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  Elders are more loyal to a rubber stamp

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  isn't it amazing that the elders are more loyal to a rubber stamp on a letter from new york or whatever branch, than they are to the people they know and have known for years in their own congregation?.

  when you think about that, the reason is that they get their power from that rubber stamp.

  that is what appointed them, and that is what can unappoint them.

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  John_Mann

  If you want to see the future, imagine a rubber stamping a human face forever.
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  JWs getting "Footloose" at the Kingdom Hall

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i hope no one here get's injured when they see this and their jaw hits the floor:.

  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=689701664435095&set=vb.100001858044479&type=2&theater.

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  (It's when they just suddenly do an about face without any explaination, it makes the restrictions we lived under and the sacrafices we made, look like a huge joke.)

  It doesn't looks like a huge joke.

  It's a huge joke in any sense possible!

  It's just unbelievable...

  Who could even imagine this in the 90's? Unless you was listening to a crazy speech about the dangers of that happening as a modern-day golden calf party.

  I watched this video with a bittersweet feeling...

  It's so insulting to all those (in or out) who sacrificed a LOT for the WT (now JW.org).

  At the same time it's a powerful validation of total decadence of WT (now JW.org).

  What an interesting time we are living... literally no country for old men...
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  Will reserrected Gays and Lesbians have to give up homosexuality in order to stay in the new system?

  by booker-t in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do jws believe that if a gay or lesbian is reserrected after the great trib he or she will have to give up homosexuality in order to live..

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  They will be ressurected without the gay genes.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  (c is not the velocity of light.)

  Yes it is.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  (There is no such thing as a "time" dimension. There is spacetime.)

  There is time dimension as there are wideness and heightness.

  3 dimensions of space (x,y,z) and 1 dimension of time (t).

  As in any vetorial system if you accelerate in one dimension the others will decrease in module. If you accelerate in one space dimension your time will decrease, if you reach the speed of light in one space dimension your time will stop because the time vector will reach zero.

  Acceleration warps the (vector coordinates of) spacetime because that. Acceleration or gravity (same thing).

  For a reason (AFAIK it's unknown) the mass have the effect to change the rate of time acceleration, provoking what we perceive as gravity.
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  A peek in to future of transportation

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. current

  trends include self-driving clean vehicles and temporary leasing rather than buying vehicles (the driverless vehicle arrives to pick you up, and you drop it off at your destination).

  the result?

  1/8 the traffic on existing roads!

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  Yes and I know there's a mode you can drive by the old way but the autopilot running in background ready to correct any imprudent move.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  Yes I agree. It's just a curiosity and I'm just sharing information.

  I don't see any evidence of nothing at all.

  The Vedas are (much more) full of it too.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  I'm not trying to base my ideas on the bible.

  I just showed a curiosity in a crazy ancient book about a very modern topic.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
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  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  Well turning back this issue to a more "theocratical" tone (LOL), I'm always amazed how poetry can grasp deep things in advance.

  Speaking about nanotechnological transhumanism, I like very much a quote from the Bible about it:

  51 Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed,+ 52 in a moment, in the blink* of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,+ and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53 For this which is corruptible must put on incorruption,+ and this which is mortal must put on immortality.+ 54 But when this which is corruptible puts on incorruption and this which is mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: “Death is swallowed up forever.”+ 55 “Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?

  Here the Apostle Paul (or whatever the writer) are speaking about the concept of (magical) transhumanism.

  But the most interesting thing its the word he used, poorly translated in other languages as "in a moment". He chose the greek word ATOMOS here. Even though that time the word have not the modern meaning it's still interesting WHY he doesn't used the word PARAUTIKA as in 2 Cor 4:17 to express a very short time. He chose to use a word that it's not usually a measure of time but matter. He use the word "tiniest particle" to express a measure of time giving the ambiguity to instead talking about time duration he could speaking about in WHAT or HOW we could be transformed. Wich could be translated as "bit by bit" instead of "in a moment". Using the translation "bit by bit" or (why not?) "atomically" would also eliminate the following redundant expression "blink of an eye".

  17 For though the tribulation* is momentary and light, it works out for us a glory that is of more and more surpassing greatness* and is everlasting;+

  Nanotech transhumanism is based on particle physics, and its very interesting why Paul chose a word that means particle to explain a concept of transhumanism.

  These little things that makes me consider the artistic value of the Bible.
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  Is there Such a Thing as TIme

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the present moment is real.

  however much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

  the next second of your life is the future.

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  Yeah I think time is implied in E=mc^2.

  Einstein did a very good job discovering that space=time and gravity=acceleration.

  Every time you accelerate something you create a gravity force opposite to it. When you're in an accelerated car there's a gravitacional force pushing you back to your seat.

  We feel gravity to the center of the planet because the acceleration in time dimension.

  So we can make the strange statement that we're stucked on the ground because it's the shortest way between the present and the future.

  Who can controls the time will be able to control gravity too.