Reminds me of those charts from the "Divine Plan of the Ages".
Posts by Funky
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9Comparing Christian & Watchtower Timelines
by Sea Breeze inin talking to jw's, it is apparent that they believe they are the only ones who believe in a paradise earth.
in reality most bible-believing christians believe in a paradise earth, they just don't call it that, they call it the millennium reign.
i created the chart below in an attempt to highlight areas of agreement between christians and a watchtower view, while at the same time isolating the key difference - the rejection of the new covenant.
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Funky
Sounds like a concession speech, Min
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Funky
Its hard to understand the blinding desperate need to win that is driving all this.
Not really:
1) It's an enormously effective
fund-raisinggrifting tool. I think the latest figure I've seen is Team Trump has raised $170 million+ just since the election to "fight corruption".Trump is of course leveraged to the hilt and nowhere near as wealthy as he projects himself to be, and has hundreds of millions in debt coming due fairly soon that he will be unable to pay. I strongly suspect some of the folks who will want their money are of the sort that don't turn to "Acme Collection Agency" from the Yellow Pages, who are of the sort that have their own decidedly less pleasant version of a "collection agency".
2) Trump is terrified of the looming prosecutions in his future, particularly state-level charges that cannot be self-pardoned away.
Once outside of the norm of "you can't prosecute a sitting president for anything", Trump will basically spend the rest of his life in one court case after another. Or a penitentiary. Or both.
3) There's the whole NPD thing, but that doesn't seem to fly on this site. But I'll just mention it for completeness.
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Funky
If he (Trump) is going to cry fraud even here in AZ, is this really a question of election integrity or is the goal here to undermine the whole process?
I think we all know the answer to that one.
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Christmas star of Bethlehem to appear for 1st. Time in 800 years
by nowwhat? inas spock would say " fascinating".. with 2020 being such a terrible year.
are people of the christian faith going to look at this as a sign of god, to give them hope and renew their faith?
coincidence?
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Funky
By "Christmas star" do you mean the Jupiter & Saturn thing?
On December 21 they will align, from the POV of earth observers, to the extent that they will basically appear like one big shiny thing instead of 2 big shiny things.
They align somewhat like that once every twenty years, but align-close-enough-to;look-like-one-thing only occurs once every few centuries.
Did that happen around "Year 0"? I didn't see any research indicating that is the case, but I didn't spend much time on it so maybe I missed it.
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Funky
substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud
It's curious, when in a courtroom (as opposed to social media), The Trump Legal Team Led By Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis (TM) keep repeating over an over that there was no fraud.
It's almost as if....
...now follow me here....
...almost as if even the most jaded attorneys are not prepared to be disbarred by knowingly lying in court.
And almost as if all these claims of "systemic fraud" are one last, final, fundraising grift foisted upon the gullible.
Almost.
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Funky
Hopefully the Georgia runoff elections will stop the Democrat takeover.
LOL.
It's hard for even the most....challenged....Republicans to balance simultaneously in their minds "the election was entirely rigged, your vote was utterly meaningless" along with "It is of the highest and most crucial importance for you to go out and vote in the GA runoff election next month."
Lotsa luck with that messaging.
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Funky
Evidence is being released today.
Judge has issued an order preventing PA certifying the current "results"
The election is back on.This....did not age well.
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Another Rainbow explained....
by snare&racket indue to the many variables involved it has been difficult for science to predict how proteins fold to form their uniquely functional state.
proteins are built from individual amino acids up, coded by dna.
protein function is dictated by its shape and amino acid make up.
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Funky
I wonder if the JW's will retract and apologise for their 'hypothesis' or simply stay quiet and say nothing about one more false claim
I assume this is rhetorical.
The WT Org does NOT retract and does NOT apologize for ANYTHING - EVER.
Frankly, well over 98% of Bethelites lack the brain power to even understand the significance of the discovery. What almost certainly happened is that some Bethel "writer" in 2008 copy-n-pasted the information from some creationist website, having only a vague notion of what it meant beyond "God of the gaps must have done this". But it sounds convincing to the ignorant, so in it goes.
"Stay silent" is the obvious correct answer for what they will do now.
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Meetings
by pontoon inso remember how assembling together is a command and no man or government can stop us, even if it means going 'underground', even if means being arrested, jailed, beat....can't stop us from assembling together----until covid.
now it's "false regligion" fighting for their constitutional right to meet together while the jws seem to be perefectly happy zooming their lives away..
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Funky
They are still meeting openly, just via video. You still get guilt-tripped for missing meetings.
In fact, it's even easier to check up and see who is missing now. Just scroll down the list of attendees and see which names are missing.
On the other hand, it is easier than ever to "check out" mentally. Just sign onto the zoom meeting with your name displayed, turn the camera off, and go off to play video games until the meeting ends. Elders see your name and assume you are listening.