I went on an open session when I lived in Wigan , very interesting indeed. Looks quite impressive from the Motorway . Not my cup of tea but impressive building all the same .
Have you had a hand written letter from a Jehovah's Witness ?
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They were not JWs.......I am positive about that.
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two young guys in smart suits - mormons?
Not sure because of Jesus badge.... but JWs definitely don't have them.
VelvetUnderpants
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I had something similar happen to me in Solihull, these however were Mormans. Two young American men approached me and asked me if I believed in God, I replied not since Paul Mcgrath left Aston Villa which left them slightly confused. I patiently listened to their sales patter at which point I asked them what denomination they was, as soon as I they said Mormon I laughed and asked them about the magic underpants and the fact that the founder was a known con artist at which point they realised their time was best spent elsewhere.
No pleasing some.
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I'm no expert on tailoring and maybe I should look closer but their suits always look quite good in a kinda retro Men in Black way. Did you also ask where they get them from?
VelvetUnderpants
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Yeah that's Mormons. They also used to have better than average British teeth, though the godless Brits seem to have caught up in the race for dazzling Hampsteads. It'd like they've been beamed in from Pleasantville, Utah into what must look like a very 3rd world country of unkempt savages with wild guttural speech and a pervasive smell of beer, farts and weed.
In my 30 years of being a home owner/renter i've never had any form of Christianity knock on my door. I've had little envelopes from the local C of E church in the past,asking for donations (7 billion quid in the bank and begging🧐),which i ignored,but no actual knocking. I've also been into church run charity shops and offered a leaflet inviting me to their church. One of those charity shops has or had,due to lockdown, Sunday night 'worship' in the old folks leisure activities building approximately 40 paces across the road from my front door. I asked them if i could bring my dog as he doesn't like to be left alone. "All God's creatures are welcome,of course you can" was the reply (imagine if i had a boa constrictor,or a horse). How about that eh! When/if ever this lockdown ends me and mutt are across the road happy clapping!!
Let's make it a date. You bring the mutt, I'll bring my plague of locusts and let's see what pets the rest of us can bring to the party. I think there's someone here has a goat that's learning to play Puppy Love on the panpipes.
https://news.sky.com/story/human-penises-are-shrinking-because-of-pollution-warns-scientist-12255106
It's not really funny, except that the illustrating photo is either intentionally or unintentionally hilarious.
Also worthy of The Day Today, this from the text:
"... a growing number of babies are being born with small penises"
Right, off to sit down and eat a meat, fish, cheese and bird pie with a pea and bean omelette. Someone's got to save the human race.
roubaixtuesday
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I had a friend at school who was JW. Eldest of the family's kids, he was called Adam. Next up was Benjamin. So it continued through the alphabet, I think there were about seven or eight of them in all. Lovely people.
My Dad has a collection of fossils, some on display in his porch. JWs are a regular, he always insists on discussing the age of the fossils with them. It's probably quite hard for the JWs to escape...
My Dad has a collection of fossils, some on display in his porch. JWs are a regular, he always insists on discussing the age of the fossils with them. It's probably quite hard for the JWs to escape...
Fossils shouldn't be a problem for JWs - they aren't Young Earth Creationists.
They are Old Earth Creationists, holding to the 'Day Age' theory - where a 'day' in creation for God could be millions of years for man.
They believe that each creation day was liteally 7,000 years. Therefore the 6 days of creation equaled 42, 000 years.
But as you say they teach that Gods views time totally different to man.
I suppose if you have been alive for ever you would
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Interesting, for I know you know a fair bit about this stuff dave.They believe that each creation day was liteally 7,000 years. Therefore the 6 days of creation equaled 42, 000 years.
But as you say they teach that Gods views time totally different to man.
I suppose if you have been alive for ever you would
Can I ask what their source of this belief/maths is?
Does it go way back or is it more recent - ie possibly arrived at as a way of squaring the circle post Darwin?
Personally, on a broader point, I'm always bemused when some folks challenged on some problematical bit of the bible (like someone being killed/seriously injured/damned etc etc) respond with "yes but it's a metaphor".
If asked "well a metaphor for what", things often go a bit quiet.
