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  June Service Meeting part: Marriage, separation and divorce

  by Quarterback in

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  i'm curious as to why this is a national topic for a service meeting part?

  has anyone any thoughts on this?.

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  TheOldHippie

  In Europe too, and based on the Organized book.
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  Ex-JW kills 12 people in school massacre

  by James_Slash in

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  2. child-abuse

  rio de janeiro - as family members mourned their loved ones and kept vigil at hospitals for the injured, this city searched for understanding thursday after a shooting at a public school left 12 students dead and 12 others wounded.. enlarge this image.

  ricardo moraes/reutersa woman with a photo of her niece, a student at a rio de janeiro school attacked by a gunman, waited for news on thursday.. enlarge this image.

  marcelo sayao/european pressphoto agencya wounded boy was taken to a hospital after a mass shooting at a school in rio de janeiro on thursday.. brazil is no stranger to urban violence, especially the kind of violence in gang-controlled slums that have given this city one of the highest murder rates in the world.

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  TheOldHippie

  Should not the title have been "Active Moslem kills 12 people"?
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  Current GB Members?

  by confliction in

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  i was speaking with someone who would like to know, does anyone know exactly who the current gb members are?

  e.g.

  names?.

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  TheOldHippie

  when Barr croaks

  Barr is dead. The present GB has seven members.
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  What happens, or will happen, to Buddha? (According to JW's)

  by garyneal in

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  2. beliefs

  i noticed a very interesting question from poppers on godrulz's thread concerning buddha and whether or not he went to hell.

  apparently he did according to godrulz, even though he knew nothing about judaism (and the bible gives no indication that the jews traveled to the far east) and he had lived 600 years before christ (so there was no great commission to spread the gospel).. jehovah's witnesses, what do you think?

  my wife and i had a good laugh over this question as when i asked her three times where did buddha go, she kept responding, "he's right here.

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  TheOldHippie

  I think Buddhism is very close to as far as you can get or come by means of human thinking / meditation, and is as such a very good, deep, solid set of thinking and life philosophy. And there is much Buddhism in much of what is taught today in psychology / philosophy, for example within the thoughts of Jung and others. I do not see why Buddha should not be raised, and within a resurrection-based framework of belief I am sure he will enjoy life and the new teachings he will learn, and that he will embrace it all, lover of all living and all creation as he was.
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  "Overlapping generation" explanation - TRANSCRIBED EXTRACT from Friday's talk (DC 2011-12)

  by AnnOMaly in

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  i thought this would be easier to examine if written down:.

  god's kingdom will soon come.

  so we know that god's kingdom will soon come.. .

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  TheOldHippie

  Geoff Jackson is not 55, he is 61. Try at least to get that one correct.
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  Two Trees in the Garden of Eden

  by God_Delusion in

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  2. bible

  isn't it weird how so few know that there were actually two major trees in the garden of eden account.. there was the tree of knowledge (of good and bad) and there was also the tree of life.. genesis chapter 3 makes is quite clear that god banished adam and eve from the garden and placed an angel to guard the tree of life, so that they might not eat from it again.

  is this implying that the two perfect humans had to eat from the tree in order to have eternal life?

  if not, why protect it?.

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  TheOldHippie

  St.George - I also have heard that one, in a talk.
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  elder school 2011

  by inbetween in

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  2. friends

  we received a letter announcing elder school starting fall 2011, it will be one whole week !!!!!.

  the kms school for 1 1/2 days were already long enough, now 5 long days ?.

  what can possibly be taught in 5 days ?.

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  TheOldHippie

  It is not the usual elder school, it is a special training or separate school, it is mentioned in the study issue of WT in the article from the annual meeting, I don't remember if it was June or July, but there it is.
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  Why The Similarity In Myths? Jungian View Of The Unconscious

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. beliefs

  myths?

  i know to some that is a dirty word, especially if it is being said about something that they believe in.. i'm sure many here have seen that internet movie call zeitgeist about all the similarities in the jesus myth and other myths, what accounts for this sharing of themes found in myths all over the world?

  even in peoples that are very remote from one another?.

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  TheOldHippie

  frankiespeakin - have you read more by and about Jung, or "just this"? I am asking, because I have been reading Jung for some time, and he is just amazing, he has a wealth of insight so huge and an ability to compare and draw conclusions which is awe-striking.

  His dreams prior to 1914, and the "Seven Sermons to the Dead" period - it is quite simply huge. One need not subscribe to all his ideas, some of them might seem a bit strange and offensive, and his manners a bit patronizing, but his importance to psychology/psychiatry/philosophy and the knowledge of the man, his soul and myths cannot be overestimated.
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  Famine 1975! - or Famine 2050?

  by TheOldHippie in

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  2. bible

  i remember the quotes from the "famine 1975!

  " book in the truth book from 68, and the impression of that period, that a major breakdown in the worlds ability to feed the billions would or could happen because of nature catastrophes, water shortage etc.

  when i read articles today, not sensational articles but summaries of scientific reports on the greenhouse effect, climate change, disappearance of species and their importance for the food chain etc.

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  TheOldHippie

  I remember the quotes from the "Famine – 1975!" book in the Truth book from 68, and the impression of that period, that a major breakdown in the world’s ability to feed the billions would or could happen because of nature catastrophes, water shortage etc. etc.

  When I read articles today, not sensational articles but summaries of scientific reports on the greenhouse effect, climate change, disappearance of species and their importance for the food chain etc. – I get the feeling that in the middle of this century, the catastrophe warnings of the 60s and 70s might come true by then, that catastrophe might then happen. It makes me worried.

  Now my question is, if I am the only one here to feel really worried, or are more like me? I feel there are two possibilities, apart from the whole system shutting down: Either we somehow manage to survive through the nature destruction which is happening, but the world will no longer as we know it, but will be a very different place, more like the desert scenes from Mad Max or something like that. Or, if we include God, the intervention thought to happen in the mid-70s will take place in a decade or two, because we would then be on the brink of destroying the Earth.

  Or do you believe in a third option, that man will somehow take to his senses and change his way of living, and at the same time some smart guy will come up with a solution to most of the climate change problems.

  I sense the latter option unlikely for two reasons. First, man will only change his ways, when he sees his life severely threatened. And because of the nature of the climate change and other mechanisms, that they are long and slow in effect, it will then be too late to change. Secondly, there are hundreds of millions Chinese, Indians, Brazilians and others who have lived for so long in poverty that they will not change, when they see that they finally are on their way out of that poverty and into some small wealth and prosperity and consumer society.

  I am pessimistic, to put it short, feeling the long expected catastrophe is slowly coming. Slow train coming.
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  Jehovah's Witness Saves House From Devastating Fire

  by Bangalore in

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  2. friends

  jehovah's witness saves house from devastating fire.. http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/local/news/jehovahs-witness-saves-house-from-devastating-fire/3918358/.

  bangalore.

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  TheOldHippie

  Very interesting, MMXIV, that you so desperately try to twist even this little newspaper article into something negative, you just couldn't stand the idea of a positive little story about a JW, could you? Amazing .............