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A simple physical exercise leads to great discovery!
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when i was working in a shipping company, captain invited me to his house for his wedding anniversary.

there i was attracted to his father (aged around 80) who seemed to be very healthy.

with me he became very comfortable, and talkative.
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What death teaches!
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death teaches that nothing belongs to us.

no other teachings have been conveyed so clearly, powerfully, and globally.

yet this is the one that is not taken seriously by people in general.
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If Jehovah's Witnesses go some more in the same direction
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jws made a diligent study on teachings that have pagan origin and found christendom as being mostly built on pagan teachings, hence keep distance from them all.

so far so good.

now, if jws continue in the same direction, they will find virtually everything in the bible as borrowed from pagansstarting from six-staged creation account, and devil (ahriman) making the first man and woman fall (which is from zoroastrianism) to the messiah restoring what has been lost (which is found in many mythologies).
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Science also accurately foretells (and Bible prophecy neutralized)
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in 1987 herbert benson, m.d., professor of medicine at harvard medical school foretold: a day will come, through meditation you can set the stage for important mind-and habit-altering brain change.

(your maximum mind, random house, new york) he gave the reasons: over the years you develop circuits and channels of thought in your brain.

these are physical pathways which control the way you think, the way you act, and often the way you feel.
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Major events that Bible did not foretell!
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jws feel that their strength lies in the power of bible to foretell.

however, an impartial analysis would show that bibles prophecies are too general, and yet some of the major developments in the world scene were not figured in its propheciesespecially those that are very much needed for what it calls last days.

to mention a few:.
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Elusive happiness teaches a hidden truth!
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many seek happiness externally and many a time assign others the possession of their happiness.

when they derive a sort of happiness from external sources, they dont feel satisfied, hence jump to the next and then to the next .... in contrast, jesus said gods kingdom (or real happiness) is within (entos) you.

this cannot be misinterpreted as jesus being the king of the kingdom was amidst them as jws do.
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Where is this evil spirit from?
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many believe in the wonderful drama of evolution (life evolving from non-life through flower/fruit beautiful trees and variety of species, reaching homo sapiens and finally returning to non-life) through various processes such as mutation, adaptation, natural selection .... yet there is an evil spirit working against the very spirit of the evolution, producing ironical results in too large a scale.

to mention a few:.

1) the really superior beings are kept sidelined (http://thoughtcatalog.com/lorenzo-jensen-iii/2015/07/17-ways-that-science-proves-women-are-superior-to-men/).
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The only way to know God exists!
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do everything as god would do if he were present here.

this will attract his attention, and you will experience his invisible hands blessing everything you do, giving you results more than what you sowed.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------.

hence put to the test the above, and then you can make really authentic comments!.
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How does God view atheist and devotees?
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1) he views devotees with disgust; because they use god as a means to fulfillment of their materialistic ends, and they constantly pester him with request to violate his own laws (principle of action and consequence).

hence devotees are materialistic in its true sense.

they even interpolate things into scriptures to suit their convenienceas confirmed by prophet jeremiah himself (jeremiah 7:22; 8:8).
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Death is not something to be feared!
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science can explain how of things, but it cannot explain why of certain things (for example, why did life arise from non-life and evolved from simpler creatures to more complex life forms only to die and disappear?

) so are the conflicted religions whose chief concern is in safeguarding each ones separate identity..

next option is to look for pearls among the stonesusing power of our own reason.