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  A medieval question for you, if you believe in god....

  by snare&racket in

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  many ancient believers of god used cognition to 'think' their way from belief to atheism.

  what initially seems a silly question to reason over, can actually destroy a whole theology.. here is a question made famous by 'saint' thomas aquinas, believers in a almighty god with unlimited ability, please have a think about this..... the omnipotence paradox:.

  "could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?

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  Maybe he was stoned when he created satan.
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  Watchtower Corporation Should Turn Into An Old Folks Care Center To Care For Those That Devoted Their Lives To Corporation Causes

  by frankiespeakin in

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  what do you think?

  i mean isn't that what jesus their master want as a form of loveing your neighbor especially those that devote their life to them and their silly dream about being god's organization..

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  I agree with Jeanette, sadly when "Mother " "shows no natural affection" for these ones and kicks them to the curb. They just may wake up.
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  A medieval question for you, if you believe in god....

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many ancient believers of god used cognition to 'think' their way from belief to atheism.

  what initially seems a silly question to reason over, can actually destroy a whole theology.. here is a question made famous by 'saint' thomas aquinas, believers in a almighty god with unlimited ability, please have a think about this..... the omnipotence paradox:.

  "could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?

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  I apologise for being a moron first.

  But if you could "create" a stone then surely lifting it by the same forces used to create it wouldn't be a problem.

  Or, you could create it "in situ".

  Humans "create " giant heavy stuff all the time that they cannot move.

  They then just "create " something else that can move it. OR contract it out to someone else with the skills.

  So if men can figure that out............

  I suppose all I am saying is I dont presume to know or pretend to understand how intelligent design might work.

  I just like the idea of the possibility.

  After all "there are more things in heaven and earth Horatio......".
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  Pushing the JW.ORG

  by Etude in

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  i took these pictures over a month ago.

  i had not realized that they were really pushing their site.

  this was at our farmers market, although they were not officially in the market area but off the side on the sidewalk.. .

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  Bring back the sandwich boards I say.

  They were way more humiliating and just screamed "nutbag alet".
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  CNN: Does the big bang breakthrough offer proof of God?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  interesting article on cnn blogs http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/does-the-big-bang-breakthrough-offer-proof-of-god/?hpt=hp_t4.

  i have a similar belief so far.

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  That Ph.D. lady has a big giant head

  No really, it takes up the whole screen.
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  Meeting after meeeting

  by molybdenum in

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  i just got information that there is going to be a short 10 min meeting.

  with elders and ms after the first meeting of the week during the co visit.. this is in addition to the usual elders/ms meeting.. it might just be for my congregation, but is this something new?.

  i wonder why.. .

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  Maybe he wants to practice the secret handshake.
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  GB's letter regarding UN membership - How Do You Prove Them Wrong?

  by will-be-apostate in

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  i was reading brant jones' experience (published on jwfacts.com).

  i read both letters: the one he wrote to the gb and the one he recieved from them.

  link: http://jwfacts.com/watchtower/experiences/brantjonesunresponse.pdf.

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  My guess is they are trauling for dirt they can use in the magazines.
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  A Saturday Knock on the Door & the JWN Forum

  by kepler in

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  this is, of course, a recurrent topic that's made possible whenever a kingdom hall decides to march out on your neighborhood and street.. today it happened again in my neighborhood as a drum up for the memorial observance scheduled for monday the 14th of april.. why christ's passion and death should be observed on a monday of holy week i failed to ask this morning.

  perhaps someone else might like to volunteer, but it seemed just another reason to be sceptical about the whole thing, though hardly ranking with changing ancient chronologies to get jerusalem's temple destruction 2520 years before 1914.. anyway two gentlemen in white shirts and ties greeted me politely enough at my door and presented me with a flyer about an event which they described as momentous.

  they asked me if i had ever intended one and i assented.

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  Good for you kepler, you stated your case calmly and clearly,and hey who knows what seeds of doubt were planted in the minds of these guys that just may germinate one day. It has been said it takes a village to raise a child. I would like to think it takes a community to break down walls of ignorance. Nice one.
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  Pushing the JW.ORG

  by Etude in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i took these pictures over a month ago.

  i had not realized that they were really pushing their site.

  this was at our farmers market, although they were not officially in the market area but off the side on the sidewalk.. .

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  Island Man,

  Word of mouth and hard copies are still just phase one of the transition to online witnessing. The problem is at the moment there are still bro's and sis's still extremely suspicious of the internet mainly because of the successful demonising of it in the past. The elders need to tear down the walls that they themselves erected. The public however may or may not go to jw.org but they will also go to other sites like this one .

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  Changes, changes everywhere, but not a drop of truth.

  by sparrowdown in

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  for any org/corp to survive it needs to reinvent itself continually to cope with everchanging markets, public opinions and trends.

  this is bad news for an org that prides itself on worshipping an unchangeable god.

  so how does the wt reinvent itself while maintaining a"no variation of the turning of the shadow "..blah blah?.

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  Thanks for that wasblind and cha ching. I thought I was talking to myself for a while there.