Midget-Sasquatch

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  Gentle JESUS, meek and mild . . .

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  okay, this is a subjective choice of scriptures but i'm throwing them out here for discussion.

  what do these texts tell us about jesus?

  remember, this is jesus in his own words!.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Couple those sayings with the table turning incident at the temple grounds with the money changers, and you may see the faint possibility that the historical Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who expected the end very very soon. He was hoping for God to bring an upheaval and had no qulams about letting people know that there would be loss of life. Post failed coming: alot of what was said needed a spiritualized explanation.

  Even one of his followers is said to have been a Zealot who were akin to revolutionary terrorist groups. Not saying Jesus himself was one.
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  Is your Intellect Pre-Enlightenment or Post-Enlightenment?

  by Terry in

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  2. current

  before the age of enlightenment the earth was filled with many nations living under vastly differing beliefs about the world.. tribes, nations and empires possessed fanciful superstitious beliefs about their own importance in the big picture.. religion helped man find a place among fearful gods and demons.

  faith and belief, ritual and performance duties, helped man allay fears by.

  becoming active in appeasing the gods and shunning the evil spirits.. judaism allowed adherents a means of ridding themselves of sin (animal sacrifice) and accounting for wrongs (justice via law).. christianity removed animal sacrifice and substituted fealty to the church (catholic).

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I took Terry's post to be not about judging others, but more about trying to help anyone who's still on one side of the dichotomy to move more towards the center. After all, he's particularly harsh on himself when recalling his time as a JW.

  I agree with the idea that there can be alot of satisfaction and peace by finding a point somewhere along the spectrum.
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  Is your Intellect Pre-Enlightenment or Post-Enlightenment?

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. current

  before the age of enlightenment the earth was filled with many nations living under vastly differing beliefs about the world.. tribes, nations and empires possessed fanciful superstitious beliefs about their own importance in the big picture.. religion helped man find a place among fearful gods and demons.

  faith and belief, ritual and performance duties, helped man allay fears by.

  becoming active in appeasing the gods and shunning the evil spirits.. judaism allowed adherents a means of ridding themselves of sin (animal sacrifice) and accounting for wrongs (justice via law).. christianity removed animal sacrifice and substituted fealty to the church (catholic).

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Having grown up and spent most of my formative years in a religiously divided home, its probably not hard to understand why I'd be on the post-enlightenmnet. Not because I was some uber rationalist from a very young age and thoroughly logical. I was made to test and question religious ideas and beliefs (both sides tried to show the weaknesses and errors of the other). They should have expectedly that I'd likely doubt both of them though.

  I do have a very sincere interest in why people believe the things they do and what shapes them, so I don't make fun of pre-enlightenment peeps, usually.
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  Faders: What do you say?

  by Mad Sweeney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, i need some advice.

  i'm technically inactive, as many of you know, with obvious apostate leanings that via gossip in the congregation has me shunned by most.. recently at work somebody asked me what religion i am.

  i was taken aback and instinctively answered, "jehovah's witness," then quickly added "but i'm inactive.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I'm glad you brought up this topic. In just the last 7 weeks I found out there are at least two other dubs in my workplace...both of them go to congregations in that city....not where I live. How one of them even remembered me as having been an MS several years back, from another congregation in the circuit, I'll never know.

  He told the CO that he wrote a letter to the HR department that he needed Sundays and various other days off for Religious purposes and got it because its a human rights issue in Canada. The CO and the PO on their sheparding call last week brought that up as something I should do too to not miss as many meetings. I've been saying the center's work hours were making it very hard for me to be regular at meetings, service etc. (and basically bilking it to the max ).

  Nosy dubs always have to mess it up! I feel for you.
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  FlyingHighNow's Nephew's shunning - tragic ending

  by Incognito in

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  2. friends

  flyinghighnow (heather) updated her thread last evening about her nephew's shunning treatment by his own mother.

  this story has now taken a tragic turn and because heather had updated the original thread, it has been buried and has not gotten the recognition it deserves.. the third page of the original thread is here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/196991/3/my-lovely-jw-sister-just-said-this-to-her-oldest-son last evenings post is about half way down.. .

  please provide heather some kindness and support that she needs at this time.. .

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  My condolences FHN.
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  Dorky Geeky Gamer Thread

  by agonus in

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  2. friends

  just polling: what are some of your favorite classic and/or obscure video/computer games?.

  lately i've been having an absolute blast with a pc engine emulator called "ootake.

  " if you're not familiar with the pc engine, it was a console that was huge in japan but flopped in the u.s. as the "turbografx-16".

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I loved several games on my Amiga 500. Those were decent gaming systems for computers at the time.

  Two that first come to mind: 1) James Pond 2: RoboCod and 2) Chuck Rock 2: Son of Chuck
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  What did Jesus mean: "I Am?"

  by wannabe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what did jesus mean "i am?".

  one must marvel at the lack of fear, and respect, false religious teacher's display, today, as they twist and warp jehovah god's marvelous word of truth to support their obvious, warped versions of the truth of god's word.

  trying to convince others that jesus was god jehovah in the flesh; while jehovah himself contradicted that belief, as did his own son.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Let me preface that I'm not trinitarian but I do have a soft spot for some of the "heterodox" ideas about Jesus <----- "hetero" to JWs and most other Protestant and Catholic groups, anyways.

  Now, if Trinitarians just had that single matching "I AM" expression found at John 8:58 and Exodus 3:12-14, then all you put forward could make their position seem somewhat weaker.

  But readers of John who were very familiar with the Septuagint would recall a few more matches to some interesting passages in Isaiah.

  Like Isaiah 41:4 where Yahweh is clearly calling himself the first and the last and that "I am he", or another example would be the comparison found between what Yahweh says at Isaiah 43:10 and what Jesus is made to say at John 13:19.

  Couple that Old Testament literature background to yet other ways John uses the "I AM" expression and then one can see how there can be a strong case made that John portrays a Jesus who is much more Divine than just a created angel. (like when Jesus says that he is the man the roman soldiers were looking for and everyone falls to the ground...He utters "I AM" and people bow down...like in obeisance)

  Personally I think the earliest edition of John was heavily proto-gnostic.
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  Heads up for Safari users, 5.0.1 working great with JWN!

  by Chalam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi jwners,.

  just upgraded to the latest version of safari and some of the new features are great http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html.

  the ad blocker extension is working great on all sites so far, this one included.. also, now safari shows you the threads you have clicked on already :).

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  At least, its not overwhelming some routers anymore with its less aggressive DNS server pre-fetching. It was very annoying to previously have Safari 5.0 repeatedly say it wasn't connected to the server and end up having to use firefox.

  Go Webkit!
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  Creating exactly what He got: SINNERS...(Jehovah the architect of disaster)

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  god may as well forgive short people for a lack of height as to forgive them for their sin!.

  god's "superior" standards are merely the difference between his nature and how he made humans!.

  deliberately creating inferior creatures and then burdening them with infinitely superior standards of thought and conduct.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Terry's interesting thoughts brought back to mind a quote from Gene Roddenberry:

  “We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes”
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  Cousin Lenny and a pinch of Neanderthal DNA

  by designs in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  researchers at princeton have found evidence of neanderthal genes in humans where they were once thought not to have bred.. its all a little different than what we were taught in science class or a bible study.

  any thoughts on the origins of us.. .

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I've been for the longest time partial to the idea that Neanderthals and Moderns were actually sub-species of the same species. (think of ring species).

  I wasn't too enthused about some of the news articles several years back stating there was a greater genetic difference between humans and neanderthals than between humans and chimps.

  Okay, Okay. Maybe genetic and archeological evidence haven't been the main factors influencing my opinions on this. It was the very hot Darryl Hannah in "The Clan of the Cave Bear".