Posts by Coded Logic

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How many lawsuits can the WTBTS absorb?

by Coded Logic in

it seems like the society has been desperately seeking ways to cut costs and boost reviniew (jw.org, kingdom hall programs, etc) over the past four or five years.

is this because donations are actually down?

or have they been preparing themselves for these lawsuits?

Coded Logic

It seems like the society has been desperately seeking ways to cut costs and boost reviniew (jw.org, kingdom hall programs, etc) over the past four or five years. Is this because donations are actually down? Or have they been preparing themselves for these lawsuits? If so, how many can they possibly absorb. Ten million dollars a pop is not sustainable even for a corporation as big as the BORG. And how long before the R&F start seeing these cases in the news all the time? The more cases in the spotlight - the more JWs will come out with their own bad experiances. Creating even more lawsuits.

Even if they changed their 2 witness policy today there are still hundreds of potential lawsuits from molestations that happened over the past few decades.

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The High Cost Of War

by designs in

britain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.

2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.

those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.

Coded Logic

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-Edmund Burke

ISIS is helll bent on enacting a worldwide Caliphate. They have committed mass executions dozens of times and posted the vidoes online to brag about it, they have decapitated tens of thousands of men and children and displayed their heads on spikes in EVERY SINGLE city they control, they have raped women by the thousands and sold hundreds as sex slaves, and they force people to convert to Islam or die.

ISIS is a group that will exceed the horror of the Nazi's if we but do nothing.

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Singapore: The Religious consequences of Tim Cook coming out as gay

by fulltimestudent in

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as if we needed any further evidence that the minds of christians are not all that they should be, the shenagins in the christian segment of the christian segment of the singapore population once again demonstrated that each time they fart, they blow some of their brains away, and sadly they fart so much that there's not much brain left.. i guess most people have heard that time cook (boss of apple) publically stated this week that he was gay and proud of it.

in most of the western world, it barely caused a ripple, but not so in singapore where christians are always lobbying the government against sin.. but, tim cook as a gay man provoked the ire of the singaporean church leadership.. i have not heard that anyone claimed that using an apple iphone would make you gay, but prominent church leader lawrence khong, was commissioned as an apostle by dr. peter wagner, of the international coalition of apostles, in 2000. .

on hearing the news about tim cook, lawrence khong stop using iphone and even denounced technology altogether.

Coded Logic

5.5 agerage? Well . . . maybe for an Asain

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Eleven Dead and over 45 Injured!

by Atlantis in

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posted on a jw site!.

eleven jehovahs witnesses dead and over 45 injured in honduras bus accident.

.. .. atlantis!.

Coded Logic

I'm sure the WTBTS is already starting to lawyer up:

According to The Daily, the bus lacked the necessary permits and inspections for carrying out excursions such as this one, which involved a group of Jehovah's Witnesses from Choloma, who were on a religious outing.

The daily added the group's religious affiliation complicated treatment of the injured, since their religion bars blood transfusions.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=250061

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Eleven Dead and over 45 Injured!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

posted on a jw site!.

eleven jehovahs witnesses dead and over 45 injured in honduras bus accident.

.. .. atlantis!.

Coded Logic

My heart goes out to their friends and family. I hope that for once the WTBTS will put its money where its mouth is and look after the needs of the surviors and familes who lost fathers, wives, daughters, sons, etc. This is truly tragic.

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If Halloween, Christmas, Birthdays, Thanksgiving became all of a sudden acceptable, would you be ready to join up?

by Quarterback in

how fast do you think the wt would grow if all these celebrations were no longer an issue?.

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Coded Logic

I think it would be more determental than beneficial for them. The "we are different than everyone else" card is their biggest theological position. The more they become like other religions, the less they can play that card.

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Where is Jesus RIGHT NOW?

by kairos in

let's say he began ruling in 1914.. where is that rulership?.

i'm hoping this line of thought gets someone thinking.. .

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Coded Logic

Pushing daisies.

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No Heaven For God

by Coded Logic in

imagine, for a moment, that you are the christian god.

and you have been around since before time began.

what would it be like to never be able to learn anything .

Coded Logic

Thanks for the link Apognophos. And might I add, God(s) damn Isaac Asimov! This isn't the first time he's stolen one of my ideas and written it down before I was born. I really do wish he would stop plagerizing my ideas before I have them!

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Top Scientist descent from Creationism

by Coded Logic in

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309064066&page=25.

http://www.nas.edu/evolution/intelligentdesign.html.

http://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-board-resolution-intelligent-design-theory.

Coded Logic

"I believe God used the mechanism of evolution to achieve that goal. And while that may seem to us who are limited by this axis of time as a very long, drawn-out process, it wasn't long and drawn-out to God. And it wasn't random to God."

The problem of starting out with the premise that "God can do anything" is that there is NOTHING that can ever possibly be inconsistent with that position. It is non-falsifiable, non-verifiable, and offers no explanitory or predictive capablities. And something that is an answer for everything is an explination of nothing.

Of course human evolution is consistent with the Christian God, as too would be the direct magical creation like in the Bible, or a second handed creation through a more advanced alien species like the movie Promethius would be consistant too, or any other act of of creation you can possibly think of would be "cosistent". This line or reasoning is a joke - its just taking what we have already observed and trying to plug a god in.

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No Heaven For God

by Coded Logic in

imagine, for a moment, that you are the christian god.

and you have been around since before time began.

what would it be like to never be able to learn anything .

Coded Logic

Imagine, for a moment, that you are the Christian God. You know everything. You can do anything. And you have been around since before time began. What would that be like?

What would it be like to never be able to learn anything . . . because you already know everything? How would you feel if you had never been challenged in your entire life . . . because nothing is beyond your power? What could you possibly look forward to . . . if you exist outside of time? Imagine never having any friends or any family and being the only one of your kind.

When we consider for a moment these aspects of God we realize that we should not worship such a creature. Rather, we should pity him. Because everything that makes our lives great - learning, effort, reward, surprise, friends, family, etc. - is but an abstraction to God.

It reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode where a man from the Mafia dies and goes to what he initially thinks is heaven. When he arrives he can buy anything he wants. He can be with any girl he chooses. And, when partaking in his favorite hobby, gambling, he wins every single time. It’s not long before he grows tired, annoyed, and feels unfulfilled in life because he realizes that without challenge and without risk - there can be no reward.

The same must surely be true for the Christian God. And such a God wouldn't be living in heaven. Rather, the poor bastard would be living in a place that can only be describe as hell.

- CL