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  Climate propaganda

  by neat blue dog in

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  gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.

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  BLAST FROM THE PAST Three million years ago, Earth’s climate was so warm that the High Arctic supported forests (illustrated) in which camels and other animals roamed.

  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-pliocene-epoch-can-teach-us-about-future-warming-earth

  

  Hyenas lived in the Arctic during the last ice age, study reveals

  https://www.earth.com/news/hyenas-arctic-last-ice-age/

  Climate change is obviously real. I couldn't prove to someone that the combustible engine fueled by petroleum is or is not effecting the Earth's climate. It is pollution and therefor needs to cease. I prefer clean air, clear drinking water, and clean soil to grow food.

  Just because the Earth is warming up is no evidence that life is going to end. Just because icecaps are melting does not conclude that we are all doomed. At one time that ice was not there and life flourished there.

  Either way, the Watchtower will no miss an opportunity to quote any non-Watchtower source as an appeal to authority, but ONLY if it echoes their Watchtower beliefs.
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  2 Peter and Jude and 1 Enoch

  by Parallax in

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  i'm new to the forum and i have a question about what was said in a 16-year-old thread at this forum.

  a poster by the name of leolaia said.... the author of 2 peter did not recognize that jude 6 was an allustion to 1 enoch (just as he did not realize that jude 9 was an allusion to the assumption of moses and thus rephrased it incoherently in 2 peter 2:11), or he may have objected to the enochic reference (just as jude 14-15 was omitted in 2 peter 2).

  in either case, the author overlooked the enochic allusion and instead recognized the passage as an allusion of hesiod and thus embellished the passage from jude with an allusion to hesiod's tartarus.. .

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  Reading a menu helps us decide what food to order, but it does not bring nutrients the body needs as does the food.

  A map is a great tool to help plan a journey, but it is not the journey.

  There are many, many interesting things one can discover about the scriptures of Abrahamic faiths. I am still learning new ones. I recently discovered that there is evidence that the book of Jude may be a plagiarized work copying from 2 Peter. 2 Peter itself may have been a fraudulent writing as the Apostle Peter had already been executed before its writing.

  Keep researching, but don't forget to take time to smell the roses.
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  January 6th hearings...

  by Queequeg in

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  what's your take on the january 6th hearings?.

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  The infinite loop of resurrection

  by Nathan Natas in

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  2. humour

  scene: the new world, any minute now.... billy bastard, an aborted fetus is resurrected and immediately dies because he is outside the womb of a birthing person.. repeat ad infinitum.

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  Wow! Speak of the Devil and he shall appear!

  https://www.npr.org/2022/06/26/1107722531/some-jewish-groups-blast-the-end-of-roe-as-a-violation-of-their-religious-belief
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  The infinite loop of resurrection

  by Nathan Natas in

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  scene: the new world, any minute now.... billy bastard, an aborted fetus is resurrected and immediately dies because he is outside the womb of a birthing person.. repeat ad infinitum.

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  Exodus 21:22 states that if a man causes a woman to have a miscarriage he is to pay a fine. Verse 23 continues that if the woman dies the offender is to be put to death.

  Numbers chapter 5 instructs men who believe their wife was unfaithful to take her to the high priest. She is to be given a drink. If the unborn child is fathered by the husband the child will survive. If it was fathered by someone other than the husband she will have a miscarriage.

  "May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” Numbers 5:22

  YHWY doesn't see unborn children the same as Christians.
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  It's rather sad that we live in a society where it is common place for women that want to terminate their pregnancy and men who abandon their children. Maybe if we put our culture wars to the side, end identity politics, find something better than a consumer based economy we could move our species forward. It's been 53 years since a person walked on the moon. Since then the best we came up with is a small device that allows people to be forever distracted from life.

  I do have hope. I think one day this giant dumpster fire will burn itself out, but not until it damn well kills us all. Then whoever is left over will get to things over. I think they will figure it out.

  
  
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  Putting the topic of abortion to the side for a moment, what this and the previous SCOTUS ruling on the suit in New York has shown me is the large number of Americans who don't understand how their country works. The "by any means necessary" mentality is down right scary. The double standards on how "rights" are treated in the view of opinion and feelings is terrifying.
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  Fascinating Quotations of The Faithful Slave

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  do you have any amazing quotations that have been produced by the faithful slave over the years?.

  remember it's important that we should learn to love and value truth for it’s own sake; to respect and honor it by owning and acknowledging it wherever we find it and by whomever presented.

  a truth presented by the faithful slave himself is just as true as a truth stated by god.. share some of those amazing quotations that have fascinated you.

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  After he was reinstated, he said that he always missed the association with his family, especially at night when he was alone. But, he admitted, had the family associated with him even a little, that small dose would have satisfied him. However, because he did not receive even the slightest communication from any of his family, the burning desire to be with them became one motivating factor in his restoring his relationship with Jehovah.

  He had no desire to restore a relationship with Jehovah. He was emotional coerced into doing something he did not want to do. It is no different than when a person puts a gun to a family members head and tell you to rob a bank for them.

  No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.

  Proof positive of the hypocrisy of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  Does anyone else get “triggered” when somebody uses the word “triggered”?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. experiences

  what’s the world coming to?

  (i guess this makes me officially an older while male now ).

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  I do. It is a ridiculous term that is overused.
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  HYPOTHESIS for Christians

  by BoogerMan in

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  satan offered jesus control of the world, as a reward for worshiping him.. (luke 4:5, 6) so he brought him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time.

  then the devil said to him: “i will give you all this authority and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and i give it to whomever i wish.

  1. humans who have been given control of the earth, communicate (spiritism*) with its true ruler.

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  "D'you remember how Jesus was led into the wilderness and fasted forty days? Then, when he was a-hungered, the devil came to him and said: 'If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread'. But Jesus resisted the temptation.

  Then the devil set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him: 'If thou be the son of God, cast thyself down. For angels had charge of him and would bear him up.' But again Jesus resisted.

  Then the devil took him into a high mountain and showed him the kingdoms of the world and said that he would give them to him if he would fall down and worship him. But Jesus said: 'Get thee hence, Satan.'

  That's the end of the story according to the good simple Matthew. But it wasn't. The devil was sly and he came to Jesus once more and said: 'If thou wilt accept shame and disgrace, scourging, a crown of thorns and death on the cross, thou shalt save the human race, for greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'

  Jesus fell. The devil laughed till his sides ached, for he knew the evil men would commit in the name of their redeemer." - Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge