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  Watchtower back to criticising the United Nations

  by AverageJoe1 in

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  the outline number 44 from this year’s regional assembly states:.

  la organización de las naciones unidas es en realidad una falsificación del reino mesiánico, y es una ofensa para dios.. .

  translation: “the united nations organisation is actually a counterfeit of the messianic kingdom, and it is offensive to god.”.

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  La Organización de las Naciones Unidas es en realidad una falsificación del Reino mesiánico, y es una ofensa para Dios.
  

  They go in circles, don't they.
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  My last Memorial

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i missed my first memorial last year in 60 years.

  it always amazed me on this special night that the jw's forget how to park their cars in the parking lot.

  i would pull in with my wife and there are 5 brothers giving directions on where and how to park my car.

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  I am so thankful that I will never go to another meeting and sit through the sadness of rejecting Jesus.
  

  It's been quite a few decades sine my last memorial (that expression has some suicidal quality to it), and for what you share, it doesn't seem like I have missed much.

  The only memorial that was different to me was the one when I got a hand job.
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  Religious PTSD

  by Warren Wilson in

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  i have been clear now for 22 years but i am still obsessed.

  after going on and on about my experiences to friends and family i have finally realised that no one is interested.. they have won.

  no one cares about my ptsd or my suicide attempts or my alcohosm.. i have no one to talk to about this but i really need to get the infection out of my system because it is killing me..

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  They have won. No one cares about my PTSD or my suicide attempts or my alcohosm.

  I have no one to talk to about this but I really need to get the infection out of my system because it is killing me.

  Maybe they do care about you, but they may not have the skills to provide you with the support that you need. If you are talking PTSD (any reason why you call it that?), we are talking about a condition that is treated by people who are professionally trained to help patients with it. Unless your family is made of psychologists, psychiatrists or clinical social workers, they just can't have the skills to provide the help that you might need.

  Have you reached out to any mental health professional? If not, I'd suggest you try. If you have, please tell your mental health professional that something might not be working.

  If professional support is not an alternative to you (sometimes it's just not available or affordable), the next best thing is trying online support groups, such as the ones you find in a place like Daily Strength (not endorsing it, just suggesting it).

  If online communities don't cut it, try reading some literature on the matter. There are plenty of self-help books that can be useful.

  I hope you find the peace you might need.
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  The Samaritans

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  just been reading a bit about the samaritans.

  no, not the professionals that answer phone calls of depressed people ... the ethno-religious people of israel and the west bank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samaritans).. they claim to be descended from the israelite tribes of ephraim and manasseh.

  this would make them israelites but not jews (strictly speaking, jews are people who are from the kingdom of judah).. for many years some jewish people dismissed the claims of samaritans, instead suggesting that samaritans were descended from unrelated people whom the babylonian empire transplanted to palestine/the levant.. from what the wiki article says, it seems scientific studies support the samaritans' claims of heritage, at least along the male lineages.. those samaritans living in israel speak modern hebrew and those living in the west bank speak palestinian arabic; they number about 800 in total.. israel recently recognised them as a distinct ethnic group.. i find it fascinating that a group of people today are seemingly the descendants of a people spoken about in the gospels (i.e.

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  Me either. Interesting.
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  Another kingdom hall up for sale

  by pepperheart in

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  hi another kingsom hall is up for sale if you look in the rightmove property website and look for bradford in the uk you will see that its priced at £170,000.. but why should they need to be selling a kingdom hall off espically when they are not printing about 50 million magazines a month they vant be that short of money can they ?

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  BUT WHY should they need to be selling a kingdom hall off espically when they are not printing about 50 million magazines a month they vant be that short of money can they ?
  

  They like money and they are losing numbers.
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  Was the Mongolian Conqueror, Chingiis Khan, one of your ancestors?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  that's a side point in this national geographic feature, but its rather fascinating to think that he may be a progenitor for one out of every two hundred men in the modern world.. i wonder why yhwh did not want to include the asian steppe people to the north of china among the world empires?

  maybe yhwh was really a bit racist.. in pre-history, ancestors of the mongols crossed the bering strait and settled the americas.. the mongols were a later development of the steppe people of southern siberia.

  2000 years ago, the xiongnu (the likely ancestors of the huns who eventually destroyed the western roman empire and took control of vast swathes of europe) were a thorn in the side of the so-called first chinese empire and the han dynasty that followed.

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  Maybe YHWH was really a bit racist.
  

  That is if you believe that the Bible is the word of god. makes perfect sense to me if you consider that it was written by men at the time when human kind was the most naive about the world around them.
  
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  Is the Watchtower Bible and Truck Society still paying $4,000 a day in fines?

  by new boy in

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  to the state of california for not turning over the list of all the known pedophiles in their organization?.

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  Is the Watchtower Bible and Truck Society still paying $4,000 a day in fines?
  

  The money doesn't come from my account so who cares.
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  Galileo was so confident that . . .

  by compound complex in

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  he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment.".

  i can watch this over and over and remain thoroughly transfixed by the translation of the horse's forward movement to the hand to the ball.

  (see galileo's battle for the heavens).

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  he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment."
  

  I'm not sure about what exactly in his life he didn't act out "through experiment". He was quite a scientist and went to a University to study medicine, so at some point I imagine that he may have done some experimenting with some of his theories.

  Here's information about his scientific methods.
  
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  Thanks

  by Akid48 in

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  hey its me if any one remembers me,i just wanted to post saying that ive been doing well.right now im just trying to live life and have some fun while im still a kid.it still sucks to have to go to meetings etc.. like the title i wanted to say thanks for the people that helped me when i was posting a lot.i might post some times but not as much as i used to..

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  Hey its me if any one remembers me,I just wanted to post saying that ive been doing well.Right now im just trying to live life and have some fun while im still a kid.It still sucks to have to go to meetings etc.

  Like the title i wanted to say thanks for the people that helped me when i was posting a lot.I might post some times but not as much as i used to.

  Hello. I'm glad that you are doing well. Please remember we're still here if you need to post again. keep taking care of yourself.
  
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  Sincere question to those who no longer believe in God

  by nowwhat? in

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  i get it, not a fan of yahweh the desert god.

  but what about jesus?

  anything wrong with his teachings like the sermon on the mount and the example he set.

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  I get it, not a fan of Yahweh the desert God. But what about Jesus? Anything wrong with his teachings like the sermon on the mount and the example he set. You have to admit if everyone lived by his teachings the world would be a better place. I find it hard to believe he was a figment of someone's overactive imagination. All intelligent comments welcome !
  

  I have stated before that I do not consider myself neither a believer, nor a non-believer. I don't have a believe or non-believe about the god thing; I have an attitude about it.

  Regarding Jesus, he was in fact a real person. He existed. His teachings at the time may have been excellent (provided that the documentation of his existence is accurate).

  Jesus walking on water, being the son of god, turning water into wine, bringing people back from death, that's all nonsense to me, and none of those things have ever been proven that happened. Most importantly to me is that if I'm going to believe in Jesus as some kind of deity, I don't need to see any miracles, I don't need any of that. What I need is seeing how he lived, how much was he putting his money where his mouth is, how much of what he preached he actually showed that he believed in himself. To me, that's what a role model does, that's what any kind of leader should do.

  Then there's the practicality side of it. Today people attribute so much to that Jesus thing that there's no way to collectively worship a god in accordance. BTW, to me that says that as a god, he sucks. Look at all what happens in the world around hi, or basing bad actions on his teachings. Saying that i believe in Jesus places people in certain category, and not one that will result in anything better in any way, shape or form.

  Then there's his teachings versus the way we live today. Any Wikipedia page is 1,000 times more informative, practical and useful today than any of his teachings.

  Finally, there's a reason why I have an attitude, which is, why on Earth do I need Jesus, or Jehovah, or a Bible, or a temple, or an organization, or anything else outside of myself to tell me that I have to be a loving, kind person? I can do that on my own. In fact, I have better morals than many of those Jesus freaks I see around. You go to a jail, look at how many believers are there. That can give you a clue that imposing morals on people doesn't work.