication points out that beards should not be worn...of course i know there are none specifically.
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Santa or Satan?
by shotgun inhas anyone seen any publications which say santa is another name for satan...maybe the insight book?.
it was spouted at me on the weekend and i laughed..which you should never do to jw's as it gets their hair up.. .
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Sticks and stones along with a dirty slur.
by shotgun insince first coming out to family with doubts and subsequently the elders i have been labelled as apostate or on the path of apostasy.. i had never realized what a disgusting dirty word jw's make this into until it applied to me?
during meetings, comments from the publications even remarks from children and so on reflect the hatred the word carries with it to them.
i know a word is only as powerful as you make it but boy they have made the word apostate huge in the minds of all dubs.. yesterday when i got home my wife related her day with our child and how they spent it visiting another sister and her children.
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What did you lose or give up to break free of the Borg?
by shotgun infor all of you who made a conscious decision to leave the organization.. what was the price you had to pay or what was you willing to give up in order to be true to yourself.
( wife, children, extended family, friends, jobs...etc).
and how have you coped?
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The right age to get baptized?
by shotgun ini've always wondered why it was ok for jesus to wait until he was 29 to get baptized in symbol of his dedication while jw's are pressured at such an early age.
do you suppose joseph was always on his case...jesus get up its time to go to the temple.....why didn't you comment today?.......when are you going stop hanging out in gallilee with all your friends and get baptized?.
is this just another control aspect of the wtbts, handcuff you to the org while your young and make it almost impossible to leave later when you mature?
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Christendom's clergy stop the presses
by shotgun ini was thinking of this last night and realized the events which unfolded yesterday in the u.s especially if the presses stopped as xjw and scully think happened:.
xjw_b12 writes: i know it is only temporary, but finally the presses in brooklyn are silent.
another blessing from yahweh.. .
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Destiny
by shotgun inwhat are your thoughts.. if god forewarned cain to change his path he must have known abel was in danger...why did he not warn abel?.
when jesus told his apostles to go into jeruselam and bring back an ass and its colt which would be tied up near the gate did he foreknow this or was his faith so strong that he knew according to the scriptures this would take place and god would make this happen as written.
the same for the fish with the coin in its mouth did he foreknow this or was it his faith in god that let him know that anything he asked would be accomplished.. what i'm getting at is...if for thousands of years the issue of gods right to rule has been played out on the earth how is it a real test if god decides to now and then manouver particular events to a phrophesied outcome.
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Reply to Elderwho and Scholar on Chronology
by shotgun ini had to start a new thread on this as i wanted to see the response from the distinguished forum on this subject.
scholar saidyou are quite wrong in assuming that in connection with chronology that i am only familiar with wt materials.
in fact i have had a keen interest in chronology for some thirty years and have a large number of journal articles and standard reference books on chronology including editions of edwin thiele and carl jonsson.