the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!
some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.
when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!
Vidiot - "The ultimate supernatural revenge fantasy."
Nicely put.
On a side note, there are some very interesting articles/papers on the psychology of eschatology, end-of-world, etc. Some point to the idea that we might all be wired to have a bit of a "revenge fantasy" mentality as part of our psychological immune system. This could explain the success of movies/tv-shows/games/books that have some sort of "end-of-the-world" theme to them. Gotta love "The Walking Dead" ;-)
today... i'm going to talk to you..... about "sisters!!".
now our dear sisters... have a place ... in god's organisation.
they are not permitted to teach!.
Good Lord what a horrifying and creepy look Lett has. Good old-fashioned nightmare fuel. Thanks! He looks like Jabba the Hutt eating a McRib sandwich.
if we are to look at matthew 1:17, looks like there were 42 generations from abraham to jesus.. if we take 1948 bce (abraham's birth) and we take it to jesus baptisim (29 ce) we get to 1,977 years.. so lets divide 1977 years by 42 (the amount of generations), we get to around 47 years for one generation.. 1 generation = 47 years.. 1 generation + an overlapping generation (1 generation more) = 94 years.. this is all in the first chapter of the new testament..... comments welcome.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
I like to believe that "religion" will eventually be redefined as what it is; stories and metaphors from people who knew very little about nature and the cosmos. Humans are storytellers and we will continue to tell stories in word and art. But, I like to believe that modernity will continue to move "religion" to the confines of storytelling and strip off its unchallenged authority.
I dearly hope that "religion" will lose it's privileged status and that faith will stop being a virtue. Otherwise, in a thousand years we'll be fighting "holy" wars on who shot first, "Han Solo or Greedo"...
But, then again, I could be wrong... (said by no one ever in the GB)
the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!
some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.
when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!
Eschatology, gotta love it. It always seems to me that it is less about "prophecy" and "serving God" and more of a coping mechanism for the day-to-day problems people encounter in real life. It seems to comfort people who can't deal with their anger at big and small injustices. "You put too much sugar in my coffee. Ha, ha... Someday you will pay for that at 'Armageddon'. See who laughs last...That'll show you."
Eschatology smacks to me like destruction porn for the impotent and insecure.
i believe the average rank & file are illiterate when it come to the bible because they are so used to using the wbats cliff notes... even though i believe the bible is a fiction novel, at least be able to explain a novel you hold is such high regard: i mean jesus!!!
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well i'm sure we can come up with clever comments that make people feel uncomfortable by serving to decompartmentalize things that have been compartmentalized in the thinking of the average jw.
or comments that make the cognitive dissonance stand out plainly, these have to be said in innocent manner and with an apparent obliviousness to the contradiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/compartmentalization_%28psychology%29.
well i'm sure we can come up with clever comments that make people feel uncomfortable by serving to decompartmentalize things that have been compartmentalized in the thinking of the average jw.
or comments that make the cognitive dissonance stand out plainly, these have to be said in innocent manner and with an apparent obliviousness to the contradiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/compartmentalization_%28psychology%29.
Great answers... I would argue that they are more afraid of life than of death because every day is another opportunity where they could slip up and lose everything...
I think this is why many JWs will still rather die than take blood. For many the idea of dying for their faith is very strong. I think many JWs are the same type of people who would martyr themselves (and others) in a public square.
