Posts by EndofMysteries

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Why doesn't god do anything tangible now?

by punkofnice in

i was always told that god did loads of stuff that was evidence of his existance.

ususally very brutal things too (b#st@rd).. jesus walked on water and raised the dead we are told.. it seems to me also that the older the story, the more exaggerated it is...y'know...talking snake......global flood.. there are those that claim god speaks to them now and they alone 'know' it.

(cuckoo!!!).

EndofMysteries

objectivetruth - I just saw your post about the tree of life and tree of knowledge of good and bad. I had thought one day as well if it was not literal but meant something else. Shortly after I read Ezekiel 31 entire chapter, but notice vs 9, and all the other trees of Eden that were in the garden of the God kept envying it. "

vs 18 brought down with the trees of Eden to the land down below".

The entire chapter is putting life and feeling into the trees. Perhaps they represent high ranking angels?

As for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, the scriptures have said that I forgot offhand which verse, but that sin is willfully and knowingly doing wrong and not knowing is not sin. Could the sayings of the law just expose all that is sin and being human it becomes sin for having known it and the words of Jesus are the tree of life?

Just speculations and thinking out loud. But Ezekiel 31 definitely seems to me to imply that the trees in Genesis either are not literal or also have a deeper meaning than literal fruit.

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Why doesn't god do anything tangible now?

by punkofnice in

i was always told that god did loads of stuff that was evidence of his existance.

ususally very brutal things too (b#st@rd).. jesus walked on water and raised the dead we are told.. it seems to me also that the older the story, the more exaggerated it is...y'know...talking snake......global flood.. there are those that claim god speaks to them now and they alone 'know' it.

(cuckoo!!!).

EndofMysteries

The only biblical reason I can see is "the time of the gentiles", a time without God doing major in your face stuff, as well as possibly a test of moral character. What will people do if they think there is no accountability for anything as long as they don't get caught, etc.

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Sign this petition - Investigation On Jehovahs Witnesses Religious Policy That Violates Human Rights and Abuses Religious Freedom

by TJ Curioso in

launch an investigation on jehovahs witnesses religious policy that violates human rights and abuses religious freedom.

link.

EndofMysteries

It finally hit the 1/2 way point, exactly 2,500, 2,500 to go.

In light of the Russia ordeal, what are things that should be banned from the WT

by EndofMysteries in

i do believe the authorities should step in to the wt's practices and possibly ban some things, and this would have absolutely nothing to do with freedom of religion.

a few items i'll list will explain.

feel free to give your input too.

EndofMysteries

I do believe the authorities should step in to the WT's practices and possibly ban some things, and this would have absolutely nothing to do with freedom of religion. A few items I'll list will explain. Feel free to give your input too.

1. Ban the lies - As seem on JW.org FAQ, they lie about not shunning family members, about not following and serving man, about not shunning those who leave the religion, etc. I see absolutely nothing wrong with forcing them to be honest and upfront with their own religious teachings.

2. Ban talk and print of shunning family members - people can make their own choices and sometimes non jw people end up severing ties with their family members. But the WT has no place to require and put in print to not even talk to them via email, etc. Also many who are raised never had a choice on joining. It has been said that emotional abuse is worse than physical abuse. If a religion in the USA taught to mob up and beat members who leave or want to leave, if that could not stand up as a freedom of religion, than neither should emotional abuse.

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Why Do Some Ex-JWs Get Their Feelings Hurt So Badly By Shunning?

by RottenRiley in

i ran in to a ex-jw and had a good laugh once he realized i was not going to shun him.

i am a different soul when we are dealing with watchtower demonology, everything about the organization is fan boy based.

watchtower creates the illusion of a community that never existed, we were too blind to realize most of the people we invested time with was nothing more than a farce, once you can't offer up more sacrfices on the watchtower's alter, your going to get less attention and eventually if your kingdom hall is big enough, they won't come looking for you.. .

EndofMysteries

You question on why are many upset, especially elders/ elders wives who were shunners themselves upset when it happens to them. I am answering in a broad sense which will mostly cover many here.

The WT teaches that apostes and those who leave the religion fully believe in God and they fully know that JW's are the true religion, but that they side with satan and want to tear down those inside and take them into destruction with them. Pretty much the same thing as they teach about satan and the demons. That a person who really wants to do the right thing and serve God would never leave them.

So when those people learn that the WT is teaching lies, they don't have special insight from GOd and all their teachings and policy's are from whoever happens to be on the GB and their personal viewpoints, they are trying to do the right thing, then when they get shunned and attacked for that, they find out that it was all lies about those who leave, that the GB are apostates.

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Governing Body Running Scarred and 12-13-14 "Might Be the End"?

by RottenRiley in

this went bad, i hit click before i could post my thoughts about the fear factor going through our crazy kingdom hall.

the title of this thread was aimed at asking why the governing body is becoming so afraid and demanding the elders and rank and file to put their trust in the dukes of the kingdom hall.

(pslams 146:3).. .

EndofMysteries

The GB is becoming scared of an accelerating mass exodus from listening to their crap. That's why all the paranoid talk. They are trying to scare people into staying.

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personal study to help some one learn TTATT

by Skinnedsheep in

using only the wts publlications what would be a curriculum or study plan you would use to get someone to research ttatt?.

1914-1919. sodom and gomorrah resurrected.

generations mt.

EndofMysteries

Are you going to make a study book then knock on JW doors in a suit and briefcase, "Hello, we are just calling on our fellow JW believers to teach them the truth about the truth...."

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Who Made The Code?

by Perry in

a few weeks ago, discoveries were made that show that there is another dna code language that rides on top of the already incredibly complex 4-letter code previously discovered.

this newly discovered code apparently regulates how genes work.

as i noted in a previous thread, the amount of data storage available in the dna storage system just the size of a pin-head would filll a stack of books stacked from your driveway to the moon .... 500 times!

EndofMysteries

"Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule. A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question." Hoyle

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Who Made The Code?

by Perry in

a few weeks ago, discoveries were made that show that there is another dna code language that rides on top of the already incredibly complex 4-letter code previously discovered.

this newly discovered code apparently regulates how genes work.

as i noted in a previous thread, the amount of data storage available in the dna storage system just the size of a pin-head would filll a stack of books stacked from your driveway to the moon .... 500 times!

EndofMysteries

What's funny is that the term "Big Bang Theory" was coined by Hoyle, and he is the one who rejected that theory.

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Who Made The Code?

by Perry in

a few weeks ago, discoveries were made that show that there is another dna code language that rides on top of the already incredibly complex 4-letter code previously discovered.

this newly discovered code apparently regulates how genes work.

as i noted in a previous thread, the amount of data storage available in the dna storage system just the size of a pin-head would filll a stack of books stacked from your driveway to the moon .... 500 times!

EndofMysteries

Also, S&R, I've had some DNA tests which when I researched some of the results, showed me more likely to get some illnesses/diseases that my mother has.

So tell me, what exactly was it that the tests revealed that makes me more likely to get certain things that other people are less likely to get?

It seems like you are denying that DNA code exists.

The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded within genetic material ( DNA or mRNA sequences) is translated into proteins by living cells . Biological decoding is accomplished by the ribosome , which links amino acids in an order specified by mRNA, using transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to carry amino acids and to read the mRNA three nucleotides at a time. The genetic code is highly similar among all organisms and can be expressed in a simple table with 64 entries.

So.....how did those set of rules originate?