Posts by alecholmesthedetective

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Armageddon started...

by mikeflood in

just joking i really don't think so...but the situation in syria is pretty worrisome...just hearing the news that france and great britain are attacking with cruise missiles in 72 hours.

i mean assad is not gonna gasify his adversaries when he almost won the civil war.

trump too suspended a very important trip to the latinoamerican presidents summit in peru, just to 'oversee the american response to syria.

alecholmesthedetective

We live in the time of fourth-generation warfare – "theatre of war". Look beyond the surface.

There will be no World War 3, there will be no nuclear war.

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When You Die Would You Haunt The Governing Body? If It were Possible?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i've been reading a lot about reincarnation these days and i'm beginning to think that it quite possibly might be true, it seems to fit in nicely with the idea that we live in a computer simulation.. anyway according to the tibetan book of the dead when we die we seem to hang around on the earth waiting for rebirth.

at which time we could be ghosts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bardo_thodol.

alecholmesthedetective

When I die I will not go towards the light and the tunnel straight into Earth's reincarnational system which the Anunnaki seem to have hijacked. I will simply turn around and see the whole universe, and then think 'Home'. And be there in an instant.

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Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.

by Wasanelder Once in

roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

in one sentence tell why you left the org.

not 2 sentences.

alecholmesthedetective

When the governing body suddenly announced: 'We (and only us GB clowns) are the faithful and discreet slave! Screw the rest of anointed on earth!' c. 2012 AD or CE (hahahaha)

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"But WHY would you want to know those things??"

by stuckinarut2 in

i ran into an older sister who has always been very sweet.. it was a friendly chat...yet she pushed for a reason why my family have been missing from meetings for some time.

the question was deflected, until it just had to be said: "well, there have been some troubling and disturbing issues about the society especially the way things were handled during the royal commission, as well as many other issues".. she quickly cut in and said "but why would you want to know these things?

its best not to research and look at those sort of things - so we don't get upset!".

alecholmesthedetective

To continue being a JW they have to keep disconnecting themselves from reality.

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Did Freddy Franz receive secret instructions from a Jewish aquaintance?

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

i recently met a sister who told me she heard of a story that the late president of the watchtower society, mr. freddy franz, received secret instructions on how to direct the organization from a jewish acquaintance.. is this a conspiracy theory or could there be some truth to it?.

truthseeker.

alecholmesthedetective

I found this link about Franz being a Millerite at heart, from Freeminds:

http://www.freeminds.org/women/millerite_franz.htm

I had never read that before, very enlightening and explains a lot.

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Donald Trump dubbed over

by alecholmesthedetective in

comedian peter serafinowicz gave trump different voices in the videos below.

ingenious.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96iyhbhie0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qugt30ggtiihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728_lwz3nd0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ca0nm5ray0

alecholmesthedetective

Love the Bush beatbox. And Bush was comedy gold.

Haha the Ted Cruz one. They should do one of Carson.

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Evolution is a Fact #26 - Colour Vision

by cofty in

each little flower that opens,each little bird that sings,he made their glowing colours,he made their tiny wings.. all of us have been moved by the riot of colours in a spring meadow, the majesty of a sunset or the beauty of a bird in breeding plumage.

what greater evidence could there be of a loving creator than our colourful world and the human eye that is equipped to appreciate it?.

this is the sort of simplistic argument that convinces a lot of creationists about their beliefs.. it's time to "unweave the rainbow".. light is detected by a proteins called opsins.

alecholmesthedetective

And those who have no argument can only make ad hominem attacks. Congratulations GodZoo.

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Evolution is a Fact #26 - Colour Vision

by cofty in

each little flower that opens,each little bird that sings,he made their glowing colours,he made their tiny wings.. all of us have been moved by the riot of colours in a spring meadow, the majesty of a sunset or the beauty of a bird in breeding plumage.

what greater evidence could there be of a loving creator than our colourful world and the human eye that is equipped to appreciate it?.

this is the sort of simplistic argument that convinces a lot of creationists about their beliefs.. it's time to "unweave the rainbow".. light is detected by a proteins called opsins.

alecholmesthedetective

Thanks Cofty, for explaining it so clearly and simply. I'm not knowledgeable at all on these topics, but I remember a chapter on one of Dawkins's books on bats and echolocation which fascinated me as well. This thread subject reminded me of that and also of the fact that some birds of prey have amazing eyesight.

Evolution fits perfectly with a world in which some animals needed to hunt to survive and thus evolved traits that aided them in that and other animals which evolved in ways that helped them better escape their predators. This had always caused me cognitive dissonance when I was in the cult.

The natural world is full of many interesting animals and understanding how evolution moulds it all is very exciting indeed.

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I have a question.

by DATA-DOG in

according to jwism, god didn't cause suffering, he just allowed it.

wow, that's really, really, dumb.

to help humans out, jeehoobidoob provided the ransom.

alecholmesthedetective

Starting about noon, Elijah began to tease them: "Shout louder! "He's a god, so maybe he's busy. "Maybe he's relieving himself. "Maybe he's busy someplace. "Maybe he's taking a nap and somebody needs to wake him up."

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I have a question.

by DATA-DOG in

according to jwism, god didn't cause suffering, he just allowed it.

wow, that's really, really, dumb.

to help humans out, jeehoobidoob provided the ransom.

alecholmesthedetective

all you've got is your view

On the contrary, all humanity has got are objective facts, such as the problem of natural evil and the internal contradictions of books written before any knowledge of plate tectonics which cause tsunamis that drown a quarter of a million people.

Religion has had plenty of time, millenia, to come up with a satisfactory answer to theodicy, and it hasn't because it can't.