Posts by James Brown

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Nimrod: Fact or fiction

by dugout in

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friends

nimrod and the tower of babel-is this history or biblical myth.

god confused their lauguges?.

sounds quite comical when you think about it.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel c —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

It is pretty obvious he wanted them to scatter and populate the earth.

Now that the earth is much more populated people can communicate with one another through computers and the mass media.

But God got the earth populated.

He has made a good point that people can not do the job on their own.

Man can not successful manage the earth and animals.

God has shown that in spades.

No one will be able to dispute mans missmanagement of the earth and its

resources.

God gave man free will.

And we have shown ourselves that free will leads to greeed and greed leads to mismanagement.

I always got the message from the Garden of Eden that man can not run his life or the world without

us following God.

Satan, Adam and Eve did not want to follow God.

Genetically us being decended from Adam and Eve do not want to follow God either.

Maybe at the time of our judgment we will get to reflect on mans rule of the earth and

decide if we want to subject ourselves to God or not.

Those that don't will go without God.

If God is a myth and we are on our own we should learn from the best run countries in the world.

http://karenlynnallen.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-nine-best-run-countries-in-world.html

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Nimrod: Fact or fiction

by dugout in

jw
friends

nimrod and the tower of babel-is this history or biblical myth.

god confused their lauguges?.

sounds quite comical when you think about it.

James Brown

One eyed Joe.

It alludes to in Genesis 11:3 that they do not want to be scattered throught the earth.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

It is true confusing the language limited their capabilities and caused them to spread.

That is what God wanted.

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Atheists and Anger...

by new hope and happiness in

are you an angry atheist?.

personally i wish i could say anger is to strong a word, but from my point of view :-.

a)i am angry that religion teaches children to hate " worldly people" at least that was my experience ad a j.w.

James Brown

It makes sense that atheist would be repressed in Christian countries.

Birds of a feather flock together and defend their own.

Which is not to say atheism is wrong it just is what it is and the way things are.

Go and form or live in an atheist country.

People in the United States have escaped atheist regimes to live here.

They also have escaped religious totalitarism.

Religion and politics are provacative subjects,

Often it is best not to talk about them in public.

If you must talk about them in a Christian country

you are going to feel the presure.

If atheism is true. It is not for everybody at this time.

So take your wisdom and find a way to profit from it.

If it is true you are way ahead on the journey.

I cant even begin to immagine why an atheist would want to be a soldier in a volunteer army.

If this life is all their is why be a soldier and risk it.

There are other ways to get free money from the government for education.

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Nimrod: Fact or fiction

by dugout in

jw
friends

nimrod and the tower of babel-is this history or biblical myth.

god confused their lauguges?.

sounds quite comical when you think about it.

James Brown

If it is true, it could be that God wanted the people to spread out and fill

the earth and not congregate in the middle east.

Confusing the languages would facilitate that.

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What song or line from a song bests describes your time as a JW?????

by karter in

waisted days and waisted nites.. freddy fender..

James Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50u6lcLsMY

This song describes my time in the witnesses.

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Why isn't the world a frazzle?

by punkofnice in

when i was a jw i had a lot of silly ideas that seemingly explained things i wondered about.

arguments from ignorance or special pleading i suppose.

actually, my conclusions were daft.. one thing i have wondered about and i don't know if anyone else has, is why man hasn't either rendered the earth to a cinder or why there haven't been more nukes go off against nations.

James Brown

I think there will be a major terror attack in the US.

When the Bush family gets back in office.

Becuase they will engineer it.

That's what they do going back to the first George and the Cia.

Their cronies like Chaney make big money off war.

You can too.

When Jeb becomes president buy stocks that will profit from war.

Like Halburton,

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997/

This enginerring and profiting from war goes all through history.

It is what man does.

And the wons with the most money control things and make more money.

War is big money.

Blow it up and build it up again.

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How many born ins actually stay?

by lostinthought in

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i was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization.

i think i have read it before on here but i can't really remember what it was.

.

James Brown

Thinking back to being born in in the 50's and peole I know that are still

in who were born in with me.

I would say my experience is 50/50.

50% stay for various reasons.

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I FIND THIS TROUBLING . . . DISTURBING . . . PUZZLING . . .

by Terry in

i stumbled on to this on youtube.. i began watching it.

at first i thought it was funny.. then, something changed.

i began to realize two things.. first of all, there are 2 sides to this, and both sides have a point.. if law enforcement does not have a legal right to stop and question you .

James Brown

The police have to have probable cause to stop a vehicle and detain a person.

But they can talk to a person and ask questions.

A person can choose not to answer.

City police will stop a suspicious vehicle and say right off the bat I stopped you because you

crossed the traffic line back there, or your light is out. That is probable cause.

Right away they will tell you that is their probable cause.

From that point on at the very least they are doing a dui investigation and writing a book that

they are preparing to throw at you.

These Federal police are not expecting resistance so

from the get go they are not announcing their probable cause.

When the driver resist and the police see they are on camera,

they have to back down.

For the police to put up a dui road block in Florida. They have to announce

in the newspaper a week in advance where the road block will be.

So people can choose a differnt route.

If they choose to go by the road block, then they have to stop

and answer questions, how they answer the questions may lead to a field sobriety test.

Or a search of their vehicle.

The person making the video apparently has the right to do as he did,

not answer their questions.

We pick and choose our battles.

The country has a problem with illegal aliens.

The government in this instance appears to be trying to do something about it.

But I guess they can't really do anything unless they have probable cause.

The cops are counting on most people not knowing the law.

In some respects their hands are tied.

They cant just go out and stop mexicans because that would be racial profiling.

They cant be given a directive to do that because that would be racial profiling.

If they stop someone for crossing the line or equipment failure then they can stop them and

start investigating.

This is probably why we have such an illegal immigrant problem.

We dont want to give up our rights and freedoms because of it.

If the problem gets to bad the government can declare marshall law and then we will

loose our freedoms

I don't want that.

Maybe the government could raid and arrest houses full of illegal hispanics.

But people will complain about that also.

I think that would be better than hassling law abbiding citizens.

It seems like the government could do some undercover work and find houses full of illegal

imigrants and that would solve this problem.

But it comes back to racial profiling again and the aclu.

How do you find a house full of illegal mexicans without racial profiling?

It is rediculous.

Why do you have to stop

Germans and Irish to find Illlegal mexicans?

Why does every body at the airport have to be searched to find muslim arab terrorist?

I think things will go on like this until someone brings in a dirty bomb or something like

that and then we will all loose our civil liberties.

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What christians don't want to admit

by opusdei1972 in

when i left the wt organization, i continued to believe in the bible, so i wanted to confirm and refine, as much as possible, my faith that the true god is in the bible.

so i began to discuss with skilled christians, who were also ex-witnesses.

but i was surprised when some of them tried to relax my fundamentalist position on the literalness of the genesis account.

James Brown

Junction Guy.

I agree with that.

The Watchtowers ultimate purpose is to turn people away from Christianity.

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What makes people so greedy/jealous/unthankful

by hoser in

jw
friends

the owner of the company that i work for was talking to me today about his brother who chose a different line of business and makes more money than him.

he seems to be upset about his choice of work.

but when when i look around this guys yard he has done very well for himself but apparantly not as well as his brother.

James Brown

My guess it has to do with ambition.

I'm not sure where ambition comes from.

Maybe circumstance.

Someone who grew up with nothing might be ambitious to accumulate a lot of things.

While someone who grew up with a lot might just be happy to maintain.

I think it might be easier to describe how to become successful than to determine why some people try and some don't.

Probably the people that succeed and accumulate a lot have a written plan.

And those that dont, dont have a written plan.

But the question is why do some have a written plan

and some do not?

I guess some just don't care.

Some are content with less.

Some are secure with less.

And some are insecure so they need a lot.

Also before they had all the designer diagnosises back in the 60's and 70's

if a person was greedy, jealous and unthankful, people would just say, "He is an axxhole".