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    Pudgy got a reaction from Arauna in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Hard evidence, and a lot of it, proves you are wrong about the Big Bang, Dmitar … er, Wally.
    Agenda driven thinking is always wrong, and you are the poster child for that.

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    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    I know all about the underground bunkers at Ramapo, that whole area is full of mineshaft and underground tunnels and it was perfectly suited for the hangers the Society used for building flying saucers and making clones that are normally put together at Jehovah’s Witness assembly halls.

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    Pudgy reacted to Arauna in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    No my dear - only a stumbling block for those who have BIG egos. They do not fit in.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Isn’t the Society building a hundred million dollar movie and video production facility close to Ramapo New York?
    I admit I have lost track since Caleb and Sophia graduated from high school, and started working.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Isn’t the Society building a hundred million dollar movie and video production facility close to Ramapo New York?
    I admit I have lost track since Caleb and Sophia graduated from high school, and started working.
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    It was my undoing. I struck oil on my property around that time and consequentially found I owed millions of dollars.
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    Pudgy reacted to Srecko Sostar in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    I guess those who drive longer and pay more gasoline for more kilometers. :))
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    Pudgy reacted to Srecko Sostar in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Most Croatian citizens are richer than those living in Africa, that is true. But we are actually among the poorer EU countries.
    When an ordinary and average JW with a modest income gives money and / or work to build a KH, and then the WTJWorg sells that same hall, without a congregational resolution and without any monetary or material reimbursement to those brothers and sisters, then that is very rude and dishonest. And such examples are not lacking.
    Bethel could at least invite them to a barbecue, drinks and cakes to celebrate the sale. :))
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    If they sell it, it’s because the sale of one underperforming Hall in the West can fund the building of 50 in developing lands where they are clamoring for them. So someone has a longer drive twice a week so that 50X friends overseas have a place to meet? Who would object to that?
    Notice how the “bad and worthless” men objected when David proposed a similar equalizing scheme: 
    “However, every bad and worthless man among those who had gone with David said: “Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we recovered except that each one may take his wife and his sons and go away.”  But David said: “You must not do this, my brothers, with what Jehovah has given us. He protected us and gave into our hand the marauder band that came against us. “
    Why would you promote being bad and worthless?
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Arauna in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Now …. didn’t that make you feel better?
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    That’s why in Texas they have the “ … but yer honor … he NEEDED  killin’ !”  defense.
    ….. usually involving some guy named “Bubba”.
     
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    It was a fair question.
    ”42” can be googled.….. best understood by reading the book it came from … “The Hitcher’s Guide To The Galaxy”. by Douglas Adams.
    You may be able to get it free by searching for it by name + .pdf.
    OR…. You could download THIS ONE.
     
    Hitchhikers Guide.pdf
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    Pudgy reacted to Matthew9969 in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Is the thought helmet requiring freshly squeezed lemon juice to work.
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    Pudgy reacted to Patiently waiting for Truth in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Tom, the answer seems to be that you do not try to reason on the things @Witness says because you have decided that you wil not agree with anything she says. So be it ,it's your choice, but you make it so obvious of whom you will reason with and who you will not. It seems a bit 'blind' to me as I tend to read and think on every comment i can, allbeit in a hurry some days. Yes I know I disagree with most, but only after fully reading the comments. 
    On a daily basis I don't think on if I will survive Armageddon or not, I don't find it important. God's plans for the Heavens and this Earth through Christ are important. It's about perspective I suppose. My hope, which seems different to others, is that I will die naturally long before Armageddon happens. I'm 72 and in honesty i don't want to see 90. I don't want dementia, i don't want someone having to feed me or bath me. So hopefully i will die, then Yeshua will decide if I should live again. But there are people that i have not forgiven and cannot forgive, hence i think i will not be forgiven. The scripture about a man who was forgiven his debt but would not forgive some one else who owed him money always sticks in my mind when this topic comes up, so it's nice when the topic does not come up. But of course if we are both there 'on the other side' we will willingly rejoice together and probably laugh at all weve said about each other. 
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    Pudgy reacted to JW Insider in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    I thought the WT study on Sunday was perfect. It was about readiness for baptism, but the primary theme was about stripping off the old personality and putting on a new Christian personality. People complain about the idea that we tie baptism to an organization. But the primary intention is alway about doing our best to meet the standards of Jehovah's heavenly organization, an organization that only INCLUDES an imperfect earthly part. Also, I don't think that anyone would complain that an Amish baptism is meant to identify you as part of an Amish church, for example. All well-organized churches keep membership roles.
    But back to the WT article. It should be clear that baptism discussions are never about an organizational focus. It's always more about our Christian personality. I don't think even the die-hard WTS haters would find a thing wrong with last Sunday's WT article.
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    Pudgy reacted to Arauna in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Thanks for explaining - I no longer counter this person's arguments.  They never make sense but are utterances of repetitive hate-OCD.   
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    Pudgy reacted to Arauna in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    What could I deduct from your "intellectual "discussion is that you do not believe that some individuals would inherit the earth? Or if you do, that some here is not worthy of that promise?
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in How a Christmas song would lead me to believe that our 1914 teaching must be right after all.   
    Yes, of course. Believing in Jesus whole-heartedly doesn’t mean beans in itself—unless you define “whole-heartedly” as embracing the scriptures you included:

    Though the crazy faux-anointed person here appends scriptures to her comments for tonnage, she can never find the relevant ones, as you have.  
    When it comes to who will be saved, the Christian organization is not authorized to go beyond what the scripture plainly says: 
    “Baptism, which corresponds to this, is also now saving you…” (1 Peter 3:21)
    If they have any private thoughts on this, those they must keep to themselves. Of course, baptism assumes doing it the biblical way, not the sprinkled baptism of infants, not the baptism to the hellfire/trinity God. 
    The governing brothers choose not to speculate on this matter. They choose to be bounded by 1 Peter 3:21. We, who do not have a worldwide association of brothers to coach, (though Her Craziness thinks she does) are freer to speculate. When a loved one of mine was asked specifically whether this one or that one will be saved, she replied that she was not Jesus and didn’t know.
    The organization does the best it can. Not all scriptures dovetail. It remains to be seen how certain things will work out. “You will by no means complete the circuit of the cities of Israel until the Son of man arrives.” (Matt 10:23) throws a monkey wrench into worldwide coverage. This verse has been cited to show not every person will be adequately reached, maybe not at all, so the question arises just what is God going to do about that come Armageddon? From what I can recall, they only gingerly touch that one. (They have said in the past that the mentally incompetent should get a free pass, so maybe we’re all okay here.)
    At any rate, the Watchtower statement to carry the day is easily found on the website. To the question, “Do Jehovah’s Witnesses feel they are the only ones who will be saved?” included in the answer is: “In any case, it’s not our job to judge who will or won’t be saved. That assignment rests squarely in Jesus’ hands.” If they have seemed to judge in the past, it’s because they don’t feel free to blow away1 Peter 3:21 as though it were nothing.
    https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/
    Then, too, from the Insight book (under the topic Destruction) comes this beaut, that indicates we don’t even know ones destroyed by Jehovah suffer eternal destruction: 
    The Bible indicates that not all destruction is eternal. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Hebrew word ʼavad·dohnʹ (destruction) is used twice to parallel “Sheol.” (Job 26:6; Pr 15:11) ….When speaking of the destruction of the rebels Dathan and Abiram, Moses wrote that they went down “alive into Sheol.” (Nu 16:31, 33) Since Sheol in the Bible denotes the common grave of mankind from which there will be a resurrection, it is evident that not all destruction—not even all destruction at the hand of God—is necessarily eternal.
    So even Patiently Sitting on his Hands, that piece of work, who thinks he will not survive Armageddon and assumes that gives him the stature to advise others….well, maybe he is right and he won’t survive and still I’ll see that dodo on the other side someday, in which case I’ll take back the bad things I’ve said about him and maybe he’ll do the same with me.
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