Posts by thedepressedsoul

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

SHADOW- Your statement, " you see what you want to see even when it isn't there. " Truer words have never been spoken. I guess you know yourself better than we do. Peace out, Mr. Flipper

Haha, that is a very ironic statement.

Reminds me of Watchtower lessons when they attack other religions for having "man made rules" and then proceed to say no tight pants, turn in your field service time, don't watch X movie, must be a ms by 21 or you aren't a good marriage prospect, 10 hours a month shows "you're" spiritual etc.. Leave you scratching your head saying wtf!?!

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

For those who still believe in God and Satan, Satan is a greater threat than a pedophile. That is what the speaker said. Anything else is your own conjecture. You see what you want to see even when it isn't there.

In what way? Please explain in what way Satan is a greater threat than a pedophile? I've only heard you just state it's a greater threat with no line of reasoning or any evidence to back the claim up.

I'll show you tons of reasons and evidence a pedophile is more dangerous.

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

Shadow- Going with your line of reasoning, if Satan is the evil one then didn't he cause that molester to go after kids? Would that not put the molester and Satan on a level playing field since Satan "caused" the incident?

If that's the case, you should fear both equally. I don't know about you but I'd fear god way more than Satan. God killed more people in his OWN book than Satan did. Don't you think it'd be the other way around? Also, why should IMPERFECT humans be punished and put to death by god when his own creation, perfect, is the one influencing and causing people to do these wicked acts?

Who's the one to be feared more, the devil trying to influence me or the god who will destroy me at Armageddon because I didn't live a life according to a man's interpretation of an old book that can interpreted 100's of different ways and translated 100's of ways. Heck JW can't even interpret it right, it changes yearly. Yet my life hangs on that book and understanding it correctly. Sounds about right.

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

Glad you posted that Oubilette. I was thinking the same thing! There are even apps you can download now that show all registered sex offenders in your area.

But it's only temporary so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Satan has ever lasting affects.

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

It's sad hearing people trying to justify and minimizing child abuse. What's next? Murder is only temporary but Satan is forever?

That dude gets blamed for everything. If Satan is so adamant on proving man doesn't need god, don't you think he'd be trying to make stuff work instead of causing destruction? Doesn't make much sense.

The sooner you realize you are in control of 90% of your life you'll be a lot happier. When something goes wrong it's usually because of an action on your part, people just like to blame someone else. When something goes good, the same is true. We're in control about 90% of the time, the other 10% is stuff we can't control, but we can control how we react to it and deal with it. Some people feel better blaming an invisible entity though.

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

Christians would generally agree with that statement which implies that eternal damage is greater than temporary damage no matter how painful it is. To condemn that statement would condemn other Christians as well. And, yes, I do have first-hand knowledge about child abuse.

I'm not getting into a debate as to whether Satan is real or not. That's not the point of this thread. Saying Satan is real is one thing. Using it as a fear tactic to get parents under control is another. If you don't see the fear tactic used there by linking it with pedophiles, I don't know what to tell you.

Also, if you have a kid and anything remotely comes close to someone taking advantage of them, feel free to let me know how "temporary" it is.

I'm still not sure how you read this post and came away with it attacking whether Satan is real or not.

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

I wish I had an audio recording. He started his talk right off with it.

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2015 Convention Reminders Video!

by Atlantis in

credit goes to mike & kim.. .. https://youtu.be/yj3x6wjrsaq .

.. .. atlantis!.

thedepressedsoul

I'd like to touch on what someone said about Witnesses being huge A holes there.

As a parking attendant we'd ask brothers and sisters not to drop off on the side of the building where the buses were pulling in and to please drop off at the proper spot on the other side of the building.

Dude, those guys would pull up 10 feet and whoever had to get dropped off would go running out of the car right after I kindly asked them to pull to the other side of the building. It was nuts. This would happen so many times that it got old.

As an inside attendance I remember seeing sister 100lbs over weight pioneer book it down the hallway to get her seat.

You ask people to not save an extra seat and they give you the death stare. I kid you not there are some very very rude people there.

Soon they're going to come out with a video on how to wipe your ass properly.

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Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

he starts off with an illustration.

thedepressedsoul

There was just so much wrong tied into that statement. Fear the devil and turn a blind eye to that pedophile.

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Evidence based folks: what is your stance on GMO's and why?

by cappytan in

jw
friends

so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.

chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.

i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.

thedepressedsoul

This conversation is over my head. I didn't get a edumication as a young jw.