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  "Theocratic Warfare" - An Apostate Strategy?

  by slimboyfat in

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  who here had ever heard of this so-called 'doctrine' of "theocratic warfare" when you were a jehovah's witness?

  who has not heard of the so-called doctrine now that you are an apostate?

  so why have witnesses never heard of 'doctrine', yet apostates seem to promote it as the last word on witness standards of honesty, integrity and decency?

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  james_woods

  Here is another example: In the 1965 to 1975 time frame, the Society gave strict instructions to all young men that they should register for the Selective Service. It was often printed in the KM, and read out from the platform. However, the part where all young men were expected to refuse to be inducted was never printed or officially acknowledged. This act of civil disobedience was up to the "conscience" of each person.

  But you could (and I know of a case who did) get DFd for joining the coast guard to avoid the army draft. I think it was OK to sneak off to Canada and wait for Jimmy Carter to rescue your sorry ass.

  The reason for all this subterfuge was that they were trying to protect the society institution from charges that they encouraged draft dodging - when in fact they were doing exactly so. There were even secret elder instructions to tell the young guys to deny that the WT told them to refuse military service - you were supposed to say you thought it up all on your own.

  And, to top it all of, as C.O.C. relates, at the same time you could bribe your way out of the draft if you lived in Mexico!

  And...when they decided to give all this up, they again told everybody that if you did 5 years in the pen for their issue, you just did it on your own and should be glad you followed your conscience back then!!!

  The poster of this thread should be ashamed of himself and retract his words. We did not make this up.

  sincerely, James Woods.
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  Do It Yourself: The ark of the covenant

  by Nathan Natas in

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  the ark of the covenant was a primitive (well, it was wood) leyden jar: a capacitor.. the shekinah light was a coronal discharge between the two terminals, which were in the form of the cherubs.. my proposal: a team of aposta-engineers work together to.

  1. calculate the electrical properties of the ark of the covenant.

  2. build a replica ark and determine if it operates within the anticipated performance range.

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  But, if the MythBusters did attempt it, they could send in Buster the Dummy into the most holy with a rope around his ankle so that if he got zapped or just died of natural causes then they could safely pull him back (without going in themselves). Maybe it's a job for Tim the Tool Man - the Binford Ark of the Covenant!

  Does it say they did this for the high priest in the OT, or is that just Jewish legend...?

  OK - past history: I made several "Jacob's Ladder" devices from neon sign transformers when I was young and crazy. They are those things that has two long wires in a long slender V shape, and as they vibrate back and forth, a spark forms at the base and rises up to the top...as I recall, about 2000 volts will arc across a bottom gap of about 3/4 inch. Another super-high voltage transformer I had from a big radar display put out about 40,000 volts and it made a huge vapor arc all the way up as it consumed a little of the copper rods. (until the transformer got burned out)...but I never saw these do a purple "corona" even in a darkened room. I know vacuum tubes can do it internally at around 300 to 400 volts.

  My question was like the previous poster; how did they get that much voltage generated in the first place? And, of course, like the Archimedes solar ray gun, even if we did it somehow with modern technical know how, what exactly is it going to prove? (other than sounding like a very cool thing to do...)

  I like the way Nathan Natas thinks!
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  Do It Yourself: The ark of the covenant

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
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  the ark of the covenant was a primitive (well, it was wood) leyden jar: a capacitor.. the shekinah light was a coronal discharge between the two terminals, which were in the form of the cherubs.. my proposal: a team of aposta-engineers work together to.

  1. calculate the electrical properties of the ark of the covenant.

  2. build a replica ark and determine if it operates within the anticipated performance range.

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  Well, this is interesting, Nathan.

  Looks to me like there might be a couple of fundamental electrical issues with this:

  1. How much voltage/current would it take to do a coronal discharge out in plain air? ( probably a lot of voltage, even if small amperage ).

  2. How much voltage/current would it take to strike somebody dead (i.e. electocute them) if they touched it? ( a lot less, I would guess - maybe a half an amp at 50 or 60 volts? ).

  3. I wonder how and if that much voltage could be stored and/or produced from the type of device proposed?

  This might very well be worth some basic research before actually starting to build such a thing...

  James
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  Does the Rainbow Covenant Disprove the Flood?

  by Severus in

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  the story goes that god provided the rainbow as a symbol of his promise to never again destroy the world by flood.. noah and his family saw the rainbow after they left the ark.

  after the waters had receeded.

  after it had stopped raining for months.... yet a rainbow is simply sunlight spread out into its spectrum of colors and diverted to the eye of the observer by water droplets.

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  Shizm, maybe you could utilize that chrystalline aluminum stuff that old Scotty cooked up in the StarTrek movie where they had to build a barrier around the humpback whales to save the earth from the alien space probe?

  Everybody knows that StarTrek tried to stay very close to verifiable science...

  Live Long and Prosper.
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  Scientology is newest NASCAR sponsor + blurb about JWs ???

  by Dogpatch in

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  scientology is newest nascar sponsor from: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/motorsports/14761999.htm jeff elder staff columnist

  wcnc video | scientology racing car

  tom cruise came to charlotte in 1989 to film "days of thunder.

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  For what it is worth, back in the 30's or 40's the Mormons (or a member therof) sponsored a land speed car called the "Mormon Meteor".

  Can't see JW doing this anytime soon - didn't they once write an Awake which decried the "Muscle Car Craze" in the late 60's? They said that gasoline was as dangerous as a stick of dynamite and that a V8 car as dangerous as a loaded gun, blah blah blah...

  Never can resist a car thread...James
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  Special Campaign announced for September: Creation vs. Evolution

  by sir82 in

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  we had a boe letter read recently.

  the september 2006 awake will be 100% dedicated to the "creation vs. evolution" issue.. even the "young people ask" article will be something like "how can i defend my belief in creation in school?

  also, i think one of the articles is entitled "does the bible support the notion that the earth was created in 6 24-hour days?".

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  It is highly confidential because they don't want the R&F to realize that they believe that the big A is not coming until well after September...

  Should be a wonderful opportunity to question about the former 7000 year creative day teaching, though.

  Don't forget to use the Piltdown hoax as a straw-man argument, also.
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  Nimrod; Tower of Babel

  by TheListener in

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  Doesn't NWT call him "mighty hunter in opposition to 'jehovah'"?
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  who's the biggest nutbag?

  by Zep in

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  joseph smith or rutherford??????.

  i mean rutherford wrote some weird stuff and lots of it, i personnally find his writings hilarious..."the list" is a laugh a minute!..

  but surely ol' rutherford never wrote something as weird as the quote below by joseph smith the mormon prophet?.

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  Johnny - thats too funny! "in a 1930's golden age it was printed that the dinosaurs were transported to live on the paradise planet VENUS. That's pretty close to moon men. john" ________ I know for a fact that a lot of the 1950-1960 era witnesses were fully aware of this kind of buffoonery. The miracle wheat, the enema therapy, the mistrust of antibiotics and vaccines, the pyramid worship, the reborn ancient princes coming to the assembly, Beth Sarim...etc. The truly incredible thing to me was that they viewed this as sort of amusing - kind of like you funny little old aunt. It was all OK because Jehovah fixed it later. And I am thinking - OK, so - these are the guys that you allowed to make up your core doctrines? Doctrines never heard of before or since??? Riiiiight.....
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  who's the biggest nutbag?

  by Zep in

  1. jw
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  joseph smith or rutherford??????.

  i mean rutherford wrote some weird stuff and lots of it, i personnally find his writings hilarious..."the list" is a laugh a minute!..

  but surely ol' rutherford never wrote something as weird as the quote below by joseph smith the mormon prophet?.

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  james_woods

  But let's not forget my current champion of this little race to be the biggest idiot - L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology fame.

  Moon men - I give it about a 5 on a scale of 10.

  Aluminum pot mania, and the cosmologotheocrackaton radio diagnosis - I give it 3.5.

  Zenu the alien, who put all the demonianics into earths volcanoes and blew them up with Hydrogen Bombs - my champion with 9 points.

  And his followers, who know full well they are buying into a religion made up by a science fiction author - at least 6 points themselves, even if they did kind of get brainwashed...

  James
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  Anyone like me....

  by Keepitsane in

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  not feeling like there life's been affected that negatively by their involvement with jw's?.

  i ask because while i do believe being raised a jehovahs witness has probably done me some considerable emotional damage, i still can't imagaine it hurt me anymore (and in a lot of cases i'm sure it did far less damage) than the average non jw upbringing.

  i had no debilitating diseases, no broken family, kind and loving parents etc...you get my point though?.

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  Well, that did not sound "screwed up" at all to me...and welcome to you from James.

  I have only been around three or four months, but my observation is that we have pretty much got all kinds here.

  (maybe it doesn't take all kinds, but JWD does seem to have all kinds!!! Ha!)

  However, I don't think there are really that many people here who are going around like walking wounded and blaming the JW experience for everything wrong in their lives. Maybe a few - but mostly there are good people who want to excersize their right to free thought and discuss issues of wrong teachings which are affecting either themselves, others, or family members. I usually see people more concerned about other posters or family members than over themselves. Very few that I would call really bitter crybabies.

  And, yes, a few true nutbars who are holding on to everything watchtower and getting mad if they cannot save us all..

  But, the majority I think are trying to get their heads around the fact they are out of the cult and damn glad to be that way!

  Welcome again, James