Faith is a place holder for knowledge.
If you have the knowledge then you can use faith for obtaining more knowledge.
Do you want a Doctor that you can have faith in or do you want to get cured of your disease.
scotoma
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If there is a God why didn't he sign our DNA
by scotoma intodays scientists can and do insert their trademark into dna.. why couldn't jehovah anticipate scientists learning this technique and stumbling across a strand that says "human by yhwh"?.
that would have answered a lot of questions.. he could have even included a model number human2.0.
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If there is a God why didn't he sign our DNA
by scotoma intodays scientists can and do insert their trademark into dna.. why couldn't jehovah anticipate scientists learning this technique and stumbling across a strand that says "human by yhwh"?.
that would have answered a lot of questions.. he could have even included a model number human2.0.
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scotoma
Jehovah is occult - hidden.
The Bible is full of possibilities where Jehovah could have done things more intelligently.
Why have the Israelites die while fighting their enemies when a single angel could kill 185,000 in one night?
Why have the trauma of killing men women and children with the sword as was done to the Amorites?
Why weren't the Israelites given a command to boil the water?
Why not cure a stadium full of down syndrome children and couple that with a pronouncement of some sort?
Since his prime objective is to make his name known throughout the earth couldn't he have found amazing ways to accomplish this?
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If there is a God why didn't he sign our DNA
by scotoma intodays scientists can and do insert their trademark into dna.. why couldn't jehovah anticipate scientists learning this technique and stumbling across a strand that says "human by yhwh"?.
that would have answered a lot of questions.. he could have even included a model number human2.0.
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Todays scientists can and do insert their trademark into DNA.
Why couldn't Jehovah anticipate scientists learning this technique and stumbling across a strand that says "Human by YHWH"?
That would have answered a lot of questions.
He could have even included a model number Human2.0
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Should you pay the Obamacare penalty or buy health insurance in 2014?
by moshe ini am already reading that some plan to drop their medical insurance coverage on january 1st and just pay the penalty-.
an individual with $30,000 annual income would pay a $300 penalty in 2014, $600 in 2015 and $750 in 2016.. an individual with $50,000 annual income would pay a $500 penalty in 2014, $1,000 in 2015 and $1,250 in 2016.. an individual earning $100,000 a year would pay a $1,000 penalty in 2014, $2,000 in 2015 and $2,500 in 2016.. here is your insurance subsidy calculator-.
http://healthreform.kff.org/subsidycalculator.aspx#incomeagetables.
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Wha Happened..
You have to be a licensed physician to handle primary care. That means obscene amount of education by AMA certified institutions. 12 years schooling and residency requirements means you think you deserve at least 200,000 income.
Currently all the idiots are certified physicians and they cost a lot of money. And I mean IDIOTS. An auto repair technician is better qualified. At least he jumps in with diagnostic equipment and does some tests.
The AMA seems to be a union people are willing to put up with.
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Should you pay the Obamacare penalty or buy health insurance in 2014?
by moshe ini am already reading that some plan to drop their medical insurance coverage on january 1st and just pay the penalty-.
an individual with $30,000 annual income would pay a $300 penalty in 2014, $600 in 2015 and $750 in 2016.. an individual with $50,000 annual income would pay a $500 penalty in 2014, $1,000 in 2015 and $1,250 in 2016.. an individual earning $100,000 a year would pay a $1,000 penalty in 2014, $2,000 in 2015 and $2,500 in 2016.. here is your insurance subsidy calculator-.
http://healthreform.kff.org/subsidycalculator.aspx#incomeagetables.
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scotoma
I was for single payer national health care. I am now on medicare.
My wife can't get medicare for several more years. I won't get the insurance and can't afford the penalty.
I will just let the money I owe pile up and increase with penalties and interest. There will be enough people in that category that they will probably negotiate an offer in compromise of 10 or 15 cents on a dollar.
Basically, obama-romney-herritage foundation style health care will fail.
It will be such a mess that they will have to go to single payer national health insurance like most of the advanced economies in the world.
The rich will still be able to suplement their health care out of pocket.
I also see a brisk travel business invovling out of country surgeries.
I think Obama care was designed to fail. Poor and low income people still won't get decent care. Once it fails we'll have to start from scratch and get it right.
Any idiot with an expert program and two years technical training could handle all the primary care for 1/4 the cost.
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What are the things you dislike most about JW's?
by Chariklo intop of my list has to be hypocrisy.
it runs right through, from elders downwards.
the literature and the gb are bad enough, but the bit that touches ordinary people, householders, students and ordinary rank and file is the false goodness that they put on like a raincoat.
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I feel about JW's the way I do about all devoutly religious people.
They are closed minded. Their main contribution to society is their offspring.
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Women: Are they Equal to Men ?
by villagegirl inone of the hard core doctrines of the wt society, and many other religions, is that women are to be in "subjection" to men.. in the bible, in genisis , it says the domination of women by men came after adam and eve disobeyed god.
eve was cursed by pain in childbirth and that from then on as a curse: "he shall rule over you " from then on the male was to dominate the female.. but that was not in the original plan.
this was a reversal of the plan and a curse.
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My daughter always used to ask why only "brothers" take attendance at the meetings.
She finally figured it out.
Sisters don't "count".
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Stay Alive Til 2020
by FrankWTower ini've been playing around with wt statistics recently, helped by the great data available on jwfacts.com.
i wanted to share somehting with the community, maybe you've seen something like this before.. continuing the trend of decline seen during the last 30 years, i was able to extrapolate the year when wt growth might finally end.
if trends continue, we may only have to wait about 8 more years, 9 years to see it reported if the wt decides to report it at all, to see publisher growth end and possibly reverse.. the graph shows the annual growth rate of average publishers during the last 31 years.
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The trendline shows that by 2014 we will be at the lowest level of growth since the begining of the chart.
That has to be significant. Centennial of "Christ 2nd Coming" combined with natural decay is a double hit.
If nothing else the chart refutes the myth of god speeding the growth. Deceleration = trendline going down. Acceleration = trendline going up.
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Urgent: Pope Benedictus resigns: a good example for GB
by Gorbatchov injust in the news: pope benedictus is resigning.
this should be a good example for the gb of our church organization.
there are reasons enough: child abuse (conti case etc), failed prophecies (slave classe, un/osce), killing doctrines (blood doctrine etc, shunning / suicide) and fraude (investment corporation instead of church).. so it would be nice to read on bbc news: governing body of jehovah's witnesses resigns and make way for a new generation that embraces christian freedom.. gorby.
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Will there now finally be an American Pope. Pope Dolan.?
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Playing Around With the Most Important Scripture In Watchtower Theology - Again
by Cameron_Don inmatthew 24:45-47. .
old light: jesus appointed rutherford and his associates over his belongings in 1919. verse 47. new light: jesus appointed rutherford and his associates over his domestics in 1919. verse 45. why the change?
what difference does it make?
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scotoma
"They are changing the "light" so fast even they can't keep up with it..."
Its a "strobe" light.