Posts by QED

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Continuing to draw the line between cults and DESTRUCTIVE cults

by sabastious in

the easiest place to start understanding a spectral concept, such as cults, is to indentify it's lowest and highest points rather than starting somewhere in the middle.. so lets call the lowest point of the cult spectrum benign and the highest point destructive.. a good example of an extremely benign cult would be the following of the not so popular 80s movie: the princess bride of which i consider myself a member (no documentation .

if you were to come up to me and claim to be part of the princess bride's cult following i could figure out whether you are a true member by asking you a few questions.

based on your answers i could then conclude that you either meet the criteria or that you do not.

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http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html#cq_guru_right

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True Authorship of New Testament

by QED in

hi everyone.. i'm new here and this is the first time im posting.

about myself: i come from china and have been living in the uk.

5 years ago, i began to attend meetings and study the bible with jw in a chinese congregation, but never baptised.

QED

Thanks Doug.

I will have a look at those books you mentioned.

I feel we should focus on living in reality instead of myths and the Bible is just one of them out of all the myths told in the world.

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True Authorship of New Testament

by QED in

hi everyone.. i'm new here and this is the first time im posting.

about myself: i come from china and have been living in the uk.

5 years ago, i began to attend meetings and study the bible with jw in a chinese congregation, but never baptised.

QED

Lol, I had to laugh at myself when I look back I used to be so sure that JWs has the truth that i would do everything the truth requires of me. I remember in the meetings the speaker would ask who out of all religions in the world has the truth, then he would go on to give the answer is "us." Looking back it seems all so stupid and ridiculous.

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True Authorship of New Testament

by QED in

hi everyone.. i'm new here and this is the first time im posting.

about myself: i come from china and have been living in the uk.

5 years ago, i began to attend meetings and study the bible with jw in a chinese congregation, but never baptised.

QED

Hi everyone.

I'm new here and this is the first time im posting. about myself: I come from China and have been living in the UK. 5 years ago, I began to attend meetings and study the bible with JW in a Chinese congregation, but never baptised. I went conventions and had a few close friends. I stopped studying in 2008 and never had contact with any JW since. I have done some researches in the areas of global conspiracy and secret societies, this is where came across this book and i want to hear people's opinions on this:

www.ivantic.net/Ostale_knjiige/TrueAuthorship.pdf Basically, the author presents evidences that the New Testament of the Bible was written not by Matthew, John, Paul, etc., as we were taught. In fact those people had never existed and Jesus was a fictious character. The real author is a man named Arius Calpurnius Piso, who was a roman aristocrat. Also the 1st century historian Josephus was him as well. He created false histories of the Jewish people, and used his writings of New testament to create christianity to counter the influences of Judaism after the Romans conquered them. If this is true, then it implies that the very foundation the Christianity stands on, i.e. "Jesus came to save humanity and got killed and raised from the dead belief" is all false, thus no true Christian can exist and this implies that whatever JW doctrines are false, furthermore, all Christian faiths are false. i know that there are many christians on this site who are not JWs, who believe in Jesus and God. So can you provide valid evidences that god and Jesus exist without using the bible? I personally can't. And BTW, how many people knows that CT Russell was a high degree freemason. Knowing this explains a lot of things. Some JW doctrines are very close to the Mason doctrines, you know where they come from. The book "The Watchtower and Masons" by springmeier has details.

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