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The seven trumpet blasts of Revelation & the Millions campaign.
by transhuman68 inone of the jehovahs witness doctrines that many of us have had trouble believing is that the seven angels trumpet blasts described in revelation applied to events that occurred in the 1920s at seven assemblies held around the world at the time when judge rutherford was the president of the watchtower society.. the revelation climax book (1988) contains this summary on page 173:.
highlights of jehovah's trumpetlike judgment proclamations.
1922 cedar point, ohio: a challenge to christendom's leaders in religion, politics, and big business to justify their failure to bring peace, prosperity, and happiness.
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Jehovah the lunatic god
by transhuman68 ini was virtually a born-in dub, as my mother was baptized when i was four or five; i was the bible study of two separate long-suffering brothers in my home cong before i walked out, never getting baptized.. i absorbed all the teachings of the witnesses, and always believed that the bible was in some way the word of god.
now i am re-reading living in sin, by john shelby spong.. although at the time he wrote the book he was a bishop of the episcopal church, he states that the bible, or at least the hebrew scriptures, was written by the israelites using their imaginary god to explain their victories and defeats; to provide an explanation of their history.. i had always taken it for granted the god had chosen the israelites to be his people: but maybe they chose god.. why would the creator of the universe choose an obscure tribe in the middle east, leading them back and forth across the desert and in and out of captivity, interfering with everything they did; while totally ignoring everybody else living on the earth at that time?.
a modern analogy would be god coming to earth and choosing the brooklyn dodgers as his chosen team and ignoring every other team, and coaching them so the dodgers would always win.. what sort of petty, bored, lunatic bigoted god would do that?.
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What is your concept of God?
by transhuman68 ingiven that the god of the old testament & the new testament don't seem to match up, and our first impression of god may be based on our parents, and the many progressive christian religions that stress god's love and grace, we probably all have completely different ideas of who god is; if he/she does exist.
i always thought god was a strict, bad-tempered kill-joy..
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Your favorite new music album
by transhuman68 inif anyone has found a good music album produced in the last 2 or 3 years, put it here.. my nomination: '3 doors down' self-titled album released 2009; and it's hard rock..
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Daniel was confused.
by transhuman68 ini did some research after reading this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/246165/1/using-microsoft-excel-to-disprove-watchtower-theology-authority.
and realized there have been some flip-flops in the watchtower's interpretation of daniel's prophecy.
here is the interpretation from 'pay attention to daniel's prophecy' (1999) pg.301:.
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The Battle of Armageddon LOL.
by transhuman68 ini was looking through a watchtower publication that i bought recently, and found this quote about children & armageddon:.
our theme "rearing children in divine favor" does not refer to the rearing of the children of armageddon survivors in that new world when all surrounding conditions and all forces in operation will be toward helping those who live to do righteousness.
no; but it refers to rearing children who are born now before the battle of armageddon.
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What if the Watchtower Society DID cease to exist?
by transhuman68 inthis is a scenario im sure we have all thought about, and we keep looking for any signs that this may occur.
it would seem like the ultimate victory, and that our only emotion would be joy and relief.. but what if they printed an apology... and it included this:.
we are sorry if some of you were misled, but we had a corporation to run and finance.
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Let's have the book study at your house.
by transhuman68 inmy sister moved to a affluent suburb in a capital city less than five years ago; and rented a small detatched unit and got a full-time job.
i visited her a couple of years ago, and was surprised to find the tuesday night meeting was held there every week.
at the time i thought it was an 'honour' bestowed upon her for all her years as a regular pioneer: but later i started wondering why, in a suburb with so many big prestige houses and families, would she be chosen to host the book study?
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Smackdown! Jesus vs. Paul.
by transhuman68 inlol.
i was reading the pagan christ by tom harpur (allen & unwin 2004) and a found a reference to this website: http://www.jesuspuzzle.humanists.net/jhcjp.htm.
an interesting article about the historical jesus and whether he even existed at all, and if paul knew of him, or was referring to a mythical-type of christ.. personally, i'm starting to think jesus never existed....
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Pompeii
by transhuman68 ineveryone knows the story of pompeii: the city on the west coast of italy that was destroyed by the eruption of mount vesuvius in the 1st century c.e.. interestingly, this was around the same time that the gospels were being written, and the eyewitness accounts of the eruption make an interesting comparison:.
"many lifted up their hands to their gods," the younger pliny wrote to his friend tacitus at the end of the first century, "but a great number believed there were no gods, and that this night was to be the world's last, eternal one" (letters 5.16; 5.20).
it was the night of august 24, 79 c.e., and since noon of that day vesuvius had hurled gas, ash, and pumice 12 miles into the air above the cities of pompeii and herculaneum.