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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    I have also heard the saying “Kill them all, let God sort ‘em out.”.
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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    I thought it was an excellent Watchtower article, that’s why I qualified my statement with “underlying axiom” to start with.
    WDS Is an affliction that like a sword, cuts both ways, and affects those on the outside looking in … AND …. On the inside looking out.
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    boyle reacted to Matthew9969 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Have you ever heard the saying, love the sinner, not the sin?
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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    As you two are well aware, I disdain many words that flow into rivers of words, which are by nature with EVERYBODY, self hypnotic.
    That’s how hypnosis is induced.
    ….. but in the totality of everything I have read and experienced, the following underlying axiom is true;
     

     
    … those with agenda driven deliberate lack of reading comprehension perhaps will differ.
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Like this: I love you @boyle. But I need not be considered. My love for you is just a pale reflection of Jehovah's love for you.
     
    "But that the dead are raised up, even Moses made known in the account about the thornbush, when he calls Jehovah ‘the God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.’  He is a God, not of the dead, but of the living, for they are all living to him."
     
    "And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous."
     
    "However, when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have already taken place, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.  He entered into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and of young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all time, and obtained an everlasting deliverance for us.  For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled sanctifies for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of the Christ, who through an everlasting spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we may render sacred service to the living God."
     
    The spiritually dead can come to life. The ransom is enough for them.
     
    Jehovah did not create by means of evolution, but He did make it so that Hearts can "evolve". The spiritually dead can come to life.
     
    Jesus came for both the grateful "dead" and the ungrateful "dead". Someday, many will "wake up" from the "dead" and sing praises to Jehovah: "Oh, Jehovah, how sweet it is to be loved by you!"
     
    May you be among them, @boyle
     
     
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Agape love is powerful. Tougher than diamonds. Stronger than steel. It might just save your life.
     
    (That's the power of agape love.)
     
    You can come back to the future with Jehovah. Praise Jehovah.🥰
     
     
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Here's another "mystery" for evolutionary theorists...
     
    Agape love.
     
    "The Noblest Kind of Love
    IN BY far the majority of instances in the Christian Greek Scriptures, or New Testament, the word “love” is a translation of the Greek word a·gaʹpe.
    Explaining the meaning of that term, the reference work Insight on the Scriptures says: “[A·gaʹpe] is not sentimentality, based on mere personal attachment, as is usually thought of, but is a moral or social love based on deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty, and propriety, sincerely seeking the other’s good according to what is right. A·gaʹpe (love) transcends personal enmities, never allowing these to cause one to abandon right principles and to retaliate in kind.”
    A·gaʹpe can also include deep feeling. “Have intense love [a·gaʹpe] for one another,” admonished the apostle Peter. (1 Peter 4:8) Thus, it could be said that a·gaʹpe involves the heart as well as the mind. Why not consider some scriptures that show the power and scope of this noble form of love? The following references may be helpful: Matthew 5:43-47; John 15:12, 13; Romans 13:8-10; Ephesians 5:2, 25, 28; 1 John 3:15-18; 4:16-21." (w03 7/1 p8)
     
    "7. What is the nature of a·gaʹpe, and how has this love been shown?
    7 What Greek word did Paul use at 1 Corinthians 13:13, where he mentioned faith, hope, and love and said that “the greatest of these is love”? Here the word is a·gaʹpe, the same one that the apostle John used when he said: “God is love.” (1 John 4:8, 16) This is a love guided or governed by principle. It may or may not include affection and fondness, but it is an unselfish emotion or feeling concerned with doing good to others regardless of the merits of the recipient or of any benefits accruing to the giver. Love of this kind caused God to give the dearest treasure of his heart, his only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, “in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) As Paul so well reminds us: “Hardly will anyone die for a righteous man; indeed, for the good man, perhaps, someone even dares to die. But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:7, 8) Yes, a·gaʹpe does good to others regardless of their status in life or the cost to the one expressing the love." (w90 11/15 p12)
     
    "What is agape love?
    The Greek word agape is often translated “love” in the New Testament. How is “agape love” different from other types of love? The essence of agape love is goodwill, benevolence, and willful delight in the object of love. Unlike our English word love, agape is not used in the New Testament to refer to romantic or sexual love. Nor does it refer to close friendship or brotherly love, for which the Greek word philia is used. Agape love involves faithfulness, commitment, and an act of the will. It is distinguished from the other types of love by its lofty moral nature and strong character. Agape love is beautifully described in 1 Corinthians 13." (gotquestions.org)
     
    The Watchtower of 1990 was wrong when it said "it may or may not include affection and fondness". If it doesn't have affection, then it's not love, it's duty. The writer of that article exposed his mixed motivations there.
     
    True Agape Love ALWAYS includes affection. When Jesus washed Judas Iscariot's feet, Jesus had strong affection for Judas, even though Jesus knew Judas was about to betray him in a horrible way. That's why Love hurts sometimes. It costs something.
     
    Preaching out of "duty" is not "agape". Taking care of one's family out of obligation is not "agape" it is "duty". When a person preaches or takes care of one's family out of "agape", there will always be affection as part of the motivation.
     
    When Jehovah sent Jesus to buy us back from slavery, it was not out of "duty". It was not out of "moral obligation". It was out of strong affection, strong feeling. It was "agape" love.
     
    When we love those who don't love us yet, it is evidence of Jehovah's holy spirit. If someone is hateful toward us and we ask Jehovah to help us love that person, then we feel strong affection for them, that is evidence of Jehovah's agape love through the spirit. That agape love did not "evolve" for any evolutionary advantage of the species. It is evidence of the Creator, Jehovah, the Source of Love.
     
    "We love, because he first loved us."
     
    "But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
     
    "Now because he knew before the festival of the Passover that his hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, Jesus, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end. The evening meal was going on, and the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Is·carʹi·ot, the son of Simon, to betray him. So Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he came from God and was going to God, got up from the evening meal and laid aside his outer garments. And taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist. After that he put water into a basin and started to wash the feet of the disciples and to dry them off with the towel that was wrapped around him. Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him: “Lord, are you washing my feet?” Jesus answered him: “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these things.” Peter said to him: “You will certainly never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him: “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him: “Lord, wash not only my feet but also my hands and my head.”  Jesus said to him: “Whoever has bathed does not need to have more than his feet washed, but is completely clean. And you men are clean, but not all of you.”  For he knew the man who was betraying him. This is why he said: “Not all of you are clean.”"
     
    Jesus didn't wash Judas' feet out of moral obligation, or to fulfill some prophecy. He truly loved Judas. He had deep affection for him, even though he knew Judas was about to do a terrible thing. Jesus had agape love for Judas. 
     
    Jesus has that kind of love for all of us. He loves us all out of his own free will. 
     
    "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.  For God did not send his Son into the world for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him."
     
    Jesus' love for us reflects Jehovah's love us.
     
    "By this the love of God was revealed in our case, that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might gain life through him.  The love is in this respect, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins."
     
    Jehovah loved us when we didn't even know He existed. With intense affection.
     
    "You heard that it was said: ‘You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  However, I say to you: Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you,  so that you may prove yourselves sons of your Father who is in the heavens, since he makes his sun rise on both the wicked and the good and makes it rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous.  For if you love those loving you, what reward do you have? Are not also the tax collectors doing the same thing?  And if you greet your brothers only, what extraordinary thing are you doing? Are not also the people of the nations doing the same thing?  You must accordingly be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
     
    Jehovah has proven his Agape Love even without words all these years.
     
    "God is Love."
     
    (It's not a mystery.)
     
    Agape.💝
     
     
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    How evolutionary theory evolves...an illustrative short story:
     
    So you've got a bunch of guys in khaki shorts running around with a few tiny pieces of what they think might be old human bones. They only have a few little pieces, so they use artists to make up a good guess of what the rest of the skeleton would look like. Then they do a computer animation and add guesses on layers of muscle, skin, etc. The guy doing the computer art doesn't believe in God, and he's watched a lot of cave man movies since he was a kid, so he adds a ton of hair to this creation of his and makes him look kinda dumb. Another guy writes a book based on what he thinks it might have been like to be a cave man (even though this guy grew up in an apartment in the city). A third guy builds the exhibit in the museum based on the book. Now Hollywood comes in and starts making movies and cartoons and t-shirts with cave men based on the museum exhibit.
     
    They only had a handful of old bones. They don't even really know what creature the bones belonged to. Sometimes they make up a new creature. "It's a new humanoid." Pick a cool latin name. They just make up so much of it.
     
    Next you get tons of kids wanting to be in that field of study, because of the Hollywood movies. Colleges all over the country offer more and more courses in the field. All the professors and upper level grads need to keep publishing. "Publish or perish." Everybody becomes a new "expert". And it's all based on a handful of a few old bones.
     
    Regular, imperfect people who need to make money for a living write the articles for National Geographic and Smithsonian, the same as regular, imperfect people write articles for the Watchtower. Neither are inspired of God.
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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    And did you know that over eons Fozzie Bear evolved into Yoda? (… albeit in a galaxy, far, far away ….)
    Proof?

    Listen to their voices! Look at the hair in Yoda’s ears!
    They BOTH sound EXACTLY like Frank Oz!
    … and by counting the ear hairs and multiplying by 3.14159 you can prove mathematically boyle is smarter than everyone here!  
    …. Yeah, it was a surprise to me, too!

     
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    You know, there is this one time in the Bible that a man spoke of evolutionary theory. He said that these elements came together with the aid of a super-heated catalyst and formed a creature.
     
    "And Moses said to Aaron: “What did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon them?”  Aaron replied: “Do not be enraged, my lord. You well know that the people are inclined to do evil.  So they said to me, ‘Make for us a god who will go ahead of us, for we do not know what has happened to this Moses, the man who led us up out of the land of Egypt.’  So I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold must take it off and give it to me.’ Then I threw it into the fire and out came this calf.”
     
    "Evolutionary theory" was a lie even back then. It didn't go so well for Aaron at that point in his life. It was fear that motivated him to make stuff up. He knew Jehovah was real. He saw all the plagues in Egypt. He knew the histories. He was just scared and didn't want to face the music after he made a mistake. He didn't make the same mistake twice, thankfully.


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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    What are you talking about, @boyle? What "other forms" of evolution are you talking about? Dinosaurs are extinct. Death is not a form of evolution. We used to have chickens in our backyard, but they did NOT evolve from dinosaurs. That only happens in the movies.
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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    WDS … It’s a sword that cuts BOTH ways.
     
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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    I don’t mind the knock-down, drag out, off-topic debates, usually with logical, reasonable vs agenda driven ideologues … it’s the incessant whining “ah am being persecuted unfairly” that I find pathetic.….. and you know who you are.
    That’s why people do not hire a receptionist with Tourette’s Syndrome, even if they are beautiful and highly intelligent.
    (“boo hooo, boooo hooohooo, wah! They hate me because I’m prettier than they are, the co** suc**** fuc**** ass***** !! ).
    It’s SO UNFAIR!! BooOOO HoOOoo, WAH!)
    …. and you do know who you are …….
     
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    boyle reacted to Pudgy in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    When cowboys on a canyon cliff get shot and fall, they scream all the way down.
    When Indians on a canyon cliff get shot and fall, they are completely silent.
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    I think @Pudgy was the one who posted the picture of the "LSD" book, but he wasn't being abusive, it was just an old picture book.
     
    And the songs I posted aren't "acid" rock. They are more "classic" rock or "modern" rock, I think.
     
     
    That's because the 1914 teaching isn't logical. It evolved from twisted reasoning. That's why it doesn't make sense.
     
     
    The GB has been abusing the flock of God by means of their incorrect myths and numbers being promulgated. They took a basic Bible truth, namely, the coming of the Kingdom, and they "evolved" that truth into a lie. Jehovah is sending Jesus to clear away those lies.
     
    Jehovah's witnesses bear witness to the truth. 
     
    I am one of Jehovah's witnesses, by means of God's undeserved kindness and mercy. Everything written in God's Word will come true. Praise Jehovah.
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    "True, no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but it is painful; yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it."
     
    Love is not a lie, but sometimes it does hurt.
     
    (I love you, @Arauna et al...even if your affections are restricted for me. ❤️ "Love is patient" and "love hopes all things"...I know you will wake up eventually, and my love will still be here for you. Jehovah is our Father - we are to be one United Family, united in Love for Him and each other. See you when you wake up, my sister...)
     
     
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Disfellowshipping at its best. (Or should I say worst?) 
     
    This is a very good song from the organization:
    https://www.jw.org/en/library/music-songs/become-jehovahs-friend-children-original-songs/love-is-the-key/
     
    Love Is the Key, children song from jw.org
     
    "Jehovah God shows us love so we must show love too.
    When we imitate His gentle way we show love that is true.
     
    God's love is kind
    It's always true.
    It never brags. 
    It's patient too.
    When we show love, we prove that we can be like our God above.
    Yes, love is the key.
     
    When Jesus walked upon the earth he helped all men to see that showing love is what God wants.
    In all things, it's the key.
     
    God's love is kind.
    It's always true.
    It never brags.
    It's patient too.
    When we show love, we prove that we can be like our God above.
    Yes, love is the key.
     
    Love is the key."
     
    See if you can find where in the song the disfellowshipping doctrine would fit.
     
    Maybe when Jesus disfellowshipped the Samaritan woman? 
    Or perhaps when Jesus disfellowshipped the little kids?
    Or when he taught about disfellowshipping beat up people on the side of the road?
    Maybe even when he taught that he was like a hen that didn't want to gather the disfellowshipped little chicks?
    Some sparrows, he said, were not remembered before God - the disfellowshipped ones.
     
    (Oh, wait! I've got it all wrong! That's what the "Jezebel" teaches - spiritually adulterated "truths" from God's Word.)
     
    Here is what Jesus is about - Love. God is Love, and Jesus came to show us what the love looks like.
     
    "Let your light shine, that all in the house may see it and praise your Father in the heavens."
     
    (Satan is the god of Disfellowshipping. You don't want to do an act of worship to him.)
     
    "You must love your brother as yourself, for whoever does not love his brother, who he has seen, cannot love God, who he has not seen."
     
    Praise Jehovah, the God of Love.💖










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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Haha, that one "We Found Mother"...makes me think of something else that has "evolved" in the organization...calling the organization "mother".
     
    The Bible says Jerusalem above is our mother, not an earthly group of imperfect people. We here on earth are all "brothers". It's the angels in heaven who are collectively viewed as our "mother", because they minister to us like a mother without expecting praise or adulation or special honors.
     
    "...the angels...Are they not all spirits for holy service, sent out to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?"
     
    A real mother is willing to die for her children, not cut them off, like this disfellowshipping business.
     
    "Finally the king said: “This one says, ‘This is my son, the living one, and your son is the dead one!’ and that one says, ‘No, your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one!’”  The king said: “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword to the king.  The king then said: “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one woman and half to the other.”  At once the woman whose son was the living one pleaded with the king, for her compassions were stirred toward her son. She said: “Please, my lord! You should give her the living child! By no means put him to death!” But the other woman was saying: “He will be neither mine nor yours! Let them cut him in two!”  At that the king answered: “Give the living child to the first woman! By no means put him to death, for she is his mother.”
     
    This talk of the earthly organization being a "mother" has evolved into a false doctrine and it is not a pretty thing, just like that picture on the book. Even though the word "mother" is not used as often today about the earthly part of the organization, the unholy exaltation of men lording it over others like benefactors remains.
     
     





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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    The current false doctrine that Jesus invisibly took the throne in 1914 evolved from Miller and others and Russell to what the WTBTS currently teaches. 
     
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009819/total-us-military-fatalities-in-american-wars-1775-present/
    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/





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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Here's what I think about the the FDS title and the false worship of the GB GoverningBody...this is what it reminds me of...
     
     
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Jesus gave the illustration about the faithful and discreet slave as an illustration for all Christians about keeping on the watch. In context, he said "keep on the watch!" and then he gave a bunch of illustrations about keeping on the watch. The illustration about the faithful and discreet slave is just one in a set of illustrations for all Christians about keeping on the watch.
     
    The Watchtower "evolved" that illustration. Evolution is a false teaching, just as the evolution of the "FDS" title is a false teaching. 
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    If the headquarters of the organization was a woman, she wouldn't be called "mother". She'd be called "Jezebel".
     
    When this song comes on the radio, my kids and I sing it really loud for fun because it makes us think of "Jezebel and her children" aka FDS+those taking the lead everywhere who want to be called "mother" but really commit spiritual prostitution by adulterating God's clean teachings and evolving them into something antichrist and most unholy...
     
     
    You Give Love a Bad Name, song by Bon Jovi
     
    "Shot through the heart
    And you're to blame
    Darlin', you give love a bad name
    An angel's smile is what you sell
    You promise me Heaven, then put me through hell
    Chains of love got a hold on me
    When passion's a prison, you can't break free
    Oh, you're a loaded gun, yeah
    Oh, there's nowhere to run
    No one can save me
    The damage is done
    Shot through the heart
    And you're to blame
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    I play my part and you play your game
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    Hey, you give love, a bad name
    Paint your smile on your lips
    Blood red nails on your fingertips
    A school boy's dream, you act so shy
    Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye
    Whoa, you're a loaded gun
    Whoa, there's nowhere to run
    No one can save me
    The damage is done
    Shot through the heart
    And you're to blame
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    I play my part and you play your game
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    You give love, oh
    Oh, shot through the heart
    And you're to blame
    You give love a bad name
    I play my part and you play your game
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    Shot through the heart
    And you're to blame
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    I play my part and you play your game
    You give love a bad name (bad name)
    You give love
    You give love (bad name)
    You give love
    You give love (bad name)
    You give love
    You give love (bad name)
    You give love
    You give love"
     
    "Jeʹhu took his bow in hand and shot Je·hoʹram between the shoulders, and the arrow came out at his heart, and he collapsed in his war chariot."
     
    When Jesus receives the Kingdom in heaven, he is not going to wait long to get rid of that harlot.
     
    The Kingdom of the heavens is near. Jesus is going to take care of the Jezebel problem as soon as he receives the kingdom, when he will figuratively "kill" Jezebel and her children by means of the sword of his mouth, removing them from their place. There won't be any more "evolving" of Bible teachings. Her disgusting fornications will be gone. Praise Jehovah.
     
    "‘Nevertheless, I do hold this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezʹe·bel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and misleads my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.  And I gave her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.  Look! I am about to throw her into a sickbed, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.  And I will kill her children with deadly plague, so that all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches the innermost thoughts and hearts, and I will give to you individually according to your deeds.""
     
    "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder: “Come!” And I saw, and look! a white horse, and the one seated on it had a bow; and a crown was given him, and he went out conquering and to complete his conquest."
     
    "“The one who bears witness of these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming quickly.’”
    "“Amen! Come, Lord Jesus.” 
     
    "May the undeserved kindness of the Lord Jesus be with the holy ones."💖





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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in Let's Talk About Evolution!   
    Just like the song! Have you seen that video? I think you will understand the words.
     
    Sweet sleeping brothers and sisters...
     
    How pleasant to see that despite that fact that "you said
    we've got nothing in common" (because of disfellowshipping)
    "no common ground to start from" 
    "and we're falling apart..."(our relationship from the moment of the false disfellowshipping decree, "so-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses")
    and "now you see right through me..."(and all the labeled shunned ones)
     
    What about hatred for evolution?
     
    "I said: Well, that's one thing we've got."
     
     
    Jesus will heal the family. We will all eat together again someday in peace with the Lord.
     
    What did Jesus say? "And he said to him: “Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in Paradise.”" And again he said, "But I say to you: I will by no means drink again any of this product of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the Kingdom of my Father.”
     
    "Love is patient." I hope you at least all have sweet dreams until you wake up in love.
     
    The disfellowshipping doctrine has evolved from what is written in the Bible to what is currently practiced in the organization and has become twisted into a disgusting antichrist false teaching. Jehovah hates it. How beautiful it will be to see that ugly prejudice removed someday soon. Praise Our Father Jehovah, who is healing the family.💖
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    boyle reacted to John 12.24to28 in EXJWs Are Going to the U.S. Capitol   
    Maria was not the greedy one.
     
    From "Some Facts and More Facts About the Self-Styled "Pastor" Charles T. Russell"
     
    pg 4
     
    "In 1879, he married Miss Marie F. Ackley, who divorced him a few years ago on the ground of cruelty and of having wrong relations with other women. In court, she proved improprieties between her husband and one Rose Ball."
     
    pg. 16
     
    "According to the law of the State of Pennsylvania, a few years ago, she divorced her husband, obtaining alimony, which he did not pay, but his friends made payment to save him; he fought the case for five years, appealing it twice. On the third trial not only did he lose, but the alimony was increased and all the costs levied upon him. All who know Mrs. Russell, speak in the highest terms of her."
     
    pg. 20
     
    "We now come to Russell's domestic life. It was such as to make life intolerable to his wife, and to justify her in leaving him and afterwards suing for a limited divorce, which one court granted and a higher one, on appeal, confirmed, and at the same time most severely censuring "Pastor" Russell for his conduct, which the court described as "insulting," "domineering" and "overbearing" to a degree which made life intolerable to a sensitive Christian woman."
     
    pgs. 22-23
     
    "The divorce was given, and the alimony granted to Mrs. Russell. Russell had a considerable property in his own name. He tried to practise fraud upon his wife by transferring his property to corporations and societies over which he himself had absolute and complete control. Referring to this fact, the court said, "The purpose of this whole transaction was to deprive his wife of her dower interest and was a fraud upon her." Mrs. Russell was compelled to petition the court to compel her husband to pay alimony, and an attachment was ordered."
     
    pg. 24
     
    "When Russell saw that he had failed in this he attempted another course of fraud. He sought to evade payment fixed by the court by fleeing from one state to another, making it necessary for his wife to get an extradition order, which she did, and which led to the condemnation of the cunning "Pastor" by a third court, and the increase of the alimony. Commenting on Russell's defense and conduct on this occasion, Judge Delady said: "There is not one syllable in the testimony to justify his repeated aspersions on her character and her mental condition, nor does he intimate in any way that there was any difference between them other than that she did not agree with him in his views of life and methods of conducting their business.""
     
    pgs. 24-25
     
    "It came out in the evidence first that his "conceit," "egotism" and "domination" were such as to make life intolerable to any sensitive woman. Second, that his conduct in relation to other women was "improper." Third, that on one occasion that he was silent to his wife for four weeks, and only communicated with her by letters of a reproachful character. Fourth, that he sought by most despicable means to isolate his wife from society, and designed to get her pronounced insane in order to put her away."
     
     
    The 1972 Watchtower, Questions From Readers said: "Is it proper for a married woman to leave her husband if they cannot get along well? Why did the wife of the first president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, C. T. Russell, leave him? —U.S.A."
     
    Russell said, as quoted in the Watchtower: "when she desired to come back I totally refused..."
     
    Watchtower said of Russell: "But Scripturally he could not abandon his position as head to bring about a reconciliation."
     
    That is a lie. Scripturally, Jesus said only adultery merited divorce. Maria did not commit adultery. Maria got away from Russell for a little while because he tortured her. When she gained enough strength, she sought to obey God by going back to and staying with her husband, even though Russell was a tyrant and twisted scripture and acted improperly with other women. Russell didn't want her around because she loved truth and knew it was wrong what Russell was doing. Russell is a liar and so is Watchtower.
     
    Watchtower history has repeated itself. The legal department is still defending abusers and cutting off the victims. Jehovah is so angry with them. When the UN attacks religion, they will be first. All the little abused sheep will be gathered together and they will rejoice because they will know Jehovah is Their Shepherd, and He heard all their cries the whole time. Jehovah knows each of those little ones, even those ones who go to that Capitol event. It doesn't matter if the government does or doesn't listen. Jehovah listens. When He acts, He will fix all of it.
     
    "Happy are those who mourn, since they will be comforted."
  25. Haha
    boyle reacted to Pudgy in EXJWs Are Going to the U.S. Capitol   
    Oh, I dunno…. I read all 56 pages of the above brochure, and every word rings true to me.
    If anyone has a SPECIFIC OBJECTION to anything stated therein, I would entertain   their proved and specifically articulated conflicting opinion.
    Guesses and unprovable counter opinions I will ignore.
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