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  Mystics don't talk about their experiences.

  by BabaYaga in

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  catbert

  BabaYaga, If I squeeze your brain in the right spot, you will have an out of body experience.
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  Mystics don't talk about their experiences.

  by BabaYaga in

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  catbert

  Never trust what you see and feel just before sleep.
  
  Same goes for altered states.
  
  Many mystics use drugs to allow them to "see".
  
  JW's would have you believe that drugs open a door into your mind for demons.
  
  On a side note, you ever have a dream so intense, you feel it must be for a "purpose"?
  
  Its just a dream, Nebuchadnezzar. Monkeys and dogs have them too.
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  Will the WTBTS ever become mainstream like the WWCG?

  by donny in

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  back during the 80's and 90's, i occasionally heard statements lumping the society in with the likes of the worldwide church of god who had very similar teachings and even believed in 1975 as being a year that god would act (1975 in prophecy!

  by herbert w. armstrong).

  clearly the roots of the wwcg were from the same as the societys and both groups were viewed as cults.

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  catbert

  Jehovah's Witnesses have the lowest retention rate of any religious tradition.
  Only 37% of all those who say they were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses still
  identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses.
  
  http://pewresearch.org/pubs/743/united-states-religion
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  "We NEVER PROPHESIED about 1975"

  by Honesty in

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  2:24 through 5:12 of the following video says they did:.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiezx74p5ck&feature=related.

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  catbert

  Cool thread.
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  Question

  by Newborn in

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  do you still believe that jehovahs day and the paradise will come?.

  i still believe in god and the creation.. /newborn.

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  catbert

  I believe that there are sensitive individuals who are repulsed by a lion killing and eating a lamb.
  I happen to be one of them. But unfortunately, I now believe the balance of predator vs prey is
  as it has always been. There was never a time when animals did not eat each other.
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  Lying is like....(please fill in the blanks)

  by asilentone in

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  lying is like.....

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  catbert

  Lying is like story telling, or acting.
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  I have a wierd take on praying, what about you?...

  by Hecklerboy in

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  everytime i talk to someone about praying they say that they pray all the time.

  talk to god whenever they can.

  well i'm just the opposite.

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  catbert

  I also chose to pray only for the "big stuff".
  Financial help mostly. I think people make a mistake when they think it is wrong to pray for financial
  help. Really, in this world, money is what fixes many of your problems. You can be unhappy, and be well off
  financially, but money problems are the root of most unhappiness in the world.
  Bill Gates will help more people get well than mother Theresa ever did. And how? Money.
  So I pray for money.
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  How many of you believe in God, but not the Bible as His word?

  by chappy in

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  if you do believe in god but not that the bible is his word what are your core beliefs and how did you arrive at them?

  even if you don't believe in the bible as the word of god, do you find it useful/helpful in your faith?

  do you still adhere to any particular religion?

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  catbert

  I do, and I believe he is male, and he has emotions like us.
  
  When God made us in his image, he gave us the ability to experience the same emotions he experiences.
  Love, hate, jealousy, anger.
  
  He does not experience the emotion of fear. He reserved that for humans.
  Thus the term "God fearing" Christian.
  
  Can you think of non-human animals that you can say actually feel love, hate, anger or jealousy?
  No, these are the emotions of God passed on to us, from him.
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  Even active witnesses think this is way over the top.....

  by yourmomma in

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  there were gasps after watching this.

  i heard the anti college talks at the dc this year, and while many people i know didnt agree with them, this following video stunned many of them.

  there are many people on this forum, many have gotten to where they are many different ways.

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  catbert

  Data from a recent pew report indicates:
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses have the lowest retention rate of any religious tradition. Only 37% of all those who say they were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses still identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  The GB probably looks at this and asks themselves how they can take control back.
  "Independent thinking" is encouraged in college.
  
  Think about it people. The Org actually says "independent thinking" is a bad thing.
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  When Human Rights Extend to Nonhumans

  by hamilcarr in

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  all these supremacist notions take a long time to erode.. ideas & trends.

  when human rights extend to nonhumans david silverman/getty imagesalmost human a chimp at an israeli wildlife park in april.

  spanish lawmakers recently voted to grant apes some rights.

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  catbert

  I wonder if Noah was annoyed by the sexual practices of Bonobo's on the ark.
  Everytime Noah came to feed them, they would start humping each other.