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		<title>By: Margarett</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/06/21/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness/comment-page-1#comment-77665</link>
		<dc:creator>Margarett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a JW.  

  If you call the police for a fender bender car accident, it is right with God to call the police in the situation of child sexual abuse.  Society has a right to protect themselves and they must be registered with the state and nationally.  If I&#039;m able to love the person dispite his dangerous imperfection, good and well, but I wouldn&#039;t rescue him from this important proceedure. 

  I&#039;ve run into no problems with my attitude.  Regards, M</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a JW.  </p>
<p>  If you call the police for a fender bender car accident, it is right with God to call the police in the situation of child sexual abuse.  Society has a right to protect themselves and they must be registered with the state and nationally.  If I&#8217;m able to love the person dispite his dangerous imperfection, good and well, but I wouldn&#8217;t rescue him from this important proceedure. </p>
<p>  I&#8217;ve run into no problems with my attitude.  Regards, M</p>
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		<title>By: VirusHead</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/06/21/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness/comment-page-1#comment-75753</link>
		<dc:creator>VirusHead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First century Christians regarded Jesus as in some sense God&#039;s presence in human form. This was unacceptable to most Jews, and is unacceptable to JWs. They also subscribed to the idea of a new covenant, although JWs still hold to their own interpretation of pre-christian law. First-century Christians believed in salvation by faith motivated by love, not in adherence to an organization. Most important, they were taught to question teachings to see if they were in accordance with what Jesus had taught. Questioning is prohibited by JWs.

I have no problem with loose organization, but the history of the Watchtower organization shows that they gave up the first-century forms in favor of an totalitarian centralized corporate authority. If JWs were not discouraged from reading actual biblical scholarship, or even histories of their own religion, they would have a better sense of spirituality.

The letter of the law without the spirit is dead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First century Christians regarded Jesus as in some sense God&#8217;s presence in human form. This was unacceptable to most Jews, and is unacceptable to JWs. They also subscribed to the idea of a new covenant, although JWs still hold to their own interpretation of pre-christian law. First-century Christians believed in salvation by faith motivated by love, not in adherence to an organization. Most important, they were taught to question teachings to see if they were in accordance with what Jesus had taught. Questioning is prohibited by JWs.</p>
<p>I have no problem with loose organization, but the history of the Watchtower organization shows that they gave up the first-century forms in favor of an totalitarian centralized corporate authority. If JWs were not discouraged from reading actual biblical scholarship, or even histories of their own religion, they would have a better sense of spirituality.</p>
<p>The letter of the law without the spirit is dead.</p>
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		<title>By: Chad</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/06/21/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness/comment-page-1#comment-75752</link>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The answer to your question VirusHead is simple.  Only God can read hearts.  Would he judge someone who thought they were doing the right thing their whole life in their worship, only to find out in the end that it was the wrong religion? or the wrong way to serve God?  What about people living in primal tribes in the world who have no exposure to mainstream religion?  The whole purpose of witnesses is to spead bible teachings worldwide.  As followers of Christ, they spread the same message Jesus taught, &quot;about the vindication of Jehovah&#039;s name and his kingdom.&quot;  

Here are a few factors to consider about religion.  Every religion has some form of structure or organization.  Everything in life does.  However, I&#039;m sure that you agree that everyone is imperfect.  Even if you found the true religion, you have to realize that the organization is ran by imperfect people.  Does that mean you give up on your spirituality because of disagreements based on the influence of imperfect man?  

Regarding, Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses, they are clean people.  They uphold the bible and try to live like the first century Christians did.  This is before true Christianity was conjoined with pagan teachings by the Romans during Constantine&#039;s (sp) time of rulership, in attempt to stop conflict and civil war and have the Roman empire gain power.

~ FYI - you may check my IP - im not from here :-) ~ 

Regards...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The answer to your question VirusHead is simple.  Only God can read hearts.  Would he judge someone who thought they were doing the right thing their whole life in their worship, only to find out in the end that it was the wrong religion? or the wrong way to serve God?  What about people living in primal tribes in the world who have no exposure to mainstream religion?  The whole purpose of witnesses is to spead bible teachings worldwide.  As followers of Christ, they spread the same message Jesus taught, &#8220;about the vindication of Jehovah&#8217;s name and his kingdom.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Here are a few factors to consider about religion.  Every religion has some form of structure or organization.  Everything in life does.  However, I&#8217;m sure that you agree that everyone is imperfect.  Even if you found the true religion, you have to realize that the organization is ran by imperfect people.  Does that mean you give up on your spirituality because of disagreements based on the influence of imperfect man?  </p>
<p>Regarding, Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, they are clean people.  They uphold the bible and try to live like the first century Christians did.  This is before true Christianity was conjoined with pagan teachings by the Romans during Constantine&#8217;s (sp) time of rulership, in attempt to stop conflict and civil war and have the Roman empire gain power.</p>
<p>~ FYI &#8211; you may check my IP &#8211; im not from here <img src='http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  ~ </p>
<p>Regards&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: VirusHead</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/06/21/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness/comment-page-1#comment-75626</link>
		<dc:creator>VirusHead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gidget -  Let me explain. Each machine connected to the Internet has an address known as an Internet Protocol address (IP address). When someone comments, I can look up the IP address of the person who comments. In many cases, there is sufficient information to be able to pinpoint the region, or even the exact town. How much information is available depends on a number of factors, including who hosts their connection. The hosts can often give you even more information, if you have reason to ask them.

Sometimes, people hide their identities - like when they don&#039;t use a real email address, or provide a url. There have been cases before - on this blog, and elsewhere - where one person &quot;poses&quot; as more than one person. This is done to pretend they are getting support from someone else, or that there is a majority opinion where such does not exist. 

This kind of behavior is exhibited by people called &quot;trolls&quot; - who will come to a blog or site just to create a problem - say to post insulting or offensive material, or just to bait the author. 

When you have the same IP and town of origin on two commenters, especially when the first commenter has been strident and then suddenly &quot;disappears,&quot; there is reasonable suspicion that the new person is actually the old person &quot;in disguise.&quot; Your words and style suggested that you might have actually been &quot;Snowhoney&quot; under another name, or perhaps a friend of hers, etc. Also there was a bit of &quot;protesting too much&quot; that you were not a JW, had no stake, etc - and it rang a bit funny.

So while I did want to signal the possibilities to other readers, I also wanted to respond genuinely in case that wasn&#039;t what was going on, which I did.

Apologies for any misunderstandings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gidget &#8211;  Let me explain. Each machine connected to the Internet has an address known as an Internet Protocol address (IP address). When someone comments, I can look up the IP address of the person who comments. In many cases, there is sufficient information to be able to pinpoint the region, or even the exact town. How much information is available depends on a number of factors, including who hosts their connection. The hosts can often give you even more information, if you have reason to ask them.</p>
<p>Sometimes, people hide their identities &#8211; like when they don&#8217;t use a real email address, or provide a url. There have been cases before &#8211; on this blog, and elsewhere &#8211; where one person &#8220;poses&#8221; as more than one person. This is done to pretend they are getting support from someone else, or that there is a majority opinion where such does not exist. </p>
<p>This kind of behavior is exhibited by people called &#8220;trolls&#8221; &#8211; who will come to a blog or site just to create a problem &#8211; say to post insulting or offensive material, or just to bait the author. </p>
<p>When you have the same IP and town of origin on two commenters, especially when the first commenter has been strident and then suddenly &#8220;disappears,&#8221; there is reasonable suspicion that the new person is actually the old person &#8220;in disguise.&#8221; Your words and style suggested that you might have actually been &#8220;Snowhoney&#8221; under another name, or perhaps a friend of hers, etc. Also there was a bit of &#8220;protesting too much&#8221; that you were not a JW, had no stake, etc &#8211; and it rang a bit funny.</p>
<p>So while I did want to signal the possibilities to other readers, I also wanted to respond genuinely in case that wasn&#8217;t what was going on, which I did.</p>
<p>Apologies for any misunderstandings.</p>
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		<title>By: Gidget</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/06/21/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness/comment-page-1#comment-75625</link>
		<dc:creator>Gidget</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is a IP?   I don&#039;t know how you know what town she lives in, but I am sure that where ever she lives, there are other people.

 What is wrong with me using life.eternal as my user Id?  I gave myself that Id because of my Dad.  He died and he always said  when he died his life would be eternally in heaven. So I choose it in remembrance of him.

 I never called God Jehevah.  what I said was and I am quoting it: 
 &quot;Would they do as their family members say they should do? Or should they follow who they worship as God, Jehovah?

  I said &quot;or should they follow who they worship as God&quot; Jehovah&quot;

Now you both are attacking me!   As if I did or said something that you don&#039;t like.

  Well you don&#039;t have to worry about me ever asking questions, making comments, or even asking for any of help.

  My Goodness, I never seen anything like this. 

I wanted to ask or discuss a problem, but i see that this is not where I want to be.

 Have a nice day</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is a IP?   I don&#8217;t know how you know what town she lives in, but I am sure that where ever she lives, there are other people.</p>
<p> What is wrong with me using life.eternal as my user Id?  I gave myself that Id because of my Dad.  He died and he always said  when he died his life would be eternally in heaven. So I choose it in remembrance of him.</p>
<p> I never called God Jehevah.  what I said was and I am quoting it:<br />
 &#8220;Would they do as their family members say they should do? Or should they follow who they worship as God, Jehovah?</p>
<p>  I said &#8220;or should they follow who they worship as God&#8221; Jehovah&#8221;</p>
<p>Now you both are attacking me!   As if I did or said something that you don&#8217;t like.</p>
<p>  Well you don&#8217;t have to worry about me ever asking questions, making comments, or even asking for any of help.</p>
<p>  My Goodness, I never seen anything like this. </p>
<p>I wanted to ask or discuss a problem, but i see that this is not where I want to be.</p>
<p> Have a nice day</p>
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