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  Cult Free Radio on the air this Saturday night with special guest Barbara Anderson

  by Mad Sweeney in

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  that's right.

  barbara anderson will be on cult free radio this saturday evening at 10pm eastern time.. show up to listen and post your questions on the social stream for me to ask her.. https://www.facebook.com/cultfreeradio.

  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cult-free-radio.

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  Mad Sweeney

  That's right. Barbara Anderson will be on Cult Free Radio this Saturday evening at 10pm Eastern Time.

  Show up to listen and post your questions on the social stream for me to ask her.

  https://www.facebook.com/CultFreeRadio

  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cult-free-radio
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  There is No Morality Without God

  by whereami in

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  addressing the argument, made by many christians, that with no god there can be no morality.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnu-qbgxmn0.

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  What is the most immoral thing you can do to a person; the thing that hinders man's "well being" the most.

  Answer: To kill him.

  That is not necessarily true. Sometimes euthanasia is a mercy.

  OK

  Was it moral to assassinate Osama?

  Not without a trial, no.

  Was it moral to drop the bomb on Hiroshima?

  Yes, because it saved more lives than it ended. Net win is moral.

  Was it moral to kill millions of unborn children decade after decade? How about all those "girl" babies in China? What about that second child that the saline solution missed and the doctor smothered with the placenta. Was killing one moral, but the other 5 minutes later, immoral?

  Um, no, those acts are not moral.

  Atheism can not produce an objective basis for human valuation.

  This statement does not follow from any of the preceeding. There is no evidence for it at all.
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  Addicted to "apostacy"

  by agent zero in

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  i get to work, turn on my computer and right away open a tab for jwn, and scan through all the new topics and updates on other interesting ones.

  then i leave that tab open all day long to look at the threads when i have time.

  then i go home... and read crisis of conscience!.

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  Mad Sweeney

  JWs and "path to enlightenment" do not belong in the same sentence. The Borg is a giant cow patty on the path to enlightenment.
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  TV is at it again -agnostic-jw-jew-muslim-atheist-christian-and some born again buddhist transformer

  by Joey Jo-Jo in

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  hope this isn't a repost.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0ovepbox8.

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  Mad Sweeney

  I thought it was great, except the JW part on not drinking. JWs are some of the biggest drunks I know.
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  There is No Morality Without God

  by whereami in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  addressing the argument, made by many christians, that with no god there can be no morality.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnu-qbgxmn0.

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  Mad Sweeney

  So because people are able to twist the meaning of "well-being" that makes it an inadequate yardstick by which to measure the morality of an act?

  Newsflash: people can twist the meaning of ANY word, even MORALITY itself. Lets try to avoid semantic arguments and stick to the tangible issues here, ok?
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  A Sneaky Way To Mess With Watchtower Statistics

  by DT in

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  the watchtower society is addicted to numbers and growth.

  the problem is that their very existence is justified by a preaching work that is intended to result in growth.

  other religions don't have that kind of pressure.

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  Mad Sweeney

  I don't think building them up is as important as the mass exodus at a strategic time. Think about a family of four leaving a congregation of 80. That's a 5% decrease in one fell swoop. If the guy is an elder and the wife a pioneer, that REALLY hurts.

  This sort of thing happens ALL THE TIME, but it rarely happens all at the SAME TIME.

  I feel like the key is to coordinate faders who intend to leave and get them to hang on until a particular date, say the 2014 Memorial, and just quit en masse then.
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  People are so stupid and controlled by the media

  by free2beme in

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  i was reading today about all these people who are upset at the big banks for charging more for accounts, to off-set cost for the change in regulations.

  people were saying, "banks are greedy" and "banks are unfair.

  " which is the common thought among society about several key industries.

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  Sorry but talking about multibillion dollar corporations as if they are individuals just like us while at the same time talking about government as some kind of oppressive boogeyman, aka THEM, is no better than pegging government as a friend of the people while painting corporations as the enemy. You're just a different kind of extremist.

  Time and again it has been shown that BOTH zero regulation AND too much regulation are bad for business and bad for individual citizens.

  To everyone who discusses political issues here on JWN, PLEASE STOP creating "us versus them" dichotomies. THEY AREN'T REAL!!!
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  Good to study JW past .... New "Writing Archives" under direction of the Writing Committee

  by wannabefree in

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  yes friends, it is important to understand your rich spiritual heritage as jehovah's witnesses, and so you don't have to look at old publications on your own or refer to worldly sources, the organization is pleased to select for you the history as we want you to have it and you can get it in your current watchtower.. from january 15, 2012 watchtower pg 31-32. the governing body is keenly interested in.

  our theocratic history.

  in commenting on the.

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  Mad Sweeney

  Sorry I forgot to credit the source for my post above. It is from "The Finished Mystery" aka Studies in the Scriptures volume 7. It is the information Christ used to evaluate the Borg and choose them in 1918. No joke. That's official Watchtower doctrine.
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  Good to study JW past .... New "Writing Archives" under direction of the Writing Committee

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
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  yes friends, it is important to understand your rich spiritual heritage as jehovah's witnesses, and so you don't have to look at old publications on your own or refer to worldly sources, the organization is pleased to select for you the history as we want you to have it and you can get it in your current watchtower.. from january 15, 2012 watchtower pg 31-32. the governing body is keenly interested in.

  our theocratic history.

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  Mad Sweeney

  20And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. ~Revelation 14:20

  And the winepress. — The Seventh Volume of

  Scripture Studies, the work that will squeeze the

  juice out of the "Abominations of the earth."

  Cook's Revelation, page 709, calls attention to

  the peculiar fact that this word is both masculine

  and feminine. This seemingly indicates the

  Lord's recognition of the interest and cooperation

  of the sisters in the closing feature of the Harvest

  work, as in all other parts of it. Priscilla was such

  a valuable helper that in one instance she was

  named before her husband. — Acts 18:18.

  Was trodden without the city. — "In symbolic

  prophecy a 'city' signifies a religious government

  backed by power and influence. Thus, for

  instance, the holy city, the new Jerusalem,' is the

  symbol used to represent the established

  Kingdom of God, the overcomers of the Gospel

  Church exalted and reigning in glory." (D625.)

  "The treading of the winepress is the last feature

  of Harvest work. The reaping and gathering is all

  done first." (D 18.)

  Wordly editors have applied this verse to the

  great war now raging in Europe; but this

  expression makes it impossible to so apply it. If

  the war is the winepress, it is not being trodden

  without the city, but right in the middle of the

  city, Mystical Babylon, Christendom. This

  suggests that the Revelator must have referred to

  another city; and he has done so, and with

  propriety; for this chapter is devoted to Harvest

  work only. What city more appropriate to refer to

  then than the Bethel, the Divinely appointed

  center for the Harvest work, the embryo

  Kingdom of God on earth?

  And blood. — Teachings which though truthful

  will be death-dealing and seem "bloody" to

  sectarianism.

  Came out of the winepress. — The exposition

  of the prophecies of Ezekiel and the Revelator.

  Even unto the horse bridies. — So deep as to

  strangle and drown the old false doctrinal

  hobbies so long ridden. Sectarianism will be the

  universal laughing stock. See Rev., chapters 8

  and 9. "Because I have called, and ye refused; I

  have stretched out My hand, and no man

  regarded; but ye have set at nought all My

  counsel, and would none of My reproof; I will

  mock when your fear

  cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation,

  and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;

  when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not

  answer; they shall seek Me early, but they shall

  not find Me; for that they hated knowledge, and

  did not choose the fear of the Lord. They would

  none of my counsel: they despised all my

  reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of

  their own way." — Prov. 1:24-31.

  By the space of a thousand and [six] TWO

  hundred furlongs. — This can not be interpreted

  to refer to the 2100 mile battle line of the world

  war. A furlong or stadium is not a mile and this

  is without the city whereas the battle line is

  within the city. See Rotherham's translation.

  A stadium is 606 3/4 English ft; 1200 stadii are,

  mi., 137.9. The work on this volume was done in

  Scranton, Pa. As fast as it was completed it was

  sent to the Bethel. Half of the work was done at

  an average distance of 5 blocks from the

  Lackawanna station, and the other half at a

  distance of 25 blocks. Blocks in Scranton are 10

  to the mile. Hence the average distance to the

  station is 15 blocks, or 1.5 mi

  The mileage from Scranton to Hoboken

  Terminal is shown in time tables as 143.8 and

  this is the mileage charged to passengers, but in

  1911, at an expense of $12,000,000, the

  Lackawanna Railroad completed its famous cut-

  off, saving 1 1 miles of the distance. From the

  day the cut-off was completed the trainmen have

  been allowed 1 1 miles less than the time table

  shows, or a net distance of 132.8 miles. Hoboken

  Ferry to Barclay Street Ferry, New York is 2.0

  miles. Barclay Street Ferry to Fulton Ferry, New

  York, is 4,800 feet or 0.9 mile. Fulton Ferry,

  New York, to Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, is 2,000

  feet or 0.4 mile. Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, to

  Bethel, is 1,485 feet or 0.3 mile.

  Shortest distance from place where the winepress

  was trodden by the Feet Members of the Lord,

  Whose guidance and help alone made this

  volume possible. (John 6:60, 61; Matt. 20:11.)

  miles 137.9
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  Good to study JW past .... New "Writing Archives" under direction of the Writing Committee

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  yes friends, it is important to understand your rich spiritual heritage as jehovah's witnesses, and so you don't have to look at old publications on your own or refer to worldly sources, the organization is pleased to select for you the history as we want you to have it and you can get it in your current watchtower.. from january 15, 2012 watchtower pg 31-32. the governing body is keenly interested in.

  our theocratic history.

  in commenting on the.

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  Mad Sweeney

  I bet they won't answer the question: "How far is it from Scranton, PA to Brooklyn, NY if you take the Staten Island Ferry, and why is such a number significant?"

  Edit: Sorry, that would be the Hoboken Ferry.