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  If a Nuclear War Was to Start would you start praying again

  by cassuk11 in

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  i would be interested to know if the announcement came of an immenent nuclear war would you start praying or get drunk etc etc..

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Messiah did not fail me ever not once.

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  The next question the uber self-righteous Christian needs to answer, if you want to make such a claim, is this: what is your explanation for when another person of equal faith and equal devotion to yours, or greater, prays with as much intensity as you did...yet got nothing for their effort??

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  You see, once you claim that god or Jesus has answered your prayers and did something for you, you are now under obligation to explain why he doesn't help the next guy who prayed with just as much faith...
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  If a Nuclear War Was to Start would you start praying again

  by cassuk11 in

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  2. bible

  i would be interested to know if the announcement came of an immenent nuclear war would you start praying or get drunk etc etc..

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  “Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever'. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data.”

  --- Carl Sagan

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  Whether you pray to Egyptian gods, the "I am", Baal, Yahweh, Thor, Zeus, or anyone one of the 30,000 other gods in history is pointless because the end result is the same: none of the prayers are, or ever have been, answered.

  This collective failure constitutes data.
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  If a Nuclear War Was to Start would you start praying again

  by cassuk11 in

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  i would be interested to know if the announcement came of an immenent nuclear war would you start praying or get drunk etc etc..

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Messiah came and put an end to religion and organised systems so the KIngdom within can be established

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  And yet he's stood idly by for 2,000 years and watched while Christianity became the very institution he allegedly condemned- yet did nothing to stop it. Interesting.

  Isn't that a massive failure?

  You have the same mentality as the WT: Jesus has allegedly been the most powerful king heading the most powerful government for 100 years now...and not a damn thing has changed under that rulership. MASSIVE FAILURE (again).
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  This week's WT study...made me so sick.....

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. bible

  this week's study april 15th 2014 was called "do you see the one who is invisible?".

  it was perhaps one of the most depressing, controlling, fear-mongering, stress inducing, doctrinally incorrect, hate-inspiring, judgemental, cult-like, irrational, hyped-up, critical, crazy, stretched out, fanciful, illogical, burdensome, inflated, coersive, manipulative, and brain-snappingly weird stuff i have read for some time.... (but i'm sure it was just a rehash and repeat of previous stuff...for the new masses....).

  i had to keep up a sane appearance while in the hall, and even answer some garbage while this was being 'studied'... my cognitive disonance must be so strong now, because i found this one of the hardest ones to endure....now that i am home, i have poured a stiff drink and am trying to clear my head...... one paragraph was classic:.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  "Under angelic direction, Jehovahs people are conveying an important message: "fear god and give him glory because the hour of judgement by him has arrived"

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  Really?

  According to the recent WT video commercials for the Atlanta International Convention and other cities, Jehovah's Witnesses' message is, "Get ready for the time of your life!"

  The theme is: come join the big party-tours, dances, concerts, dining, nightlife- not that the end is imminent.

  Does WT actually believe anything it says????
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  Atlanta Int Convention 2014:The Big Party. Does this look like WT believes Armageddon is coming "soon"?

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

  1. watchtower
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=potrr2qxhue.

  .. if armageddon is "imminent", why is wt focused on sight-seeing, entertainment, travel, etc.

  instead of preaching and saving people??.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  I was in Atlanta yesterday and the road that runs along south of the Georgia Dome is closed and the lots on both sides are under construction. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd is closed at the Georgia Dome.

  but 400, which goes to the area shown on the map in the video has construction as well.

  This will be intersting....Centennial park will be tough to get to as well

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  Anyone see a pattern here?

  Atlanta: torn up with construction

  Detroit: on the verge of bankruptcy, high crime, massive internal decay

  New Orleans: virtually unchanged after Katrina obliterated it in 2005 ( I was there, I've seen if for myself). Blight, high crime, fiscally stressed, massive internal decay.

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  WT is gravitating toward chaos because it can get bargain basement deals ($0 cost/big kickbacks to WT- same rates to JWs attending and WT expects full value donations for the convention). Who cares about the conditions JWs have to endure? The risk of getting held up at gunpoint in Detroit? Whatever. As long as WT gets a deal, the details are irrelevant.

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  2015 schedule for conventions: Fallujah and Baghdad.
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  If a Nuclear War Was to Start would you start praying again

  by cassuk11 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i would be interested to know if the announcement came of an immenent nuclear war would you start praying or get drunk etc etc..

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Death is where fusion takes place and the atoms that you are made of which is compressed energy hedl together by magnetic forces are released so fusion with God takes places because God is made of the same stuff

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  If death is oh-so-wonderful, why do religious people seem to always beg their god to preserve their life when they are about to lose it??

  It seems absurdly hypocritical.
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  Why is shunning NOT a violation of Nat'l and Int'l law?

  by Zoos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was looking at the universal declaration of human rights posted at un.org and also the description of what constitutes a violation of religious freedom at uslegal.com .. .

  according to the declaration of human rights:.

  article 18.. everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Once governments grow up and quit treating religion with kid gloves, and requires them to abide by the same rules that every other progressive institution sees as humanly decent, then you'll see changes.

  Until that time, you'll see religion exert the same force and idiotic traditions that have historically kept religion in the Dark Ages while humanity progresses by leaps into a better way of doing things.
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  If a Nuclear War Was to Start would you start praying again

  by cassuk11 in

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  2. bible

  i would be interested to know if the announcement came of an immenent nuclear war would you start praying or get drunk etc etc..

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  If a nuclear war starts, would that not indicate god has already failed mankind?* So why pray?

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  * ignoring, of course, the already abundant evidence that failure has occured on a massive scale (if god actually existed). If he/it hasn't cared up til now, a nuclear war will make little difference in god's willingness to answer any prayers.
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  No more free water for Brooklyn Assemby Hall since 2008

  by Rattigan350 in

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  http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ny-court-of-appeals/1181065.html.

  new york city gives religious buildings water exemptions if the building is entirely used for religious purposes and if there is a caretaker's apartment, there can be only one.

  that assembly hall had 2. the water dept denied their application for exemption on that basis.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  a recent inspection had revealed guest rooms on the building's fourth floor, or balcony level, which were not disclosed in the Church's 2002 application."

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  You mean WT pulled a fast one on government again? Say it isn't so !
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: Hypocrisy on steroids

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  found this on youtube.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eot8sac9-no.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  He could be the dude that serves subpoenas, etc

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  or the guy that makes the coffee and does the donut runs for the officers.