Posts by EndofMysteries

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I will see you in Paradise....

by jam in

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friends

lets say jw's were right about paradise.

i'm resurrected,.

a mentally deceased dreaded apostate, you look up and there i'am.. now you shunned me for over 10 -20 years when i was .

EndofMysteries

" If there is a resurrection for those that are killed at Armageddon..." -

That was one of my biggest problems and hard to accept doctrines when I was in. Everybody who dies at armageddon is gone forever because right up to that time, it was supposed to be SO OBVIOUS to the entire world that JW's were the true religion and everybody in every other religion were PURPOSEFULLY going against God and rejecting his true religion. Even w/ all the failed predictions, changes, and horrible success rate, and flip flops, it should still have been obvious to the whole world that the WT was the true religion.

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Has the NWT changed ASS to donkey everywhere?

by hamsterbait in

as in "you must not covet your neighbor' s bottom?".

are there any other "interesting, if not funny changes"?.

hb.

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Then the LORD gave the ass the ability to speak. "What have I done to you that deserves your beating me three times?" it asked Balaam.

I guess Balaam's ass was sore from the spankings. He must of been one of those BDSM types. Imagine his face though when his own ass starts speaking to him.

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How does the new breed of 'werecats' fit into evolution?

by EndofMysteries in

incase you haven't heard yet, there is now a new breed of cat, the lykoi.

now this cat is the result of some mutation that occassionally happened and some breeders got 2 of these cats that got this mutation and successfully breed them, and now there are breeders and it's a type of cat now.

this cat has a preditory nature, they say it's similar to a hound dog.

EndofMysteries

Incase you haven't heard yet, there is now a new breed of cat, the Lykoi.

Now this cat is the result of some mutation that occassionally happened and some breeders got 2 of these cats that got this mutation and successfully breed them, and now there are breeders and it's a type of cat now.

This cat has a preditory nature, they say it's similar to a hound dog.

Now here is where my questions about evolution come into play on this.

There was no long slow period of change. No thousands of years for this cat to become more predatory, or slow change on fur not being needed and the change, etc.

In 1,000 years, people of the future may come up with how this cat evolved over millions of years when in reality it just appeared out of the blue, and taking 2 with the same changes and mating them created this new breed.

If I recall correctly, hasn't there been many arguments about God putting characteristics into genetics and breeds or species just happening vs all species, etc, from a slow evolution process?

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Have you ever been called for Jury Duty? before or after registering to vote?

by EndofMysteries in

jw
friends

i've never been called for jury duty and i'm not yet registered to vote, although i'm hoping to get that done this month.

i know someone who within a few months of registering to vote was called for jury duty.

i've read some articles that said voter records 'used' to be used to call on people but that was a thing of the past.

EndofMysteries

Also the fact jurors aren't compensated, (not even minimum wage just a few dollars a day, not enough to even pay for their lunch), I'm sure has an impact on cases. How many jurors just go with the flow to end the case sooner, etc?

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Have you ever been called for Jury Duty? before or after registering to vote?

by EndofMysteries in

jw
friends

i've never been called for jury duty and i'm not yet registered to vote, although i'm hoping to get that done this month.

i know someone who within a few months of registering to vote was called for jury duty.

i've read some articles that said voter records 'used' to be used to call on people but that was a thing of the past.

EndofMysteries

I am really wanting to register to vote and will but dreading a scenario like the above, getting called every year, etc. I agree it's a duty but if a case or serving goes past a day or 2, then the buck should stop there for those called and they should be appropriately compensated. Or the judge can do his duty or the lawyers and donate their own pay. The court system and lawsuits, cases, cost so much money yet they expect jurors to work for free even if week/month,etc. I'd be really pissed off if every year got called and expected to give my vacation each year to work for free.

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Have you ever been called for Jury Duty? before or after registering to vote?

by EndofMysteries in

jw
friends

i've never been called for jury duty and i'm not yet registered to vote, although i'm hoping to get that done this month.

i know someone who within a few months of registering to vote was called for jury duty.

i've read some articles that said voter records 'used' to be used to call on people but that was a thing of the past.

EndofMysteries

I've never been called for jury duty and I'm not yet registered to vote, although I'm hoping to get that done this month.

I know someone who within a few months of registering to vote was called for jury duty. I've read some articles that said voter records 'used' to be used to call on people but that was a thing of the past. Since I've never been called, I'm curious how many of you have been called for jury duty since most of us hadn't been registered to vote until after leaving the borg, and many may still not be.

If I do get called after I register I'll update this post too.

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Corpus Linguistics - Text Analysis of All Watchtower Publications since 1800's

by objectivetruth in

i've been working on a side project for a while.

the goal of the project is to create a comprehensive database of all publications throughout history.

with this database i will be able to instantly find trends in text,sentiment of writing, methods used, and scriptures emphasized.. essentially i will be able to put a word like "apostate" into my tool, and instantly receive a report showing every time the word (or similar words) has been used in all publications since 1870.. i will also be able to create reports showing word density used in publications over time.. so i'll be able to see that the word "governing body" has increased in usage 25% year over year since 1975.. or i will be able to analyze the november 2014 wt and run an algorithm that helps to determine, what the tone and motive of the writing is.. the thing that i am most excited about is the ability to instantly find every occurence of a scripture in every publication.. this will be a great tool to find flip flops in doctrine as well as inaccuracies in biblical interpretation.. i will for sure publish all interesting findings here.. .

EndofMysteries

Nice project. marked

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I now have a law degree!

by digderidoo in

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friends

hi guys, i don't really post on here much anymore, having been on here since 2001. this site helped me out in the early days and has been a great support system for all of my past jw issues.

like many others i was discouraged from an education so that i could window clean and pioneer in my youth during the 80's.

having spent many years post my jw exit in alcoholism and periods of drugs, i decided to clean myself up 7 years ago by attending aa, i was still a window cleaner ... at the time i wrote extensively on here about my issues.

EndofMysteries

Great job! If you are up to doing class action lawsuits and want to stick it to the WT, perhaps you can come up with a good class action case against them.

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Ferguson Shooting (Is my thinking on this all wrong.......)

by out4good3 in

i think everyone here can agree that walking down the street, even in the middle of the street, is not cause for having a clip emptied in your ass......... i can understand how the black community would be outraged by the injustice of seeing another black man dead in the street at the hands of the police under mysterious circumstances....... i hope that i'm not succumbing to the attempts to assinate the already well impuned character of the dead man...... however.

i can't help but think that this could all have been avoided by exercising the proper discretion with fore-knowledge of the disadvantages people of color have when they are dealing with law enforcement in the united states.

it is not as if this disadvantage has only since recently came to light.

EndofMysteries

Here is the first detailed reporting of the other side of the story I've seen. It just went up, even has video right after the shooting too.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/ferguson-darren-wilson-support/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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The King of the North is getting Angry...

by rhodesboy in

this topic is of a theological nature.

if you have some scriptural insight, please share.

grievances are not welcome!.

EndofMysteries

Rhodes boy, read the book of ezekiel, and focus on the chapters I 'think' around 37 to 42 dealing w/ gog and magog. There is a very detailed account of a war w/ literal israel. Compare those w/ the scriptures you listed and with potentially Jew vs Muslim and with recent world events.