Posts by pseudoxristos

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Resurrection Hope - People in the Future who think they have lived before

by VM44 in

according to the watchtower, a resurrected being is a body that has placed within it the memories and attributes of a person who had lived before.. the "life force" is transferred to the body to bring it alive.

also according to the watchtower, the "life force" is impersonal and contains no personality.

it is like electricity in that it is an actuating force.. ok, so in the future there will be billions of people with memories of having lived on the earth.

pseudoxristos

Interesting point!

Not only is it illogical to think that a copy of you will actually continue to be you at some future point, but the resurrection hope itself becomes pointless once you're dead.

Once you're dead according to the Watchtowers definition of death, you will no longer have any desires, much less the desire to be resurrected. Whether you're dead for a day, a million years or all eternity, it's all the same.

If one truly believes that they will cease to exist at death, then they should also realize any desire to live again will also cease to exist.

pseudo

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Words in other languages which have different meanings to when we say them

by The Nothing Man in

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friends

does anybody know of any words, which are spelt and pronounced the same, which are used in other languages but which mean completely different things?

as an example (which doesn't work i know) love in english means affection, but love in say, spanish, means hate?

dumb example i know, but do you catch my drift?

pseudoxristos

In Spanish "embarazada" means pregnant.

The Thai word for a certain kind of squash is "fuk".

pseudo

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories

by RunningMan in

over the years, i have posted all of the chapters from my atheist's book of bible stories on this site.. however, since the original posting, many of the chapters have been polished and updated.. the complete book is now available for downloading, if anyone is interested: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qwpjol.

pseudoxristos

I would like to look at it, but at the moment I'm in Saudi and due to religious paranoia the Saudi government censors certain Internet sites. I'm not sure why they decided that sendspace.com should be censored, but it seems kind of ironic that I can't look at anti-Christian information because of their censorship.

Anyway, I thought that I would post here to bookmark the thread so I can look at it when I get out of this forsaken place.

pseudo

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YOU GUYS GOTTA SEE THIS!!! IS THIS DAMAGE CONTROL???

by whereami in

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friends

i can't recall seeing this at the kh.

i just know you guys are going to tear this up.

there's just so much ammo hear.

pseudoxristos

HappyDad,

Here is the profile of the goofball that put these videos on YouTube.

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YOU GUYS GOTTA SEE THIS!!! IS THIS DAMAGE CONTROL???

by whereami in

jw
friends

i can't recall seeing this at the kh.

i just know you guys are going to tear this up.

there's just so much ammo hear.

pseudoxristos

Over the past 130 years Jehovah's Witnesses have been helped by a Governing Body

This is really stretching the truth a bit (actually it's an outright lie). The Jehovah's Witnesses have not been ~~directed~~ helped by the Governing Body for the past 130 years. From what I remember, the Governing Body did not exist until around the middle of the 20th century. And what is up with the idea that the Governing body "has helped" the Witnesses. The Governing Body "is" the controlling body of the Witnesses. To imply that they simply help the Witnesses is the most outrageous thing in the video.

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YOU GUYS GOTTA SEE THIS!!! IS THIS DAMAGE CONTROL???

by whereami in

jw
friends

i can't recall seeing this at the kh.

i just know you guys are going to tear this up.

there's just so much ammo hear.

pseudoxristos

Here is the transcript from the second video:

Theologians

Over the past 130 years Jehovah's Witnesses have been helped by a Governing Body, who's membership has changed obviously as the years roll by. This is a group of individuals that have come from all over the world and whom we believe are directed by God to help us understand what is contained in Scripture. Just as other religions would have religious leaders, those to whom they look, so do Jehovah's Witnesses. But the fact that we believe that there is a Governing Body, a Faithful and discreet slave class that we call it, who is helping us understand the Bible, no more makes us a sect than it would make Catholics a sect, because they believe that the Pope and the College of Cardinals have the ultimate truth for Catholics.

It's interesting how he phrased this line of crap.

pseudo

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Is the WBTS still an NGO in other courntire?

by senora in

i am new to this site and would be classified as a fader, i just go to maybe one meeting a week and am nearing the end of my fading process.. what bothered me first was the pedophile problem then just reflecting on how crazy jw's act, i think they are too obsessed with worshiping men, especially the gb, elders, co's, do's, its just too crazy.

i've personally seen elders do some very wrong things and they don't get in trouble at all.

then i realized that these men are so corrupt because they don't believe what the wt teaches.

pseudoxristos

It appears that they also attended this meeting:

OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance

Cordoba
8 and 9 June 2005

pseudo

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Is the WBTS still an NGO in other courntire?

by senora in

i am new to this site and would be classified as a fader, i just go to maybe one meeting a week and am nearing the end of my fading process.. what bothered me first was the pedophile problem then just reflecting on how crazy jw's act, i think they are too obsessed with worshiping men, especially the gb, elders, co's, do's, its just too crazy.

i've personally seen elders do some very wrong things and they don't get in trouble at all.

then i realized that these men are so corrupt because they don't believe what the wt teaches.

pseudoxristos

It looks like They were involved with the following organization:

OSCE

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

About
With 56 States drawn from Europe, Central Asia and America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization, bringing comprehensive and co-operative security to a region that stretches from Vancouver to Vladivostok. It offers a forum for political negotiations and decision-making in the fields of early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, and puts the political will of the participating States into practice through its unique network of field missions.

If you search this website, you will find that they are listed as participants in the following:

2006 OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION
IMPLEMENTATION MEETING

Here is the information found in the list of participants:

248 Office of General Counsel for Jehovah's Witnesses
100 Watchtower Drive; Patterson, NY 12563; U.S.A.
Mr. Gregory ALLEN
Associate General Counsel
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +1-845-306 07 11
Fax: +1-845-306 07 09

I have not found that they are listed as an NGO with this organization, but they may well be.

This is worth investigating, but I doubt that NGO status here has anything to do with the UN. If they are an NGO associated with this organization, it just simply means that they are one of the non-governmental organization associated with the OSCE.

pseudo

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You can be spied on even when your cellphone is off!!!

by ohiocowboy in

scary.... .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61yfvpzgjs.

pseudoxristos

Watched TV evangelists for the first time today

by shopaholic in

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friends

i was flipping through the channels while doing cardio and i decided to hear what a couple of these people had to say.

while i've determined that i'm agnostic, this one guy was pretty good...he was practical and funny.

he made the bible seem more like a good self-help book than a "book laws to be obeyed or else you'll die".

pseudoxristos

I've always thought that Jesse Duplantis was rather comical. Just looking at him makes me want to laugh. He should have been a comedian instead of a televangelist. I've never actually listened to him very long though.

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