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  Another reason god is a terrible "father"

  by _Morpheus in

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  its easy to look around and say if a singular all powerful were real he would stop the suffering of man and animal, a position i support.

  however there is another even more basic premise i have pondered at times as well (im sure im not the first of course) : would any loving parent ever hide from their children?

  consider it... our all knowing all loving father hides from us even though we cry out to know him.

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  Sofia Lose

  How would you explain his interference with the flood? or the tower of babel? Or the whole first 5 books of the bible? Pulled back control? read your bible again, he disappeared with the advent of better record keeping.
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  May tv.jw.org program

  by zophar in

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  the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.

  we need money!.

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.

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  freemindfade

  When they do the live telethon where you can call in and pledge they'll pray

  pretty soon its gonna be "do you enjoy the programming and music on jw broadcasting?... do you want to keep it on?'... call in and pledge today to keep your favorite GB members on TV
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  Kingdom Hall loans Cancelled? Lurkers...please read

  by ToesUp in

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  i hope that writing this, there will be some lurkers that i can shake.. if you have not listened to mays tv broadcast, please do.

  it may wake some up.. note @ around 21-22 minutes into the broadcast lett brings up the the kingdom halls/assembly hall loans have been cancelled and the congregation can now send in what they can afford.

  wow...how many banks would do that?.

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  TheListener

  I had the same thought
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  Another reason god is a terrible "father"

  by _Morpheus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its easy to look around and say if a singular all powerful were real he would stop the suffering of man and animal, a position i support.

  however there is another even more basic premise i have pondered at times as well (im sure im not the first of course) : would any loving parent ever hide from their children?

  consider it... our all knowing all loving father hides from us even though we cry out to know him.

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  freemindfade

  Yep, and I personally from a personal point of view had a dad that was out of my life until I was maybe 6? when I met him he was a stranger to me, and I never had that fatherly love you are suppose to have, it just never happened. I have told one person in my family this when they said "have you ever really learned how to love jehovah?"

  No and this is why, I can't love someone who doesn't exist, not like Zeus anyway
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  One of my new favorite quotes

  by freemindfade in

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  "you deserve the god you worship"-joseph campbell

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  freemindfade

  and jealous, sexist, short tempered dessert god...
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  May tv.jw.org program

  by zophar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.

  we need money!.

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.

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  freemindfade

  watch out everyone, freemindfade is getting a prophecy communications coming in....

  I foresee a jw broabcast PBS style telethon on the horizon, thats not sending an invoice either...
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  Another reason god is a terrible "father"

  by _Morpheus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its easy to look around and say if a singular all powerful were real he would stop the suffering of man and animal, a position i support.

  however there is another even more basic premise i have pondered at times as well (im sure im not the first of course) : would any loving parent ever hide from their children?

  consider it... our all knowing all loving father hides from us even though we cry out to know him.

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  freemindfade

  The apologists would say he's no hiding, (playing assholes advocate here)

  1. He talks to us through the bible
  2. He speaks to us through creation
  3. He's in out heart...
  4. and on and on and on

  That being said i 100% agree with you. What father would "allow" his children to suffer to no end to prove a point. Take job for example, "hey I don't think your child loves you, let me f%$# him up real bad to prove it".

  But hiding, and making the bible so easily misunderstood (although I believe the witnesses are the ones who misunderstand it). Why would he make it something so easy for the devil to corrupt where 90% of the population is supposedly deceived? Why would he write a book that 9 out of 10 people will take the wrong way? Allowing deception and confusion to me would also be tantamount with the hiding you speak of. Good op
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  May tv.jw.org program

  by zophar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.

  we need money!.

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.

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  Pete Zahut

  Great observations Pete, just one thing, Lett has not been coached, I can tell you first hand he has always talked and gestured like that, if anything he may be toning it down from 11 to say 9.

  Also a good observation is that his appearance was much more conservative in this telethon style money begging, someone had mentioned it earlier, no pinky ring, but the whole attire in general is conservative.
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  One of my new favorite quotes

  by freemindfade in

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  "you deserve the god you worship"-joseph campbell

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  "You deserve the god you worship"-Joseph Campbell
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  Atheist Miracles

  by Perry in

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  i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

  no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

  they keep me from getting bored.

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  freemindfade

  *sigh* perry I know your heart is in the right place. When I was agnostic one thing that helped me believe was multiverses and string theory. It gave a physical explanation for a possible spirit realm or realms. However Calling it that would be based on the bible, and I won't even dignify the bible by calling it a book of myth, as all its myths are plagerized from other better myths. We used to think earth was so special. Well it is. But not as rare as we thought. Goldie locks zones are abundant.