i’ve been reading it for a few of years off and on, but have been a little too ... maybe ... timid to join.
i left the watchtower organization almost 20 years ago but never abandoned my faith and belief in god.
i knew the gb/organization didn’t represent god, so when i lost my faith in them, i managed to keep my faith in an all wise benevolent creator.
Rf: "Why is it that those of YOU who no longer believe in God seem to think you can blame God for all the bad things
Why do you think those that do not believe in "god", -- atheists, or deists ( who do believe in a creator, but not in a personally involved "god"), would then turn around and blame him for what bad happened to you? don't forget, even some believers blame satan, and the talking snake.
so jws believe all humans have faults, problems, birth pangs, etc., because we all inherited sin from the original human being adam.
like i would like this to make since but why would jehovah do this to future humans who have done nothing wrong at all?
i think of it like if a parent has one child and that child really disobeyed her before then when the parent has a second child, she punishes that child because of what her first did.
LB: "--You were born dented.
There is not much wrong with that simple analogy, after all what beautiful music comes from the dents in the steel drum bands. and the survival of the fittest mutation; what is wrong is the idea, that somehow we were ever meant to be non perishable, at least as humans. Everything in nature dies, naturally, even the talking snake.
just realized next month it'll be one year since the whole thing began.
anybody heard anything new or know what happens next?.
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siar2: The ARC is still investigating other institutions at this time
The Australian Military Academies at this time, some nice folks there too, that explains why "jehovah's army" Ot or new, are not the only ones in ill repute.
so jws believe all humans have faults, problems, birth pangs, etc., because we all inherited sin from the original human being adam.
like i would like this to make since but why would jehovah do this to future humans who have done nothing wrong at all?
i think of it like if a parent has one child and that child really disobeyed her before then when the parent has a second child, she punishes that child because of what her first did.
since culpability is forwarded toward the offspring and they die accordingly, why not have it move back in time too? I saw a bum-per sticker once: "Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children". so : some of the animals must have eaten from that forbidden tree and that is why all life dies, back to the first protozoe.
Yes, as customers, if they believe that, you might sell them anything!
david jay: "I could go on to talk about plate teutonics and contental drift, the motor invented by Henry Ford,
One way to show respect is to check your sources, ; The invention of the motor was partially teutonic: Otto, Diesel, contental drift was not teutonic, although Hitler would have liked it that way. and
WT beliefs have caused serious damage, they do violence to the facts, so you ignore them at your own risk.
i've posted these before but this one looks more "official".. .
Apparently they (wt) is not interested to keep equipment on hand to be able to spring instantly into action should emergency reconstruction be required in any disasters. what are they going to do with money, have they not read that money, argent, gold, Geld will be thrown into the streets?
the christian define properly jesus plus books equal bible.
the bible does not mean law.
the koine greek word biblia means “books”.
Define the bible? An attempt by ancient thinkers to explain (wrongly) the then nature's unknown, and write it in such a way that it benefits them.
jws very much believe that there is an absolute truth and of course, they are the only ones who have it lol.
how about now though do you still believe that absolute truths exist?
or is everything subjective?
As I see it: There is one absolute truth, it is a large set of facts that is evolving as time elapses; but there are different pictures of it, from all different observers. Many visions of what is called "truths" though, are merely constructs of the "non-observer's" minds, have no relation to the facts out there. added:
To illustrate, viewers might agree that they see a rainbow. but each sees a different set of sun rays reflected back from water droplets defined by precise angles. the sun, its radiation the rain all are fact, therefore truth, so are the individual observers, their position, their makeup,( cosmic, not cosmetic). truth is more beautiful than the facts.
(cnsnews.com) -- dr. michio kaku [1], a theoretical physicist [2] at the city college of new york (cuny) and co-founder of string field theory [3], says theoretical particles known as “primitive semi-radius tachyons” are physical evidence that the universe was created by a higher intelligence.. after analyzing the behavior of these sub-atomic particles - which can move faster than the speed of light and have the ability to “unstick” space and matter – using technology created in 2005, kaku concluded [4] that the universe is a “matrix” governed by laws and principles that could only have been designed by an intelligent being.. “i have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.
believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore,” kaku said, according [5] to an article published in the geophilosophical association of anthropological and cultural studies.. “to me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”.
“the final solution resolution could be that god is a mathematician,” kaku, author of the future of the mind: the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind [6], said in a 2013 big think video [7]posted on youtube.. “the mind of god, we believe, is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11-dimensional hyperspace.”.
Now, as for vibrating strings curled into Plank-size 14 dimensions, There are many natural frequencies showing up in the different size entities in the universe, so whether the populist Kaku treats them properly as special, the future will show.
