Posts by VM44

Discusses Armageddon. Describes every aspect of it. It’s like a pre Armageddon instruction and then followed by after Armageddon instructions. When and how we will be healed. Language uniformity and how we will return to one language earth wide. The new scrolls. A new calendar structure! The brother discussed theocratic education. Resurrection details such as when and how... The section of the talk gets deeply moving.

But the 2007 version of the talk is gone.

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2007 TALK YOU CAN"T MISS!

by clarity in

this has to be one of the worst 'talks' that i have ever heard!.

creepy & evil ciro!

wow!.

VM44

The audio of this talk has been removed from the internet!

The 2007 version must be really bad!

Did anyone save a copy of it?

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Is The WTS Building Beth Sarim 2 ?

by metatron in

jw
friends

i continue to puzzle over the future direction the watchtower is taking.

it seems very strange.. let's review: they are selling everything off in brooklyn, raking in huge sums from that real estate and building heavily in a fairly isolated part of upstate ny.. why?.

it may be classified as a country club (legally).

VM44

The main purpose of Wallkill is to provide new offices for the Governing Body!!!

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Is The WTS Building Beth Sarim 2 ?

by metatron in

jw
friends

i continue to puzzle over the future direction the watchtower is taking.

it seems very strange.. let's review: they are selling everything off in brooklyn, raking in huge sums from that real estate and building heavily in a fairly isolated part of upstate ny.. why?.

it may be classified as a country club (legally).

VM44

Here is the purpose of Wallkill according to a document submitted by the Watchtower.

http://jwleaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/watchtower-headquarters-ny-warwick-public-hearing-minutes-july-20-2011-pdf.pdf

"The proposed World Headquarters will provide space for a religious administrative campus comprised of approximately 8 buildings along with several accessory site structures constructed on approximately 45 acres of the 253 acre site. The proposed project is intended to relocate the offices of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and various supporting departments and committees from Brooklyn, NY to a rural setting in closer proximity to the Jehovah's Witnesses two other upstate facilities in Shawangunk, NY and Patterson, NY. The project is located at 1 Kings Drive in the Town of Warwick, New York."

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Do JW still hold to their 1984 Doomsday deadline?

by bytheirworks in

jw
friends

did jw's predict the world would end in 1984?.

the september 21, 1984 issue of chrisitanity today on pages 66-67, ran an article entitled: "do jehovah's witnesses still hold to their 1984 doomsday deadline?".

that's as far as my search has gotten me and it isn't on chrisitanity today's web-site.. can anyone find this article for me?.

VM44

"Walter Glass, registrar of the Witnesses’ Tower Bible School of the Gilead,..."

I can't find online any record of a "Walter Glass"!

He is invisible.

Very appropriate for someone with the last name "Glass."

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The Watchtower's Six (6) Interpretations of Matthew 24:45

by Calebs Airplane in

a friend just emailed me this interesting video last night... just hought i'd share.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8pqnrprms.

so, in summary, the faithful & discreet slave are:.

1881: the body of christ1896: a yet to be determined "individual"1916: 20 years later, that "individual" turned out to be russell1926: (10 years later) no wait!

VM44

...only 8 of us are the FDS!

"We love this idea!"

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Is Richard Dawkins giving atheists a bad name?

by slimboyfat in

he just can't seem to stop himself taunting "these muslims" or "some muslim or other".

among his favourite taunts are:.

"all the world's muslims have fewer nobel prizes than trinity college, cambridge.".

VM44

More about the book:

Review

"Enjoyable from start to finish, this exceptionally accessible book will appeal to science lovers, lovers of autobiographies-and, of course, all of Dawkins's fans, atheists and theists alike." Library Journal starred review "Well-written, captivating, and filled with fascinating anecdotes" Publishers Weekly "Richard Dawkins is a hero of mine, so being able to read about how he became the man and the thinker he is, was a particular delight for me. How his life formed from an inchoate, primordial soup and then never wavered from sound, scientific principles made for a huge page turning experience; he's also a great writer, so that helps. Some people get their kicks from Superman's origin story, or Batman's origin story. or Jesus'. But for me, it was Richard Dawkins." Bill Maher "It has been my good fortune to meet many of the greatest minds of our time, but standing above them all in the power of both his ideas and his rhetoric is Richard Dawkins, whose books are major publishing events because they change the conversation and the culture. In An Appetite for Wonder Dawkins turns his critical analysis inward to reveal how his mind works and what personal events and cultural forces most shaped his thinking. Destined to become a classic in the annals of science autobiography." Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Believing Brain and Why Darwin Matters "Skepticism and atheism do not arrive from revelation or authority. In our culture it's a slow thoughtful process. But, in the beginning there was Dawkins, moving that process along for many of us, with information and inspiration. For the modern skeptical/atheist movement, in the beginning -- there was Dawkins and he was wicked good. Appetite for Wonder shows us this beginning." Penn Jillette, author of God No! and Every Day is an Atheist Holiday --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Richard Dawkins, voted Prospect magazine's #1 World Thinker, is the author of the blockbuster bestseller The God Delusion. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor's Tale, A Devil's Chaplain, The Greatest Show on Earth, and The Magic of Reality (with Dave McKean). Dawkins is a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He was the inaugural holder of the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the Kistler Prize, the Shakespeare Prize, the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science, the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award, and the International Cosmos Prize of Japan.

Biography

Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil's Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.

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Is Richard Dawkins giving atheists a bad name?

by slimboyfat in

he just can't seem to stop himself taunting "these muslims" or "some muslim or other".

among his favourite taunts are:.

"all the world's muslims have fewer nobel prizes than trinity college, cambridge.".

VM44

Richard Dawkins has written an autobiography.

Book Description

Release date: September 24, 2013

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view.

His first book, The Selfish Gene, caused a seismic shift in the study of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution. It was also in this book that Dawkins coined the term meme, a unit of cultural evolution, which has itself become a mainstay in contemporary culture.

In An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford, and his path to writing The Selfish Gene. He paints a vivid picture of his idyllic childhood in colonial Africa, peppered with sketches of his colorful ancestors, charming parents, and the peculiarities of colonial life right after World War II. At boarding school, despite a near-religious encounter with an Elvis record, he began his career as a skeptic by refusing to kneel for prayer in chapel. Despite some inspired teaching throughout primary and secondary school, it was only when he got to Oxford that his intellectual curiosity took full flight.

Arriving at Oxford in 1959, when undergraduates "left Elvis behind" for Bach or the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dawkins began to study zoology and was introduced to some of the university's legendary mentors as well as its tutorial system. It's to this unique educational system that Dawkins credits his awakening, as it invited young people to become scholars by encouraging them to pose rigorous questions and scour the library for the latest research rather than textbook "teaching to" any kind of test. His career as a fellow and lecturer at Oxford took an unexpected turn when, in 1973, a serious strike in Britain caused prolonged electricity cuts, and he was forced to pause his computer-based research. Provoked by the then widespread misunderstanding of natural selection known as "group selection" and inspired by the work of William Hamilton, Robert Trivers, and John Maynard Smith, he began to write a book he called, jokingly, "my bestseller." It was, of course, The Selfish Gene.

Here, for the first time, is an intimate memoir of the childhood and intellectual development of the evolutionary biologist and world-famous atheist, and the story of how he came to write what is widely held to be one of the most important books of the twentieth century.

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"Whether These Appear Sound From a Strategic or Human Standpoint or Not." - What do YOU think?

by jw07 in

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20131115/seven-shepherds-eight-dukes/.

paragraph 17.

"at that time, the life-saving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.

VM44

.All of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.

Think this was written to get the JWs to stay only at approved hotels when attending conventions?