Posts by shechaiyah

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TODAY'S FUNNYPAPERS, by Matthew ????? Chojnacki

by shechaiyah in

--i read "walden" and "civil disobedience.

" i took very thoreau notes.. --the hipster burnt his mouth because he ate his pizza before it was cool.. --there's a new joke going around england.

it's a riot.

shechaiyah

‎--I read "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience." I took very Thoreau notes.

--The hipster burnt his mouth because he ate his pizza before it was cool.

--There's a new joke going around England. It's a riot

--Don't have phone sex, you may get hearing aids

--Vagina jokes aren't funny. Period.

--Cloud computing? Sounds like sirrus business

--Tennis players never marry because love means nothing to them --I used to work at an orange juice factory, but I got canne ... See More

--Did you hear about the building made out of books? It's 14 stories tall.

--My friend is obsessed with monorails, he has a one-track mind

--Once you've seen a shopping center, you've seen a mall

--Be kind to your dentist, he has fillings too

:)

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Another question, if I may...

by AGuest in

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friends

and may you all have peace!

this is another general question for the board and i ask your indulgence because i am trying to understand how others think.

if there truly is no god/god... what is wrong with the existence of religion?

shechaiyah

See the difference? He calls himself a "slave to Christ."

I'm NOT a "slave to Christ."

I'm an admirer of YHVH, the Creator who knows DNA-code, light diffraction, gravity and particle physics.

There's some differences here. Maybe we can explore those, eh?

She--

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TRUTH

by redhare67 in

if god is almighty, would he not have preserve the true church that jesus and the apostles build today?

instead of letting satan and apostates infiltrated the true church,so that its true teaching and the true church perished or was rejected by both jehovah and christ because of apostacy!if the true church survived and is with us today, where do the jehovah s witness organisation stand?.

shechaiyah

I don't believe, now that we're down to the wire [Armageddon itself] that there is any "true" Church surviving.

Isn't that what Revelation means when it says--Rev 6:10-11

Revelation 6:10-11 New International Version (NIV)

10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”

11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, [a] were killed just as they had been.

Sorry about the version. It's what came up first.

If we are "in covenant" with God, and busy telling HIS Truth, we are victims of pogroms. We are suppressed, oppressed and having a hard time.

I don't know a single church that ALLOWS the Truth to be told, do you? Not one.

And the TRUTH--to me--is, Accountability for our behavior is a cosmic Law. That's all. How we treat people is THE COSMIC ISSUE.

It doesn't matter, what we believe, what we think, what we wish, or what we know. What matter is, how we behave toward others.

And that's my whole point. I want to be friends, not enemies. And I'm not planning to control anybody here.

She--

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Another question, if I may...

by AGuest in

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friends

and may you all have peace!

this is another general question for the board and i ask your indulgence because i am trying to understand how others think.

if there truly is no god/god... what is wrong with the existence of religion?

shechaiyah

Jeff, you are funny.

Maybe that is the true meaning of the scripture: "Each one will sit under his own vine and fig tree". We are each and every one our own so-called temple. If we find like-mined individuals to associate with, then, great! "Where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there I AM."
Maybe that's why some of us enjoy this board. We are all different, but alike, too, in that we are mostly open-minded free-thinkers who have broken free from repressive religious dogma. The connection is there, but it doesn't strangle and hinder our individual search.

Journey-on, I tend to agree with you, more than maybe you realize.

I have no problem with people who think what they think; just so long as they do not demand that I think likewise.

The planetary issue appears to me to be, BEHAVIOR. How people treat each other, is the problem.

I love the Diversity of the Creation; and mental Diversity is just as precious as Physical and Environmental Diversity.

I wrote a book about living in a community in which Diversity was okay, because I believe it's okay.

I grew up in San Francisco; and where else are you going to learn about Diversity, bettern that?

She--

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On A Scale Of 1 to 10 How Much Knowledge Does A Jehovah's Witness Have About Their Religion?

by minimus in

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years (many decades) ago, most jws knew what their religion taught.

they could go toe to toe with a minister or priest and make some good points.. i believe today's witness knows little about most of the convoluted teachings and revisions of the "truth".

yesteryear's witnesses got a 9/10.

shechaiyah

Terry, I weep for you and your experience. What a PROFOUND waste of your time.

In all that dogma, did you ever telepathically REACH Jehovah?

I just have to know.

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Another question, if I may...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

and may you all have peace!

this is another general question for the board and i ask your indulgence because i am trying to understand how others think.

if there truly is no god/god... what is wrong with the existence of religion?

shechaiyah

I don't have problems on facebook, not like that.

Different ones. And I try to just ignore them.

I put stuff up everywhere, here and there, so anybody can find it who wants to.

what do YOU do, Jeff?

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Another question, if I may...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

and may you all have peace!

this is another general question for the board and i ask your indulgence because i am trying to understand how others think.

if there truly is no god/god... what is wrong with the existence of religion?

shechaiyah

Wobble, excuse me?

Are you UNAWARE of the use of fluoride in water to destroy human brains; depleted uranium in armaments, faulty vaccines, nuclear-warmed power stations on top of quake fault lines;

pharmaceuticals and genetically altered grains ARE DESTROYING human and biological life?

Do you think these are ACCIDENTS OF NATURE?

Shouldn't somebody or ANYBODY BE ACCOUNTABLE for these assaults upon Life itself?

Accountability. Is this a concept that makes sense or no sense to you?

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Another question, if I may...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

and may you all have peace!

this is another general question for the board and i ask your indulgence because i am trying to understand how others think.

if there truly is no god/god... what is wrong with the existence of religion?

shechaiyah

All talk of "speaking in the Name of God" is absurd if God is perceived as a Ninny or a Tyrant.

The belief in God, I think, has more to do with accountability for effects (of cause-and-effect relations) in time than it does with any particular form of organization.

Hierarchy is typically a very bad and very destructive form of non-consensual governance in which a few Elites cop off with everything; and most are slaves.

WTBTS is a perfect example of Elites copping off with everything, leaving the members to founder.

YET--Humans who prey on others, or who parasite off society must be corrected, somehow, some way or other. Or society goes nuts.

Organized Religion attempt to do this by connecting mankind's "freewill" into a God-paradigm in which judgments about effects REGULARLY OCCUR.

Atheists and agnostics seem particularly resistent to being held accountable for HARM they CAUSE and undue costs they produce upon the innocent and naive.

The epistles of Paul EXCUSE ALL CHRISTIANS from all necessity to pursue Law-ful behavior; so in effect, Paul let the wolves loose again.

In the Urantia Book model, God remains silently in the background because mankind is learning how to treat each other and treat the planet with care.

In reality, neither of these objectives has been met by civil society in this era and time. In fact, Mankind is a bunch of war-profiting polluters and not-see hangers-on.

So, what now?

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Another question, if I may...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

and may you all have peace!

this is another general question for the board and i ask your indulgence because i am trying to understand how others think.

if there truly is no god/god... what is wrong with the existence of religion?

shechaiyah

What PSacramento said makes sense to me.

Religion has nothing to do with the Physics of Creation nor the Personalities that inhabit the Universe.

Religion simply creates DOGMA and places all reality in convenient and comfortable categories and then forces its members to assent to its constructs.

I have refused to limit my thinking to their categories; so I don't fit in anywhere.

If I were to hAve a reason to come to a place like this, here is what it would be.

There's a site called "MeetUp," and it's simple and cheap to set up any sort of group for any purpose, any goal. $30 a month, and you have everything you need.

There is NO church where I live that meets my needs for conversation, mutual support and mutual interests, period. In six years, I can't find one.

So, if I were to set up such a Group, what would I call it? How would I configure it? Who would be a target audience for a small local Sabbath meeting place?

What would necessarily be its defining Reality?

That's what I'm working on.

She--

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Sept.15th WT - Submit to the WT Society or Jehovah Will Not Know You

by flipper in

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this was some of the most blatant , aggressive , controlling information i've seen in awhile in the " witness only " version of the wt.

of course, it's always blatant, but the manner that was used in this article was so authoritative and demanding - it's apparent the wt society is losing members and they are amping up the control tactics to keep members trapped.

the article in discussion is on pg.

shechaiyah

Agreed.

What they did know was how to set up an Occult Hierarchy, keep secrets and confidentiality, and invest other peoples' work in what they wanted.

None of those "skills" was derived out of the Teachings of Jesus Christ. This is clear.