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  WASP TRUTH

  by Victor_E in

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  never place a period where god has placed a comma.

  gracie allen.

  this forum is an excellent domain for the expression of subjective and relative truths.

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  Erich

  Pat writes:
  >...In one of those books, "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff" the point is made that in a hundred years everyone alive now will be dead, so what difference did some of this stuff make?...<
  
  This is one mistake in kind of thinking which most people do in this forum.
  Why do you believe thoughts about life and lasting of life, written in an elder book, more than 10 years old?
  In the meantime scientists says that the life space will increase up to 200 years caused through the
  impact of new medicine and new technologies.
  
  If you do not believe nothing what the WTS says - don't forget it make no difference. Life time
  will increase dramatically in the next 50 years.
  And no stone will be above another stone....
  
  don't think pessimistically !
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  Preconceived Ideas

  by Frenchy in

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  from the article: acquire a heart agreeable to jehovah w10/15/01.

  7. a key requirement for acquiring a pure heart is that of gaining accurate knowledge of gods will and purposes.

  there is only one source of that knowledge, the inspired word of god.

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  Erich

  Pat:<..Then with the generation change, it was moribund and comatose!
  It's really very disappointing and sad....<

  Hello Pat,

  I do not think it's so pessimistic and sad. You should not fall in deep depressions! Please see the matter with a touch of humour and joy!

  Note what Psalm 2:4 says:

  "The very One sitting in the heavens will LAUGH;
  Jehovah himself will hold them in derison"
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  Preconceived Ideas

  by Frenchy in

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  from the article: acquire a heart agreeable to jehovah w10/15/01.

  7. a key requirement for acquiring a pure heart is that of gaining accurate knowledge of gods will and purposes.

  there is only one source of that knowledge, the inspired word of god.

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  Erich

  hello Pathofthorns:

  The main problem is as following:

  The GB will get more and more into coercion, and they will have got no time to ... "review of our understandings and beliefs in light of where we are in the stream of time".

  If you once go preaching from door to door, and you come to Mrs. Taylor, proclaiming her the established Kingdom of Jehovah, and the end of disease and death; and
  the female house-inhabitant (Mrs. Taylor) says: Oh yes, I know it! Mr. Greg Venter (gentechnic-engineer) is saying this will become true in about 5 years, and his industry is now working on this inventions .... and you otherwise say: Oh No, Mrs. Taylor, you have got to wait until Jehovah brings us healing, but after armageddon... and if on the other hand you is deep frustrated about this fact.... then, I think, the GB will come into a little bit of stress.
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  Preconceived Ideas

  by Frenchy in

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  from the article: acquire a heart agreeable to jehovah w10/15/01.

  7. a key requirement for acquiring a pure heart is that of gaining accurate knowledge of gods will and purposes.

  there is only one source of that knowledge, the inspired word of god.

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  Erich

  hello Marvin,
  
  "...might these statements be preparation for some dramatic doctrinal shifts regarding current "cherished" ideas?" --M.S.
  
  Yes indeed.
  I think I found the reason why:
  
  In a vision, Don Adams (the new president of the GB) saw an angel who gave him the "scrolls to be opened" (Re 20:12).
  
  The scrolls contained all failures made by the WTS from the beginning.
  
  Besides, the scrolls instructed them to present the bibles message in a manner the scientists of the 21. century can understand and follow.
  
  Finally, the scrolls told how to use the recent scientific discoveries in a way to free the mankind from suffering diseases, death, hunger, unemployment, terrorism and war, and how to establish Jehovahs Kingdom.
  
  Maybe it's my dream.
  But it's no zynism....
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  "What Is Truth"

  by LoneWolf in

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  for those of you who have seen this before, please forgive me for posting it again.

  it is the other article that was included in the letter to garrett, and is necessary in order to clarify the different types of "truth" mentioned in the first one.. lonewolf.

  what is truth?.

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  Erich

  Hello LoneWolf:

  Look at Frenchy's "Pre-conceived Ideas" and the answer of Marvin Shilmer, who posted:
  >....might these statements be preparation for some dramatic doctrinal shifts regarding current "cherished" ideas ?...>

  Perhaps it is?

  Maybe an angel came to Don Adams (the new president of the GB) and gave him the "srolles to be opened" (Re 20:12)
  (That's no zynism).
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  "What Is Truth"

  by LoneWolf in

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  for those of you who have seen this before, please forgive me for posting it again.

  it is the other article that was included in the letter to garrett, and is necessary in order to clarify the different types of "truth" mentioned in the first one.. lonewolf.

  what is truth?.

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  Erich

  I think we should build a bridge between our bible-semantics and the present scientific terminology.
  
  Jehovahs Witnesses have been the one and only religion who said there is no immortal soul, and the hope for the greatest part of mankind is
  everlasting life here on earth, and not in heaven.
  
  These "revolutionary" belief make JW's more credible in the eyes of scientists as we (and the GB) suppose... There are many scientists today, who presently see the mankind standing at the doorstep to a new global system where these dreams get true.
  
  Why are we not able to formulate our biblical hope in a manner the scientists can understand and follow it? Maybe we could find big allies in our fight for Jehovah and his Kingdom....
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  Another question about the Governing Body

  by ballistic in

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  what is the actual mechanism by which god reveals his truth to the governing body.

  the governing body have admitted to having made mistakes so it can be logically stated that this mechanism is by nature flawed.. while true that god only has very imperfect people to act as "the faithfull and discreet slave", there is no reason why he would use a flawed or imperfect method of transferring this "life saving" information to them.. the governing body has been very quiet about what this method actually consists of.. surely they must also be aware that delusions of a religious nature are common in various mental disorders such as schizophrenia.

  is there any way of judging whether truths are the product of ones own mind, if not the product of the devil.

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  Erich

  ...thats when majority voting 2/3 came in ???

  "GOD does not play dice", said A. Einstein....
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  "What Is Truth"

  by LoneWolf in

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  for those of you who have seen this before, please forgive me for posting it again.

  it is the other article that was included in the letter to garrett, and is necessary in order to clarify the different types of "truth" mentioned in the first one.. lonewolf.

  what is truth?.

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  Erich

  The term "truth" is always subordinated to the term "provableness"
  (see mathematical logic; Goedels Axiom etc.)
  
  Please let me explain it:
  
  You both can observe a murderer in the park-garage of a supermarket killing a customer and stealing his car.
  
  The incident is "true".
  But is this incident compatible with the "truth" in the Holy Bible (in your opinion? )
  
  You can stick a paper on your brand-new car, with the
  statement: brand-new, 220 HP, 4500 ccms, first-property.
  
  The text is " true ".
  Or do you think its not?
  
  A friend drives 20 miles with the car, and crashes against a tree.
  The car is scrap metal.
  
  Is the same text now "true" ????
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  "What Is Truth"

  by LoneWolf in

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  for those of you who have seen this before, please forgive me for posting it again.

  it is the other article that was included in the letter to garrett, and is necessary in order to clarify the different types of "truth" mentioned in the first one.. lonewolf.

  what is truth?.

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  Erich

  LoneWolf and amazing:
  please note:
  
  your articles are interesting, but sorry:
  You completely confounded the term "truth" with "cognition"!

  Klaus Vollmer.
  Do you speak German?
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  Stem Cell/Blood Miracle

  by metatron in

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  over at worldnet daily, there is a report of a young boy.

  who will escape a future of pain, suffering, and death.

  because stem cells were used to eliminate his sickel cell.

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  Erich

  Furthermore:

  Further:
  
  Most of the important inventions and discoveries, that we need in the new Order to free the mankind of sickness, hunger and death, have already been done and ----now LOOK: patented !! (Genetic engineering, biotechnology, new medicine)

  The WTS should buy these patents and the research-results to apply them for the benefit of those part of mankind, that does the will of Jehovah God...;-))