Posts by FaithfulBrother

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I am VERY surprised that........

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

i am very surprised that a very pretty lady that is i/o psychology doctorate major, she would like to go out with me on date.

she knows that i do not have any college degree.

to be honest with you, i am pretty much intimidated by her intelligence.

Man Can't Rule Himself

by falseprophet in

i've heard it said from the platform that "man can't rule himself".. satan challenged god's authority and god left man to rule himself.. unfortunately, god changed the rules and man now dies.

so each generation or two* needs a new ruler with new rules.. it seems that either man dies or god is ruler in the mind of a jw.

this isn't true - mathematically this creates four scenarios:.

FaithfulBrother

So under rule #4 can I bury you 500 feet under the ground knowing that you will not die but make you suffer for eternity? Hmm.... that might be fun.

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Got my Privileges Removed today, any advice?

by mrbunyrabit in

sooo i was a ministerial servant (omg a ministerial servant on this site!?

you apostate!!!

) yea yea i just wanted to see what other people think and whatever, coz i had a few questions myself, (butttt its not like i was about to start throwing them with rocks and stuff, they arent that bad).

FaithfulBrother

I'm not surprised you got removed since Jehovah's Spirit is working to remove you. Immediately after getting removed you post multiple times on an apostate forum the same day you got removed using curse words in every post you make. See? That shows the Holy Spirit worked in your case.

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Eden's Significant Trees

by God_Delusion in

hi guy's and gal's,.

i think i've posted this before on here, but here it is again - http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/bible/significant-trees-in-the-garden-of-eden/.

how many significant trees were in the garden of eden and why am i kicking up a fuss about it?.

FaithfulBrother

To me, it's like a story of "you can do it the easy way or the hard way--your choice." Man decided to learn the hard way.

"You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

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New JW chain-email going around

by FaithfulBrother in

apparently, the society knows exactly when the great tribulation is going to break out, but they're only letting the public know through subliminal messages in their images.

here's a new chain letter that's being passed around between witnesses:.

(daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45).

FaithfulBrother

Ok fixed the images

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New JW chain-email going around

by FaithfulBrother in

apparently, the society knows exactly when the great tribulation is going to break out, but they're only letting the public know through subliminal messages in their images.

here's a new chain letter that's being passed around between witnesses:.

(daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45).

FaithfulBrother

Apparently, the Society knows exactly when the Great Tribulation is going to break out, but they're only letting the public know through subliminal messages in their images. Here's a new chain letter that's being passed around between Witnesses:

(Daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45)
In the "Your Will Be Done on Earth" book (1958) look at page 112. There is a picture of Daniel's dream image. Notice where the stone is that is cut from the mountain of Jehovah's universal sovereignty. Pretty close to the mountain, (not the image).
Look at the image in the "Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy" book (1999) on page 58. Notice where the stone is some 40 years later! (closer to the image!).

Now, open a copy of the brochure "Keep On the Watch" (2004) to page 15. Do you see where the stone is?
This image was in last year's invitation for our 2011 District Convention, notice where the stone is.
Finally, look at the June 2012 Watchtower study article, page 18. Where is the stone now?!!!
This comparison of the image shows where we are in the stream of time and how close we really are to the start of the great tribulation.
WOW!!!

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Blame the designer and not the product: God and the lame Free Will argument

by Terry in

this is the one thing nobody is ever able to explain to me!.

if a genius designs something to operate in a specific way in order to obtain a precise outcome and it doesn't work---tell me again why we don't blame the genius designer/manufacturer??.

oh--that free will maguffin!.

FaithfulBrother

Really? And what advantages are those?

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Blame the designer and not the product: God and the lame Free Will argument

by Terry in

this is the one thing nobody is ever able to explain to me!.

if a genius designs something to operate in a specific way in order to obtain a precise outcome and it doesn't work---tell me again why we don't blame the genius designer/manufacturer??.

oh--that free will maguffin!.

FaithfulBrother

Out of curiosity, I would like to get your input:

There are several scenarios that I would like you to choose from, and I would like you to choose the one that would genuinely create the most happiness for you.

1. Assume that there is no God or creator of the universe. We just happen to exist out of chance, given that the universe does exist, but we somehow managed to evolve randomly out of some primordial slime. And so here we are today with the intellectual capacity to debate the origin of our existence. It doesn't really matter though, because we are just a bunch of animals that happened to evolve from a universe that we don't know why exists in the first place.

2. Assume we were created by God, a spirit that is greater than ourselves and designed us, but we have no free will. We are essentially robots, and the only thing we can do is what we were programmed to do. If we feel good, it's because we were programmed to feel this way. If we decide to do anything, it's because we were programmed to do it.

3. Assume that we were created by God, a spirit who is greater than us, but he decided to create us in his own image by giving us free will to choose what we do, just like him. Now, being greater, more intelligent and wise than us, he knew that if we chose to do certain things, we would create different consequences for ourselves and others that those actions affected. But he allowed us to do these things if we so chose. Of course, what loving person would not warn you of the consequences of your actions if they knew beforehand what would happen if you chose to do something harmful to yourself or others? But what if this creator allowed us to go ahead and do whatever we wanted, indulging in our selfish lusts and pleasures, making ourselves feel good temporarily through our own wants and decisions, only to find out by the end of our life that what we chose for ourselves was clearly not the best decisions we could have made? In fact, this creator of ours loved us so much that he not only allowed us to do whatever we wanted during our lifetime, but in order to make up for all the mistakes we made, he allowed his first-born creation that he had grown to love for longer than anyone else or anything in existence, for that matter, to suffer and die in exchange for our lives. The only one besides himself that was able to have free will and at the same time be subjected to the temptations to use that free will, especially in a fleshly body, for their own self indulgence was his very first creation who had witnessed the rest of creation in its making and was able to see how great of a gift life and free will was. So because of all of this, you are able to live a human life and experience first-hand the selfish desires and pleasures that free will can bring you. You can use your free will to do whatever you want, whether it be pleasing only yourself or helping the rest of your family, who are really the entire human race, to use their free will for good and actually be truly happy for eternity.

Which one of these scenarios would make you the happiest? Of course, these are only hypothetical scenarios in which I am curious to know your choice. I am not saying that all explanations of free will are limited to these three scenarios.

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Blame the designer and not the product: God and the lame Free Will argument

by Terry in

this is the one thing nobody is ever able to explain to me!.

if a genius designs something to operate in a specific way in order to obtain a precise outcome and it doesn't work---tell me again why we don't blame the genius designer/manufacturer??.

oh--that free will maguffin!.

FaithfulBrother

False Dichotomy

The fallacy of false dichotomy is committed when the arguer claims that his conclusion is one of only two options, when in fact there are other possibilities. The arguer then goes on to show that the 'only other option' is clearly outrageous, and so his preferred conclusion must be embraced.

Your assertion that the Creator or designer of human beings failed because at this point in time, his creations have failed miserably by their use of free will is a great example of false dichotomy. If you leave room for another variablebesides one of only two options, that is, that it has still not been proven that if although humans were created with free will, yet they chose to willingly use that free will for things which they were warned against and were told what the outcome of their actions would be, that they might just in fact learn a lesson "the hard way" so that instead of being true "robots" they would have real knowledge of what it is like to go against these warnings. If people were allowed to live for eternity, the short 80 year lifespan in which they were able to experiment and learn through experience why these free choices they made led to death and suffering would seem like a blink of an eye to someone who is living forever and ever.

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Is the Memorial actually a Satanic ritual?

by FaithfulBrother in

john 6:53-58 states:.

53 jesus said to them, very truly i tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

54 whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and i will raise them up at the last day.

FaithfulBrother

John 6:53-58 states:

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

However, the annual Memorial of Jehovah's Witnesses is a ritual in which millions of people come together in order to refuse the bread and the wine, which Jesus commanded us to eat and drink of during his last meal when he said, "keep doing this in rememberance of me." Nowhere in the Gospels did he say, "unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you.... Unless you are like the majority of my people who are part of the other sheep or great crowd and not part of this special tiny group of people. In fact, if you are part of the other sheep and partake of my flesh and blood, I will destroy you."