Cold steel you are watching the wrong videos!
This man's brain is toxic, not surprising since he obviously has been fed only on the BIble.
Lobster, crab and crispy pork--- life enhancing and utterly delicious!
Half banana
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OT - Pork was unclean... NT Now it's not?
by pleaseresearch inthis always baffled me.
either pork is unclean and wrong to eat forever, or it was a load of bull to begin with..
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Do any of the governing body of JWs exercise their conscience?
by Half banana inthe members of the governing body, by being at the reins of a large corporation, must be confronted with situations which force them to think about the validity of their doctrines.. the australian royal commission hearing must have highlighted for the gb, especially jackson, the rational inconsistency of using an iron age dictum of "two witnesses" in a world which has moved beyond such rough justice.
today we have a scientific approach, we examine forensically, we have psychologists who can tell us about individual's minds and behaviour.
today, children's voices are not ignored.. the first and last resort of jws and their leaders is the doctrine of the "inerrancy of the bible".
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I had a similar thought this morning Zeb that all institutions and cults evolve, flourish and eventually die. As in Hitler's case, Nazism died in a bunker with its chief proponent committing suicide.
Any cult only serves the interests and the egos of its leaders. . . usually they are sociopaths, narcissists and ideologically fixated.
When their ideology becomes exposed for its fraudulence the last resort of the leadership is to demand unquestioning loyalty. The JW cult has already done it. Isn't this how cultists die with this demand ringing in their ears?
Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult run by egoists who are able to suppress the urgings of their natural conscience.
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Do any of the governing body of JWs exercise their conscience?
by Half banana inthe members of the governing body, by being at the reins of a large corporation, must be confronted with situations which force them to think about the validity of their doctrines.. the australian royal commission hearing must have highlighted for the gb, especially jackson, the rational inconsistency of using an iron age dictum of "two witnesses" in a world which has moved beyond such rough justice.
today we have a scientific approach, we examine forensically, we have psychologists who can tell us about individual's minds and behaviour.
today, children's voices are not ignored.. the first and last resort of jws and their leaders is the doctrine of the "inerrancy of the bible".
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Half banana
@ Island man, an interesting concept: the distinction between conscience and a "Bible trained" conscience.
The latter no doubt referring to where the brain has been rewired by the JW org.
Nevertheless the expression "Bible trained conscience" does imply that a superior conscience is available if you join JWs.
By leaving behind your natural conscience and applying your new BTC, however foolhardy you might be in losing your life by refusing a blood transfusion for example, it will get you having God's approval, or so you were led to believe. It would then be too late to say "I wish I had used my natural conscience instead."
"Bible trained consciences" should come with a health warning.
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Do any of the governing body of JWs exercise their conscience?
by Half banana inthe members of the governing body, by being at the reins of a large corporation, must be confronted with situations which force them to think about the validity of their doctrines.. the australian royal commission hearing must have highlighted for the gb, especially jackson, the rational inconsistency of using an iron age dictum of "two witnesses" in a world which has moved beyond such rough justice.
today we have a scientific approach, we examine forensically, we have psychologists who can tell us about individual's minds and behaviour.
today, children's voices are not ignored.. the first and last resort of jws and their leaders is the doctrine of the "inerrancy of the bible".
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Half banana
"Look at how much we've got right". What! What! Losch reinforcing his newspeak with an emotional hug contact. Yuch! Show me one thing the JW org have got right; 1914? The governing body is chosen by holy spirit? We are in the last days? All of it unprovable. . .
There is nothing I can think of which indicates divine intercession in favour of any privileged and useful information given to the GB. Not anything EVER!
There is not one useful thing which the JW org has got right which other people have not come up with.
There is absolutely nothing worthwhile which the JW org has ever said which is worth changing course for.............. They have proved to be a bunch of delusional loonies.
The Watchtower: spouting nonsense since 1879.
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OT - Pork was unclean... NT Now it's not?
by pleaseresearch inthis always baffled me.
either pork is unclean and wrong to eat forever, or it was a load of bull to begin with..
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Half banana
Doesn't matter what it is but any community taboo unites people driven to carry it out.
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Idée fixe
by Half banana ini am in france at the moment and hence this french expression used in english speaking psychiatry crossed my mind: the expression is idée fixe (pron.
eeday fix).
this describes the condition in an individual who holds an obsessive attachment to a point of view which is unresponsive to reason and argument.
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Half banana
I am in France at the moment and hence this French expression used in English speaking psychiatry crossed my mind: the expression is idée fixe (pron. eeday fix). This describes the condition in an individual who holds an obsessive attachment to a point of view which is unresponsive to reason and argument.
There must be some comfort in arriving at this psychotic position. Once adopted everything is sorted.................
For example being implacably convinced that the Bible is the true source of divine instruction and that seven men in JW headquarters MUST be the link between God and us and that Armageddon is coming any moment now and will kill off unbelievers and leave the world to us who are the only true believers. I have every reason to want to believe this, without this hope my life is worthless.......
Is the JW organisation filled with members suffering (or enjoying) a collective idée fixe?
Perhaps a psychologist here might be able to expand?
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Do any of the governing body of JWs exercise their conscience?
by Half banana inthe members of the governing body, by being at the reins of a large corporation, must be confronted with situations which force them to think about the validity of their doctrines.. the australian royal commission hearing must have highlighted for the gb, especially jackson, the rational inconsistency of using an iron age dictum of "two witnesses" in a world which has moved beyond such rough justice.
today we have a scientific approach, we examine forensically, we have psychologists who can tell us about individual's minds and behaviour.
today, children's voices are not ignored.. the first and last resort of jws and their leaders is the doctrine of the "inerrancy of the bible".
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Good points Listener, it seems to be a watertight system! Smug, smug, smug, God only blesses us!
It is of course hard to imagine the interior monologue of one of the GB members.
My theory is that only those who have ditched their conscience for worldly glory can accept the poisoned chalice which comes with being top dog in the Watchtower cult.
As I see it, and tell me if I am wrong, the GB members feel inordinately honoured to belong to this elite club. They have a task handed down to them which they are honour bound to fulfil without scruple. It is that they have to convince their flock for the duration of their incumbency that Armageddon is immediately about to happen.
Only if they succeed in doing this will the cult survive.Their success as members of this club is measured by the increase in number of subscribers to this confidence trick.
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Wriggling Like A Worm On A Hook???
by Disassociated Lady 2 injust been reading this week's study article for the jws:.
imagine that an experienced guide is leading you on a tour of a wondrous and beautiful city.
the city is new to you and to those with you, so you hang on to the guide’s every word.
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Half banana
JWs indeed are worms, they certainly are hooked and to wriggle is their way of life.
I like the Bible propaganda quoted that God's Kingdom is a "city built on true foundations". It is only where there is a fantasy city as the subject when anyone would try to convince the reader that it has "true foundations."
Any bunch of tourists would probably lynch the GB as tourist guides. One hundred and thirty seven years of getting everything wrong.
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If Abraham had gone to Kingdom of Heaven, why not John the Baptist?
by anointed1 injesus rated john the baptist as the greatest “among those born of women” (luke 7:28) hence after his death he should naturally go to heaven—especially so lesser ones like enoch, abraham are already in the kingdom of heaven.
(hebrews 11: 5, 6; 13-16).
in view of the direct statement of jesus: “i say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with abraham, isaac, and jacob in the kingdom of heaven” (mathew 8:11), people like abraham are definitely in heaven.
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Half banana
Crazy Guy, the Osiris story is so complex that it is not worth unravelling the mythology to answer a question here. The characters also morph into other characters and become yet others under different circumstances. Horus is one big shape-shifter. Where Horus, as the friend of the dead, raised "Our friend Osiris (his father), Jesus says "Our friend Lazarus" [ is raised]. Lazarus translates El Osiris. Read Gerald Massey on the subject.
Most of the Bible is borrowed holy magic!
When you look it up on the internet, Christians naturally are determined not to see such comparisons and have responded with an outrightly dismissive stance which can dominate the information on the subject.
All doctrines and beliefs have a pedigree and the Jesus story does not arise for the first time in the Bible. The virgin born, wonder working, saviour god-man with twelve disciples was a stock character of ancient myth and existed before Jesus. For me that alone is enough to dismiss the Christian Jesus as being divine.
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If Abraham had gone to Kingdom of Heaven, why not John the Baptist?
by anointed1 injesus rated john the baptist as the greatest “among those born of women” (luke 7:28) hence after his death he should naturally go to heaven—especially so lesser ones like enoch, abraham are already in the kingdom of heaven.
(hebrews 11: 5, 6; 13-16).
in view of the direct statement of jesus: “i say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with abraham, isaac, and jacob in the kingdom of heaven” (mathew 8:11), people like abraham are definitely in heaven.
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Half banana
What we need Van is not a commentary but facts. The personas of John and Jesus are fully pagan dating back perhaps to the origin of writing but certainly described in Egypt by two thousand four hundred BCE.
Jesus has saved not one person from death and cannot, less still can any character arising from literature resurrect anyone.
Sorry to try and burst your bubble but it's about time in the twenty first century we to come to terms with the fact that there is a yawning gulf between old wives' tales and truth.