Posts by StarTrekAngel

I don't know where they've got this idea that magical deliverance was the exception. The bible is themed around the idea that God miraculously delivers his people against the worst of odds.

In our meeting, someone made sure to clarify that this acts of God sending JWs to householders who prayed for it was not a coincidence. The magazine stated that "we keep hearing" of these occurrences. Did we miss the launch of a new JWTV shows called "Our weekly miracle report"?

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Hypothetical question. There is no more guns on our streets, would the crime rate go down?

by James Mixon in

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it would eliminate drive by's (gangs).

bank robbery.

( handing the bank teller a note, this is stick up without a gun).

StarTrekAngel

I doubt crime rates will do gown. However, senseless deaths like that of school children should. The arguments against gun regulations have two problems, in my view..

1) is always debated in a black and white scenario. Either we ban them or we do nothing. Never seems to be anyone willing to consider a middle ground.

2) The argument that bad guys will always get their guns. That is true. However, we can at least attempt to prevent school shooting or people going postal on co-workers. Those are opportunistic killers. Even the way they choose targets shows that they are targets of opportunity. They are not always after anyone in particular. They did it because they had easy access to the gun. Sure a knife would have killed them too. I would like to see the couple from the San Bernardino shooting trying to cause the same amount of damage using knives.

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Why didn't Jehovah know the flood wouldn't work?

by OverlappingGeneralizations in

this has been something that is bugging me lately-.

jehovah is all knowing.

he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.

StarTrekAngel

I don't know why evil is still around. I do think it makes sense to allow the other party to speak. If it didn't, the WT would be right to shun apostates.

Now why does evil have to survive this long? That is another good question. I was trying to, wether you believe in god or not, shed a different view at what most religions would answer

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Why didn't Jehovah know the flood wouldn't work?

by OverlappingGeneralizations in

this has been something that is bugging me lately-.

jehovah is all knowing.

he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.

StarTrekAngel

That is a great question. I think, in my personal opinion, that since most religions, including JWs, have redefined faith as blind obedience, it lends to this type of contradictions.

The bible tells us of the several occasions in which God had it with humanity and was ready to wipe them all out. Not just at the flood, also during Moises' time. Moises, however, appeased him. He told God that his fame as a loving, redeeming God would be ruined in the eyes of humanity if he killed the Israelites after he miraculously freed them from Egypt. This, in my view, has little to do with being an all knowing God. Is more about faith. In my view, faith is like a modern day credit report. When you go to a bank to take a loan, your approval would be based on your history. Basically the bank would demonstrate faith in your responsibility as a borrower. Provided we are talking about a personal loan with no collateral. When it comes to spirituality, never in the bible it speaks of blind faith. Most of the faith shown by the people of the bible comes from a- past experiences in which God fulfilled his promises and b- based on demanding that God showed them some sort of miracle so that they would believe in his power.

With that said, and based on what I understand from the bible, God would have to have reasons to have faith in humanity. When he has lost it, he attempted to start over, always leaving a handful of humans around to see his power and redemption from evil. This, in my view, would not necessarily be bad. If humans are made to his image and humans are capable of losing faith, then God is very much capable of the same thing. You could, may be, say that the difference is that we humans can loose faith for the wrong reasons while God losses it for the right reasons. I would leave that up as something to be speculated upon, since we have this idea implanted on us that the word "perfect" is literal as it appears in the bible when referring to God.

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Australian Royal Commission Findings released

by Mephis in

will just post the general findings by counsel for the commission (angus stewart) - case specific ones are prior to them.

in short, absolutely damning.. not been through every submission myself yet.

available for download here: http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.aspx.

StarTrekAngel

I can hear the elder in my cong if I ever showed them this. If stop attending meetings, I will be shunned. If I showed them that document they will probably say they don't know what that is or where it comes from. They will state they don't care about any man made documents and that they will follow what the bible says. At best, they will admit this may be theocratic warfare.

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JWs, UFO's, demons, and the book "The Dark Gods"

by MikeHammer in

i have been looking into this issue that (many/most/all/etc) ufos are caused by demons as seems to be said by jws.

some time ago when i browsed this site i read a posting where someone recommended a book titled "the dark gods" by roberts and gilbertson (here is a link to the book at amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dark-gods-anthony-roberts/dp/009138771x).. besides that one there are a couple of other books that i have checked (one of these is "operation trojan horse" by john keel and the other one is "a guide to the paranormal" by magnus raven).

both of these say the same thing although they approach this issue from different directions.. looking at the amazon reviews for "the dark gods" it looks like it also says the same thing but the book is out of print.

StarTrekAngel

Vidiot,

Many people entertain the idea that what we call "Aliens" are not actually from outer space but from either inside the earth or are in the same planet but invisible to us. They believe that aliens are just beings or advanced humans from another time, dimension or universe. Ever heard of the hollow earth theory?