Posts by transhuman68

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Some good books to read?

by thedepressedsoul in

i just finished crysis of a conscience and all i have to say is wow!

showed how they sadly look for doctrine changes to fit their agenda vs what the bible says.

any new light or changes i'll be wondering the real motive behind them.

transhuman68

I'm printing out the chapters from this book by D. Rudolf Bultmann- he's supposed to be one of the greatest Bible scholars of the 20th century.

http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPESCH&Volume=0&Issue=0&TOC=TRUE

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Poll--How Many Believe In God, Do Not Believe or Are Not Sure Of His Existence?

by minimus in

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friends

i believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.

I no longer believe- its an impossibility. Where was God in the Big Bang? The concept of gods was created by nutty people long ago, we have inherited the culture so we try to make it 'fit' in the 21st century; but ultimately its impossible.

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At what age did you notice time went by so fast?

by adjusted knowledge in

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i like so many americans left my parent's house as soon as i could (age 19).

i would see them maybe one or two times a year for the next ten years.

when i hit thirty and got married it was even less frequent.

transhuman68

LOL, not too many takers for this thread- stating the obvious & unwelcome facts of life! Time does seem to go faster - and here's a quote from Alvin Toffler's Future Shock that might explain it:

Older people are even more likely to react strongly against any further acceleration of change. There is a solid mathematical basis for the observation that age often correlates with conservatism: time passes more swiftly for the old.
When a fifty-year-old father tells his fifteen-year-old son that he will have to wait two years before he can have a car of is own, that interval of 730 days represents a mere 4 per cent of the father's lifetime to date. It represents over 13 per cent of the boy's lifetime. It is hardly strange that to the boy the delay seems three or four times longer than to the father. Similarly, two hours in the life of a four-year-old may be the felt equivalent of twelve hours in the life of her twenty-four-year-old mother. Asking the child to wait two hours for a piece of candy may be the equivalent of asking the mother to wait fourteen hours for a cup of coffee.

There may be a biological basis as well, for such differences in subjective response to time. `With advancing age,' writes psychologist John Cohen of the University of Manchester, `the calendar years seem progressively to shrink. In retrospect every year seems shorter than the year just completed, possibly as a result of the gradual slowing down of metabolic processes.' In relation to the slowdown of their own biological rhythms, the world would appear to be moving faster to older people, even if it were not.

Most people probably notice themselves aging at the end of their 30's or the start of their 40's... I felt like I was god in my 30's- now I just feel like a collection of body parts- but such is life, lol.

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Reality is plain to see: if you just open your eyes

by kneehighmiah in

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i made a post a few days ago about stagnant jw growth at international conventions.

i also enjoyed reading analysis of the statistics from jwfacts.

what the watchtower claims and what the reality is, are two different things.

transhuman68

Its called indoctrination- and you can get it twice a week at your local KH. But yes, life is the best teacher, and things that happen every day show that the Watchtower world view is wrong- but with the WTS goggles on everything is given a different interpretation. But my advice is... even if you don't know where to go, it is best to stop attending meetings and open your eyes- and just let life be your guide.

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The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses Link?

by lambsbottom in

can someone give me the pdf or epub link to:.

the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses .

thanks.

transhuman68

No, you can just download the PDF by itself- although how easy it is might depend on your browser.

Find the light blue box where it says Click here to start download from sendspace and disregard all the others.

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The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses Link?

by lambsbottom in

can someone give me the pdf or epub link to:.

the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses .

thanks.

transhuman68

Thank you! This is a good read.

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WATCHTOWER on revelation's MYSTERY GREAT BABYLON, And your view about it

by gggolovkin in

i think wt interpretation about the rev.

mystery great babylon is too general, saying that is all false religion..... from reading revelation, it looks more specific because it says, it is the mother, ( maybe origin or root ).... what's your view ?

thank u and hoping for ur replies.

transhuman68

I think it's all a bunch of crap.

"Ding!' We have a winner! It is all a bunch of crap- but you have to do a lot of research... to eventually realise you have been wasting your time on a bunch of crap... Bart Erhman gives a good explanation of Revelation, as do Catholic Church scholars and people like Elaine Pagels. The factual explanation is very boring really, which is why fundies like to spice it up.

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Old WT Publications I have

by William Penwell in

i have a number of older wt publications.

due to downsizing, i would like to get rid of them.

if some of are of value and have not being scanned, i could scan them for all to share.

transhuman68

Magnum- there is a text version here: http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/mystery/mysterytitles.html

You have to save each chapter separately though... sure there are other copies elsewhere if you look hard enough.

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Are we living in the best time in human history, and on the edge at the same time?

by Fernando in

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friends

personally i believe we are.. your thoughts?.

how will it turn out?.

what can/should we do?.

transhuman68

we now have nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

LOL, we do indeed- but look at the current war in Iraq- which is being fought in the same way as World War I- with tanks, trucks & men with guns. War gives humans an outlet for their aggression- but if the weapons used are too powerful, then it just becomes extermination- which is not 'cricket', and usually happens more in natural disasters, where everyone feels sympathy for the victims. So there is a good reason why we haven't destroyed ourselves yet- technology has surpassed our basic emotional needs in the killing field. Boring, but true.

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What have you created?

by new hope and happiness in

i think it's wonderful that be all posses creative power of thought, and i think this form of creative manifestation comes most commonley in the form of arts.so many posters have mentiond they are writing a book, but i bet some of you create music or make a wonderful soup.. i ask this because i was reading my old school reports and my art teacher wrote " michael is the post constructive, imaginative pupil i have ever had.

his enthusiasm wonders a bit but on the whole an excellent pupil" ....sadly i think if that statement was true i have rather let my self down with my artistic expression.

still it's never to late and i intend to involve myself in my art again this summer..

transhuman68

I've always been more practical than artistic, and have made simple furniture- coffee tables, bookcases etc. - but I have always loved photography, and taking a picture of ordinary things in such a way that they appear kind of iconic. I'm not about to cut off my ear though, lol.