Island Man

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  What are the chances of having a one on one with GB member

  by Chook in

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  jesus drifted amongst the lowly folk .

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  Island Man

  I'd say the chances are about 1 in 144,000.
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  Reading The Bible Again After Leaving

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  at the moment i dont beleive in anything.

  im pretty much an open book, but my critical mind is very alert to bullshit.

  but anyway i decided to re-read the bible with a non jw filter.. i researched online first which is supposed to be the best translation out there.

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  According to the Bible and the beliefs of christians. God is a great narcissist. Think of all the Psalms praising God. Who wrote them? Well since God is the author of the Bible it must mean that God wrote all these Psalms praising himself. The psalmists were just pen-men after all - like a secretary writing a letter dictated by the boss.
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  Audio machine and the satanic band WT used!

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's been braught out in other places before that the band audiomachine' song eternal flame was used in the last video of the convention this year.

  but do you know that the band has several albums and in these albums are songs with titles that could easily be construed as satanic or pagan!

  some of these song titles are: hells battalion, legions of doom, tree of life, god of lankhmar, and the heavens shall tremble.

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  Island Man

  Someone called Bethel about it:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9en_vnngflg
  
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  What Songs Best Fit you when you learned TATT and Afterwards?

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the work of john lennon best fit my situation.

  first, i found out.

  i found out.

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  "Watchtower Concrete Jungle" by Bob Marley:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIoBi1U-ASo
  
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  Evolution Gap - Where's the Fur?

  by shadow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  evolution paints human ancestors covered with fur.

  fur has several benefits as stated by britannica "the pelts of fur-bearing animals are called true furs when they consist of two elements: a dense undercoat, called ground hair, and longer hairs, extending beyond that layer, called guard hair.

  the principal function of ground hair is to maintain the animal’s body temperature; that of guard hair is to protect the underlying fur and skin and to shed rain or snow.".

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  jacobm: However, my question is still unanswered. How is the force of 'natural selection', being that the most dominant/fittest/etc. male gets to reproduce with the desired female, at work in this case?
  There are too many variables at work to ensure the fittest male gets to reproduce with the female snake.

  jacobm, the words in bold highlight where your problem in understanding lies.

  Natural selection is not a force. It is just a term used to refer to the observed trend whereby animals having traits that happen to be advantageous in their environment tend to thrive more in that environment. It is not a force.

  There is no force ensuring that only the fittest animals get to reproduce. It is just a fact that the fittest animals will, statistically speaking, tend to thrive more than less fit ones. I'm sure there are many individual instances in nature where fit animals die without reproducing and "weaker" animals reproduce. There are other factors involved in addition to natural selection. You also have sexual selection and genetic drift.
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  The one where the JW Died!

  by Thisismein1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/q6b77gm8xxi.

  all will be revealed..

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  So will the funeral be at the kingdom hall?
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  Juan Gabriel died.

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for the world, michael jackson's death was the death of an insanely well known person.. in latin america, juan gabriel was like our michael jackson, he was that well known.. generations of people all over latin america knew his songs.

  you heard his songs when you broke up with someone and went to the bar, you heard his songs in karaoke, you heard his songs every saturday when your grandma played music loudly and she only had the one cassette and it was his.... i hadn't cried for the death of an artist before, but today i did.. there are sooo many memories, both good and bad, in mine and hundreds of millions of people, in which he was a part.. mexico and all of latin america is in pain right now.. may he rest in peace..

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  "In Latin America, Juan Gabriel was like our Michael Jackson, he was that well known."

  No he wasn't. I have never heard of him. If he was Latin America's Michael Jackson then the whole world would have heard of him just as the whole world heard of Michael Jackson.
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  Self-righteous Watchtower vs the pagan-inspired New Testament.

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower refuses to translate stauros as cross despite having no evidence to refute the long-standing ancient belief that jesus died on a cross; and in spite of evidence that the romans were in fact using crosses in executions by jesus' day.

  they shun the word simply because of the use of crosses in ancient pagan religions.. watchtower refuses to refer to their places of worship with the word church because of the word's supposed pagan origin or past usage to refer to pagan places of worship.. now contrast watchtower's self-righteous attitude of avoiding the use of all words having pagan religious usages, with the new testament verse of 2 peter 2:4:.

  certainly god did not refrain from punishing the angels who sinned, but threw them into tarʹta·rus, putting them in chains of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment.. tartarus is a word that had rich pagan mythological meaning when it was written in the nt.

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  Island Man

  I look forward to your threads, Tenacious.
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  Are GB accountable for deaths for changing policy ?

  by Chook in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  example blood factions, organ transplants.

  suicide from disfellowshipping , breaking up family's with old oral sex policy.

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  Yes, they are morally accountable and in a more enlightened world, they would be legally accountable.

  When you indoctrinate someone form birth to believe that you speak for God, and that loyalty and obedience to your teachings exclusively is equivalent to loyalty and obedience to God, and that such loyalty and obedience are vital for their eternal salvation, and you then teach that person that God requires them to reject certain life saving medical treatments and the person obeys and dies - there is no way to extricate yourself from moral responsibility for the person's death. You psychologically manipulated the person into killing themself.
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  Can you prove that our entire universe and existence is not a computer simulation?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you were a computer programmer and you were to create a simulated automated world, that would constantly evolve and self run after initial designs.

  first you would have to code the rules, laws, and core elements of this world.

  while this is being coded, the program is not run yet, so none of it exists.

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  No, I can't prove that our entire universe and existence is not a computer simulation. I am also willing to bet that you can't prove that it is. Where does that leave us?

  One of the most pitiful excuses for believing an extraordinary claim is the suggestion that the claim cannot be disproved. When a claim is said to be unfalsifiable, that is not a commendation of the claim as being true. It is an indictment of the claim as being unverifiable and useless.