XD I used to think that they would be! I was told that God might bring back some dinosaurs in the New System, but obviously they'd all be vegetarians there.
pixiesticks
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Why so many similarities between Saturn/Kronos and Jesus, Jehovah and Satan?
by EndofMysteries inlooking up the gods saturn and kronos, their legend, what they do, how they got in power, what they are called, what they did to their children, how their rule is and conditions on earth during it.
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i'll post what i'm exactly referring to when i get back from work, but just google saturn and kronos and you will see what i'm referring to..
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pixiesticks
Google 'the bible similarity greek mythology'. You'll find a lot of interesting results.
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Don'tcha Feel Bad For The Pope?
by minimus inthe europeans are getting angry with the pope for alleged coverups of sex abuse.
don'tcha feel bad for the pope?.
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pixiesticks
Nope. Not one bit. The guy is an bigotted arsehole, a waste of money and complete idiot. I feel sorry for all the people that are going to die of AIDS because of him, I feel sorry for the molested children and their parents, but no, not him.
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How do you cope with boredom at meetings?
by MMXIV inwhat did/do you use to cope with boredom at the meetings?.
as sad as this sounds, when i was a kid and desperate for anything to do at a meeting, i used to count the punctuation in each wt study article.
i had a system.
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pixiesticks
We were never allowed to do any activities that didn't relate to the meetings, so when I was younger, I used to make a chart of words like 'Jehovah' 'Jesus' 'Satan' and so on. Then I'd tally-chart mark every time a speaker said one of the words. Sometimes I'd choose just one word and have a competition with one of my sisters.
When I got older I'd just go to sleep. Or daydream. I have a really intense imagination so that can keep me occupied for quite a while. -
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When religion dies....will it just roll over belly up?
by cameo-d inor will they go down with one last big fight?.
or will they reinvent themselves and return in disguise as part of the nwo?.
what do you see as the future when religions reach the tipping point of empty pews and no more $$$?.
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pixiesticks
Religion seems to be like a virus. Just when it looks like it's dying off, a new, more virulent strain appears!
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SURVIVORS on BBC America, majority of people in Britain die of "flu"
by blondie inhttp://www.bbcamerica.com/content/370/index.jsp.
has anybody been watching this show in the us or saw it last year in the uk?.
i taped it and i'm starting to watch it from 10/14/09 episode.. set in the present day, survivors focuses on the world in the aftermath of a virulent disease that scoured the planet, wiping out 99% of the human race.
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pixiesticks
It's alright.
We just finished up season 2 over here in England. While the premise is interesting and the show itself very well directed, the characters are unfortunately still (like most British dramas) pretty flat and dull with very little development. The acting is slightly above average for British shows, but still not fantastic and the chemistry between the actors leaves a lot to be desired (with the exception of Al, the former playboy of family money who ends up becoming a sort of surogate father/older brother to orphaned Najid. Their relationship is adorable and the most authentic on the show.)The actual main story arcs are imaginative and interesting, but the script is downright awful in places and borderline homophobic in season 2, which I took issue with.
But it's worth watching, if only for the creepy emptiness that's achieved. Seeing a usual noisy, bustling city like London so deathly quiet and desolate with a few survivors wandering the empty streets is really eeirie! -
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For people who use the OT to try and prove that God is an awful tyrant...
by tec inthe people in the ot made mistakes about what god wanted and expected from them.
some of the laws that were given were in place because they were too hard-hearted to accept anything more merciful.
jesus clearly states this:.
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If perhaps the old testament God has simply been neglectful and not implimented certain laws because he knew that the people were too hard hearted to listen, then maybe I could understand a little better. But when God actively commands such things as mass murder including non-virgin woman and children as well rape (or at the very least, forced marrage) (Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 20:10-14, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Isaiah 13:15-18, and many more), there I am unconvinced.
What you're saying is basically comparible to there being a horrible, brutal child (the Israelites) and his parents (God) being unable to control him properly. Now, it's one thing for those parents to let their child run amuck and do whatever he pleases, but how would you feel if the parents then told that child "Go over there and punch that other little boy in the face!" or gave him a lighter and told him to set people's houses on fire? Who would be the truly evil one in that situation? Because that's pretty much the situation between God and the Israelites. The Israelites may have been brutal, but God was the one actually commanding them to do many of these awful things.
And then there's the killings that God carries out on his own, particularly the murder of innocent children (2 Kings 2:23-24, 2 Samuel 12:14). I'm not quite sure how you can say that a God that struck a tiny baby with an illness that caused it to languish in pain for 6 days before "slowly dying" on the 7th (2 Samual 12:14-18) and caused to bear to come out of the woods a maul 42 small children for simple childish teasing (2 Kings 2:23-24) isn't an awful tyrant. -
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What religion would you recommend for those who want to leave the WTS?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inafter i decide to leave the jehovah's witnesses one day,i will not look for a new religion.
the damage that the wts has caused me leads me to mistrust all men and religion.. i trusted these men from the wts .
i gave up 35 years of my life to find out that the wts is just a printing and real estate corporation disguised as a religion.
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pixiesticks
I vote NONE + LOVE as well! Humanism is super too as it's not a religion and includes love. :)
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Response to the Argument that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Cult Members
by bluecanary inthis is in response to the ezine article the argument that jehovah's witnesses are not cult members:.
this article is dangerously misinformed about (a) what constitutes a cult and (b) that the jws do in fact fit this category.
there is ample evidence of mind control, manipulation and cult tactics in this group, but you will not see it by casually chatting with a witness.
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The very fact that he's deleting comments that disagree with him says a lot! So much for "rational thinking" and "thinking for yourself".
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Do You Believe that God Wrote the Ten Commandments?
by cameo-d inwas this an invisible god?.
any opinion on who wrote the big ten?.
(i got a sneakin' suspicion it was moses father-in-law).
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pixiesticks
Sylvia. He's right if by "pile of crap" he means not written by who it claims to be written by... There is a substantial amount of very solid evidence, now widely excepted by most non-biased biblical scholars. Again, I will point to 'Who Wrote the Bible' by Richard Elliott Friedman as a great starting point for you if you are actually interested at all. The Documentary Theory makes extremely good sense and is very difficult to refute considering the amount of evidence to support it.
As well as that, there is much evidence to disprove many of the most important Biblical stories. I think the Creation story has now been well and truly debunked. Many Christians are forced to accept evolution for the sheer amount of evidence to support it (although they still think that God set it into motion, this still renders the Adam and Eve's story either allegorical or completely untrue) and the story of the flood (for which there is no archeological proof as there should be if it actually happened, as well as many of the aspects of it being completely impossible).
But what about you? Do you have any solid, provable evidence that the Bible IS written/inspired by God at any point? And no, "The Bible is true because the Bible says it's true" isn't a valid argument, it's circular reasoning and it proves nothing.