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World Destruction

by Maze in

i remember an alternative song released in the 1980's.. .

nothing has changed since then for the better, only for the worse.

will humanity bring the world to a permanent end if divine intervention wasn't a factor to take into consideration?

Maze

Disease? Nothing compared to the Black Death or Bubonic Plague - no, not even AIDS.

The reason the Black Death or Bubonic Plague claimed so many lives in the 1300's is because medical science hadn't advanced in contemporary society to the health care options we have now in developed countries. What do you think the death-toll for AIDS would be if it wasn't for drugs like AZT and Emtriva. The real issue is the number of diseases and their overall mortality patterns that have infected mankind in the 20th century.

Pollution? The progress across the past 50 years in US cities air and water has been almost miraculous. Does the Cuyahoga River catch fire anymore? Has lead in the US environment plunged?

There's been a lot of research conducted by credible scientists about pollution, climate change and recent weather trends.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070306-pollution-storms.html

Asia Pollution Changing World's Weather, Scientists Say

Pollution in Asia is altering global weather patterns by creating larger clouds and more intense storms, a new study says.

The findings are the first definitive link between human activities and significant shifts in storm patterns that influence weather worldwide, the researchers write.

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World Destruction

by Maze in

i remember an alternative song released in the 1980's.. .

nothing has changed since then for the better, only for the worse.

will humanity bring the world to a permanent end if divine intervention wasn't a factor to take into consideration?

Maze

Oh, and more thing that has always appeared to me as a Watchtower deception: Rev. 11 "bring to ruin those ruining the earth"

Baloney! Where is your PROOF for an environmental context for this text? Who can prove it has anything to do with pollution?

Genesis 6:12 refers to the earth being ruined by wickedness and violence. I am unaware of any proof for a 'snail darter/ effluent/pesticide context' for this scripture within the Bible. This is how the Watchtower uses circular reasoning to trick people into belief as in 'well, we see the earth being "ruined" in these last days, don't we?'

If you wanna interpret Revelation using the rest of the Bible, you are stuck with Genesis 6.... and I don't think Noah had any cars or factories in his day.

metatron

Feel free to observe how Genesis 6:12 and Revelation 11:18 are rendered in other Bible translations.

http://bible.cc/genesis/6-12.htm

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. New International Version
http://bible.cc/revelation/11-18.htm

The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great--and for destroying those who destroy the earth." New International Version

This reinforces the meaning of ruining the earth's physical environment as defined in Revelation 11:18.

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World Destruction

by Maze in

i remember an alternative song released in the 1980's.. .

nothing has changed since then for the better, only for the worse.

will humanity bring the world to a permanent end if divine intervention wasn't a factor to take into consideration?

Maze

Tell me Maze, when in human history (not the mythical Garden of Eden) were things better than today?

There's more evidence for creation than mythical ape-men.

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World Destruction

by Maze in

i remember an alternative song released in the 1980's.. .

nothing has changed since then for the better, only for the worse.

will humanity bring the world to a permanent end if divine intervention wasn't a factor to take into consideration?

Maze

Tell me Maze, when in human history (not the mythical Garden of Eden) were things better than today?

uw chap. 6 p. 46 par. 1 The Issue That All Creation Has to Face

When rebellion broke out in Eden a serious issue was raised that affects all creation. Approaching Eve, Satan implied that she and her husband Adam were being seriously deprived.

If the world was a bowl of cherries up to the Biblically foretold last days, the issue that Satan raised in the Garden of Eden would have long since been answered.

And in answer Jesus said to them: “Look out that nobody misleads you; for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. You are going to hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not terrified. For these things must take place, but the end is not yet. “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress. Matthew 24:4-8

But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth. 2 Timothy 3:1-7

But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth. Revelation 11:18

These signs of the last days have dramatically intensified in the 20th century. It's only been in the 20th century that we've had the technology to “ruin the earth.”

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World Destruction

by Maze in

i remember an alternative song released in the 1980's.. .

nothing has changed since then for the better, only for the worse.

will humanity bring the world to a permanent end if divine intervention wasn't a factor to take into consideration?

Maze

I remember an alternative song released in the 1980's.

Nothing has changed since then for the better, only for the worse. Will humanity bring the world to a permanent end if divine intervention wasn't a factor to take into consideration? Oppressive forces impact society from every direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_financial_crisis

The late-2000s financial crisis (often called the Credit Crunch, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and sometimes referred to as the Great Recession is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was triggered by a liquidity shortfall in the United States banking system and has resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. In many areas, the housing market has also suffered, resulting in numerous evictions, foreclosures and prolonged vacancies. It contributed to the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in the trillions of U.S. dollars, and a significant decline in economic activity, leading to a severe global economic recession in 2008.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220132611.htm
It's not just your imagination. Providing the first-ever definitive proof, a team of scientists has shown that emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus and Ebola are indeed on the rise. By analyzing 335 incidents of previous disease emergence beginning in 1940, the study has determined that zoonoses -- diseases that originate in animals -- are the current and most important threat in causing new diseases to emerge. And most of these, including SARS and the Ebola virus, originated in wildlife. Antibiotic drug resistance has been cited as another culprit, leading to diseases such as extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB).

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/pollution-overview/

Smog hanging over cities is the most familiar and obvious form of air pollution. But there are different kinds of pollution—some visible, some invisible—that contribute to global warming. Generally any substance that people introduce into the atmosphere that has damaging effects on living things and the environment is considered air pollution.

Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is the main pollutant that is warming Earth. Though living things emit carbon dioxide when they breathe, carbon dioxide is widely considered to be a pollutant when associated with cars, planes, power plants, and other human activities that involve the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline and natural gas. In the past 150 years, such activities have pumped enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to raise its levels higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/srilanka/globalthreat.html

Suicide terrorism is the readiness to sacrifice one's life in the process of destroying or attempting to destroy a target to advance a political goal. The aim of the psychologically and physically war-trained terrorist is to die while destroying the enemy target.

In the 1980s suicide terrorism was witnessed in Lebanon, Kuwait and Sri Lanka. In the 1990s it had spread to Israel, India, Panama, Algeria, Pakistan, Argentina, Croatia, Turkey, Tanzania and Kenya. With enhanced migration of terrorist groups from conflict-ridden countries, the formation of extensive international terrorist infrastructures and the increased reach of terrorist groups in the post Cold War period, suicide terrorism is likely to affect Western Europe and North America in the foreseeable future.

There are now 10 religious and secular terrorist groups that are capable of using suicide terrorism as a tactic against their governments and/or foreign governments. They are: the Islam Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad of the Israeli occupied territories; Hezbollah of Lebanon; the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) and Gamaya Islamiya (Islamic Group - IG) of Egypt; the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) of Algeria; Barbar Khalsa International (BKI) of India; the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka; the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) of Turkey; and the Osama bin Laden network (Al Qaeda) of Afghanistan.

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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here

by sizemik in

i'm a sucker for heavy rock .

so long as it's good .

always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.

Maze

Well, drifting into the alternative heavy rock scene. Here we go...

Korn - Word Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q-k-uN73Gk

Korn - Got The Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWjsVoDpm0

Rob Zombie - Dragula

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI

White Zombie - More Human Than Human

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpbrGBIGxw

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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here

by sizemik in

i'm a sucker for heavy rock .

so long as it's good .

always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.

Maze

Great song:

Joe Satriani - "Cryin"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79VZR1iBEg0

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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here

by sizemik in

i'm a sucker for heavy rock .

so long as it's good .

always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.

Maze

Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love

Mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJnGCV6634

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

This band fuses a "heavy metal revivalist" sound with the pseudo-mysticism of The Doors and the guitar-orchestrations of Led Zeppelin while adding touches of post-punk goth rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8mWG6HlmU

The Cult – Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTO9cWyJC8

Pantera Live @ Ozzfest- "Cowboys from Hell"

Starting as a glam metal band, Pantera became famous for a more heavier groove and thrash sound when they released Cowboys from Hell in 1990.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkAMtXTEjco

Pantera - Cemetery Gates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyczwqRD2NI

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WATCHTOWER WRONGFULL DEATH LAWSUIT - UPDATE

by Lawrence Hughes in

jw
friends

dear friends,.

i would like to thank those who have helped me.

as a result, important legal precedents have been made and a lot of media coverage has been made which has exposed the watchtower society.

Maze

Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly-funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities. It is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act. The government assures the quality of care through federal standards. It doesn't make any sense for Canada's government run healthcare system to allow a person to legally refuse blood and then sue a "guilty" party. The Canadian government would be liable for cooperating with the 3rd party. They would simply incorporate into their healthcare system policies that a person can't refuse blood for religious or personal reasons. Blood has been forced on people in the US, so such a tactic would be nothing new.

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WATCHTOWER WRONGFULL DEATH LAWSUIT - UPDATE

by Lawrence Hughes in

jw
friends

dear friends,.

i would like to thank those who have helped me.

as a result, important legal precedents have been made and a lot of media coverage has been made which has exposed the watchtower society.

Maze

Child Welfare League of Canada would be liable as well unless the 16 year old was recognized by the medical practitioners as an adult when she made her decision about receiving blood.