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  Do you think mankind as a whole will get to meet the Third Kind in our life?

  by sinis in

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  i'm sure we have been visited by the third kind, but i am referring to a time, within our lives, where as a whole man will be visited and see them.

  i know mother shipton, maya, sumerian, and others all reference a future (in all aspects similar to our modern time) when the "gods" will return and help men ascend to a new level.

  personally, i don't think such an event is too far fetched..

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  scotoma

  A couple months ago I read a book - UFOS - generals, pilots and government officials go on record

  By a very reputable, respected journalist Leslie Kean.

  After reading it I have absolutely no doubt that we are visited frequently by extraterrestials.

  Don't ridicule this if you haven't read her book.

  Here is a piece from an article she wrote in the Boston Globe.

  http://www.freedomofinfo.org/media/pressclip_01.html

  Metatron: You ought to read the book.

  After reading it I suddenly felt that humans are not in the loop yet.
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  The (study) WT November 2011 Makes Me Puke !

  by Hairyhegoat in

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  this study edition is an absolute attack on kids going to higher education, and you all are getting too cosy at home with your sky tv and the internet, get out on the doors you idle dogs.. oh and if you have a good job already you could not be putting the kingdum first !.

  here is some of the crap in the mag, and the article temporary residents in a wicked world.. 10. .

  in view of the imminent end of the present system of things, as jehovahs servants.

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  scotoma

  Any JW's with a college education that want to pioneer I'll be glad to set them up in their very own janitorial business.
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  Is The Governing Body Of Jehovah's Witnesses In Agony?

  by metatron in

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  with every passing magazine and assembly, i ask myself, why?.

  why does the governing body care?

  the diatribes against college, against the internet and i-phones and vampire movies and afterschool sports and social networks and everything new, interesting or useful in the world, why?

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  scotoma

  Don't rule out a world scenario that they could interpret as fullfilling some prophecy. JW's are very flexible. They can instantly reorient themselves with "new light". You can be sure that there is always the possibility for a major world calamity. And it just takes a calamity to reset the clock.
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  Angels are taking the lead in the preaching work

  by mankkeli in

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  consider one experience in which two kingdom publishers were accompanied by a small child.

  at the end of the morning, the two witnesses were about to stop their preaching work, but the child was unusually eager to go to the next home.

  in fact, he went by himself and knocked on the door!

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  scotoma

  ?Salesmen talk about these experiences over martinis every night. In statistics its called the law of
  large numbers. Play a little reverse Yahtze.
  
  When we used to get bored with playing yahtze we would try to see who could throw the dice the
  most times WITHOUT getting yahtze. Suddenly it dawns on you that NOTHING is impossible,
  in fact everything is inevitable.
  
  This is really stupid think.
  
  Someone just posted that a hundred people a day are requesting a home bible study after reading
  the Watchtower.org. They shouldn't be bragging about that in view of how long it took them to
  make their website useful. Remember the website announcement with a 4 point font at the very
  bottom of the back cover of the Watchtower and Awake? If angels were really directing the
  work they would have remained at the growing edge of technology like ; photo drama of
  creation, phonograph setups, nationwide radio broadcasts.
  
  Think of what they could accomplish if the average publisher worked 10 hours extra per month
  at their secular job and gave it to support a Watchtower broadcast satellite network. They could
  be reaching those troubled souls 24/7 just like Pat Robertson’s 700 Club. Pioneers could be on
  call ready to speed to the door of someone who is about ready to commit suicide. Instead they
  approach information as something that must be controlled.
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  Famous atheists explain why they don't believe

  by behemot in

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  http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/07/god-evidence-believe-world.

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  scotoma

  I have one simple requirement for the existence of a supernatural entity.

  As a good father he ought to say something to his children once in a while. I would even settle for a jr. god or common ordinary extraterristial that could speak and do something unambiguous that indicates they have extraordinary power.

  Nothing.

  So why go through the motions of talking to Nothing. (worship)
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  Do more you slacker from July KM

  by life is to short in

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  they still give my husband km for me.

  i truly do not know why so i was flipping through the july one and it made me so mad, another example of us not doing enough.. "nelena, who is 19 years old and lives in bulgaria, had two desires-to be baptized and to auxiliary pioneer.

  however, she suffers from hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, which for the moment is incurable.

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  I love these extraordinary examples.

  They show that most elders are the biggest slackers.

  The 10 or 15 hours per month the elders each put in looks like a pitiful token.

  You can't tell me that elders couldn't put in 40 to 50 hours per month if they quitwatching television, fishing, watching sports and fishing shows.

  The beauty of quotas is that it actually functions as a throttle to exceeding the quota by very much.

  Quotas probably reduce output by 80%.
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  A concerned JW wrote "mistakes will happen."

  by InterestedOne in

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  in the thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/213523/1/feeling-a-bit-alienated, concerned jw wrote:.

  mistakes will happen.

  concerned jw, if mistakes will happen, i was wondering what mistakes you feel the jw organization is currently making?

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  If Jehovah is in charge there should be NO mistakes. Claiming human imperfection is "special pleading". The reason you want to be associated with a "spirit directed organization" is to be able to transcend human imperfection.

  Clearly, the fact that NO human organization is free of error and indicates that NO human organization is directed by some divine being.

  It's time for humans to realize that the more general conclusion is that there simply isn't a God.
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  Is it ethical to make rich pay more taxes?

  by Lore in

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  i'm having trouble getting behind the idea of making rich people pay more taxes just because they have more.. aside from the obvious: "i'm not rich so lets tax them instead of me.

  " the three reasons i hear most often are:.

  1: they may have "earned" their wealth but they don't deserve it!.

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  scotoma

  Isn't decreasing social security payments really a tax?

  It's the old people tax.
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  Is it ethical to make rich pay more taxes?

  by Lore in

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  i'm having trouble getting behind the idea of making rich people pay more taxes just because they have more.. aside from the obvious: "i'm not rich so lets tax them instead of me.

  " the three reasons i hear most often are:.

  1: they may have "earned" their wealth but they don't deserve it!.

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  scotoma

  I don't worry about the politics. Given enough time socialism will win out. It's inevitable. The 99% will get their share when the rich run out of consumers, and they can't find honest police to guard their perimeters. The poor don't need pitchforks and torches. They've got guns and gasoline.
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  Is it ethical to make rich pay more taxes?

  by Lore in

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  i'm having trouble getting behind the idea of making rich people pay more taxes just because they have more.. aside from the obvious: "i'm not rich so lets tax them instead of me.

  " the three reasons i hear most often are:.

  1: they may have "earned" their wealth but they don't deserve it!.

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  scotoma

  The assumption is that rich people are rich because they work hard and take risks. That's bs. I know a lot of rich people that are incompetent assholes that are rich due to luck of being born into a rich family.

  A member of society is entitled YES ENTITLED -

  both remedial and preventive medical care including mental health care.

  as much education as they can competently handle.

  safe and adequate nutrition. (beans,cabbage, biscuits and rice)

  transportation to and from work

  safe and healthy housing.

  Another assumption is that people don't want to work. People want to work. But they need compensation that allows them to purchase the above.

  The rich are also lazy. Too lazy to come up with job creating uses for their accumulated wealth. That's why they keep chasing bubbles. It's hard work to build a company. It's easy to chase the latest bubble.