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  Professor Brian Cox Quote

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  just finished "the forces of nature" by brian cox, an amazing book and highly recommend.. i loved this quote at the end - so poetic coming from a physicist:.

  "our planet is vanishingly small in the vastness, which implies that each of us is also vanishlingly small.

  we must come to terms with being of no cosmic significance, and this means jettisoning our personal and collective egos and valuing what we have.

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  Critique/Rebuttal of May 2018 Watchtower study article - "Know Your Enemy"

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  important note: i am not a theist and this is all meaningless of course from an atheist perspective, but this critique is written from a theistic perspective for those who are interested in picking apart jw theology or are still religious.

  if this is not you, please just ignore!.

  comments, additions, corrections to my crazy ramblings all welcome.

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  Spread the word and may the sauce be with you...

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  https://www.gofundme.com/pastafund.

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  Strange conundrum

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  i just had a thought inspired by @newboy's recent post:.

  why is it that despite the watchtower corporation being arguably the biggest publishing house in history, having produced billions of tracts, brochures, magazines, books for o very 100 years, and having the largest army of volunteer publicity agents on the planet, that 99% of the population is still clueless as to what their message is all about?.

  if you ask random people what jw's beleive you will rarely get the so-called "good news": gods kingdom is going to soon usher in a paradise earth and fix all the worlds problems under the 1000 year reign of christ.. you will instead get: "they're the people who... 1. don't celebrate christmas or birthdays, 2. don't take blood, 3. go around with the watchtower, 4. have big assemblies... etc etc".

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  Suicide in the spiritual paradise all too common

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  just heard that a young brother committed suicide this week - the whole congregation is naturally very distressed.

  what a tragedy.

  according to my source he'd only been married about a year and his wife found him - he’d hung himself.

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  Do not blow a trumpet ahead of you....

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  this latest video shows shot after shot of gb member mark sanderson helping/comforting/consoling/encouraging etc etc like he is some saint offering spiritual "gifts of mercy" - it seems that when mark decided to have himself videoed in this manner he forgot jesus words in matthew 6:1-4 .

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/love-in-action-hurricane-irma-maria-relief-work/.

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  Trump mentality = Watchtower mentality

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  the fake news is working overtime.

  just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the network news about me is negative (fake).

  why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt?

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  So much wrong with today's text....

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  "jehovah takes the initiative to bless his loyal servants.".

  this statement is a contradiction or on oxymoron or something.... if they already had to demonstrate loyalty before he acted then he did not take the initiative!.

  our faith is not complete unless we are convinced that jehovah will reward....yes faith involves the certain expectation of gods promised blessings.. so they condemn people for "serving to a date", the carrot if you like, and being disappointed when there blessings do not materialise at the promised time... yet say that the carrot is an important part of faith!!!.

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  For those who still think the Bible is useful for arriving at any conclusions about life or anything else!

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  "both read the bible day & night, but thou read black where i read white.".

  - william blake.

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  Stephen Hawking

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  a great summary of his career:.

  http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160107-these-are-the-discoveries-that-made-stephen-hawking-famous.

  and an appalling development since his death illustrating "the illusion of knowledge:".

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