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  What's Your View of Living Forever?

  by Golf in

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  ok, be realistic, would you want to live forever?

  what is your view of living forever?

  golf

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  I have often thought that motivation would be erased if living forever became the norm. I mean, why do anything at all??? Now, we are motivated often due to time. "I'll do it tomorrow" could always be an excuse, because there is always a tomorrow, for sure.

  this is how i feel. if humans could live forever (shoot, even just 100 extra years) the world would be an over-populated, underfed, impoverished (moreso, i mean) place. life would be terrible. even if we developed better technology, societies would still crumble economically. the rich would get richer and the poor poorer.

  we wouldn't be exploring the world and enjoying retirement. there would be no retirement, we would work in some capacity forever. we would all be living in tiny cubicle like apartments (remember 5th element? like that). plus, what would we do with all the waste and garbage? we couldn't even shoot it off into space as quickly as we make it. life would suck.

  i'll take my 70 or so years with life like it is. screw living forever. that would be terrible.
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  Music - what are you listening to right now?

  by talesin in

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  and i think the guy upstairs is prolly 'awake' now!

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  doogie

  dropkick murphys - sing loud, sing proud

  if there's anything cooler than a punk band with bagpipes, i don't know what it is.
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  Music & Anger

  by Dragonlady76 in

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  i love music, my taste in music is very eclectic, classical, opera,techno/trance,spanish, pop, metal, rock, musicals etc.............. when i am angry my taste turns dark and i listen to marilyn manson.. what do you listen to when you are angry?.

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  doogie

  orange 9mm. they broke up a few years ago but they're awesome. kind of "sevendust-meets-public enemy"

  the casualties are cool too.
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  and its 'goodbye from him'

  by dostprefer in

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  i've taken a leaf from holly's book to thank your for having me on the forum - thirteen interesting days but came to realise one cannot achieve much speaking from behind a screen.

  people do not know who you really are, nor do you they.

  i read many of holly's posts but few others.

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  doogie

  I don't doubt that the board is monitored occasionally and that the WTS keeps some tabs on what happens here, but I don't think they go so far as to send in posters to try to rile things up or try to steer wandering sheep back to the fold. It's not their M.O.

  but i could see them sending in pro-JW posters just to give the impression to internet passers-by that anti-JW rhetoric is not uncontested (or uncontestable). whether the JW apologist 'wins' any debates would not be the point, it would just be to make an appearance of an opposing side.

  i personally don't believe the society 'commisions' anyone to 'infiltrate' anything but coffee shops.
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  Links between Jesus and other ancient Man-Gods

  by doogie in

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  recently, at the prompting of another poster, i began to look into the similarities between jesus and other man-gods of ancient cultures.

  i was shocked!

  not so much by the minute details shared between the gospels and the stories of krishna, osiris, zoroaster, mithras, dionysus and others, but mainly because i had never heard of this before.. things like: being born of a virgin, espousing the redeeming power of baptism, turning water into wine at a wedding, having an entourage of 12 close followers, those 12 sharing a final meal with the god, instructing his followers to eat of his body and blood to benefit from his sacrifice (the blood usually symbolized by juice or wine), sacrificing his life by crucifixion on behalf of mankind, being dead for 3 days and then resurrected, he will return at some point to cleanse the world, and much more.. now, i know this is probably nothing new to most of you, but i was amazed.

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  As a side thought, didn't the Org. teach the similarities of many ancient flood myth stories that prove a global flood happened.

  yeah, i had heard that line of reasoning too (because, of COURSE, there couldn't have been more than one flood in the history of mankind, right?...). i think in this case, however, similarities to other stories would probably not be a positive argument for christian truth. that's probably why the org steers clear of this subject.
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  Quotes by Thiele concerning Watchtower Chronology

  by VM44 in

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  does anyone know where is is documented that thiele made the following quotes?

  as bible scholar e. r. thiele said about a watchtower article on chronology, "it reminds me of the way an unscrupulous lawyer would deal with facts in order to support a case he knows not to be sound.

  http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6040/kc.htm

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  what happened to "Venerable Scholar, BA MA etc..."?

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/86139/1424612/post.ashx#1424612

  the magnificent doogie

  GED General Studies
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  demon attack in Kingdom Hall

  by Noumenon in

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  i once heard about a sister that was having a lot of trouble with demons, and apparently she had a bad demon attack in the kingdom hall.. anyone else heard of such a thing?

  so much for the house of jehovah being some sort of refuge.. i have also heard of a witness who still experienced a demon attack despite calling out jehovah's name aloud.

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  However the demons are usually more undercover these days, preferring to work in the background, beguiling the unsteady with tid-bits consisting of misinformation and phials of poison. .

  oh no! not a phial of poison!!
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  Hate filled creatures....

  by a friend in need in

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  i should have started an new thread ... didn't realize so many would jump in on holly's post.

  i may have used too strong of words in saying 'hate filled' by why do you all call someone who disagrees with you a 'troll'.

  i disagree with lots of people without resorting to name calling.

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  i thought that the term 'troll' had a fishing connotation (like calling someone a 'troller' or baiter) rather than calling them a hairy monster. am i wrong?
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  Hate filled creatures....

  by a friend in need in

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  i should have started an new thread ... didn't realize so many would jump in on holly's post.

  i may have used too strong of words in saying 'hate filled' by why do you all call someone who disagrees with you a 'troll'.

  i disagree with lots of people without resorting to name calling.

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  doogie

  I may have used too strong of words in saying 'hate filled' by why do you all call someone who disagrees with you a 'troll'.

  i don't
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  Goodbye everyone

  by holly in

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  its time to leave.

  i have had all the answers i need to make a firm decision.

  thank you so much everyone for your replies, for talking to me over the last few weeks and for some of the humour.. i believe the jws are right and that they have the truth.

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  doogie

  If not, it would show you lot up for what you really are ... hate-filled creatures!

  ah, c'mon AFIN. if that's how you feel, then be bigger than it.