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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  @ - Bonzai - Its true that we have the technology to nearly wipe out all of the planet, at this time, BUT i guarantee you if we were alive during the BLACK PLAGUE, which was many centuries ago, we would have been thinking THOSE WERE the last days. Almost half the Earths known population DID die from the black plague.

  Dunedain, I agree. Good point. I guess what separates nuclear weapons apart from any natural calamity is that nuclear weapons are a man-made weapon specifically designed to wipe out the entire surface of the planet. Witnesses consider this technology an affront to god and the epitome of a Satan-led demonic world. In any argument against the " last days" they will quickly use nuclear weapons as their trump card.

  I personally view nuclear technology as a part of human evolution. With great technology comes great responsibility. The more advanced technology becomes, there will always be a faction of people that will want to weaponize it. It's up to our children and their children whether or not we will use that technology for the betterment or to the detriment of humanity. So far, for 70 years we have managed to keep those weapons in their silos. I think that shows that the good among us have, up until now, outnumber the evil.
  
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  Hello everyone!

  by Planetsmashers in

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  ive been lurking for a while and finally got around to registering.

  about me: i was essentially born in & indoctrinated from youth.

  i was always a borderline "bad association" type because i always did the minimum and always disagreed with much of what was taught; even when i was a child.. luckily for me my father was never a jw so i never had to endure the male head pressure.

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  Welcome! I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts and insights.
  
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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  I was debating this issue with a friend, who is still in, but partially awake. He said that there has never been a time like now, where humans have the technology to wipe themselves off the planet. In fact, humans have built enough bombs to destroy the planet itself. He believes the last days began when the atomic bomb was born. There really wasn't much I could say for a rebuttal. He had a good point.
  

  I don't believe in there being any "last days" in the biblical sense, but I can tell you that having NK, China and Russia for neighbors doesn't make me feel safe. Living in a country that was nuked twice and had a nuclear reactor leak from a tsunami doesn't make me feel like this is the safest time in the history of humanity. I haven't read Stephen Pinker's book yet, but I wonder how he feels about nuclear weapons and chemical/biological/drone warfare technology.
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  JW Gump

  by Esse quam videri in

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  [....the scene opens with jw gump being summoned by the governing body....].

  jw gump: yes sir, governing body member, lett, sir!.

  gb lett: just what is your job at the watchtower organization, jw gump?.

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  So funny! I just watched Forrest Gump last night!

  "My momma always said, a cult is like a box of grenades. You always know whatcha gonna get!"
  
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  Asians are not necessarily governed by western concepts

  by fulltimestudent in

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  by coincidence (considering my posts on gay partner vows in a japanese buddhist temple) this shiseido tv advertisement showed up today.

  see if you can guess the point before the ad reveals it?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3db6pmq-8.

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  I think sisters in Japan have a huge struggle with fighting their attraction to other sisters. I once asked a pioneer sister to date with me. I thought it was a done deal, but she shyly admitted that she wasn't very interested in guys and implied she was waiting for Jehovah to fix her in the new system.

  Another time, I asked a sister out, but she said her future goal was to live with another sister and pioneer together up 'til armageddon.
  

  Another time I became quite close to this family with two smoking hot daughters (both in their 20s). I was their English tutor. One night we had a lot to drink at their house. So they dress me up, put make-up and lipstick on my face, made me wear a straw hat and drove me to the nearest convenient store. While filming me in the parking lot, I went inside and bought something. The goal was to get the convenience store worker to shake my hand. The guy behind the counter was very disturbed by it all, but I ended up telling him all this was to impress a girl outside, so he shook my hand, patted my shoulder and said, "ganbatte! (good luck!)" with a wink.

  Some version of fun, huh? The things we do for girls right?
  

  Things were going good until the family packed up and moved to Australia where we got out of touch.
  

  Ironically, years later, both sisters are still single and have zero interest in romance.
  
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  Hilarious Whatsapp message received - FIRST day after Big D

  by cognitivedizzy in

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  a hilarious stupid wa message is being circulated amongst jws in my area / country.. i had a hearty laugh at the ignorance and stupidity and brainwashed mentality, different people may express different emotions so you have been warned.

  day one after armageddon it seems ages since we last heard the gunshots and screams, today has been really quiet.

  the last few weeks have been sheer terror.

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  Wait a minute! I just watched this story unfold on a TV drama called The Walking Dead. Only now do I realize that the witnesses are the zombies!
  
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  Asians are not necessarily governed by western concepts

  by fulltimestudent in

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  by coincidence (considering my posts on gay partner vows in a japanese buddhist temple) this shiseido tv advertisement showed up today.

  see if you can guess the point before the ad reveals it?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3db6pmq-8.

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  LOL! I had no idea they were girls. My wife (Japanese) watched the video and had no idea either. It's amazing what they can do with their faces out here.
  
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  Buddhists and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by tornapart in

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  recently i have just started looking into what buddhism is all about.

  i rather like the idea of a personal spirituality.

  of trying to be a better person and an acceptance of the reality of life and trying to find an inner peace and contentment.. anyway, i came across this today.

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  I like to go to a quiet Buddhist temple, here in Japan, and sit in front of a zen garden. I sit and try to contemplate the beauty before me. I empty my mind and focus only on the shades of green, the ripples on the water, the perfect blue sky, the perfect placements of stone, the pure white sand contrasted by lush green moss - that is the closest thing there is for me that I can call a religious experience.
  
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  How was it when you were a JW as a kid?

  by nevaagain in

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  whats worse than being an adult jw?

  when i was a kid i always had a bad concience all the time.

  i believed i would not survive armageddon for the fact that i didn't like going to service and i didnt like going to the meetings.

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  Being a born-in sucked! Ruined my school life. I couldn't stop looking around at the other faces in the classroom, thinking that they were, in all likelihood, about to be consumed by fire, smashed by burning hail and finished off by sword-wielding angels on white horses. It's a miracle that after 30+ years of this madness I'm not in a mad house somewhere staring listlessly off into space with drool dribbling down my chin.
  
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  What is the best debate you've ever read on this board...

  by The Rebel in

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  who won, and why?.

  the rebel..

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  There was a debate within a debate on a thread somewhere where some posters were challenging whether or not Viviane and Cofty were the same person. Maybe it was one of FusionTheism's threads. I found that thread to be very amusing. If you can't win a debate against a group of individuals, claim they are all one person with multiple accounts!
  

  I would like to see them disagree with each other on something just for pure entertainment value, though.