It's a capitalist system with a thin veneer of social net. The only real currency is 'probability' of being saved at Armageddon. 'Money' is merely a medium of preaching work.
Posts by rmt1
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15COMPETITION IN THE CONGREGATION!
by ADJUSTMENTS inthere always seemed to be a level of unspoken competition within the congregation.
wether it be between elders, ms, pioneers, etc... who's kids are doing more, who gets more hours out, who comments the most or the best, who gives the best parts, whos kids are the best, who has the better car, who has the better house, who has the better job and so on... it's not openly discussed but you can discern it through conversations, sometimes you can hear undertones of jealousy or meddling in others business, this always bothered me!
if this is gods organization whats with all the jealousy and competiton, i would see other religions or organizatons with less of these issues and question it!.
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You put your right foot in...you put your left foot out...
by hokeypokey inenjoying the commentary on this board and up at night doing some research.
coming to grips with my new reality.
- hokey pokey.
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rmt1
JWs also do the limbo. How lowwwwwwwWWWWw can your standard of evidence or custody of data or understanding of the scientific method or degree of critical thinking Go?
And the chicken dance.
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Watchtower.ORG!!!!!
by minimus ini here that the new advisory for witnesses, should the go on the internet is to only go on the org.
the org.
is all they are concerned about since "others" may have some "misinformation"..
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rmt1
JWST is James Webb Space Telescope. Direct some people there. It witnesses Jehovah's creation (or, what it out in the universe, period) far better than 8 farts in an octagon.
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Why does Organic Chemistry prove God's exists?
by KateWild inso bring it on, and lay the evidence on me, kate (but perhaps you should start a new thread).-adam.
it does not prove god exists, there is no substantial evidence god is real.
if one is a self labeled atheist, one has no desire to see gods fingerprints in organic chemistry.
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benefits of laughter
by JoyWilliam1 inlaughter is regarded as one of the exercises that you all the masses can practice irrespective of the age factor.
studies have proved that laughter indeed is the best medicine when it comes to helping one to improve his mental and physical health immediately.
there are several benefits of laughter that makes it a special behavior.
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rmt1
A glass floating in orbit around earth is completely full of vacuum energy. And that has mass.
The wife is a connesseur (voracious maw) of comedy. The last time I doubled over for 30 seconds was during Kyle Kinane's first(?) appearance on the John Oliver New York stand-up show. If I had my druthers I'd consume enough comedy to have a double-over can't-breathe event once a week, but life gets in the way. Tim Minchin and Brian Regan are almost guaranteed gut punch. Many others...
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I think Im an Atheist :(? :)?
by chrisuk inive been pondering my beliefs for a while now and ive come across things that i just cant accept.
i was recently walking with a christian who stated that the universe couldnt just come from nothing.
he said that the universe was so complex that it needed a designer, he also said something which ive heard before.
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rmt1
Once you pop out of Flatland you're stuck. You cannot go back to Flatland without cranial surgery.
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Do You Give A Sh*t About "Duck Dynasty"?
by minimus inwhen i see them on chia pets, i'm thinking--- has the world gone mad?.
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rmt1
I'd love to have a customized reality browser, or internet service, or cable service, that simply doesn't waste your time with certain things. I'd like to not hear the first or last thing about Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, any Kardashian, Ghost Hunters, WWE, Real Wives of whatever, things whose sole calibrated rationale is drama. Can you do that, gods of technology? I'm not saying block out news of what bad happens in Africa or Phillipines or Syria, etc. Mainly American things. Things that qualify as bread and circuses. Deadliest Catch was good and probably cannot be emulated again.
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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
colossal, grr.
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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.