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  What is Truth?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ravi zacharias just passed away the other day.

  this is his defense on jesus being the truth.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n77d4dugp4.

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  cofty

  I agree TGND. JC probably existed but the Jesus of history and the Jesus of the gospels are not the same thing.
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  What is Truth?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ravi zacharias just passed away the other day.

  this is his defense on jesus being the truth.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n77d4dugp4.

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  cofty

  Interesting answer by Zacharias.

  Origin - meaning - morality - destiny.

  Christianity fails on origin (Jesus should have known that we were exalted apes not fallen supermen

  It fails on meaning - our venture is not to praise a capricious deity; that is dehumanising. We make our own meaning through relationships with other imperfect humans.

  It fails on morality for three important reasons - Firstly vicarious punishment is morally repugnant. Secondly 'god's word' prescribes actions and attitudes that are abhorrent. Thirdly, the primary task of a christian parent is to convince their little child that they are a fallen, hell-bound sinner who is unworthy of life and in need of redemption. That is abuse.

  Fourthly it fails on destiny. Our human lives are not a mere testing ground for eternity. Our deaths are not transitions - they are the full-stop on our existence. Christianity, with its pursuit of utopia, cheapens and debases human endeavor and provides nothing but platitudes in the face of suffering.

  Finally christianity fails where it meets reality. 'Natural evil' proves conclusively that the god of christian theism does not, and cannot, exist. All attempts to square that circle results in internal contradictions - a lack of coherence as Zacharias puts it.

  Zacharias is in the same place as Hitchens. Only one of them was prepared for that outcome.
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  Spurs v Man. Utd - Covid19 JOKE!!!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  waken up uk sheeple and smell the coffee.. no two-metre distancing for 22 men doing their job; clenched fists touching other clenched fists at the end; no face-masks being worn by the majority of those on the sidelines.. time for people to start demanding answers from their elected politicians..

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  Boogeyboy had a bee in his bonnet but lacks the balls to actually come right out and say that covid19 is a hoax and tell us why and who?

  He is a conspiracy nutter without the courage of his feeble convictions.
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  Spurs v Man. Utd - Covid19 JOKE!!!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  waken up uk sheeple and smell the coffee.. no two-metre distancing for 22 men doing their job; clenched fists touching other clenched fists at the end; no face-masks being worn by the majority of those on the sidelines.. time for people to start demanding answers from their elected politicians..

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  Whenever a social media post includes the word 'sheeple' you know that you can safely ignore everything that follows as the ravings of a gullible conspiracy nutter.
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  Spurs v Man. Utd - Covid19 JOKE!!!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  waken up uk sheeple and smell the coffee.. no two-metre distancing for 22 men doing their job; clenched fists touching other clenched fists at the end; no face-masks being worn by the majority of those on the sidelines.. time for people to start demanding answers from their elected politicians..

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  Pro footballers are tested multiple times a week at great expense to their respective clubs.

  What is your point exactly?
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  Another shocking JW Abuse case, with Legal Commentary

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  "16 april 2020 | comment | article by alan collins.

  jehovah’s witness elder sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse.

  jehovah’s witness elder, clifford whiteley, has been sentenced to nine years in prison at the birmingham crown court for sexual abuse offences he committed against a child member of the congregation over ten years ago.. mr whiteley initially denied the offences to the police, despite the fact that he had admitted his guilt during an internal investigation of the jehovah’s witnesses.. during court proceedings, mr whiteley’s defence counsel, sharon bailey, stated that the jehovah’s witnesses refused to disclose the details of his confession to the police.

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  'The Jehovah’s Witnesses say they abhor child abuse and take child protection seriously but the mere fact the elders in this congregation failed to assist the police with inquiries says otherwise.'

  They should be prosecuted for assisting an offender.
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  Noah’s flood

  by dothemath in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a few years ago at one of the conventions, there was a talk on gods remarkable creation.

  one of the slides showed a giant sequoia tree, approximately 5000 years old!.

  later another talk was about noah etc.

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  SeaB - Why are there marine fossils at high altitudes?

  Your first clue is the word 'tectonics'.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Class Warfare (parallels to Karl Marx)

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  among jehovah’s witnesses, the elite consists of 144,00 kings and priests who have been specially selected (anointed) to rule in heaven (as transformed spirit beings) over the second group (great crowd) who remain human on a paradise earth.. .

  in marxist theory, the elite use wealth to obtain political power and control ideology consisting of shaping the worldview of the underclass.

  (their role in society.).

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  The parallel in my mind is this, Marx' main fault was that he did not give any idea of how to achieve his Workers Utopia

  His main fault was far more fundamental than that. He misunderstood human nature. All attempts to pursue utopia are not only doomed to failure but inevitably lead to dystopia.
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  Stockholm syndrome and religion

  by menrov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  based on a discussion i had with my wife, i started to compare the situation of people who are a member of a religious organisation or are devout to a belief, to the so-called stockholm syndrome.

  the stockholm syndrome is where feelings of trust or affection is felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim towards a captor.

  in such a situation, the person being kidnapped is not free to leave and is held against their will but over time takes that situation as a "new normal" and even starts to see their kidnapper(s) as normal people.

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  Menrov - I think it's a perfect analogy. We see the same thing in totalitarian regimes. People genuinely wept when Stalin died. There is a human tendency to become complicit in your own oppression.
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  Lloyd Evans exploitation videos.

  by phoenixrising in

  1. social
  2. current

  i used to watch his videos on the monthly gb talks.

  he has went over the top a few times doing one video on why being liberal idiot is a good thing.

  he has made comments on the usa not knowing shit about what he was desperately trying to talk about.

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  cofty

  Pale Emperor asks a good and genuine question and some dullard responds with a 'dislike'.

  FFS!

  I think in American culture 'Liberal' has come to be synonymous with the SJW movement and Identity politics.

  Classic liberals are more about free speech, freedom of personal morality and economic freedom. At the far end of the spectrum is the Libertarian position.

  'I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.' - Christopher Hitchens