Posts by Onager

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Dammit Jim, I'm a psychopath not an all loving God!
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when did you discover that the god of bible - and the loving god that you had worshiped your entire life - were not the same?

how did it affect you?.

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Onager

Cold Steel: "one cannot judge God without knowing what He knows"

That's not true.
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Evolution and spirits
by Chris Tann in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.

however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.

i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
Onager

I can tell you an experience I had *last night*. I fell asleep waiting for my wife to come home and woke up in terror because someone was jumping up and down on the bed. The figure was really skinny and had a long coat and a hat on, pulled down over their eyes. The dog jumped off the bottom of the bed and ran out of the room like the clappers. I sat up and heard the key turn in the door downstairs and the figure vanished.

Now what I *think* happened was that my wife opening the door woke the dog who ran downstairs to say hello and all the rest was my mind trying to make sense of it all. The figure seemed perfectly real to me but I am sure was created entirely by the dog jumping off the bed. Well, that or a skinny ghost decided to wake me up for fun. Which is more likely? :)
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Evolution and spirits
by Chris Tann in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.

however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.

i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
Onager

Chris Tann does this link remind you of the account you're referring to? It's in a coffee shop, not a hospital, but the "magic" sounds the same.

http://www.today.com/popculture/carrie-telekinesis-stunt-gives-coffee-shop-patrons-extra-jolt-8C11356002

This is a prank which has gone viral recently. Your account sounds like the genesis of an urban myth based on it. If you read some of the articles on Snopes.com you can see how these sort of stories start and then change.

This is just my theory, but changing the location to a hospital rather than a coffee shop (more dead people \ angry spirits in a hospital) gives the story "spirity" credentials and changing the man into a child ups the emotional hookyness.
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JW Statistics
by Giordano in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
service year.

peak pubs.

increase.
Onager

You could look at it this way: From 1960 to 2012 the peak publishers increased by 6,817,177 people.

in the same time period the world population increased by 3.9 billion people.*

Do you recall the character in one of Douglas Adams' Hitcherbooks called Wowbagger the infinitely prolonged? He was trying to personally insult everyone in the universe... The joke being that in the time he spent insulting one person, thousands more people had been born in that moment.

It's a bit like that. :)

* http://www.geohive.com/earth/his_history3.aspx
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .

selection to account for the complexity of life.

careful examination of the .
Onager

Yes, as Cofty says, Evolution has nothing to with the origins of Life, it is only concerned with the origin of Species.

Hence the name of that book by that guy...
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What happens after a couple of thousand years of paradise?
by Hortensia in
1. jw
2. friends
my guess is, god gets bored.. armageddon's over, the earth has been cleansed, only his sycophants have survived.

all is perfect.

after a millenium or three god gets bored.
Onager

Sounds a lot like the plot to the film "Megamind"... :)
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So I'm going through a really difficult time right now.
by scaredtospeak in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was publicly reproved last year and the elders have taken their sweet time in reinstating my "privileges".

it's been six months and i can't answer at the meetings or participate in the theocratic ministry school.

in all honesty- i don't care about the privileges.
Onager

Hi ish, can you explain clearly how you think the other posters here are being misleading?

Cheers,

Matt.
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Let's suggest some programs for tv.jw.org
by rebel8 in
1. jw
2. friends
weekday afternoons: a soap opera featuring judicial committees, demon possessions, and wives clamoring to be the ones who host the circuit overseer's lunch.

saturday mornings: sparlock cartoon.

friday evenings: reality show featuring jw dating.
Onager

Film:

Silence of the Lambs
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don't say "worldly" say non-jehovahs witness
by hoser in
1. jw
2. friends
here's another buzzword that burns my butt.

worldly.

i refuse to say it.
Onager

Thanks for the links OneEyedJoe!
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don't say "worldly" say non-jehovahs witness
by hoser in
1. jw
2. friends
here's another buzzword that burns my butt.

worldly.

i refuse to say it.
Onager

Is there a "dictionary" anywhere on here with a list of these loaded language terms?

That would be an interesting read.