the innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.
attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.
now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..
Abiather...It seems to me your focus on these atrocities is to prove a point. Unfortunately your ' point ' ie that human behaviour in the present is getting worse cannot be based on cherry picking .
If on the other hand if you must cherry pick, why not seek and find joy in the multitude of positive and good that is achieved for humankind. Perhaps you could post some of your findings in the ' positive ' category?
Best wishes.
the best argument that we have an immaterial part (called spirit/soul) came from jesus christ.
however, it is recorded in the gospel of thomas (not in the traditional four gospels).
jesus says: if the flesh came into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel.
Jesus was a bit unsure? He uses' if ' twice in the ' Thomas ' quote
I wonder if he had second thoughts!? ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz oops sorry fell asleep .
identical twin studies show there is a strong inheritable component to religiosity.
thomas bouchard studied identical and fraternal twins raised apart and tested them on religious attitudes.. the correlation for the former turned out to be 62% compared to just 2% for the latter.
his colleague.
corinthians 1:18, holman christian standard bible "for to those who are perishing the message of the cross is foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is gods power.
an austrian radiologist, hermann moedder, experimented with medical students in the 40's, hanging them by their wrists with their hands directly above their heads (much like the watchtower pictures jesus on a stake).
in a few minutes, the students became pale, their lung capacity dropped from 5.2 to 1.5 liters, blood pressure decreased and the pulse rate increased.
identical twin studies show there is a strong inheritable component to religiosity.
thomas bouchard studied identical and fraternal twins raised apart and tested them on religious attitudes.. the correlation for the former turned out to be 62% compared to just 2% for the latter.
his colleague.
i have been a regular visitor to this site for several years now.
i never really felt the need to set up an account and post...until now.
at the close of yesterdays meeting, an older brother gave the prayer.
Hi and welcome...yes indeed the manipulation and compliant vulnerability of the JWs is quite staggering.
If they were told by the hierarchy that the internet was still taboo, he would be praying for protection from it....how gullible!!
Best wishes .
finally after five years i have finally shut the door very firmly on the witnesses.
i have had this "sister" calling for over the last six months clearly trying to reactivate me,but never mentioning the reason why me and my family left the forfar congregation two years ago.
it was always any subject but the " elephant in the room" well today was the finale.
my mom called me yesterday to ask how i was doing.
i hadn't seen her in a while, so it was nice to hear her voice.
we went through the motions of jw small talk and then she started telling me about her co visit from last week.
remember this and other threads a few months back, on the subject that some kingdom halls in chile acquiesced to govt rules that every building should display the national flag on the day of celebration?.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/262505/kingdom-hall-chile-has-national-flag?size=20&page=1.
many of us here and around the net, calling on our dub experiences cried "never would that happen!
That letter of 'explanation ' represents no more than twisted words to protect the wtb&ts buck !!
Being ' no part of the world ' by most reasonable thinking must include not flying/displaying the national symbol of the countries of satans wicked worldly system.
HYPOCRITS !!!!!
john ekrann, a helper to the gb, revealed the true reason for the change was protecting jws from apostates and other "anointed" christians.. see: http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_e_201501_2_video (around 4:55ms).
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Classic example of slimey oil trying to calm the rough waters of thinking jws who are not buying this bullsh...t.
Noticed he lowers his eyes from the camera when mentioning ' the time of the end '!! Sickening delusional claptrap!!! Ugh!
