Posts by Separation of Powers

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Nimrod: Fact or fiction

by dugout in

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nimrod and the tower of babel-is this history or biblical myth.

god confused their lauguges?.

sounds quite comical when you think about it.

One thing that bothers me is the fact that no where in the Bible is Nimrod mentioned in conjunction with the Tower of Babel's confusion of languages. If you are mentioning the two as if they occured in conjunction, then you are still under the control of the skewed Jehovah's Witness theology. Read the account, tell me there is credible evidence that they even remotely occured at the same time in biblical history.

The book of Genesis is notorious for jumping hundreds, if not thousands of years in a single verse....Nimrod had absolutely nothing to do with the Tower of Babel, cause it aint there.

The Tower of Babel story is proof of several things,

1) The capability of man to achieve whatever his imagination moves him to do.

2) That God is not singular...He is dualistic in his persona. (he expresses his concern with other members of the godhead)

3) God is petty and worried about big building programs, unless they are undertaken by the Watchtower organization.

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Ebola's Hits US Soil, why Texas and will JWs think it's "The End"?

by BucketShopBill in

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http://news.yahoo.com/texas-patient-confirmed-as-first-ebola-case-diagnosed-in-us-205031312.html.

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It may well be.....but NOT because the ORG says anything about it.

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Didnt Jesus kick satan out of the heavens 100 years ago for the watchtower yesterday?

by Joliette in

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i was at my friend's volleyball game when i looked down at my clock on my cell phone and realized its been 100 years since jesus starting ruling from the heavens and satan was casted down to earth.

wasnt it october 1st 1914 when jesus decided to kick satan out of the heavens?.

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There are laws that require that a landlord aka God, cannot simply kick out a tenant aka Satan. There was a load of paperwork, then the Sheriff's department had to present a quit claim for the tenant aka Satan to leave. Satan, although expected to leave around October 3/4 1914, simply decided to hang around. He subsequently filed a cease and desist order against the landlord aka God and has been hanging around ever since. Several of the other tenants aka Angels filed nuisance claims against the tenant aka Satan, but because so many of the other tenants aka Angels, some odd millions and millions of them, in fact about 1/3 of the entire tenant population, would hang out with him drinking and carousing, the tenant aka Satan has yet to leave, expecting that the landlord aka God will send in the hit squad and simply bury him out in the cornfield with Jimmy Hoffa.

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Still nothing credible?

by Separation of Powers in

i can hardly believe that anything new is gonna be announced at the annual meeting.

i mean, there is absolutely no one i know in this organization capable of keeping a secret and we haven't heard anything but "big changes are coming" "just wait and see" "big things are in the works" and my personal favorite posted by one of our members who was told not to diassociate because "things are gonna be announced that will change your mind".. no one i know at the hall or in positions of responsibilty has ever been able to keep anything confidential.

it's always been like the character on in lving color, "i aint one to gossip...but you didn't hear that from me.".

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@ Terry- I haven't had the chance to mention this to you yet, but I really like your contributions to this forum. Yes, I agree 100% with your comment. It is kind of hard to distance themselves from the absurdity of CTR and JFR after building on that foundation for SOOO long. It's like expecting the Egyptians to move a pyramid and leave the foundation.

@hamsterbait- I remember something the boxer Muhammad Ali said, "Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

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New Appointments Are Very Fast & All On The CO

by baldeagle in

the week of september 15, 2014 was the congregations cos visit.

the midweek meeting was on tuesday, a very general bland talk was given by the co. in the past we would have had the elders & servants meeting on thursday night, and the other congregation meeting on friday.

as you know the friday meeting is no more.

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Ahh, plausible deniability at its finest....The CO better hope he has no real assets, he is now on the line for every single thing that can happen with that elder or MS that "he" has appointed. (By Holy Spirit of course)

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I realized I've been *hit on alot

by skeeter1 in

about a month ago, i realized that i didn't really care about my still-in jw family.

i just want to be left alone by them.

they caused me so much grief.

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Good for you...move on. Remember the old JW illustration about "drinking a little bit of poison?" Yeah, that one. Some people are like poison. They will toxify your life. Get rid of em. It's better to be alone than surround yourself with people that make you feel lonely.

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October 2nd, 2014: The World Ends Tomorrow, Taking all Bets!

by Oubliette in

on october 2, 1914, charles taze russell, founder of the watchtower, announced that the gentile times have ended!.

tomorrow will be exactly 100 years since his historic announcment.. to commemorate this centennial occasion, i will gladly take bets in any amount of money that the world will not end tomorrow and that on friday, october 3rd, 2014 gmt, we will still all be here, for better or worse.. any die-hard jws interested in taking the other side of this friendly little wager?

still hoping the big "a" is coming tomorrow and your loving god, jehovah, is going to commit mass genocide and execute 99.9% of earth's population because they don't follow the dictates the 7 members of the "faithful and discreet slave," aka, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses?.

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@ Enzo...it doesn't matter what Charles Taze Russel believed, he wasn't even part of the Faithful and Discreet Slave...he was demoted so he doesn't count anymore.

As for the world ending, it won't happen in October, God is a baseball fan.

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What is our place in the universe?

by jgnat in

what is our place in the universe?

scientists map our galactic supercluster and give it a name, laniakea.. .

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/14798/20140904/what-is-our-place-in-the-universe-scientists-map-our-galactic-supercluster.htm.

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Right here. Right now.

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Kid charged over $500 to a game

by skeeter1 in

yesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.

over $500 to itunes.

questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.

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Every week, the kid starts with a balance of whatever allowance you decide, say $50....each chore, homework, getting out of bed to get to school, everything that makes an adult responsible has a value....

Homework not ready for the next day's school...2.00

Getting up late....2.00

Not washing the dishes....5.00

If they are responsible, they end the week with $50, if not, then whatever is left.

Their allowance is their pay to purchase the things they want..

"I want a new pair of sneakers!" Well, that's $100, two weeks allowance. In the long run, it pays...you stop having to buy all the crap that catches their attention and they learn that if they really want it, they will have to be responsible. It works really well when there are more than two kids. I have a few, so when the oldest would see that the younger siblings were walking away with the full-boat allowance, it motivated them. Nothing serves as a better motivator for a kid than sibling rivalry.

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Still nothing credible?

by Separation of Powers in

i can hardly believe that anything new is gonna be announced at the annual meeting.

i mean, there is absolutely no one i know in this organization capable of keeping a secret and we haven't heard anything but "big changes are coming" "just wait and see" "big things are in the works" and my personal favorite posted by one of our members who was told not to diassociate because "things are gonna be announced that will change your mind".. no one i know at the hall or in positions of responsibilty has ever been able to keep anything confidential.

it's always been like the character on in lving color, "i aint one to gossip...but you didn't hear that from me.".

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I can hardly believe that anything new is gonna be announced at the Annual Meeting. I mean, there is absolutely no one I know in this organization capable of keeping a secret and we haven't heard anything but "big changes are coming" "just wait and see" "big things are in the works" and my personal favorite posted by one of our members who was told not to disassociate because "things are gonna be announced that will change your mind".

No one I know at the hall or in positions of responsibilty has ever been able to keep anything confidential. It's always been like the character on In Lving Color, "I aint one to gossip...BUT you didn't hear that from me."

So, let's just see how hush hush things were really kept..

Unless.....