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  trying to remember what I left behind.........

  by ScottyRex in

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  i watched this tonight and it made me think.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbxqvwpei have a look x

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  Village Idiot

  Scotty, who made the video?
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  trying to remember what I left behind.........

  by ScottyRex in

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  i watched this tonight and it made me think.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbxqvwpei have a look x

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  Scotty, yes I know, we both shared that hope but watching that video reminded me of their betrayal.
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  trying to remember what I left behind.........

  by ScottyRex in

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  i watched this tonight and it made me think.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbxqvwpei have a look x

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  @ ScottyRex:

  "I think the hope expressed in this video mirrors something I haven't quite forgotten. does that make sense to you?"

  I empathize with you but the only thing I can think of in watching that video is that it is a slick production meant to bait the unsuspecting.

  As for my hope of a resurrection I know that the only paradise that can exist is the one we might create at some time in the distant future. It'll be too late for you and me but not for our descendants.
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  trying to remember what I left behind.........

  by ScottyRex in

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  i watched this tonight and it made me think.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbxqvwpei have a look x

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  ScottyRex: 

  Yes I watched the clip. So let me ask you, are you trying to say that you miss the Witnesses? I'm not sure what your point is.
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  trying to remember what I left behind.........

  by ScottyRex in

  1. jw
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  i watched this tonight and it made me think.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbxqvwpei have a look x

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  Village Idiot

  They're getting professional. They definitely have a marketing strategy guiding them. As for remembering what we left behind it is burned into our psyche.
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  Are we heading for III World War?

  by abiather in

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  the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!

  some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.

  when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!

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  @ campaign of hate:

  "To alleviate the problem, have a massive world war. cut down numbers from 7 Billion to 1 Billion."

  I don't think that would be the motivation of the warring nations.
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  Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  by Simon in

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  (the david bowie song in case you're wondering).

  there seems to be a lot of talk and speculation about the changes that are coming at the next district conventions.

  there have certainly been quite a few articles and talks (esp.

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  @ Nitty-Gritty: I suggest that you get a copy of the book The Gentile Times Reconsidered. Unfortunately they are out of print and Amazon has them for crazy prices (cheapest 38.59) but if you can get a copy you'll learn a lot and be able to see Russell's predictions in full historical context.
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  Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  by Simon in

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  (the david bowie song in case you're wondering).

  there seems to be a lot of talk and speculation about the changes that are coming at the next district conventions.

  there have certainly been quite a few articles and talks (esp.

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  @ Nitty-Gritty:

  "I have a pdf file of a 1913 WT where it clearly says that they were expecting something big to happen in 1914."

  It was around 1905 that Russell started losing faith in his complicated 40 year social Armageddon and started saying that there would be a "final windup" where everything that he said would happen would finally happen shortly before or shortly after 1914.

  Keep in mind that he had a lot of secondary prophecies within that 40 year period whose dates he kept changing as the years kept proving him wrong. The fall of Babylon the Great was supposed to happen on several different years according to the predictions of succeeding editions of his books and he would even remeasure the sacred pyramid in order to keep all his prophecies in tact.

  What happened in 1914 was the opposite of what he predicted in the 1880s where he stated that there would be no outbreak of war especially in Europe. Such a war would contradict his social Armageddon where anarchy and fratricide between people in the world would bring about the dissolution of the world.

  A world war would have interrupted his complex predictions since war would require a cohesive society (no anarchy) and would result in a victor. Russell did not believe that there would be any victors in his Armageddon. No nation would have the organization to wage a war if they all are disintegrating into chaos.

  As for 1914, that was supposed to be the beginning of the Millennium.   
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  Religion is dying a slow death!!!

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

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  religion has run its course, it was used as a way to control growing populations and to give the human race a sense of direction almost like training wheels.

  religion has gone on a path of no return... that includes the only true religion of jw's!!!

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  No, it's not in decline except in Western Europe, maybe China and portions of America - excluding the southern and mid-western states. It's doing well in South America, Mexico, Africa, Russia (yes Russia), South Asia and so on. And what's more any increase of misery around the world will strengthen religion. Religion thrives on misery.

  Nice cartoons by the way. 
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  Are we heading for III World War?

  by abiather in

  1. watchtower
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  the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!

  some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.

  when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!

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  One thing should be said in support of the OP. World War I was started by something relatively minor incident (an assassination) in comparison to the bloodshed that followed. It only takes a relatively minor spark to set the world afire.