Posts by Nephilim

yes a circuit oversear, brother al gore gave a talk at the district convention in 2003 saying that in a "few years from now" new york, china, and many other countries will be deep under water.

the world would be completely destroyed.

he pulled out some "calculations" and "graphs" and pyramid measurements to prove this was happening now!

Nephilim

... approaching 5,000 posts? I hope they all haven't been like this...

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The God Delusion

by alice.in.wonderland in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_god_delusion.

the god delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by british biologist richard dawkins, professorial fellow of new college, oxford, and inaugural holder of the charles simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at the university of oxford.. .

in the god delusion, dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.

Nephilim

The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins...

I just thought it was funny that you specified his book as "non-fiction". It made me think of how black and white our labels are in the library. Now don't get me wrong I read the book and liked it... I think he's a smart man although a bit evangelistic and the type of person who ridicules agnostic persons for not making a choice. The problem is that we need a category that goes away from "fiction" and "non-fiction" and resembles something more like "in this person's honest opinion"...

I'm not saying he's wrong... I'm not saying he's right...

but "that which we do not know" still exists and is not explained to a complete and comfortable degree.

ALSO.

You mentioned the original inventors of christianity.

Try and think of these people as simple minded people who see magnets and think of them as "witchcraft". Don't get me wrong simple minded man was great at mathmatics yet still clung on to the popular belief that a god HAD to exist.

If and when a person named Jesus came to exist his preaching was so powerful, controversial and unique he really changed people's lives for centuries. Was he crazy? Were they crazy?

I just find it hard to believe that christianity ORIGINALLY was brainstormed as the controlling device that it is used as now.

THIS POST IS NON-FICTION (yet my humble opinion)

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Behold the glorious images of God

by Lekore in

as a kid i would often be repremanded by my parents for putting a poster of a popstar or other contemporary celebrity which i lended my appreciation to.

but what confused me is the much disaproval of my popstars when every time we sat down for dinner we would be watched by a framed illustration of jesus that was produced by the society.. now that i'm older and i visited my parent's house i saw the same photograph, sat proudly on the dining wall demonstrating the 'strong faith' they still have.

reminded of my childhood concerns i sneakly did some research on the watchtower cd and discovered this passage in reference to idols:.

Nephilim

Forget for a second any spin that you can put on that scripture. This is EXACTLY the type of bullshit spin that the WTBS puts on the scriptures that they favor.

On the one side you could be right, on the other hand it may come down to symantics. That is the problem with scripture interpretation you can almost make any scripture mean something completely different than it was originally intended.

If you are a believer in the bible you have to be extremely well educated on the time period, what was happening during that time, symbolism, etc...

Unlike what the WTBS says the book IS outdated and cannot be fully interpreted by your below IQ joe schmoe.

I suppose this is why the WTBS feels they have a right to put out supplimentary materials. However, they have never and will never have the exclusive right to be the sole interpreter of scriptual meaning.

That having been said, the red revelation book is a complete joke. There are so many scriptual spins and confusing logic put out in it (and even updated to more confusing convuluted meanings through new light) that I'd go as far to say it is the most pompous book ever written. The fact that they are depicted images of god in it are dangerously close to violating the scripture you mentioned - with little or no reason to their presence in the book. It makes no sense.

Can anybody name another supposedly "non-fiction" book put out "worldwide" that is so full of bullshit and so obviously written to say "hey we were chosen by god! Check us out!"

If people were allowed to ask questions during the bookstudy this book would've been destroyed years ago.

Sorry to go off on the red revelation book but I know that's where you got the images and the book makes me sick. OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEPLE.

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If this don't scare you, nothing will

by purplesofa in

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Nephilim

Outlaw,

Run by smooth criminals with powerful lawyers... We all wish it was run by idiots.

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"large but mainstream" brings what changes next?

by agent zero in

in some other threads there has been talk of wether the organization will go large and mainstream or small and hard-core in the upcoming years.. in the past few years, the sunday public talk has been shortened, the bookstudy eliminated (at least as a seperate meeting night), #2 talks are down to a simple read-through, and a little longer ago pioneering hour requirements have been shortened.

personally i would take these as signs of them going more soft and keeping a larger membership.. if this is indeed the case, what would you suspect of being cut off or changed next?.

a0.

Nephilim

powerpoint presentations

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Watchtower blaspheming the holy spirit

by sacolton in

"spawn of satan!".

"apostate!".

those are just a few from jehovah's witnesses towards those who have left the watchtower organization to become a follower of jesus christ.. do they know they are blaspheming against the holy spirit?

Nephilim

I agree that this topic or thread isn't about the trinity. Good post!

Krettnawe if you want to make a new topic or thread about the trinity I would be delighted to post on it.