Hey, just because it's all invisible, it doesn't mean it didn't happen, right??
How Do You Think The Last 100 Years of Kingdom Rule Has Been Going?
by minimus 18 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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designs
WWII was pretty hairy.
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sarahsmile
Like this
If one is a practicing JW,I would say not so good, because it is a 100 year delay of Jesus earthly kingdom rule over religious and political powers! Delaying a perfect paradise earth.
But, just think how many could be saved if Jesus stays invisible 100 more years! Joke! LOL
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Satanus
Noone noticed. The wt's king jesus has a really light touch, lighter than a feather.
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smiddy
I forgot to add , this provision is not without conditions and a hefty price tag.$$$$$$$$$$$.
smiddy
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Oubliette
Well, clearly Jesus has been doing a lot ... trouble is, it's all been invisible, just like he is!
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minimus
I think that Jesus might wanna think about changing things up, a bit. Bethel might be the only place, they're celebrating.
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frankiespeakin
Well if the last hundred years till now(present) Jesus has been ruling invisibly over the earth getting everything ready for the big shebang, I think we should expect another lack luster change when he finally takes his great power and begins rulling for real(sic).
These guys on the Governing Body are hopeless delusionals stuck in a Mind Control Cult where they are the spokesmen and leaders,, where education and scientific facts are consider tools of the Devil to corrupt minds away from service to Jehovah/Corporation/God's Earthly Organization. I'm mean you can't get more delusional than that which is seeing the invisible with the eye of understanding and flukey selfserving biblical interpetations to keep the Organization afloat by tapping a ready source income among the gulible. Please pass the Memes!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology_of_religion
Religion [ edit ]
See also: Evolutionary psychology of religionAlthough social scientists such as Max Weber sought to understand and explain religion in terms of a cultural attribute, Richard Dawkins called for a re-analysis of religion in terms of the evolution of self-replicating ideas apart from any resulting biological advantages they might bestow.
As an enthusiastic Darwinian, I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour. They have tried to look for 'biological advantages' in various attributes of human civilization. For instance, tribal religion has been seen as a mechanism for solidifying group identity, valuable for a pack-hunting species whose individuals rely on cooperation to catch large and fast prey. Frequently the evolutionary preconception in terms of which such theories are framed is implicitly group-selectionist, but it is possible to rephrase the theories in terms of orthodox gene selection.
—Richard Dawkins, The Selfish GeneHe argued that the role of key replicator in cultural evolution belongs not to genes, but to memes replicating thought from person to person by means of imitation. These replicators respond to selective pressures that may or may not affect biological reproduction or survival. [6]
In her book The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore regards religions as particularly tenacious memes. Many of the features common to the most widely practiced religions provide built-in advantages in an evolutionary context, she writes. For example, religions that preach of the value of faith over evidence from everyday experience or reasoninoculate societies against many of the most basic tools people commonly use to evaluate their ideas. By linking altruism with religious affiliation, religious memes can proliferate more quickly because people perceive that they can reap societal as well as personal rewards. The longevity of religious memes improves with their documentation in revered religious texts. [14]
Aaron Lynch attributed the robustness of religious memes in human culture to the fact that such memes incorporate multiple modes of meme transmission. Religious memes pass down the generations from parent to child and across a single generation through the meme-exchange of proselytism. Most people will hold the religion taught them by their parents throughout their life. Many religions feature adversarial elements, punishing apostasy, for instance, or demonizing infidels. In Thought Contagion Lynch identifies the memes of transmission in Christianity as especially powerful in scope. Believers view the conversion of non-believers both as a religious duty and as an act of altruism. The promise of heaven to believers and threat of hell to non-believers provide a strong incentive for members to retain their belief. Lynch asserts that belief in the Crucifixion of Jesus in Christianity amplifies each of its other replication advantages through the indebtedness believers have to their Savior for sacrifice on the cross. The image of the crucifixion recurs in religious sacraments, and the proliferation of symbols of the cross in homes and churches potently reinforces the wide array of Christian memes. [23]