Dungbeetle
Are you now conducting the watchtower study on this Forum?
Radar
Where there is no sense, there is no feeling
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15Watchtower Study Oct 1-7, 2001
by dungbeetle indo not give up in doing what is fine.
well, do not give up!
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Why would a God want worship anyway?
by radar inthe need to be worshiped is a human failing rather than divine.. when you look into history, you find that it as been the tyrants, that have required worship/devotion, from its people.
look into the bible, you find a battle over worship.
there is satan who supposedly wanted just one act of worship from jesus, and he would give kingdoms away.. then there is god, who reportedly required the sacrifice of thousands of animals on a weekly basis as part of his worship.
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The need to be worshiped is a human failing rather than divine.
When you look into history, you find that it as been the Tyrants, that have required worship/devotion, from its people.
Look into the bible, you find a battle over worship. There is Satan who supposedly wanted just one act of worship from Jesus, and he would give kingdoms away.
Then there is God, who reportedly required the sacrifice of thousands of animals on a weekly basis as part of his worship. ( Psalm 40:6. Obedience was better than sacrifice, but God wanted both)
Then there is the beseeching and the begging and imploring and the reading in an undertone day and night, and the bowing down and the praising and the sacrifice, the attending of the Temple, the falling down on their faces of the Angels and so on.Today millions of muslims pray towards Mecca, five times a day.
The Jews have their "Wailling wall"
All seeking to please their God.Does all this not strike you as odd?
Is all this worship compatable with a superior benevolent being?
What loving parent would not speak to their Children when they spoke to them?
Yet what happens when people pray? NOTHING! It may be claimed that God answers in various(mysterious) ways.
why does this God not answer people directly?
And tell them about his nature, his purpose, what happens at death, but not just to one people but to the whole of mankind, everyone.Then everyone would know the truth, no religious divisions, end of confusion. This would be such a simple thing for a God.
Yet instead, we see the slaughter and abuse of mankind, left in utter confusion over religion.Radar
Where there is no sense, there is no feeling
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Develop Your Perceptive Powers - Nov KM
by expatbrit inhere's some assorted naff bollocks from this article in the november km:.
in his first talk, entitled "safeguard spirituality by training your perceptive powers," the visiting speaker explained that those in the world cannot distinguish right from wrong.
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I'm Screwed Up, You're Screwed Up
by Farkel ini have not followed very many threads of late, so if someone has already made the same observations i'm about to make, i apologize for my redundancy.. .
i admit it: i'm part of a highly secretive, highly elite group.
(we have to drink two quarts of fresh yak blood and get a tattoo of a pentagram on our butts as part of of the initiation.
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I'm Screwed Up, You're Screwed Up
by Farkel ini have not followed very many threads of late, so if someone has already made the same observations i'm about to make, i apologize for my redundancy.. .
i admit it: i'm part of a highly secretive, highly elite group.
(we have to drink two quarts of fresh yak blood and get a tattoo of a pentagram on our butts as part of of the initiation.
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I'm Screwed Up, You're Screwed Up
by Farkel ini have not followed very many threads of late, so if someone has already made the same observations i'm about to make, i apologize for my redundancy.. .
i admit it: i'm part of a highly secretive, highly elite group.
(we have to drink two quarts of fresh yak blood and get a tattoo of a pentagram on our butts as part of of the initiation.
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Larc
Why don't you just marry the guy and have done with it.
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I hate to use a Witness term, but your words were "upbuilding."
__________________________________________________________________And yes you still sound like a Jehovah's Witness.
Radar
Where there is no sense, there is no feeling
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I'm Screwed Up, You're Screwed Up
by Farkel ini have not followed very many threads of late, so if someone has already made the same observations i'm about to make, i apologize for my redundancy.. .
i admit it: i'm part of a highly secretive, highly elite group.
(we have to drink two quarts of fresh yak blood and get a tattoo of a pentagram on our butts as part of of the initiation.
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Trust the Watchtower on blood?
by radar inmany jws, who say they refuse blood believing it is their own conscience alone and not that of the watchtower.
yet when informed by hospital liason elders, that the "society" now leaves certain blood products down to their own conscience(meaning that you wont get expelled).
inevitably will then accept this blood product, and consider it as new light a concession from god.. but ask: who's conscience is being exercised when this happens?.
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Many JWs, who say they refuse blood believing it is their own conscience alone and not that of the Watchtower.
Yet when informed by Hospital Liason elders, that the "society" now leaves certain blood products down to their own conscience(meaning that you wont get expelled)
Inevitably will then accept this blood product, and consider it as new light a concession from God.But Ask: Who's conscience is being exercised when this happens?
To a degree, conscience is shaped on trust.
*** w61 9/15. p559 Respect for the Sanctity of Blood ***
19 In view of the emphasis put on the use of blood in the medical world, new treatments involving its use are constantly being recommended. But regardless of whether it is whole blood or a blood fraction, whether it is blood taken from one’s own body or that taken from someone else, whether it is administered as a transfusion or as an injection, the divine law applies. God has not given man blood to use as he might use other substances; he requires respect for the sanctity of bloodOn Vaccinations
Golden Age, Jan. 5 1929, Page 502
"Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows seeds of syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccinations is a crime, an outrage, and a delusion".Do you think it was wise and beneficial to have put trust in those words back then?
“Anyone inexperienced puts faith in every word, but the shrewd one considers his steps.”—Proverbs 14:15.
Radar
Where there is no sense, there is no feeling
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Feeding the Annointed
by radar inone of the things that often crossed my mind when looking at the watchtower study, was where was this spiritual food for the annointed?.
the whole point of the so called faithfull slave class, is according to the watchtower to feed the "domestics"(annointed household of god).
yet mostly the themes of the watchtowers were for the great crowd.. how many watchtowers do you re-call centred on the heavenly calling?.
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Feeding the Annointed
by radar inone of the things that often crossed my mind when looking at the watchtower study, was where was this spiritual food for the annointed?.
the whole point of the so called faithfull slave class, is according to the watchtower to feed the "domestics"(annointed household of god).
yet mostly the themes of the watchtowers were for the great crowd.. how many watchtowers do you re-call centred on the heavenly calling?.
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radar
One of the things that often crossed my mind when looking at the watchtower study, was where was this spiritual food for the annointed?
The whole point of the so called Faithfull slave class, is according to the watchtower to feed the "domestics"(annointed household of God)
Yet mostly the themes of the Watchtowers were for the Great Crowd.
How many watchtowers do you re-call centred on the heavenly Calling?Radar