MrDantastic started a topic "Proof of God" 6 days ago challenging people `s beliefs one way or another and we haven`t heard a word from him since and yet we have gone 7 pages in discussion .
What should that tell us ?
smiddy3
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Proof of God
by MrDantastic ini'm an atheist as i do not see any evidence for the existance of a god.
i encourage critical thinking in everyone and am ready to debate anyone on whether or not there is a god and what that god might be like.
hmu..
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Jesus tempted by Satan, real or just a vision.
by pleaseresearch innot with their shunning policy.
me and my brother seldom communicate sadly, but no way would we go anywhere for fear of being seen with an inactive jw for over 10 years.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-simplified-march-2016/questions-from-readers/.
from the website:.
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smiddy3
Neil Armstrong standing on the moon and looking back at the earth would not be able to see all the kingdoms of the world
Also for Jesus to be tempted by Satan and Jesus having gone along with him shows that after all these thousands of years since Adam Jesus has never shunned Satan .And obviously neither did Jehovah shun Satan all those years .
So if Jehovah and Jesus never shunned their chief adversary what right do the G.B.of Jehovah`s Witnesses have in instructing their members to shun anybody for any petty or even major reason in their view.?
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JWtalk.net is an act of Disobedience
by Londo111 inthe governing body and watchtower publications make clear there is only one official website that jws should go to about their religion.
they do not approve of independent pro-jw forums.
this would also fall in line of there being no independent study groups, on the internet, or elsewhere.. for that matter, they do not approve of jws posting on behalf of their religion on social media, “apostate” websites, or anywhere else on the internet.
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smiddy3
The more disobedient Jehovah`s Witnesses their are the better I say their is still hope for them .
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The false prophet strikes again! Didn't anyone notice?
by nowwhat? inlast year during the closing talk our favorite anthony morris lll in all his glory declared" armageddon is imminent!
" on the broadcast screen at every regional convention world wide!
well it has been a year now and if you look at the definition of imminent , we are well past the expiration date..
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smiddy3
Punk you have the six stages of man and you left out the seventh a casket being carried out
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Sex and Rockets - Strange Angel CBS series, Charles Taze Russell and Jack Parsons
by truthseeker ini'm watching the cbs series strange angel.
it is based on a true story about jack parsons, who along with others, pioneered rocket development in 1930's america.. "strange angel, a drama series created by mark heyman (black swan, the wrestler) and based on george pendle's book of the same name, explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction.. the story follows the life of jack parsons, a mysterious and brilliant man in 1930s los angeles, who by day helps birth the entirely unknown discipline of american rocketry, and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist aleister crowley.".
https://www.cbs.com/shows/strange-angel/.
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smiddy3
I would take exception to a couple of statements made in this OP however others might disagree.
Page 9 of this book says this: "Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
I would argue that C.T.Russell founded the "International Bible Students Association" not the Jehovah`s Witnesses ,C.T. Russell never identified himself as a Jehovah`s Witness .
J.F.Rutherford usurped the followers of Russell after his death and he was the founder of the Jehovah`s Witness religion stating that they would now be identified as Jehovah`s Witnesses.
When Russell announced to his congregation in Brooklyn, New York, that the end had begin, he meant the finale was not an instantaenous end to all things, but rather the beginnign of the end as outlined in the Book of Revelation - the appearance of the Antichrist and the harlot, Babylon the Great, being two of the key events.
I believe that is bullshit ,Russell initially believed that 1914 was the end of the known world and that all the Faithful, his followers would be in heaven by 1918-19
Just my take on what has been presented in the opening OP without looking at the links and I stand to be corrected in what I have stated
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The false prophet strikes again! Didn't anyone notice?
by nowwhat? inlast year during the closing talk our favorite anthony morris lll in all his glory declared" armageddon is imminent!
" on the broadcast screen at every regional convention world wide!
well it has been a year now and if you look at the definition of imminent , we are well past the expiration date..
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smiddy3
And probably in 1919 -20 also Gorby they never look at the big picture do they .
Syria ,Afghanistan ,war zones ,potential hot spots still in places like the South China Seas ,and if they are thinking of Nth and Sth Korea who are they trying to kid ? Even if peace did eventuate their that`s not influencing politics or military threats any where else in the world.
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The false prophet strikes again! Didn't anyone notice?
by nowwhat? inlast year during the closing talk our favorite anthony morris lll in all his glory declared" armageddon is imminent!
" on the broadcast screen at every regional convention world wide!
well it has been a year now and if you look at the definition of imminent , we are well past the expiration date..
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smiddy3
Well, sad to say that because the G.B. dumb`s down education so much the majority of J.W`s just don`t have any idea of what the word imminent really means.
My little pocket Oxford Dictionary states "about to happen soon"... damn that`s another word Jehovah`s Witnesses have trouble understanding the meaning of.Also impending refer back to imminent .
Then again J.W`s have been conditioned to believe that a thousand years with Jehovah is like one day ( 24 hr.) and one day is like a thousand years ( year being 365 24 Hr.days)
So you must wonder why the words imminent , impending ,soon , even get the J.W`s excited in the first place ?
oh that`s right education or the lack of.
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Strange conundrum
by doubtfull1799 ini just had a thought inspired by @newboy's recent post:.
why is it that despite the watchtower corporation being arguably the biggest publishing house in history, having produced billions of tracts, brochures, magazines, books for o very 100 years, and having the largest army of volunteer publicity agents on the planet, that 99% of the population is still clueless as to what their message is all about?.
if you ask random people what jw's beleive you will rarely get the so-called "good news": gods kingdom is going to soon usher in a paradise earth and fix all the worlds problems under the 1000 year reign of christ.. you will instead get: "they're the people who... 1. don't celebrate christmas or birthdays, 2. don't take blood, 3. go around with the watchtower, 4. have big assemblies... etc etc".
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smiddy3
Good points doubtfull1799 and I personally believe it has a lot to do with their name Jehovah`s Witnesses and their main publication "The Watch Tower Announcing Jehovah`s Kingdom" and their emphasis on that name Jehovah.
Christians in general throughout the earth have been conditioned through the Centuries to accept that Jesus Christ is the King of Gods Kingdom and that he is the one to worship .Jesus is the one that gave his life under suffering and is the central point of Christianity." The name of Jesus is to be above every other name in heaven on earth and under the earth." according to the New Testament.
Jehovah`s Witnesses came along and preached an "Old testament God Jehovah" and have never ever done so effectively enough to compete with what Christendom has accomplished over the Centuries.
Jehovah`s Witnesses main accomplishments have come from poaching Christendoms non attendees ,those ignorant of their faiths beliefs ,and those that are most vulnerable in society with few exceptions.
They have had zilch success by comparison in the non Christian world .
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Introduction of Chapter 1 in New Boy and inside look at the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses
by new boy inchapter 1. the pledge.
just a few blocks from the world famous brooklyn bridge there is a huge four building complex.
this prime piece of brooklyn real estate built in 1926 is located at 117 adams street.
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smiddy3
Interesting,and I look forward to reading more.
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Returning from a crash . . .
by compound complex ingreetings, friends:.
my trusty and very old dell died a few days ago; a friend's gift of a toshiba has gotten me here.
fortunately, it uses windows 7 like my old pc.
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smiddy3
Welcome back CoCo ,you know it could have been worse you could have been sucked back into Cyber space and ended up back in the Borg
Heaven forbid