Posts by hallelujah

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Global Warming - it's happening right now, how will you respond?

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

this is really worrying.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11951694/.

whatever the causes, whether you think it's global warming or just another cycle, millions of people will be affected and so will the animal kingdom.

how will you respond if the worst happens, and the sea starts lapping at your front door?

hallelujah

Global Warming - it's happening right now, how will you respond?
By not having kids.
ts, you've got my wheels turning with your comments. ; Kinda makes me feel all mellow when I think along those lines, lol

Dan the Man

You're taking the blame thing personally. Go for a bushwalk in bare feet. Better still go naked. Walk lightly on the earth, even for an hour or a day. People aren't the problem. It's the way people are living and the choices we are making.

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Global Warming - it's happening right now, how will you respond?

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

this is really worrying.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11951694/.

whatever the causes, whether you think it's global warming or just another cycle, millions of people will be affected and so will the animal kingdom.

how will you respond if the worst happens, and the sea starts lapping at your front door?

hallelujah

Great thread truthseeker

I especially like the solar cup engine.

Actually the problem is where the investment dollar is put. It's so simple to invest in mining. I've been involved in my families investments and though I have no money of my own, my actions are yet to follow my ethics, though I don't advise anyone to invest in uranium mining or exploration.

However it always worries me that mines destroy both underground acquifer's, requiring huge volumes of pumping, up to 11million litres per day over the life of one particular ordinary underground mine. I also worry that the resources are not really going to needs, but rather to wants.

While mining copper may support electricity and water supply infrastructure, it doesn't help those hundreds of millions who have no access to clean drinking water. Rather we have mining executives in Australia warning the government to tone down it's rhetoric about Chinese military expansionism. (Not that we have any rhetoric about US and Australian military expansionism).

Funnily enough I suggested an innovative solar company to some of my family members but they thought it was too risky. The stocks have traded between 500% and 1500% above their listing price after first floating on the Australian stock exchange in May. If anyone wants the name of the company just ask and I'll post it. But I won't name it here because I'm not advertising a company, rather an idea.

Solar energy companies have been some of the best performers too on the German stock exchange.

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Diary of an Unborn Child - switch your rational mind off for ten minutes.

by nicolaou in

this article from awake!

in may 1980 is an example of the worst sort of emotional argument.

i'm just going to post it, barf, and then comment later.. *** g80 5/22 p. 16 ***.

hallelujah

An infant is potentially many wonderful things (eventually) and at that same moment many monstrous things (eventually).
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Sadaam, Ted Bundy were all cuddly infants once.
Had they been aborted can the world collectively say it would have been an awful loss?

Terry

Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, and Ariel Sharon. All of them conducted massacres of large numbers of innocent people - Stalin in the Gulags, Pol Pot after after year zero, Hitler in the death camps, Ariel Sharon his thousands in the refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila.

Why are the first three considered murderers throughout the world, while Ariel Sharon is known to be a mass murderer in the muslim world and considered a hero in the Yahwist Judeo-Christian world?

Because of the context. These people were not genetically predisposed to murder. They murdered in a situation, and if they had been aborted, other people would also have acted badly in whatever other situation would then have existed.

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Diary of an Unborn Child - switch your rational mind off for ten minutes.

by nicolaou in

this article from awake!

in may 1980 is an example of the worst sort of emotional argument.

i'm just going to post it, barf, and then comment later.. *** g80 5/22 p. 16 ***.

hallelujah

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God shunned all, but Jews and christians with the correct understanding?

by Star Moore in

the bible says that the jews were god's chosen people.

yes, but does that mean that all other people were nothing to him, unless they were associated with the nation of isreal?

a thought: what if god just chose the nation of isreal for the purpose of bringing the messiah to earth and was still with the good people in all the other religions?

hallelujah

The early watchtower promoted zionism and thereby contributed to the movement for the expulsion of Jewish people from Europe in the Holocaust. Many Jews in Europe opposed zionism for precisely the reason that they were assimilated in those countries and did not want to be made into aliens in their own lands. Nevertheless Zionists, both Jewish and Christian (such as Charles Taze Russell) promoted zionism against their wishes.

Needless to say zionism involved the extermination or expulsion of the Palestinian population of Palestine.

As for the exceptionalism of Yahweh, this beastly figment of the imagination accepted virgin sacrifices just like any other pagan god

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"Turned aside after Satan."?

by scout575 in

the nt contains several references to christians abandoning christianity.

they are referred to as having "turned aside after satan" ( 1 tim 5:15 ), as being like "the dog that is turned to his own vomit.

" ( 2 peter 2:22 ), as being the "enemies of the cross of christ" ( php 3:18 ), and as being "not of us" ( 1 john 2:19 ).

hallelujah

When I read Judges 11 and the sacrifice by Jephthah of his Jephthah's daugther, I was shocked.

The WTBTS tries to say this was not a real sacrifice.

Biblical scholars say otherwise

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Japan's rich buy organs from executed Chinese prisoners

by flyphisher in

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hundreds of well-off japanese and other nationals are turning to china's burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been harvested from executed prisoners and sold to hospitals.

see: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article352535.ece

hallelujah

This is another example of where the doctrines of religion actually support morality. To avoid organ transplants as was originally advised by the WTBTS would actually avoid such cannibalism as is patently the case here.

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Death could await Christian convert in Afghanistan

by SickofLies in

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/world/meast/03/21/afghan.christian/index.html

the united states and other western nations are protesting to the afghan government over the case of an afghan man being prosecuted for converting from islam to christianity.

abdul rahman was arrested last week and is now awaiting trial.

hallelujah

Thank you Sick of Lies,

I think the apostacy thing is really outrageous. I would be shocked if the US allows it to happen, but preserving the man's safety is just as important.

It's all ridiculous too since Eloah of the bible is Allah of the Koran.

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Diary of an Unborn Child - switch your rational mind off for ten minutes.

by nicolaou in

this article from awake!

in may 1980 is an example of the worst sort of emotional argument.

i'm just going to post it, barf, and then comment later.. *** g80 5/22 p. 16 ***.

hallelujah

The problem with this society is that the sacred has become profane. That which can when joined to a human egg give life is treated like cordial or an enema.

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Diary of an Unborn Child - switch your rational mind off for ten minutes.

by nicolaou in

this article from awake!

in may 1980 is an example of the worst sort of emotional argument.

i'm just going to post it, barf, and then comment later.. *** g80 5/22 p. 16 ***.

hallelujah

Thank you Anewme

We all were once embyros, fetuses, unborn babies in the womb.