Posts by Cold Steel

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Scottish Humour

by The Searcher in

a scotsman's cell-phone rings when he's sitting in a cafe with his wife.

when he answers, he says, "aye", and for the next few minutes he just keeps responding to everything the caller is apparently asking, by saying "aye".

the other customers are puzzled by the conversation taking place.. when he ends the call, his wife stares at him inquisitively.. "what's wrong?

A blonde is driving down the road in the country and sees another blonde in a little rowboat out in an empty field pulling on the oars for all she's worth. The blonde driver pulls off the road, parks, goes over to where the field began and yells to the blonde, "What in the world are you doing?"

The blonde in the boat, still going at it, yells back, "Can't you see? I am rowing this boat across this field!"

Fuming, the first blonde replies, "That's a bunch of foolishness. It's doing things like that, that give us blondes a bad reputation. And if I could swim I'd come out there and kick your ass!"

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Newspaper article: 'Rise of ISIS and earthquakes are WARNINGS before ARMAGEDDON destroys Earth'

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/581439/rise-isis-earthquakes-warnings-before-armageddon-apocalypse-end-destroys-volcanoes-earth.

the "end" of mankind, which has been long predicted by jehovah's witnesses, could happen as soon as this year - according to latest announcement from the christian religion.. in the latest edition of jehovah's witnesses monthly publication watchtower, an article translated into 700 languages - urges people to join the religion or face certain death when god sends his forces from the heavens to "remove all world leaders," "exterminate his enemies" and "rid the world of satan".. critics have lambasted the warning of a coming armageddon as yet another "failed prediction" by the religion, which has previously delivered similar alerts such as a foretold apocalypse in 1975.. indeed, jehovah's witnesses have been warning people of the need to recognise jehovah or face certain death when the "end" comes for more than 100 years.. the christian-based religion was founded in the 1870s by charles taze russell in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, us, as an offshoot from the bible studies movement.. today, there are 8.2million jehovah's witness evangelists, while 19.9 million celebrated their annual memorial festival marking christ's death - worldwide in 2014.. followers do not believe in military service and will not accept blood transfusions.. in a new eight-page article, watchtower said jehovah's witness leaders are now "convinced" humans are in their "final days" before the armageddon.. they cite an increase in global armed conflict, such as the rise of the islamic state terror group, as well as natural disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes.. the lengthy article, written by an unnamed author, said: "will god let humans continue to dominate one another and threaten the future of mankind?

no, as we have seen, he will step in and bring an end to centuries of misery and oppression.

Cold Steel

Do members of the Governing Body ever make themselves available to the media? Do they ever answer inquiries from members, or are they forwarded to the person's elders? Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for writing them? The reason I ask is, when people look to them as arbiters of interpreting scripture, most would want to know if they can trust them and their integrity in an attempt to authenticate their authority. How do GB members treat the rank and file of those who work at Bethel? To those who were, or are, active members, did you find them to be awe inspiring when listening to recorded speeches?

Although most people know the WTBTS proclaims we're living in the last days, many also know about the many false starts going all the way back to William Miller. So how is credibility maintained, and the confidence in the Body? I assume that when GB members would make personal appearances at conferences and such that there's a certain amount of butt kissing that goes on. If so, what keeps their credibility soaring?

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Newspaper article: 'Rise of ISIS and earthquakes are WARNINGS before ARMAGEDDON destroys Earth'

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/581439/rise-isis-earthquakes-warnings-before-armageddon-apocalypse-end-destroys-volcanoes-earth.

the "end" of mankind, which has been long predicted by jehovah's witnesses, could happen as soon as this year - according to latest announcement from the christian religion.. in the latest edition of jehovah's witnesses monthly publication watchtower, an article translated into 700 languages - urges people to join the religion or face certain death when god sends his forces from the heavens to "remove all world leaders," "exterminate his enemies" and "rid the world of satan".. critics have lambasted the warning of a coming armageddon as yet another "failed prediction" by the religion, which has previously delivered similar alerts such as a foretold apocalypse in 1975.. indeed, jehovah's witnesses have been warning people of the need to recognise jehovah or face certain death when the "end" comes for more than 100 years.. the christian-based religion was founded in the 1870s by charles taze russell in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, us, as an offshoot from the bible studies movement.. today, there are 8.2million jehovah's witness evangelists, while 19.9 million celebrated their annual memorial festival marking christ's death - worldwide in 2014.. followers do not believe in military service and will not accept blood transfusions.. in a new eight-page article, watchtower said jehovah's witness leaders are now "convinced" humans are in their "final days" before the armageddon.. they cite an increase in global armed conflict, such as the rise of the islamic state terror group, as well as natural disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes.. the lengthy article, written by an unnamed author, said: "will god let humans continue to dominate one another and threaten the future of mankind?

no, as we have seen, he will step in and bring an end to centuries of misery and oppression.

Cold Steel

Jehovah's WItnesses are far from the only sect to believe we're living in the end times. Ever hear of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints (LDS)? Or the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA)? How about the Rapture? Very popular topic. Go to YouTube and search for "end times" or "red calf" or "third temple." It's all over. The WTBTS and the SDA (as well as many other Adventist groups) inherited their fascination with the last days from William Miller, but where the WTBTS erred is in its abysmal prophetic exegesis. Remember the big red illustrated book on the book of Revelation? I've read it numerous times, carefully examining the notations of its previous owner, one of the pioneers who were ordered by the elders not to come back (after only three non-confrontational meetings). I feel bad taking it, with all of its notes, which told me the poor guy spent lots of time studying the thing -- but perhaps he now thinks it is demon infested. Anyway, I had to memorize page numbers and go back and re-read some of the interpretations before grasping that they really bought in to taking biblical prophecies and connecting them to insignificant events in its history.

If one studies prophesy, one learns how the books of the Bible were written and interpreted. It's not something that can be understood without being somewhat educated in the cultures, languages, context and figures of speech used by the people who wrote them. To read of the two prophets to be raised up to Judah when the gentile armies came against them after the building of the third temple (see Rev. 14), and then point to the releasing of Jehovah's Witnesses from prison in 1919 as the fulfillment -- well, I've got to hand it to the folks with the typewriters, it was a bold move. Just as long as they can keep their people away from universities and other churches, they can probably fill up the space with anything. (Just look at the 607 B.C. thing.)

I had an economics professor who used to say that if you keep predicting doom and gloom, eventually you'll be right. But when you are, you shouldn't puff yourself up and strut around like you were right all the time. That's what some of these reporters ought to remember before they begin their stories.

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I went to a recital in a Mormon church

by James Mixon in

jw
friends

ok, my daughter-in law is a mormon.

it was a recital for her music students, ages.

3-15. i was sitting there thinking this is odd, most of her students are not mormons and.

Cold Steel

That is just...disgusting! Worldly songs in a church that The Truth is going to use to store grain in during the Millennium. Let's see how those little buggers sing whilst being sucked into the ground or writhing in fire during Armageddon! We'll see what tune they're singing then!

By the way, put yourself on report for going to a worldly church.

I used to sing, "Rock of my soul in the bosom of Abraham!" but the elders said I couldn't sing it 'cause it had the word "bosom" in it...also, 'cause they don't cotton to "rock" music. They said it was a nasty old Chistendom song. "So high, you can't get over it, so low you can't get under it, so wide you can't get around it, ol' rock of my soul!"

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How a robot can learn without being programed

by fulltimestudent in

in tomorrow's world, when robots replace humans in many activities, how will robots learn?.

self-learning may be the answer:.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/robots-master-skills-with-deep-learning-technique?utm_source=kurzweilai+daily+newsletter&utm_campaign=99386eaabc-ua-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-99386eaabc-282125545.

Cold Steel

Hey, as long as they can't learn to use an AK-47, I'm cool.

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My pic with a WT

by jerryjax99 in

just trying to do laundry when the boyfriend makes me take a pic of me with a wt.

:p .

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Cold Steel

It's better if there's a record player also in it.

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How many years will pass before the world recognizes we were right?

by John Aquila in

its inevitable that at some point in time, people will look back and see that the exjw community was right about the watchtower organization and the bible..

i have some friends who are catholic, protestant, and some who dont associate with any religion but believe jesus will come in their lifetime.

we are such a small minority compared to christians that we are viewed as ignorant when it comes to religious matters.

Cold Steel

But what happens when they finally “get it“? Chances are they won't even think about it unless their doubts began here. No one enjoys having their belief systems challenged and ripped out underneath them, and not all ex-JWs offer replacement belief systems, so it may not even be seen as the entire group agreeing on one thing: that the religion has no credibility. But whether some are atheists, others Evangelical Christians, or still others something else isn't factored in. Most will, in fact, simply be dealing with the emotional trauma of coming to grips with the conclusion that they were duped. So rather a better question might be how you felt when you learned it was without a valid foundation.

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help catagorize my wife: I truely believe she suffers from cognitive dissonance and other things this stupid cult causes.

by goingthruthemotions in

i find it hard sometimes to get a good idea has to how to communicate with my wife when it come to this stupid cult.. she is born in and stopped attending for many years and got baptized later in life.

i truely believe she suffers from cognitive dissonance and other things this stupid cult causes.. here is a breakdown of what i gather to be where she is mentally.. * she calls the borg her faith.

here are actions that she does that go against her thoughts:.

Cold Steel

+GoingThroughTheMotions

+TheListener

What beliefs do you want them to adopt to replace the ones they presently have?

Evangelical Christianity? Catholicism? Orthodox? Atheism? Other?

Are children involved? Other family members? Would you be okay with her staying in some religion?

Perhaps she doesn't want to give up religion entirely. Most people who get disgusted with the movement become so enraged over being deceived, that they feel if it's not “the truth,“ that there's no truth out there. So what belief system do you want them to accept? If you're going to create a vacuum, that vacuum has to be replaced with something. If you ruin their faith entirely and don't replace it with something better, you can really screw them up emotionally. You can have that BORG mentality replaced by depression, plus you might lose any influence or relationship with her that you've established.

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How to Resist Demon Attacks - Caution: Scary Stuff!

by snugglebunny in

wt.

12-15-66: investigating house and household objectsone under demon attack should calmly, not in hysteria, investigate his house and household articles.

in some few cases the house may be the cause of trouble and the best thing to do is move out.

Cold Steel

When I was going to school in Hawaii, someone gave me a figure carved from lava taken from the big island. Almost immediately I began having horrendous luck. I got mugged and was very badly beaten up, almost drowned when I had a massive systems breakdown during a scuba dive, breakdown of every car I went in to Honolulu. I decided to go by bus and every bus I took broke down. Just one thing after another. I figured it was just Hawaii. Couldn't wait to get back to the mainland. But once I got back the problems persisted. Finally, I decided to get rid of everything people had given me while I was there. And one item I became suspicious of was that lava figure. I didn't know that you're supposed to send the bloody thing back, so I just threw it away!

Anyway, it worked. Suddenly everything was coming up roses. Later, I told this story to a friend of mine who had been a Navy Captain in charge of all three Navy hospitals in Hawaii (including Tripler). He was a frequent diver and didn't have a surreptitious bone in his body. He told me about the curse put on lava on the big island by the local goddess, Madam Palé. He also told me there was a visitor's center there that kept thousands of notes on file by people who returned their lava relics, claiming horrible luck. Apparently, as long as you're on the island, it's okay to keep. But even if you go to another island, you're in trouble. So I asked my friend if he believed this, and he shook his head no. "Well," I said, "if someone gave you one of these little relics, would you keep it?" Again he shook his head. "Just because I don't believe in it doesn't mean that something else isn't going on, so," he said, "weighing the advantages of having it against the chance I'm wrong, I just wouldn't do it."

"So even though you don't believe it, you don't want to take the risk based on the testimonies of all those people who had returned theirs?" I said. Yes. Now if the lava was a million dollars, he said, he might take the risk. But seeing that it was lava, the risk wasn't worth it.

It made perfect sense when he put it that way.

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Even though it's a cult, this Mormon video is better the Jeehoobie's videos!

by DATA-DOG in

the ignorant "convention video" got me thinking.

so, i statred looking up mormon videos because we know that jeehoober copied them.

so far the mormons are better at making videos, and the cartoony stuff seems to be for young minds as opposed to jeehobo's condescending videos that intelligent adults are supposed to stomach.

Cold Steel

Latter-day Saints also have a far more benevolent outlook on others than Jehovah's Witnesses. We don't believe we'll be the only ones standing at the judgment. We acknowledge that there are many fine, decent, honorable people of other beliefs, and we respect them -- and our videos reflect this, I think. The very idea of publishing pictures depicting the suffering of others after impending judgment would be repulsive to us. We tend to focus on the saving power of Christ and God's love for His children, thus this video and others. And BTW, the production values of church-produced videos could, I think, be much better. Still, people do seem to react favorably to them.