Posts by freemindfade

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How do you distinguish Americans?

by paulmolark in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igk4xvzwocw.

apparently americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters.

who knew.

freemindfade

Are you guys ridiculing me????

There is California, Washington, Oregon, New York (city), South Florida, Austin then everything else is America. Well even some parts of cali are "Merika"

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New David Splane Video: No 1900 Year Faithful Slave

by FusionTheism in

governing body member david splane has a new video on tv.jw.org where he talks about all the horrible things committed by martin luther and the protestant reformers.. his conclusion is that there has been no faithful and discreet slave on the earth during the past 1900 years (before 1919 i guess.).

he also says that maybe there were a few anointed on earth, maybe not.. he did add an interesting statement that he doesn't condemn the other churches just for misunderstanding the bible because the society has done that.. another odd point, was that he actually mentioned catholic missionary work in a somewhat positive light, while totally condemning the reformation views on predestination..

freemindfade

Jehovah wouldn't allow a good-hearted person to be destroyed,

Then what is the point of the preaching work at all???

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If shunning was a conscience matter?

by aintenoughwiskey in

what do you think the reaction would be?

i would say a small portion (single digit) would walk.

no loss for the borg, they weren't donating anyway.

freemindfade

Doesn't matter the org would still use subversive means to guilt people into making it an unspoken rule.

Really I think this is the way it operates now even though they are more overt about it, most may abide but some likely do not.

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I'm okay with the "fruitage of the spirit."

by cappytan in

jw
friends

though i now consider myself a secular buddhist, i just realized today that i'm okay with trying to pursue the qualities mentioned by paul as the "fruitage of the spirit.".

the only one i take issue with is "faith" in the context of religion.

what are your thoughts on the matter?.

freemindfade

And they make you a real happy person, and someone that other people will admire.

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New David Splane Video: No 1900 Year Faithful Slave

by FusionTheism in

governing body member david splane has a new video on tv.jw.org where he talks about all the horrible things committed by martin luther and the protestant reformers.. his conclusion is that there has been no faithful and discreet slave on the earth during the past 1900 years (before 1919 i guess.).

he also says that maybe there were a few anointed on earth, maybe not.. he did add an interesting statement that he doesn't condemn the other churches just for misunderstanding the bible because the society has done that.. another odd point, was that he actually mentioned catholic missionary work in a somewhat positive light, while totally condemning the reformation views on predestination..

freemindfade

Maybe soon they will admit 'Jehovah' is a mediocre invention of the Catholic Church

Also I believe doctrine has been replaced with a labyrinth of fantastic ideas no R&F can follow or explain.

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New David Splane Video: No 1900 Year Faithful Slave

by FusionTheism in

governing body member david splane has a new video on tv.jw.org where he talks about all the horrible things committed by martin luther and the protestant reformers.. his conclusion is that there has been no faithful and discreet slave on the earth during the past 1900 years (before 1919 i guess.).

he also says that maybe there were a few anointed on earth, maybe not.. he did add an interesting statement that he doesn't condemn the other churches just for misunderstanding the bible because the society has done that.. another odd point, was that he actually mentioned catholic missionary work in a somewhat positive light, while totally condemning the reformation views on predestination..

freemindfade

They are opening the door to explain away the increasing amount of partakers

FMF Prophecy #152

Edit: Just saw FT prophesied the same thing first, it's now a co prophecy, JWN type antitype hybrid lol.

FT I am very happy we have some common ground to agree on :)

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The Case for Theism

by FusionTheism in

"theism" here means "belief in a god" or "the worldview that an intelligent designer created the universe and life.

" ("god" here means a being with a mind who initiated and/or wound-up the universe, and designed life on earth)the most common claim that i see atheists making on twitter, is that "no evidence" exists in support of belief in a god.this post will remove any excuse atheists have for claiming "no evidence exists" in support of an initiator.

atheists can still reject this evidence as "weak," but they cannot truthfully say it does not exist.now, it is true that we do not have "observable, repeatable, falsifiable, empirical, scientific" evidence conclusively proving that an initiator exists, but we do have many lines of philisophical, experiential, and logical evidence.and... here... we... go:1:) many leading scientists, including stephen hawking, say that the space-time-matter universe had a beginning at the singularity/big bang.

freemindfade

Peace at last. Fay your comment was most refreshing :)

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Schoolyard bully mentality

by FusionTheism in

i'm not naming names, but i just want to encourage people on here or on reddit or twitter, and tell you that you do not have to tolerate people who act like schoolyard bullies in the way they speak to you online.

i think anonymity is a big part of it.

they feel like there is zero accountability so they can be a bully all they want.. i recommend just ignoring or blocking anyone who is verbally abusive or treats you like schoolyard bullies treated you.. life is way too short to spend any time dealing with those kinds of people..

freemindfade

Meh...I still think we are being pretty liberal with ridicule here. I don't take telling someone to toughen up as ridicule. But I'm a mean ol gen x'er. Not a touchy feely millenial type lol

and again. Ridicule religion. The world needs more of the that.

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Schoolyard bully mentality

by FusionTheism in

i'm not naming names, but i just want to encourage people on here or on reddit or twitter, and tell you that you do not have to tolerate people who act like schoolyard bullies in the way they speak to you online.

i think anonymity is a big part of it.

they feel like there is zero accountability so they can be a bully all they want.. i recommend just ignoring or blocking anyone who is verbally abusive or treats you like schoolyard bullies treated you.. life is way too short to spend any time dealing with those kinds of people..

freemindfade

Religion has earned 100% of its ridicule! Lets not get it twisted, Religion SHOULD be ridiculed.

People sometimes need to be shaken a bit, I don't believe anyone is ridiculing FusionT by telling him to stop being so dramatic. And when they ridicule religion, its fair criticism of bad ideas! Lets be clear.

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What was your eye opening moment?

by WasOnceBlind in

if you had to pinpoint the time or experience that finally made you open your eyes, what would it be?.

i think for me it was the time i saw my dad shun his brother who he had not seen in decades just because he was a da'ed jw.

i thought to my self "no way jesus would do that.

freemindfade

In all honestly the Billions dying at armagedon never ever sat well with me... But I wouldn't say it was a wake, I would just tell myself god must know what he is doing. But that idea I could never accept.