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  Can you live with your self?

  by The Rebel in

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  i think if we are to fully delight in life we must live without detachment.

  because when we become attached to a beliief we feel a desire that we are right.

  the problem with being right, even if we are right is that our beliefs then try to attach themselfs to virgin snow, and change people to our thinking.

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  The Rebel - "Can you live with yourself?"

  I've done this every day of my life. So far so good.
  
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  Occupations that will disappear

  by joker in

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  while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

  i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

  does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

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  Gynecologists since no one will have sex organs.
  
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  A Mathematic Perspective on Evolution

  by Saethydd in

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  i would like to apologize in advance if any of my information on the biology side of this discussion is incorrect, because unfortunately it is not my strongest scientific subject on account of my being subtly encouraged to view it with distrust.. i've recently debated the of subject of evolution with my father, i made the argument that when viewed over several million years random mutation provides a more than adequate explanation for humans having evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzees.

  then he got this derisive look on his face a waved his hand saying "evolution's explanation for everything is the amount of time involved.".

  so i decided i would examine this mathematically.

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  DJS said: @Heaven:

  Geesh. All that noise just to get laid.

  LOL @ DJS! Perhaps they live with the old adage 'The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease'.
  

  Many a summer night, I've laid in bed with the window open listening to the crickets thinking 'Those lucky bastards. They get more than I do!' Hahaha! I can't imagine summer without the crickets 'singing' at night. I actually like the sound.
  
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  Old people ask ... questions ... no answers

  by Lostandfound in

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  just random questions for the book questions old people ask.

  when can i stop donating my last penny every month to the wt?.

  when can i have sex with no guilty conscience due to wt teachings?.

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  The answer to many of your questions is "Soon" followed by "Pray More + Wait on Jehovah".
  
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  A Mathematic Perspective on Evolution

  by Saethydd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to apologize in advance if any of my information on the biology side of this discussion is incorrect, because unfortunately it is not my strongest scientific subject on account of my being subtly encouraged to view it with distrust.. i've recently debated the of subject of evolution with my father, i made the argument that when viewed over several million years random mutation provides a more than adequate explanation for humans having evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzees.

  then he got this derisive look on his face a waved his hand saying "evolution's explanation for everything is the amount of time involved.".

  so i decided i would examine this mathematically.

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  Saethydd, clearly, your Father is uneducated about evolution. Perhaps it is time he read an actual science book on the subject.

  Time is only 1 factor and can actually be a relatively short duration for some evolutionary changes instead of billions of years. Are you familiar with the crickets who went silent on the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Oahu?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF2bJyCt5i0
  
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  Scriptures rarely mentioned

  by dothemath in

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  a couple of examples of scriptures hardly ever quoted is 1 tim.

  2:12- "i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence".

  or verse 11- "let a woman learn in silence with full submissiveness.".

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  Exodus 15:3: The LORD is a warrior; Yahweh is his name! - NLT
  
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  Every Country and Land... Except Oman

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  so the other day someone asked me what use was it to make the list of countries in which there have been reports.... well... to know that, as far as i can tell, there has never been preaching done in oman.. it has never appeared in any report, and the reports go back to 1926!.

  all other countries and lands have appeared, but not oman.. so there... first useful fact about the watchtower that we can get from 90 years of data..

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  Amazon rainforest?
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  Now I'm Convinced There Probably Is No God

  by pale.emperor in

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  yesterday i made a visit to the museum in my city.

  the top floor is the planetarium, which has a connecting room with a huge dome ceiling where they project lessons and lectures and you have a 360 view of the night sky etc.. this particular lecture explained about our galaxy, and how it's only one of billions in the universe.

  and then we learned about each planet, some of their moons and the sun.

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  Cold Steel, our seasons are due to the axial tilt of the Earth.
  
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  Scriptures rarely mentioned

  by dothemath in

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  a couple of examples of scriptures hardly ever quoted is 1 tim.

  2:12- "i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence".

  or verse 11- "let a woman learn in silence with full submissiveness.".

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  Isaiah 45:7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. - KJV
  
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  How do you categorise the Society - Cult or High control religion

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  i have often seen many categorise the organisation in different ways.

  some say cult, some say high control religion.

  cult or high control religion?.

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  Heaven

  Cult because they use B.I.T.E. (Behaviour, Information, Thought, Emotion) control methods.
  

  I told my Father a few years ago:

  "Any organization that does not allow you to have anything to do with your family or friends who refuse to join said organization is a cult."

  He didn't like what I said but had no rebuttal.