The concept of sin is a very clever invention. It means that by creating guilt, religious leaders can both control their flocks and also collect payments for doing so.
Half banana
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The wages of sin...
by joey jojo insomewhere in the bible it says; the wages of sin is death.. just death.
not pain or anguish or agonising illnesses.
so , why do we have to endure all of the heart-breaking torment that goes along with life?
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Pastor Melissa Scott
by pel8319 intune in to [removed] for excellent bible teaching.
sunday service at 11am pst.
please check it out..
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Half banana
Who needs yet more "Bible teaching"? Less would be preferable.
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The Trump Connection
by Coded Logic ini'm a little dumb struck to see that donald trump's first cross word against russia are in support of the jws.. http://fox-news24.com/trump-warns-russia-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-and-urges-members-to-seek-asylum-in-the-us/.
is this because trump genuinely values freedom of religion?
or is it because his son in law jared kushner has financial dealings with the jws?
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Half banana
Fake news makers and the Watchtower make good bedfellows.
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Why Charles Taze Russell was NOT a Freemason
by ILoveTTATT2 inthe article is now in english.
please let me know what you think.. http://verdadtj.com/atalaya/russell-not-a-freemason.php.
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Half banana
That's the one Finky, it shows the undressed stone at the back where normally it would be smooth.
How interesting that the view aligning the rough headstone with the pyramid and with the new Masonic temple beyond, could easily be interpreted (or mis-interpreted) as fully Masonic in influence.
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The Trump Connection
by Coded Logic ini'm a little dumb struck to see that donald trump's first cross word against russia are in support of the jws.. http://fox-news24.com/trump-warns-russia-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-and-urges-members-to-seek-asylum-in-the-us/.
is this because trump genuinely values freedom of religion?
or is it because his son in law jared kushner has financial dealings with the jws?
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Half banana
Trump empathises with the idea that companies should not be prevented from making millions of Dollars out of property income, even nasty global businesses like the Watchtower Organization Property Scam (WOPS).
Possibly by selling some of the old Brooklyn HQ to the Trump family gave the JWorg an opening to smooth the way for their own political and business ambitions.
Incidentally what a "fine" slimy over the top presentation Semonian gives with his emotive talk and gesturing.
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Why Charles Taze Russell was NOT a Freemason
by ILoveTTATT2 inthe article is now in english.
please let me know what you think.. http://verdadtj.com/atalaya/russell-not-a-freemason.php.
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Half banana
How many headstones does this man have? Or is the reverse side different? There exists one with a photo of Russell in profile and the undressed stone below it. I'll have to find the photo now.
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Why Charles Taze Russell was NOT a Freemason
by ILoveTTATT2 inthe article is now in english.
please let me know what you think.. http://verdadtj.com/atalaya/russell-not-a-freemason.php.
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Half banana
I understood he had Masonic leanings earlier in life and no doubt Masonic sentiments influenced his values to some extent such as the idea of an exclusive brotherhood and the notion of gaining esoteric knowledge from hidden sources e.g. the Bible and the pyramids of Gizeh. His trick was to claim to be the conduit for interpreting these things.
Just one thing I noticed a couple of days ago; Russell's actual headstone bearing his photograph is only half finished, deliberately so, he wasn't short of cash!
As it happens my great grandfather's grave is the same with the dressing of the lower half of the stone left rough (in pink granite, Russell's favourite stone) and my grandfather with his unusual secular grave, was a high flying Mason.
In gravestone lore, to have a stone unfinished can mean going from material to a spirit life, especially if the inscription is not complete or it can be a Masonic symbol of the incompletion of the Temple building-- at least that was how I understood it to be.
Is there anyone here better versed in these things than I am?
Russell was not a practising Mason but he was not beyond using symbols as he saw fit or did someone else choose his headstone? I imagine the autocrat Russell chose his own.
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Half banana
Hello J is dead, perhaps for you he is dead and if you were a JW then congratulations!
Actually I can't believe that he ever lived outside of myth in the first place.
The source of christianity is clearly derived from the earlier beliefs as you show. . . and just to add, the Egyptian mother of The Saviour was also known as Isis Meri, Meri = Mary. Another interesting link is that when Horus resurrected his "friend" El Osiris, it was his other self. Complicated, unless you understand the whole of the ancient myth but sufficient to say that the Bible repeats the fact that Lazarus was Jesus' "friend" as in the Egyptian story of 2000 years earlier.
What is it that walks on the water in the early morning? It is the Sun god if you are looking over water that is. Even the heavenly Sun God has his other self reflected on the the earthly planet below.
Your graphics have the element of fear which cults use to frighten people into believing that by contrast some pure religious state exists. You won't survive God's wrath unless you do what the cult leaders tell you!
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Jesus Christ dead for three days and three nights really?
by Crazyguy inhas anyone done a detail research on this subject?
the gospels seem to contradict one another and christians apologists have a bunch of different ways to try to explain away the problems.
has anyone have a concrete explanation for or against him truly being dead three days and three nights as the story goes?.
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Half banana
Actually Crazyguy, I was saying that the recurring motif in ancient literature of three and a half days for heros being dead or going down into the underworld, comes from the winter solstice when the Sun 'dies' and not from solar events the vernal equinox.
The Easter time events are do with the sacrificial death of the son of the Sun God and his resurrection to heavenly glory but the trope of "three days dead" is carried over from the death and rebirth of the Sun in December.
Myth does not follow logic and that is why Bible texts struggle to make sense of irrational folk tales by forcing some semblance of reality on them and worse still, claim them to be read as historical truth.
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Jesus Christ dead for three days and three nights really?
by Crazyguy inhas anyone done a detail research on this subject?
the gospels seem to contradict one another and christians apologists have a bunch of different ways to try to explain away the problems.
has anyone have a concrete explanation for or against him truly being dead three days and three nights as the story goes?.
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Half banana
Crazyguy, I asked the same question myself five years ago and did some investigation. What else dies for three days? It is the sun which 'dies' for three days from the 21st December to the 24th. It stops at the same point of the horizon, setting and rising there for three days and three nights but when It rises again on the 25th December it has begun to move northwards again; otherwise described anciently as being "reborn". This was a cause for celebration; the re-birth of the sun.
Just to get the astronomy right-- the setting point of the sun was a calendrical marker for the seasons for pre-literate agriculturalists possibly starting in the New Stone Age, (may be earlier) and going forward for some thousand years through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. Where else would you look to find what the date is without books or calendars? How else would you know when to sow particular crops? The position of the sunset on the horizon tells you. Furthest North is midsummer and midway are the equinoxes.
In Autumn the position of sunset progressively moves southwards on the Western horizon until it slows down in its southern travel and stops altogether for three days. On the 25th December it begins to moves North once again. If you live on the equator this will not help you and neither will it be of use if you live in the Arctic. In between these geographical extremes you would have depended on this information for your farming and therefore your food. It would not be surprising to celebrate the turning of the seasons and clearly the feast and fast days of the ancient pagans were absorbed into the Bible and sanitised by early Christian Church. It's one reason why Jdubs have the memorial. . .
Many of the Stone circle alignments (but not Stonehenge) even in the north of Europe eg Maeshowe in Orkney Scotland, are orientated for a solar alignment at sunrise on the 25th December. It was the moment to celebrate the return of the Sun, the rebirth of the Sun God who would bless the community again with light and growth and fertility in the fields and hence the continuation of life itself.
In the Neolithic folk calendar Christmas day was central to the annual cycle of life to be followed three months later by the sacrificial death of the son of the Sun God at Easter.
In Homer, Ulysses goes down to the underworld for three days, in fact all saviour and celestial heros die for three days as a mark or badge of the God-man. Jesus was described as doing the same so the listeners would know what character he was meant to be.
Jesus is none other than a historicization of the folk tale of the journey of the Sun God as were all of his literary forebears, Dionysus, Attis, Horus, Adonis et al.
It was the fact that early Christianity preached that this god-man Jesus had become a real breathing person, who had lived -- and died for three days and three nights and was resurrected according to the folk tales of old, which shocked the sensibilities of the educated Greeks and Romans to learn that they gullibly believed these outrageous impossibilities.