colossal, grr.
Posts by rmt1
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21Fate of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by Thoughtless init disheartens me the most when there is a possibility that faithful, hardworking, honest witnesses may be destroyed or be put out of god's favor.
a lot of brothers and sisters have risked their lives because they thought they were doing the right thing to please them.
so for those who still believe in god/afterlife, do you think that these witnesses are out of god's memory?
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Fate of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by Thoughtless init disheartens me the most when there is a possibility that faithful, hardworking, honest witnesses may be destroyed or be put out of god's favor.
a lot of brothers and sisters have risked their lives because they thought they were doing the right thing to please them.
so for those who still believe in god/afterlife, do you think that these witnesses are out of god's memory?
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rmt1
A nice detente if you need a god. Good for JWs worrying about not matching up to one collosal prick. Not so effective at answering how or why, exactly, it is that an omnipotent being deliberately allows the heinous crimes and events we witness, yet disallows evidence of his existence that could satisfy the processes we humans use to understand the physical world he made.
I mean - every plastic molded item you have has those little tabs or sprues of excess plastic at the entry point of the mold, that give evidence that the item came from a mold. The universe so far doesn't have much in the way of these ubiquitous plastic sprues that reveal the design, the manufacture, etc. If I saw a sprue, even one sprue that could be separately verified by multiple observers, then, presto!, I become absolutely fine with the thought that god exists and is simply a collosal prick. Those who need a god also require these little plastic sprues to indicate a prior, a mold, a greater context, and so they need to devise sprues and the pre-textual explanation of how those devised sprues prove the existence of a deity. And not just a deity, but a deity that isn't a collosal prick. So much work, so much creativity, so much invention, so much creative art, involved.
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Revelation, It's Grand Climax at Hand
by Cold Steel init's a rather large red book.. if i wanted to purchase one from a pioneer, how much would it cost?.
i'm reading a borrowed copy now.. thanks!.
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rmt1
This entire book, its title and its content, belongs over here
Let the apostle smoke his crack pipe in peace or have a neurological disorder in peace or just be a painter in words without making yourselves the Ptolemaic fracking center of all time and space, you glorious abusers of people's grocery and gas money.
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Did you think Dinosaurs were destroyed in the Flood?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inin our jw bible, they placed a friendly dinosaur on the inside front cover on the old time map of the middle east.. you look at that, and see where the placement to where the garden of eden is and that was the image i got in my mind.
dinosaurs lived, but were too big to save in the flood, and besides they had outlived their purpose of fertilizing the earth.
i feel stupid for the thinking i had when i was 'in'.. is that how you 'thought' when you were 'in'?.
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rmt1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratornithidae
"Teratornis woodburnensis. [ 2 ] The first species to be found north of the La Brea Tar Pits, this partial specimen was discovered at Legion Park, Woodburn, Oregon. It is known from a humerus, parts of the cranium, beak, sternum, and vertebrae which indicate an estimated wingspan of over 4 meters (14 ft). The find dates to the late Pleistocene, between 11,000 and 12,000 years ago, in a strata which is filled with the bones of Mastodon, Sloth and Condors, and bears evidence of human habitation."
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Education Double Standard
by Tech49 inthis is the kind of thing that really burns me.. .
wtbts holds out an extreme double standard in regards to education.
most, if not all, of you know how they feel about obtaining an education past high school (in the u.s.).
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rmt1
It is not only child abuse. It is human slavery. It is human trafficking. It violates the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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9/11 resemblance
by A.proclaimer ini found this picture while searching through the old watchtowers.
this one is in the july 15, 1975 (spanish).
i don't know what date it would be for the english edition.
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rmt1
Uh, Apollo Command Module and Service Module? Somewhat pre-Twin Towers.
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DEC 2013 WT Article - Slave for Jehovah - warning: ranting ahead
by ohnightdivine inthis morning's wt study almost made me vomit, stand up, pick up my bag and rush to the door.. of course it never happened.
instead, i was able to make some nice drawings on my tablet and notepad.. if you replace the name jehovah with watchtower, or the governing 8 men, it would really make sense.. what's up with all that nonstop guilt-mongering about education and having a decent job?!.
most people look down on the uneducated, and i remember, when i didn't have a job, nobody cared!.
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rmt1
I just want to drop the statistical and demographic fact that 1 in 5 of the United State's graduate students are 40 years old or above. When I started looking into grad school at 40, I felt like I really didn't belong, that I was out of my cohort, that I would be an unnecessary drain on resources. And yet there was this other old-timer seemingly hanging in there with the other students in their twenties. Some fact checking later, and it turned out that out of our class of ten, he and I actually conform to the national statistics. I *think* what this means is that just because you're older, and presumably have beaten the odds to get your bachelors, doesn't exonerate you from a generalized responsibility to at least see if grad school is feasible.
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Guns
by Brother Mike indoes anyone know why people say as jws you can't have guns.
i've asked people at the hall and they say jws aren't supposed to have guns.
i asked them why, and they all say just because we're not supposed to.
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rmt1
How different Jehovah's people are! When I was pioneering a fellow pioneer regaled me to the glorious coolheadedness and nearly worldly calm with which his second-generation elder father, apparently doing the only proper thing that one can do when a stray female cat has left some mewling presents that you do not personally want, in his loving kindness took each kitten one by one, held it up in the air at arms length, and with the most profound respect for Jehovah's creation, aimed a 12 gauge along that arm, carefully, and tenderly blew its head off. This feat of strength and daring was to me quite different from the stories I would hear of the other elders who went to the Rockies and took down bear and large game, so as to eat it.
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this week's wt study
by thedog1 ini conducted the wt study tonight on higher education.
i wondered what the reaction of the bros and sis would be.
there was no deviation from the idea that a university education is not a good idea.
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rmt1
"Wait until their donations dry up because their undereducated membership can't afford to put food on their tables."
I believe you might be waiting a while. The US GDP grows, the entitlement payout grows. In this year alone something like 2 trillion. I'm in no way saying that this job is easy, but "all they have to do" to maintain or comfortably consolidate their lifestyle over the next few decades is to hook in enough individuals on government assistance. That number will grow in scale with income disparity and general aging of Boomers. They've got an inexhaustible supply for the next 50 years - all THEY have to do is reach these ones with some predatory promises, love bombs, etc, etc. This will supplement the real loss you mention of contributions from uneducated / underemployed members. imho
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Jan 1st WT: Reaching out, Higher Education and Providing for one's needs
by truthseeker inwell, as a nice start to the new year, the jan 1st watchtower article, "how firm is your trust in god" blasts those who live comfortable lives, those who don't reach out, and those who pursue higher education.. definitely, they are taking a harsher stand, having completely painted themselves into a corner.. i highlighted the interesting comments.
i did not include all the text for each paragraph, just the main points.. .
1 a young man wanted to be more useful to the congregation.
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rmt1
These are predators. Even people with first and second degrees, of sound mind and competent to represent themselves and their interests, fall on hard times financially, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, ontologically. These predators lie in wait with the same manner of bait that nets those who are structurally at the disadvantage of not having developed critical thinking skills or the audacity to interrogate assumptions, promises, things too good to be true. In the GB's calculus, there are enough overeducated fools born every minute, who can be dragged in and exploited like the technology the GB is fond of adopting, so that they do not have to tolerate the offence of born-in or recent converts developing the courage to interrogate the narrative or deconstruct the fabrications.