@john: there has been some research done recently on psychedelics, I was listening to a medical/psychological review and the volunteers reported very similar experiences and even permanent effects which are reported in religious texts, regardless of religious background. The question is indeed what the deeper ontological consequences are.
Anony Mous
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Bestseller book “Jesus Was Schizophrenic” now available in English !
by yalbmert99 inbestseller book “jesus was schizophrenic” now available in english !
free in digital format!
paperback version available.. https://www.watchtowerlies.com/jesus_was_schizophrenic.html.
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Bestseller book “Jesus Was Schizophrenic” now available in English !
by yalbmert99 inbestseller book “jesus was schizophrenic” now available in english !
free in digital format!
paperback version available.. https://www.watchtowerlies.com/jesus_was_schizophrenic.html.
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Anony Mous
I just listened to a podcast recently that argued that the First Century Christians were probably a mushroom cult - as in the psychedelic shrooms - see for example Paul’s visions, speaking in tongues and John of Patmos and the transfiguration story and a lot of the so-called non-canonical Christian books.
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The Covid-19 Vaccines do NOT Alter Human Genes, despite the myths to the contrary
by Disillusioned JW in["covid-19 vaccines can’t alter your dna, here’s why"]
can covid-19 vaccines alter my dna?
no, covid-19 vaccines do not alter your dna.
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Anony Mous
Although I agree that the vaccines won’t change your DNA, there are various issues being linked to the vaccine. Dozens of children and teens recently got inflamed hearts after receiving the vaccine, even though less than 100 of all COVID deaths in the US were children, about 54 cases of children diagnosed and hospitalized with myocarditis are currently known to the CDC after starting the COVID vaccine to just under 4M children. CDC officials are currently stonewalling requests for comments from journalists and the Biden admin refuses to release further information.
Note that more than 20M children have been at least exposed to the virus so the virus is not at all a threat to children.
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Jewish Hatred Is Nothing New
by minimus injews have been vilified for centuries!
they were nomads looking for the promised land.
they have been nearly exterminated and yet they are still in the middle east as well as a brotherhood throughout the world.
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Jewish religion is extremely economically conservative which means they have been very, very successful wherever they apply these ideas. This makes them an easy target by those that aren’t successful, you can just point and say: look, they are rich while you are poor, they must be taking from you.
This idea has been at the root of every revolution, from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution to the communist revolutions to Nazism, its always, you did nothing wrong, the rich did wrong, and we must take it from them. And Jews by virtue of their ideology are commonly found in the most educated and wealthy portions of any society, thus the anti-semitic pattern is easily matched.
This is also what happened in Israel. The Jews in the 1700s and 1800s started applying some of the industrialization from the West in the Middle East and in about a century they converted desert to farmland. This made their neighbors envious, and the British who were then in charge, took the area as a protectorate (food production in the Middle East was a key to military supply which supported their rule in food-poor but spice-rich and mineral-rich India, Africa and China). The rest, as they say, is history, point your poor desert dwelling at the Jews and look, they have farms and you are hungry, they must be taking your land, mix in some religion to justify and you have people telling us now we need to protect terrorists because Jews are too successful.
Most philosophers would agree that the Jewish religion is one of the most refined religions in that it has exorcised most of the weird stuff and distilled most of the best stuff which shaped the western ideology and as a result, what we now know as capitalism which has enriched everyone on earth.
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Did Jesus lie about his generation?
by Anony Mous inwe all know the scripture where jesus says 'this generation will by no means pass away before the end will come'.
the jw interpret this as the destruction of the jewish state in jerusalem by the romans and the dispersal of the jewish people.
however, while researching the history of judea, i come across various facts about the region.. so jesus died about 30ce and his disciples were likewise well in their thirties or older, the 'generation' by definition would've lasted until ~50ce (the time during which children are born and raised to have children of their own).
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Anony Mous
I agree with most of the notions above, the fact that a lot of the writings by Josephus and others were likely falsified later on by religious zealots. There was indeed a destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, however the Jews themselves do not accept that as the end of worship and the complete destruction of the Temple. The fact there are (at least archaeologically dated) extant pieces of the Temple today (the walls of the Herodian temple predating Jesus can be seen today) shows that the “brick by brick” notion and complete destruction in 70AD was probably premature gloating by the Romans who had to come back a century later to get rid of those pesky Judeans.
My point was actually that even Jesus didn’t properly predict the generation teaching, and although it was written after the fact to fit history, the writers didn’t even to seem to understand on when Jesus lived or agreed with the stories of the day.
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The State of the Labour Party
by LoveUniHateExams inso, we've recently had local elections across the uk on may 6.. mayoral elections, elections for councillors, and the hartlepool by-election.. labour did pretty well in wales, the snp did well in scotland, and the conservatives killed it in england.. hartlepool, a city that's been labour for 50 years, voted in the tory candidate.
hartlepool voted for brexit in 2016 (70%) and the labour leader, keir starmer, thought it was wise to offer up a labour candidate who is a kent-born remainer.
labour has seriously lost touch with its voter base, that base being traditional working class people.. it is now a party for students, social activists and the perpetually-offended, and trendy self-hating middle class people.. labour will continue to get its ass handed to it in elections until it actually starts listening to ordinary people, the voters.. and ordinary people aren't interested in woke nonsense such as preferred pronouns or taking the knee.. there has been much labour naval-gazing recently following the elections but i'd be surprised if anything is learned.
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Anony Mous
@Phizzy a real socialist leader they had in Jeremy Corbyn, he ticked all the boxes:
Left-wing, socialist, communist, Jew-hater, rich and self-entitled, anti-west - that is the socialist movement according to Marx.
What you describe being pro-labor, pro-regular people, pro-free speech and pro-business is rather conservative. And not conservative in the sense of religious zealots or neocons (big business conservatives), but traditional values conservative.
The narrative the left media has spun is that everyone on the right is a religious zealot or neocon because there are a few that are (just as there are left-wing zealots) but the breadth of viewpoints on the conservative is a lot larger than any left-wing party, because the conservatives are a lot more accepting in general of different viewpoints (free speech and all), even if that includes viewpoints that aren’t broadly supported.
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Will Jehovah’s Witnesses Go Back To Normal Activities?
by minimus inmost every state has a plan to get back to normalcy.
many countries also are ready to get their citizens on the road to recovery.. where does this leave the witnesses?
will they ever go back to house to house ministry?
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From what I hear locally, nobody is going back to the KH just yet and they are indeed waiting for massive consolidation. I think they’ve gotten quite happy with their new state and losing that will be painful for membership (aka donation) retention.
They will milk this as long as “some” secular people will be fearful of the COVID and wants everyone to wear a mask, they won’t risk going house-to-house or get in big meetings just for media pushback reasons.
Per Fauci and the far-left media these risks are only growing now and they want us to lockdown at least until Summer 2022.
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Did Jesus lie about his generation?
by Anony Mous inwe all know the scripture where jesus says 'this generation will by no means pass away before the end will come'.
the jw interpret this as the destruction of the jewish state in jerusalem by the romans and the dispersal of the jewish people.
however, while researching the history of judea, i come across various facts about the region.. so jesus died about 30ce and his disciples were likewise well in their thirties or older, the 'generation' by definition would've lasted until ~50ce (the time during which children are born and raised to have children of their own).
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We all know the scripture where Jesus says 'this generation will by no means pass away before the end will come'. The JW interpret this as the destruction of the Jewish state in Jerusalem by the Romans and the dispersal of the Jewish people. However, while researching the history of Judea, I come across various facts about the region.
So Jesus died about 30CE and his disciples were likewise well in their thirties or older, the 'generation' by definition would've lasted until ~50CE (the time during which children are born and raised to have children of their own). According to tradition, none of the apostles were present during the first Roman-Judean war, all of them are presumed dead before 73CE when Jerusalem fell. So we're talking about 40 years of a difference between the "prophecy", almost 2 generations and very few people that Jesus ever heard speak would still be alive (given life expectancy wasn't very high back then).
But that's not all, according to actual archeology, Jews were not dispersed which is what the WTBTS and most Christian tradition speaks about when they explain the prophecy. The Romans did damage and destroyed portions of the temple, but they left the population in Judea and the city of Jerusalem largely intact. It would take 100 years after Jesus spoke those words for the Jews to be taken captive at large during the 132–136 CE Bar Kokhba revolt. Jerusalem had continued to exist for all those years, the temple was destroyed but Jews still worshiped there. Only after Romans suffered severe losses in the third revolt did they finally force (aka genocide) the Jews nearly (but not fully) extinct in the region. At that time, they did wipe Judea from the map, quite literally, by changing the names on maps.
This later date also conforms with the actual Orthodox Jewish tradition of when 'they' accept that the Jews were finally dispersed and the prophecy was fulfilled.
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The State of the Labour Party
by LoveUniHateExams inso, we've recently had local elections across the uk on may 6.. mayoral elections, elections for councillors, and the hartlepool by-election.. labour did pretty well in wales, the snp did well in scotland, and the conservatives killed it in england.. hartlepool, a city that's been labour for 50 years, voted in the tory candidate.
hartlepool voted for brexit in 2016 (70%) and the labour leader, keir starmer, thought it was wise to offer up a labour candidate who is a kent-born remainer.
labour has seriously lost touch with its voter base, that base being traditional working class people.. it is now a party for students, social activists and the perpetually-offended, and trendy self-hating middle class people.. labour will continue to get its ass handed to it in elections until it actually starts listening to ordinary people, the voters.. and ordinary people aren't interested in woke nonsense such as preferred pronouns or taking the knee.. there has been much labour naval-gazing recently following the elections but i'd be surprised if anything is learned.
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I'm glad anti-semites and Holocaust deniers don't get elected again in the UK, at least an outbreak of common sense.
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400 Rockets Hit Israel
by minimus inisrael retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
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Tentative ceasefire. There was a ceasefire in place before, Hamas keeps breaking the promise. They have no control over their troops.
Also funny to see Biden take the credit when he did literally nothing but exacerbate this situation. It was Egypt that brokered the tentative peace deal.