zen nudist
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what is the real reason for condemning anyone to eternal death or torment?
by zen nudist inconsider that a real all powerful god could wipe out everyones memory instead of everyone.... guess that it did not occur.
to him in noah's day?.
if everyone had to start over and could be educated with the troof, why condemn them for anything done prior to that moment?.
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Is the very concept of THE TRUTH the reason cults can exist?
by zen nudist inconsidering that all availible evidence points to the understanding that everything we know is our own mental inventions, symbols our own minds have made... maps of an implied territory, representations, not substance, how can we be sure of anything that arises in our minds at all?
it seems the best we can say is that there is some stability and consistancy to some of the things we experience and some of our beliefs seems useful a lot of the time... but the truth?
what can one use as a standard for the truth?
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hank
by zen nudist inanyone know who originally wrote the story which is about kissing hank's ass to get a million dollars or he will beat the crap out of you?.
i found it originally on h2o with the author calling himself braindead in brooklyn.
i have it on my website.
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things I do not like about xmas
by zen nudist in.
aside from the reasons jws give as it being a pagan holiday renamed..... i do not like the fact that parents think nothing of lying to their children about this mythical santa claus.
and the constant hollywood movies making anyone who exposes the gag as an evil monster...while giving children reasons to believe that santa claus really does exist after all...ignore your older friends who have been poisoned by the secular world.. i find it appalling to ever teach a child to simply expect people to give them things just because the calendar says a certain day.. i find the mindless devoution to christmas to be just as appalling as the brainwashing jws do against it... i see people in my office acting like german clocks... the clock strikes easter and the decorate the office, strikes holloween and they decorate again...strikes christmas and more decorations..... then the frets and worries over what to get who and how much to go into debt over it.. i knew one lady who spent over $300 on a child less than two and was very depressed about two weeks later when the novelty wore off and only very inexpensive things returned as the main attraction.
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how much did you give up?
by zen nudist ini completely lost it and could not keep the tears back and my throat choked with grattitude to these men and my country.
i had missed feeling patriotic soooo much!
pasted from another thread...but got me thinking, how much did you stop doing as a jw, not because you really believed it but because you could not do it and still be a jw?
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books to explain the bible
by zen nudist inif the bible is really the word of god, and complete.... it seems to me that any organization, whether it be wt or christian research institute or a host of others..... by making books to explain" the bible to anyone, is basically saying that the all wise, all knowing god, the creator of all,.
really didn't write his book correctly, needs their help, is basically out of touch with humanity and wrote a book in code that.
needs human intervention to interpret..... the book itself claims to be complete and the only things necessary, and further claims that the spirit of god would be given to .
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becoming a eunuch for the kingdom....
by zen nudist in.
here is a thought.... since eunuchs had no seed, they could not commit adultry, and were often allowed to have as much sex with the harem girls they guarded as they liked... sounds like a good deal... they also could not commit adultry in their heart (^_^).
btw, adultry means to mix alien or illegal seed in the field of another.... most feared among ancient males, to raise the child of another pretending to be his own...because of his mates unfaithfulness.
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how far would you have gone?
by zen nudist ini recall while i was just a new jw how horrified i was at the "brother" who was bringing me along.... when he told me that he was so sure about the governing body being jehovah's mouth piece, that if one day they announced--this is it, this is the end, kill any and all non-jws in your path....he would do it.
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what is the first lie in the bible and who told it?
by zen nudist ingen 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
gen 3:4 and the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die: [from eating of the tree].
gen 3:5 for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
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books that explain the bible
by zen nudist in.
if one claims that the bible is the inspired word of god, good for teaching, etc.... would not the making of books to explain the bible mean that you beileve that god did not know what he was doing .
i see so many claiming that the spirit of god