I do agree a lot won't even realize what it is about but it's going to be a huge wake up to a lot of fence sitting JWs when the 100th anniversary of the First World War is celebrated. I think by then you will start to see a bit of a drop off in spirit if nothing else.
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182014 means nothing
by konceptual99 ini know there have been many comments over the recent past about 2014 being potentially a key point in time for the wts as it's 100 years since 1914 but my view is that it means absolutely nothing.. people are people and history shows the psychological hold that organisations like the wts has just carries on captivating people.
the org survived the 1975 debacle and they will potter on for years to come regardless of things like 100 years since 1914, especially since this is something the wts are simply not talking about.
it means nothing to anyone other than people looking for something to bash the wts with.. it's not mentioned in the literature and is unlikely to be anytime soon - why the heck would the wts want to remind people of the length of time?.
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Satan- Perfect Scapegoat for Witnesses Ignoring Real Causes of Situations
by flipper inin a recent thread i started on music i couldn't help noticing how many had to throw their alleged " worldly music " out because parents, or elders told them their music brought them " under the influence of demons ", or listening to music was how " the demons got inside us ".
this superstitious belief that " satan " is to blame for each witnesses demise is really a passing of the buck of responsibility so it sidesteps real issues involved.. for example : check these familiar expressions out we all heard while we were jehovah's witnesses .. .
1. if a person was stumbled and said, " i don't want to go to meetings anymore.
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He was always my excuse.
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I make a vow 2015 will be my last DC to attend ever !!!
by 5go ineven then it will be just be a sunday to see if the fall off come true, or not.. heck this year and next will probally just enough to make it look like i showed up for it.
thankfully i live around the city it's held in i so it's not a huge sacrafice..
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The reason 2012 isnt my last because I just want to watch them try to get out of 1914 it has been somewhat entertaining.
You can almost the strain coming off the podium when ever they have to say 1914. Which sometimes is quite often I almost want to make a drinking game out of it but I have to drive home.
Drink on 1914, lick salt on faithful slave.
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Is Blind Obedience to group of men supported by Scripture?
by nugget ini have been pondering over the demands made by the governing body for absolute loyalty and unquestioning obedience to their interpretation of scripture.
is this a reasonable request and is it in line with scripture?
alternatively is there in fact a scriptural defence for taking personal responsibility for beliefs and having a questioning attitude when being told what is to be believed.. there are ample scriptural warnings about trusting in men psalm 146 v 3 warns us not to put our trust in nobles or earthly men and galatians 1 v 8 goes even further stating that even if an angel were to preach to us something contrary to the teachings of christ it should be ignored.
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Nope it isn't.
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I watched John Dies the End I think everyone hear might want to watch it.
by 5go ini it's about opening your mind to new realities.
it had a lot of metphors for things we have all been through as a community leaving a belief system..
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John dies several times I think?
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For all my Liberal/Progressive Friends
by Jomavrick ini am going to be unplugged while i gallivant around europe for a while, which means there will be one person short of holding up the conservative banner on this site.
so you can all pile on your leftist views of society, obama, health care, benghazi, irs, union thugery, socialism, redistribution of wealth, racism, sexism, gay marriage, right wing conspiracies, talk radio, fox news, wall street, the national debt, the educational system without my counterbalancing your neurotic views.
but i do love you non the less by brothers and sisters.
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The purchase taxes on a Ferrari in these countries is about equal to the price of the car.
I find that kind of low some places it one and a half times espacailly on a Ferrari yet the rich still buy them, your point?
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For all my Liberal/Progressive Friends
by Jomavrick ini am going to be unplugged while i gallivant around europe for a while, which means there will be one person short of holding up the conservative banner on this site.
so you can all pile on your leftist views of society, obama, health care, benghazi, irs, union thugery, socialism, redistribution of wealth, racism, sexism, gay marriage, right wing conspiracies, talk radio, fox news, wall street, the national debt, the educational system without my counterbalancing your neurotic views.
but i do love you non the less by brothers and sisters.
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Why are you ging to the socialist paradise of Europe? Last I checked your side said it was a hell hole (which is true in the areas that took the advice to cut goverment spending) I hope you have your eyes opened to the truth about europe being way better and more adavanced (in the socialist north part at least) than the US.
Comatose - Me too I was the same.
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I watched John Dies the End I think everyone hear might want to watch it.
by 5go ini it's about opening your mind to new realities.
it had a lot of metphors for things we have all been through as a community leaving a belief system..
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I it's about opening your mind to new realities. It had a lot of metphors for things we have all been through as a community leaving a belief system.
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I make a vow 2015 will be my last DC to attend ever !!!
by 5go ineven then it will be just be a sunday to see if the fall off come true, or not.. heck this year and next will probally just enough to make it look like i showed up for it.
thankfully i live around the city it's held in i so it's not a huge sacrafice..
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Even then it will be just be a Sunday to see if the fall off come true, or not.
Heck this year and next will probally just enough to make it look like I showed up for it. Thankfully I live around the city it's held in I so it's not a huge sacrafice.
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Interesting Quote from Adolph Hitler in MEIN kAMPF
by Band on the Run in"the aim of propaganda is not to try to pass judgment on conflicting rights, giving each its due, but exclusively to empahsixe the right which we are asserting.
propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side...... the broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form a reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly waveering between one idea and another....the masses are not in a position to discern where the enemy's fault ends and where our own begins..... the great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.
this sentiment, however, is not complex,but simple and consistent.
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Yeah Cracked had a nice article on Chalie Chaplin and how he was deported (despite being a natrual born american) from the US for making fun of Hitler in the litle dictador. It wasn't till a decade after the war the US finally forgave him by then Chaplin was pretty much in the screw America mood for the rest of his life.