glenster
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Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower, and Armagedon, in the news... again. Washington Post story.
by Balaamsass indec 22, 2012 03:29 pm estthewashingtonpost /for ap news registry the end of the world has been postponed - againby angelo stagnaro.
people gather around a sacred fire at the mayan archeological site of iximche during a ceremony marking the end of the 13th oxlajuj b'aktun in tecpan, guatemala, on dec. 21, 2012.
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glenster
Because you don't take a d**k to a gunfight. (Sorry)
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Question, God order his people to commit genocide.
by jam injust to be clear his instructions to the israelites were.
to commit genocide.
deuteronomy 7:16 "you shall destroy.
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glenster
God has the prerogative to take everyone's life, and does, but people don't
have the right to do that for God except with proof of God which is alleged.
It's a matter of faith if they did or not.Conservative: it happened as the writers claim.
Liberal: various options--it happened as claimed but God only took the early
followers so far (Jesus regarding marriage, monotheism only took hold in the
time of Isaiah, ANE cosmology, etc.), it's a romanticized rendering of the rise
of monotheism from Canaanite culture, some scriptures indicate it wasn't a total
herem (see the links), etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herem_%28war_or_property%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_violence_in_Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare_in_Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkhemet_Mitzvah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_peaceThe real problem isn't any of those things as much as if current followers see
those scriptures as meant as guidance currently, which they generally don't.
Exceptions include Christians who wanted to eliminate Jews, Jews seeing the
Palestinians as Canaanites, Islamist terrorists regarding non-Muslims esp. Jews,
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Christianity gives you....ummm...ummm....exactly what?
by Terry inchristianity:.
you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. you pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum but you force a smile and forgive.. .
if you are abused?
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glenster
I can't prove God let alone specifics added to the basic concept, that I'd
pick my parents if all I could do is pick them out of a summary of the qualities
of all the possible parents in the world, prove that you have to love a song I
love, etc., and, all due respect to the math of them and related odds, I'm glad
that's not all there is. Some things are subjective and can not only be under-
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Sandy Hook Massacre - Solutions
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glenster
"Sandy Hook Massacre - Solutions":
They're not going to enact federal programs that require people who go off by
themselves to join a group to go bowling or something or require people who
can't defend themselves to stay in shelters. They're not going to change the
censorship laws, ban all guns, or eliminate all liquor and street drugs someone
could take instead of psychotropic meds.With the best of mental health programs, they won't be able to predict that
because a guy has a Mom with a prepper/survivalist concern but is known as
friendly and helpful, because he has Asperger's syndrome and is shy and awkward
socially, and plays videogames, he plans to enact a "three guys, one hammer"
fantasy of murdering lots of people who don't seem likely to fight back very
well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacsMedicine and science coming up with something that diminishes excess aggres-
sion, and cures schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, would help. Short of
that, mental health programs will have a process to have people committed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_commitmentAdam Lanza's Motive: Did Fear Of Being Committed Lead To Sandy Hook Elementary
Shooting?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/adam-lanza-motive_n_2329508.html -
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Christianity gives you....ummm...ummm....exactly what?
by Terry inchristianity:.
you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. you pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum but you force a smile and forgive.. .
if you are abused?
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glenster
A nice hope, lots of tunes, food from the food bank when I was poor, my Mom
and Dad, M.L. King, Steven Colbert, Robert Kennedy, etc., and people like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_left#United_StatesLots of material to show the JWs leaders lied about for GTJ Brooklyn.
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Mental health crisis in America-
by moshe ini found this mother's letter to be an eye opener--.
written by liza long, republished from the blue review.
friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in america.
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glenster
l p: I'm not sure what your complaint is. The Wikipedia articles agree with
the JAMA and are well-researched. That's why I thought "this i would believe
more than what i would read on wikipedia" was curious.The shooting does motivate us to see if there could be improvement in mental
health care. But regarding Adam Lanza "Several medical experts have stated that
there is no link between the shooting and either Asperger's or autism in
general." "The hypothesis that individuals with AS are predisposed to violent
or criminal behavior has been investigated but is not supported by data. More
evidence suggests children with AS are victims rather than victimizers. A 2008
review found that an overwhelming number of reported violent criminals with AS
had coexisting psychiatric disorders such as schizoaffective disorder."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting#Perpetrator
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The 144,000
by dabster ini was reading in revelation 7 yesterday, where the 12 tribes of the sons of israel are named and where we learn that 12,000 from each tribe are sealed.
how do the jws explain that the 144,000 are identified as israel - and identified so specifically that the 12 tribes are named?
be gentle with me when answering.
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glenster
Some preachers like Popoff cook stuff up about exclusiveness to draw people to
their collection plate or buy their literature. The current JWs leaders
claim to being God's special spokespeople of a literal 144,00 goes back to
Russell in the 1880's. Exclusive claims/relatively exclusive claims distinc-
tively taught about what the Bible requires are contrived to affect that.JWs who are outspoken about persistent disagreement with one of those policies
or claims is disfellowshipped to prevent them from spreading their research
findings among the paying customers.
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Mental health crisis in America-
by moshe ini found this mother's letter to be an eye opener--.
written by liza long, republished from the blue review.
friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in america.
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glenster
PS to my last post: if a seriously schizophrenic (manic depressive, etc.)
person is taking street drugs they're probably not taking their psychotropic
meds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotropic_medications