does anyone have any idea why birds are literally dropping dead from the sky in four or five states.
and even in sweden,hundreds of birds are dead.
and fish are turning up dead too,not only in the states,but also brazil and new zealand.. they're trying to say new year's eve fireworks frightened the birds to death.
Man, it's about time somebody brought this up!
I have no friggin clue either but nobody I know is buying the fireworks bullshit.
When I see the mainstream news programs stirring up fear and talking about end times it makes me wonder if our friends in the Pentagon are playing games again.....
i'm not surprised at all by this:.
journal: study linking vaccine to autism was fraudby the associated press.
january 5, 2011the first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.. the conclusions of the 1998 paper by andrew wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal lancet, where it was published.
I have an autistic son who is now 18 years old, and I came to the conclusion several years ago that it has nothing to do with vaccines. I had researched it mostly because of the ranting and raving of Don Imus (who I think means well).
I'm chalking it up to an early dose of quantum consciousness. They seem to have a lot of trouble with linear language but have savant abilities in other areas.
Thank you for posting that Mrs. Jones.
i don't know if you've read anything like this before, but i'd like to share anyway.
as you know, we hear time and time again how we've preached pretty much in every country on earth (with a few exceptions for safety reasons).
well, maybe we have, but that doesn't mean we've reached even half of the people on earth.
Well, according to the Bible, Jehovah couldn't care less about that side of the world. I mean, Paul was sent West, and they said "screw the east". Since the only thing the BorgTower worships besides itself is the Bible, it's crystal clear that only a token effort is necessary. After all, since Jehovah reads hearts, they must all be useless baddies. Geez, the nerve of them to revere Buddha or Brahma more than his only begotten son....er, I mean faithful and discreet slave. Since Jesus is "The Way, The Truth, and the Life", and nobody gets to the Father except through HIM (er, I mean his faithful and discreet slave), they really have no hope, do they? The Watchtower can just write them off as "pagans", use the Old Testament as an example of Jehovah having no problem with ethnic cleansing, and VOILA, we can now use that half of the world to house resurrected people until they decide to do it Jehovah's way, or else....
... INTA THE FIRE WIT YA, HEATHEN!
Welcome to the board Frank!
Jimmy C.
claustrophobic.
that's the simplest way for me to express how i feel in the wt org.
like many here, my eyes were slowly opened over the years as i did more earnest research, trying to reconcile some long standing spiritual quandaries.
Greetings Franklin Massey.
Reminds me of one of my favorite authors, Gerald Massey.
i haven't always understood how christ could have carried our sins for us, and had them forgiven.
i've sort of understood because that's what people say he did, but the ransom (in a legalistic adam/jesus way) never held weight for me.
but something recently happened that allowed me to understand.
tec, if you don't see Jesus as a blood sacrifice, then I apologize for insinuating that you did. But you do realize that it makes you something other than an Orthodox Christian, and I certainly have no problem with that.
You may not see it this way, but I mean no harm when I say there is no evidence for Jesus. I just hate to see good, sincere people doing mind gymnastics trying to make sense out of the incomplete picture we were given. It really does strike a compassionate nerve in me, because I spent DECADES agonizing over it. Why didn't Josephus mention him, a guy who wrote TOMES about insignificant nobodies, except for a one-paragraph known forgery? Why didn't the Essenes mention him in the Dead Sea Scrolls? If he created anywhere near the stir that the Bible says he did, no one outside the alleged Bible writers noticed anything... and that is a fact.
The point is, the only place that matters if Jesus existed or not is in human consciousness. That's the most effective way for him to return. The New Covenant is written on hearts, not paper.....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
Yes I know LWT, I know. The benevolence thing is the issue. Keep in mind, I don't believe Jehovah is the Supreme God. But he IS the God of this world, and yes it is a world of suffering. Improving it in any way we can is part of the evolutionary process. We were given the task, but someone came along and told us that everything was already taken care of and all we needed was "faith".
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
What is the big deal with reconciling an intelligent Creator with Evolution? Simply because it took so long? Just because it didn't happen in a week?
I don't know who, in this day and age, still thinks it's all an accident. How ridiculous. Who on earth can look at the Fibonacci sequence and still think it's pot luck?
This is one thing I always thought the Watchtower did well in pointing out....heard this in a public talk once: Even a simple thing like a pencil requires a designer and a craftsman. Take a piece of wood, a piece of rubber, a piece of lead, and a piece of aluminum, throw them all off of a 10 story building repeatedly for billions of years, and see if it ever accidentally becomes a pencil.
Now add this to the mix: A single human cell is just as complex as the City of New York, but 100 times more efficient.
if you are an elder or an ex-elder please add a comment.
i hope that the governing body will see this.
it is too bad it has to be on an anonymous forum.
Awesome, thanks for posting this.
Just wanted to point out that #5 seems to be clearly talking about pedophiles but never specifically says so. Other than that....
i haven't always understood how christ could have carried our sins for us, and had them forgiven.
i've sort of understood because that's what people say he did, but the ransom (in a legalistic adam/jesus way) never held weight for me.
but something recently happened that allowed me to understand.
tec said: "We can't understand because we rarely know who to turn to."
Your MASTER taught you everything you need to know, all the answers are in his teachings by way of illustration. He TOLD his disciples this. BUt in all fairness, reading the Nag Hammadi gospels would really help, because the Bible is a product of the Roman Church. They have everything in there they want you to know, but the truth was left between the lines, and in many places right there in the light of day but we were taught to be blind to it by preconceived rock-solid notions..
Sorry guys but designs has a point that cannot be ignored. These entire accounts were complete fabrications. It is beyond me how anyone can spend any amount of time around here, see all the "non-evidence" of the existence of Jesus and continue to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice to appease a morbid, twisted vengeful god who had an insatiable thirst for blood. To the point where a modern day NUT-CULT kills children so they can keep God's SACRED FUCKING BLOOD to HIMSELF. This very idea originated in Babylon and was brought to the Jews by none other than Ezra, the black magician who brought you the redacted and interpolated OT.
That doesn't mean that the message loses its value. Instead, the focus becomes, not on a historical figure, but on ONESELF AS THE CHRIST. This is the way the ancients read their myths, and this is the way the gospel was intended to be understood. YOU are JESUS. Plain and simple!
No, it doesn't mean we have to physically die on a cross. It represents the very same death of the "self" (EGOS!!) that is taught in all the eastern religions.
Personally, I have no doubt Jesus walked this earth and brought great teachings that completely changed the direction of the human race. HE saved the planet and its future, but NOT IN THE WAY WE WERE TOLD. His teachings were much more low-key and private. It was our KARMA as a WORLD that he changed. I will post about this another time. We have to apply his teachings, not simply believe in them. THAT and $1.95 will get you a 20 ounce coffee at 7-11.
dear brothers on the governing body of the worldwide brotherhood of jehovah's witnesses,.
by your decisions and policies and doctrines and rules, you have made millions of people run out of life long before their life runs out.. how do you justify that as christian or even good in any sense of their common meanings?.
your brother in watchtower mockery,.
"We only do what Jehovah tells us. You'll have to take it up with Him."
