as i have read before, one of the members of this forum noted that the writer of the website anointedjw is a master of pomposity.
i am not against them, as i am with jw.org (the watchtower society), but i see that they are trying to imitate the language of the old testament prophets.
for instance, this is what they have recently written:.
I agree with you opusdei1972
The very fact that God has done nothing to systematize the conflicted religions throughout the millennia shows that they don’t belong to Him, and He doesn’t want our worship. He has endowed us with conscience, and approves no organization on earth.-- Romans 2:14-15, 24-27
balance is the natural state of your body and is maintained by moderation in your habits such as sleep, work, eating, entertainment and thinking.
(mathew7:12; 5:13-16; proverbs 25:16, 27; 1 cor 6:12; 8:9; philippians 4:5) your body sends signs of distress when you cross the limit.. this is true even in subtler areas too.
contrary to the popular notion that happiness or peace come from accumulating things, body teaches it comes from renunciation.
What I wrote is actually a life-summary of my neighbor who was also the Head-master in the school. He died last year at the age of 92. He used to say:
The very fact that God has done nothing to systematize the conflicted religions throughout the millennia shows that they don’t belong to Him, and He doesn’t want our worship. And what He has done is more than enough for us to lead a good life:
1) He has given us a conscience to know what is right and wrong.
2) He has given us three major principles through His creation. For example, take any fruit-bearing tree. It is actually an interplay of truth (or eternity) and transience—memory of all future generations of that particular tree remains protected in the memory of its seed, hence there is something like a substratum in the seed that can be called TRUTH. Tree clothes its seed with sweet, nutritious flesh which teaches us BENEVOLENCE, and tree presents the fruit in appealing colors which teaches us BEAUTY. Hence Socrates taught: Whatever you speak, speak only the TRUTH, convey it if it is only BENEFICIAL to the listener, and convey it only if you can do it in a most pleasant manner (or with BEAUTY).
3) My neighbor was also a gardener and was eating mostly what he himself cultivated in his farm. His life-style of BALANCE gave him a distress-free life. He never went to a hospital in all his life.
He has two children. His son did not copy him and lives a wasteful life. But his daughter joined a Missionaries of Charity, and is a nun.
balance is the natural state of your body and is maintained by moderation in your habits such as sleep, work, eating, entertainment and thinking.
(mathew7:12; 5:13-16; proverbs 25:16, 27; 1 cor 6:12; 8:9; philippians 4:5) your body sends signs of distress when you cross the limit.. this is true even in subtler areas too.
contrary to the popular notion that happiness or peace come from accumulating things, body teaches it comes from renunciation.
Balance is the natural state of your body and is maintained by moderation in your habits such as sleep, work, eating, entertainment and thinking. (Mathew7:12; 5:13-16; Proverbs 25:16, 27; 1 Cor 6:12; 8:9; Philippians 4:5) Your body sends signs of distress when you cross the limit.
This is true even in subtler areas too. Contrary to the popular notion that happiness or peace come from accumulating things, body teaches it comes from renunciation. For example, sleep embraces you when you renounce all your thoughts of possessions. (Compare Mathew 5:3) You experience a better vision when you use your lens after giving it a thorough cleansing. Similarly, you will experience a better life when you switch over to operating from the real you (the inner self), not from the artificial outer self (an ego-based consciousness) pandering to tendencies of self-absorption (a sense of my, my, my …. which is actually a self-imposed bondage). In this cleansed state, you are beyond judgment and criticism (either of yours or others) and at a place of greater love, acceptance and self-respect, and you are no longer adversely affected by events and circumstances inside or outside of you. You have become a silent and compassionate witness of yourself and others. You are now able to apply yourself 100% in whatever you do—thus anything you do becomes an entertainment to you (plus it brings better results too).
This brings to life the grandeur that is yours! (Mathew 5:48; Colossians 3:23) Perfection means being stripped of ego! Interestingly, the above principle could easily be discerned from the experience (own or of others). Hence a God-appointed channel to guide people to spirituality is superfluous. This means Mathew 24:45 is only an illustration (just like other illustrations that follow such as Ten Virgins, Talents, Sheep & Goats ….) designed to highlight individual preparedness!
an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!
(not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).
Good question: “How on earth could anyone know that? Did an ant tell you that?”
The same thing can be said of our brains. Each neuron is relatively dumb, but if you take billions of them, they interact in a way that we have only scratched the surface of understanding!
Hence question is not whether an ant would tell us of their better organizing skill or not, it’s just observation that they do better than us in many respect, and we do not find anything to suggest that they evolved from any other species. There are other species too doing many things better than:
Many species use tools, technology, and language - though in almost all cases these are much simpler than our human examples. Beavers are master dam-builders, termites master mound-builders, birds master nest-builders. And in a very real sense, the sum of species on our planet created the very livable environment we humans enjoy - with bacteria leading the way in producing oxygen and many other components of our biosphere during the course of planetary evolution.
With respect to language, the more we learn about animal, plant, and microbial communication the more we realize that there is a cacophony of language all around us - we have not heard because we couldn't understand. We are beginning to understand
Thank you for the link on Enslaved worker ants fight back through acts of sabotage
That is interesting!
Any emblem is like a flag of a nation. It is of enormous value to those belonging to the respective nation, they do not distinquish its value before and after it's use.
an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!
(not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).
Thank you for that balanced approach.
Many do not seem to realize that there may be surprises and paradoxes (such as suffering and goodness) in the world—they are there for us to seek the answer and enjoy life, but not to leap into convenient conclusion. “Things which seem opposite in ignorance are reconciled in knowing.” (Music of Mind, written by scientist Darryl Reanney.)
jw.org pins, on the kh's, etc, how soon before they are making jw.org altar pieces, necklaces, etc to hold and pray with?
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What about GB being worshipped? No God has such a command over people!
an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!
(not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).
You got it! Thanks for that deep thinking.
For an open mind, God is an Artist who paints on a LARGE CANVAS, hence has an UNLIMITED PERSPECTIVE, whereas most humans are MYOPIC who tend to see themselves as the center of God's world and everyone on the sidelines--and in the process they edge even God out!
an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!
(not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).
An ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering! (Not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads. http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm)
Collectively they perform even better! Army ants, for instance, don't let gaps in their path stop them. If they're on one tree and have to get to the next, they simply build a bridge using their own bodies. A small curtain of ants will hang from one tree and wait for the wind to waft it up till the ants at the lower edge can grab the other tree. The others then cross over. Similarly, when fire ants need to cross a body of water, they fashion a raft made with themselves that can not only float but carry up to a million of them on it.
The interesting point is that no individual ant has any idea of what's happening even though, jointly, the thing happens. It works through a process of self-organisation that is not controlled by any subsystem and gives rise to an emergent phenomenon that is of A HIGHER ORDER.--Prov 30:24, 25
i pulled up the notes from one of the more weird judical committe topics, this is the garbage your elders had to handle!.
the mind games played by one of the elderettes come's to mind, she was speaking to a sister that was suffering from severe anxiety and helped our depressed sister draw the conclusion that "sister depressed's husband is trying to poisoning her!
" off goes this once pretty and smart woman, she went to college and got her license to draw blood because she wanted to test it for arsenic and polonium (around the time that russian guy got off ed by vladimir putin).
Oh! Those JWs!
