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  NASA hiring religious leaders on extraterrestrial life....

  by mikeflood in

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  2. current

  nasa hiring religious leaders just in case they found extraterrestrial life, at priceton university's center of theological inquiry.

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  just of curiosity, if nasa find something, how do you think the borg is gonna spin it.

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  Vidiot

  A funny thing about ETs...

  ...American Evangelical ideology and cosmology (the JW variation included) doesn't really allow for the possibility of them.

  I have, in fact, heard that it's one of the real reasons why UFO research has been so publicly stymied in the US for so long...

  ...numerous high-ranking military officials and politicians have subscribed to those belief systems and used their influence to avoid the issue, because it too deeply - and uncomfortably - challenged their belief systems.

  Not to mention that politically, Evangelical Christians were too large a voting bloc to... well... alienate.

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  BTW... even as a young guy, I'd grasped that if a full-on First Contact scenario actually took place, the WTS would not handle it at all well.
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  New light and confessing to congregations.

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2017 - wt: the gb is neither inspired or infallible and can err in doctrine and organisational matters... clearly gb have received biblical information about things that been done wrong.

  not from god directly, but letters received at headquarters.

  if important new light about biblical matters have come to the gb attention, why are they not telling the congregations about that information?

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  Vidiot

  Like I keep saying…

  …they know it’s wrong, but believe it’s true…

  …at the same time.
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  "The End is Imminent" - Tony Morris, 2017

  by Smiles in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  2017 tony morris jw gb.

  "the end is imminent!".

  timestamp (06:00).

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  Vidiot

  ‘Course, going around jabbing folks in the eye with a stick and whining when you get a beatdown for it doesn’t make you “persecuted”.

  It just makes you an asshole.
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  "The End is Imminent" - Tony Morris, 2017

  by Smiles in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  2017 tony morris jw gb.

  "the end is imminent!".

  timestamp (06:00).

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  Vidiot

  If the Rising Tide of pedo cases and potential loss of tax-exemption get so bad that they feel like they’re backed into too tight a corner, I can totally see them trying something stoopid like provoking “Satan’s World” into “attacking” them in the misguided hope that God’ll drop the Big A and bail ‘em out.
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  TRICKY WORDS and why not to use them

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tricky words .

  perfectly good words go unused in writing and speaking.

  their meaning isn't clear and the eye is 'tricked' by similarity to other words or sounds.. .

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  Vidiot

  When I saw the thread title, I assumed it meant weasel-words...
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  I have come to the conclusion that a lot of JWs don't care if the end is near.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.

  i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.

  they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.

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  Vidiot

  Not unlike how like the WT leadership knows it's wrong...

  ...but believes it's True...

  ...at the same time.
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  Child pornography should NOT be automatically handled by a judicial committee

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new information added to the "shepherd the flock elder's book" .

  they have updated their policy on viewing child pornography.. from a congregation standpoint it is not viewed as child sex abuse and is something that should not be automatically handled by a judicial committee.

  it states that a person viewing child pornography should be strongly counseled.

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  hoser - "When the authorities start throwing governing body members in jail they will cry persecution."

  'Course they will.

  Getting anyone but the small percentage of hardcore Lifers to really believe it is another thing, though.
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  I have come to the conclusion that a lot of JWs don't care if the end is near.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.

  i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.

  they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.

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  hoser - "Do these relatives actually believe it’s the truth or are they stuck in a jw social stratification prison?"

  Yes.

  They actually believe it’s the truth...

  ...because they're stuck in a JW social stratification prison.
  
  
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  What do you do before making a very hard decision?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  any takers?.

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  Vidiot

  Magic Eight-Ball?
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  how long after a fade does the local hall keep your records?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i have not been to a kh for 26 years.

  if i wanted to dissociate what would be the procedure and is there any gain in doing it so long after i left?.

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  Vidiot

  Yeah, it's not enough to let you quietly leave; they wanna kick you in the ass on your way out.