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  star trek

  by Hortensia in

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  it pisses me off that they are advertising the new star trek movie so far ahead of release.

  i thought it would be released soon, turns out it won't be shown until may 2013. and no sherlock until the fall of 2013 maybe.

  (i like benedict cumberbatch, .

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  Just watched Cummerbund in Parades End. Brilliant period drama.
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  Well, at least they got one thing right

  by Word in

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  jesus christ sits on his throne in heaven and want's the world to to submit to his rule.

  but they got the time for his entronment wrong, it began back in the first century.

  they also don't understand the nature of his rule, jesus christ rules the world from within and without, from inside the heart of righteous people and from heaven above.. they also got it right that jesus christ want's to create a new world community.

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  Word, I have to back Flipper up here and the rest of the doubters. There is absolutely no evidence of a living god Jesus or any supernatural being. If you accept the evidence as the existence and prosperityof religious organisations then that is a delusion. They all disagree, they all think they have the direct line to heaven. "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." Richard Dawkins.
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  My Dream About 2012

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  i recently had a dream that crystallized my thoughts about 2012, going into 2013.. for quite awhile now, i have been reading various predictions and websites that claim special knowledge of what will happen on dec. 21 and thereafter.

  most of them are 'sweet talk' about wondrous fantasies and nothing more.

  in the dream, there was a school with a huge field behind it.

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  Thanks Nebuchadnezzar now we need an interpreter.
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  Was There Ever A Circuit Overseer That You Couldn't Stand?

  by minimus in

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  i know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.

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  bigmac you have a PM.
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  1975 - A weak argument?

  by Christ Alone in

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  i posted this on an older thread, but i wanted to get an honest opinion about this from all of you.

  i think taking the 1975 approach with a jw is...weak.

  was it wrong (and false prophetic) of them?

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  Just an aside, in 1976 I think the WT had the bare assed cheek to blame all this on the R & F. That really upset the brothers, already deflated at having got through 1975, as usual, nothing happened and now suddenly its their fault. Where could they possibly have got that idea from. I wish I had walked out there and then.

  I can still see my best friend at the time standing on the platform trying to dispense that idea as if he believed it. Jeeze
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  1975 - A weak argument?

  by Christ Alone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i posted this on an older thread, but i wanted to get an honest opinion about this from all of you.

  i think taking the 1975 approach with a jw is...weak.

  was it wrong (and false prophetic) of them?

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  The real answer to this is that you had to be there. Every witness believed that the end was coming in 1975, if they had any doubts they would not have dared express them for fear of being labelled apostate.

  There was wild speculation and excitement everywhere from bethel to the furthest outreaches on the details of how it would occur. Talks from the platform assumed it as given truth just as much as the blood doctrine or the trinity.

  The society never spoke a word or wrote a line that would have put any sort of a damper on all this. As has been stated, people sold their homes, cashed in their pensions and life insurances in total faith in what they had been taught to believe.

  When the society continued to build new bethels and KHs, many questioned why. We were told that when the end comes that there would be a forward looking going concern. I myself however as a humble pioneer was critised for taking on a $1500 mortgage in 1973 since I dshonestly knew I would never pay it back.

  There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the whole thrust of everything done and said at that period was ruled by 1975. I would stand in any court of the land and say so.
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  Was There Ever A Circuit Overseer That You Couldn't Stand?

  by minimus in

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  i know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.

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  Bloody 'ell bigmac, you must be nearly as old as I am.

  Ron Drage: Relating an experience at a circuit assembly: -

  Householder"I hear you think the world is going to end in 1975"

  R D"Madame, if it doesn't, you won't see me again"

  Never met anyone who thought more of himself.
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  New Pattern regarding Science in the Awake

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. beliefs

  reading the first couple of awakes for 2013 i think there is a pattern developing.. they have the regular "could it have happened by chance" article on something amazing in nature but they are also interviewing a scientist who is also a witness.

  this is a pretty interesting tack on a number of levels.. firstly it is sending out the implicit message that "look, this educated person accepts creation, the flood and every other account that is at odds with generally accepted science, so that should give you confidence that you are right as well".

  secondly, as a magazine designed for public comsumption is suggests to non-witnesses that there are many well educated people who accept the bible.

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  Found Him: He is an expert in his field. I would love to meet him again and ask him the difficult questions.

  “I Was Raised an Atheist”

  PROFESSOR František Vyskocil of Charles University, Prague, is internationally known for his research in neurophysiology. Once an atheist, he now firmly believes in God. In an interview with Awake! Professor Vyskocil explains why he changed his viewpoint.

  What was your view of religion before you started your career in science?

  I was raised an atheist, and my father often made fun of the clergy. I graduated from college in 1963 with degrees in biology and chemistry. In my school years, I believed that the theory of evolution explained life’s diversity.

  Tell us a little about your career in science.

  In my postdoctoral work, I studied the chemical and electrical properties of nerve synapses. I also studied neurons, membrane pumps, transplantation, and drug desensitization. Many of the results have been published, and some articles have been selected as classical. In time, I became a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, a community of scientists chosen by their peers. After the December 1989 “Velvet Revolution,” I became a professor at Charles University and was allowed to travel to the West to meet with colleagues, some of whom were Nobel laureates.

  Did you ever think about God?

  In a sense, yes. At times, I wondered why many highly educated people, including some of my professors, believed in God—albeit quietly because of the Communist regime. To me, however, God was a human invention. I had also been outraged by atrocities committed in the name of religion.

  How did you come to change your view of evolution?

  My doubts about evolution began when I was studying synapses. I was deeply impressed by the amazing complexity of these supposedly simple connections between nerve cells. ‘How,’ I wondered, ‘could synapses and the genetic programs underlying them be products of mere blind chance?’ It really made no sense.

  Then, in the early 1970’s, I attended a lecture by a famous Russian scientist and professor. He stated that living organisms cannot be a result of random mutations and natural selection. Someone in the audience then asked where the answer lay. The professor took a small Russian Bible from his jacket, held it up, and said, “Read the Bible—the creation story in Genesis in particular.”

  Later, in the lobby, I asked the professor if he was serious about the Bible. In essence, he replied: “Simple bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes and have many hundreds of different proteins, each containing 20 types of amino acids arranged in chains that might be several hundred long. For bacteria to evolve by beneficial mutations one at a time would take much, much longer than three or four billion years, the time that many scientists believe life has existed on earth.” The Bible book of Genesis, he felt, made much more sense.

  How did the professor’s comments affect you?

  His observations, along with my own nagging doubts, moved me to discuss the subject with several religious colleagues and friends, but I found their views unconvincing. Then I spoke to a pharmacologist who was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. For three years he explained the Bible to me and my wife, Ema. Two things amazed us. First, traditional “Christianity” actually has little in common with the Bible. Second, the Bible, though not a science book, actually harmonizes with true science.

  Has your change of view hindered your scientific research?

  Not at all. Every good scientist, regardless of his beliefs, must be as objective as possible. But my faith has changed me. For one thing, instead of being overly self-confident, highly competitive, and unduly proud of my scientific skills, I am now grateful to God for any abilities I may have. Also, instead of unfairly attributing the amazing designs manifest in creation to blind chance, I and not a few other scientists ask ourselves, ‘How did God design this?’

  [Blurb on page 9]

  I and not a few other scientists ask ourselves, ‘How did God design this?’
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  New Pattern regarding Science in the Awake

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading the first couple of awakes for 2013 i think there is a pattern developing.. they have the regular "could it have happened by chance" article on something amazing in nature but they are also interviewing a scientist who is also a witness.

  this is a pretty interesting tack on a number of levels.. firstly it is sending out the implicit message that "look, this educated person accepts creation, the flood and every other account that is at odds with generally accepted science, so that should give you confidence that you are right as well".

  secondly, as a magazine designed for public comsumption is suggests to non-witnesses that there are many well educated people who accept the bible.

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  I was once in Prague and met a very well qualified molecular bio-scientist who was a Witness. I was at the sceptical but still "in' stage at the time. There was recently an Awake article about him saying how his discipline confirmed the truth of creation to him. When I met him he seemed a genuine kind man and I checked him out. He is well repected world wide in his field.

  I have been searching the idexes and cannot find the article, very frustrating. I have often wondered why a man of such intelligence and international repute can still support the WT mythology.
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  more abuse in today's watchtower study

  by solomon in

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  2. friends

  today's study picks on the most vulnerable among us.

  the mentally ill. .

  the watchtower apparently hasn't learned that depression and mental illness are that a medical condition.

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  Slidin Fast

  Sorry breast not breat.