have you ever wondered (when you were an active believer) what life would be like immediately after the big a?.
in my experience of the pre-big a spiritual paradise most witnesses were aware of the problem posed by the dead bodies of those slain by the bloody minded, would-be mass murderer jesus.
most liked to quote the author of the revelation, that carrion birds would eat the carcasses.
They may all be turned into pillars of salt.
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Did not Franz suggest Jehovah using anti-matter? Much better for all involved. Maybe Jehovah can anti-memory minds so JW's will not even remember them. The former things have passed away, not rotted away.
our canaries have hatched, grown and this am are flying (sort of) around the aviary!.
hi friends,.
checking the board after a long time... here is an update (my native language is spanish, so bear with me)... my daugter is now 18 and officially a commercial pilot!, she got her dreams fulfilled... my oldest son (an industrial engineer) in living and working for a big bank in canada (toronto) after studying a master in admnistration there, and my other son is doing very well and now owns two companies (he studied economics in one of the best universities in my country, perú)... i have just returned from a travel all over europe with my dear wife (30 days, 12 countries and 20+ cities)... so we left the jw in 2001 over the un scandal... and here we are.
have a nice day all of you.
How does an 18 year old qualify to be a commercial pilot? I hope she just transports cargo and not people.
ever encountered or eyewitnessed problems escalating, arguements and rows between elders right at the kh anyone?.
one such experience was just before the meeting was about to start,we heard raised voices from the second room between two elders.
a minute later two other elders went into the room and we could all hear that they were trying to cool the situation down with whatever was going on in there.
i was treading on eggshells around that elder for weeks.
i would have been the same way when I attended. Now? I would have ripped a strip off his hide and he would be treading on eggshells around me, for a very long time.
i never understood this.
the wt depicts jesus, the all powerful one to destroy evil, being depicted as using a bow and arrow from a horse.
that seems like something from medieval times.. in todays world of nuclear bombs, precision laser directed bombs and advanced military technology, does a bow and arrow really put a fear into anyone?.
Just a bow and arrow.
When a bullet goes into a human body, that is gruesome. But, by God, when an arrow goes into a person, that is beyond gruesome. I have seen it and it is not easily forgotten.
i faded from the religion and simply didn’t go back.
once people understood that my family and i left, people in the congregation didn’t know what to do.
should they call me, visit me, leave me alone?
WTWizard
You use the words 'befuddle' and 'Sanskrit' at lot. Hmmm.
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-january-2019/do-not-be-anxious-i-am-your-god/.
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Is this not to be welcomed?
Did Jesus not say, " ...Happy are you when people persecute you"?
hi guys!.
this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.
here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .
2001 - Space Odyssey - Sprach Zarathrusta. [Blue Danube in same movie - close second]
i remember when i use to give a number of public talks.
i had a binder with every public talk listed by number in it.
i don't have it anymore.. when i did the fade in 2002 after 33 years a slave since 1969. i destroyed all my watchtower materials and i had a lot.
CG : My question now is,how many of those talks are now obsolete?
I know one for sure. The first one I gave in 1970, "The Appointed Times of the Nations Have Been Fulfilled".
I can still remember all the scriptures to prove 1914 was the pivotal year though I cannot recall anything about overlapping generations. It was an exciting time for me. I was only 18 at the time. Burned into my memory like a first kiss.
Yup, I'm quite sure that public talk is obsolete. If I had started talking about an overlapping generation, and explained it with a chart, I would have been thrown out the front door.
i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.
there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.
there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.
" ...has been calculated to be a billion times larger than all the atoms in the known universe... '
That is one of the most incredible statements I have heard all day and that is saying something.
It beats:
- the kid next door, " Our house cost a bazillion dollars."
- Bert in accounting describing the new secretary, : "She's as thin as a toothpick."
- Grandma telling Grandpa, " Your walking slower than a snail."
A billion times larger than all the atoms in the known universe. All of them. It can't be hyperbole as it has been calculated. Very carefully I trust.
