If I had met you I would admit it, I would even boast about it and post the framed 8x10 photo of our meeting.
Kurt
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The Borg "our mother"? Good Grief!
by Roberta804 ini have heard it all now, or at least up to now, the borg never ceases to surprise me.
so when jesus was talking to his deciple from the cross (opps stake), "this is your mother" or something like that, was he talking about the borg?
lol.
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kurtbethel
Of course they would say they are your mother. They are tipping their hand about their pagan association with the Mother Goddess.
They are your mother and she will keep feeding you her spiritual milk and have no intention of weaning you from it.
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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe
by metatron inhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-30/rise-americas-lunatic-fringe.
every once in a while, you read an article that really puts it all together (or spot on, as some would say).
ever on the fringe,.
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kurtbethel
Vague generalities. No reply needed. metatron
You Crank! LOL!
I was working at one time on the mother of all conspiracy theories, the one that ties all the other conspiracy theories into a big one which I called the Grand Unified Conspiracy.
It was going really well until I uncovered the fact that the Earth was not a globe, but that it was shaped like a can, with the poles being flattened, and it had a wedge cut out of it where the Pacific ocean is found on the maps.
It was so shocking that I abandoned my work on the topic, burned all my notes and never looked back.
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So...why is taking blood essentially viewed as unforgivable by the WT?
by sd-7 inbeen hearing about this 'grey's anatomy' episode, and while i didn't see it, it brought up a question i wanted to throw out there, albeit a long-winded one, as is my usual nature.. the fact that people would rather die than take blood, as if...if they take it, they're doomed for sure to not make the new system--it doesn't make sense to me.
people both in the organization and the bible stories are forgiven for heinous crimes, murder, adultery, child sacrifice, everything up to and including denying jesus altogether.
(let's not forget child molestation and rape, apparently...) so why does it seem like this one act is presented to jws as one that's never to be forgiven?.
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kurtbethel
When ancient Jews would consume blood, an animal had to die so that they could have the blood, and this was prohibited.
When someone gets a blood transfusion it comes from another person who donated the blood and then got up and walked away, quite alive.
Comparing the two is apples and oranges, and can only make sense to someone who is unable to distinguish the difference between being dead and alive.
I suggust some other reasons. The Watchtower feeds off of human suffering and anguish, and what better anguish could they get than human sacrifice? Their legal department found that stoning apostates was unworkable in the current legal environment, but some clever minion found a way to get human sacrifice by confabulating a dietary law concerning blood with a modern medical practice. It worked brilliantly, with the Watchtower having accumulated more human sacrifice than the People's Temple Jonestown massacre.
You can bet that their bloodthirsty god is very pleased.
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Does the KH have WiFi, and is it only exclusive for Elders?
by Quarterback innow that we are using ipads, and other mini devices at the meetings.
is there any letters from the society that restricts.
the use of internet to only elders?.
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kurtbethel
A wifi router can be programmed with a key, like a password, to only allow access to those with the key. They can also be programmed to only pass data from devices in a lookup table that they recognize, so even if you knew the key it would ignore your device if you did not have its ID number in the database. This all depends on how well the KH IT person knows their stuff.
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Locked out of Eden
by edmond dantes inwhy did jehovah have to protect the enterence to eden with a flaming sword after kicking adam and eve out when all one had to do to get back in was to hop over the fence further up the road?.
one of the bible's mysteries..
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kurtbethel
Was it just a gentle breeze or a "you had better tie that down breeze!"
Not a gentle breeze, a gentile breeze. Or maybe it was a genital breeze.
Okay, this thread is officially dead.
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Service meeting topic: Masturbation
by perfect1 inone of my strangest memories of going to the kh was when a young- maybe 18-20, pimply young man got up to talk about jhvhs view of masturbation during a service meeting.. of course, it was impossible to think about him not masturbating.
i was just hitting puberty and found the whole thing very uncomfortable- i think my dad was even critiquing him (what is that called when elder gives the feedback).
looking back now i can see that to publicly condemn masturbation, especially when a young man is delivering this admonition, is- well- hilarious.
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kurtbethel
Yes, a quality demonstation of generating new heat that powers new light.
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A torso found in Kitchener
by mouthy indumpster!!!
!if you heard it on the news.... i used to live in that very building.
scary!!!
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kurtbethel
Just a torso, eh?
Canadians have a really odd way of making pot roast. Ick!
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I placed my first set of magazines here
by irondork insanger, california, usa.
during the summer of 1972. i was five years old.
i actually remember the neighborhood, the lady at the door - the entire historic event with reasonable clarity.
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kurtbethel
Wow, so you got to experience all the 1975 excitement. That must have been a really wonderful time to be involved in the ministry.
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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe
by metatron inhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-30/rise-americas-lunatic-fringe.
every once in a while, you read an article that really puts it all together (or spot on, as some would say).
ever on the fringe,.
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kurtbethel
I read a book a while back on the debunking the 9/11 truthers. The author made a good point that many if not most of these theories feed a pyschological need to impose order on a chaotic world. People want to believe that JFK was killed by the coordinated efforts of professionals because we don't want to think that any of us good be done in by one nut. The same sort of thing is the psychology behind the truthers.
One thing that drives conspiracy theories is the psychology of the person believing them. When Reagan won the election in 1980 there was a conspiracy theory about an October surprise that involved Daddy Bush sneaking off to Paris to negotiate a hostage deal with the Iranians. In order to fit this event into the time alloted in the Bush schedule, the theory placed him as a passenger in a very fast plane called the SR-71 so he could get there and back fast enough. I am not making this up. I heard a lot about that back then. I would guess there were people who could not accept that Reagan won the election fairly so they found this explanation gave them some resolution. It looks like this same thing drives the birthers, the inability to accept that Obama could possibly have been elected president, so they look for an out and the squirrely events surround the birth certificate feed that.
Picture Hillary, hearing those rumors about Bill having his vein drained by a young intern. She just could not accept that, and concocted this elaborate vast conspiracy about people out to get him, just so she would not have to deal with the possibility that Bill was just a disgusting lech. You might recall that he did the finger wagging denial and only when the heat was turned up later by the law that he did the apology speech and confessed to her. That was the official narrative. Maybe she knew all along and the conspiracy theory was a ruse so she could try to save face. I feel for her deeply in that, so I wouldn't blame her for doing anything short of running a hat pin through that lunkhead's skull. But the reality is that both parties run dirty tricks operations against each other and the Clintons went from a provincial operation in Arkansas to the big leagues of national politics and got in over their heads where they could not buy off and paper over their shenanigans.
The one common element of enduring conspiracy theories is that they are not falsifiable. The satanic ritual abuse hysteria died out because one could excavate the church or daycare and find out there were no secret tunnels and dead animals. But when you look at the grassy knoll in Dallas, you can't prove there wasn't a guy behind the fence with a gun, and there is an 18 hour block in October 1980 where you can't prove Daddy Bush wasn't on the SR-71 shuttling to Paris and back, you can't prove that some vast league of minions were not conspiring to send a comely Jewess to seduce Wandering Bill, and you can't prove that Mama Obama was not in Kenya when she squirted out The One. Sure, these may seem unlikely, silly, or maybe slightly plausible, but a believer will not be pried from them if they are tenacious enough.
