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Posts by waton
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140My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang
by Sea Breeze ina new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
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Details of Noah’s Ark
by enigma1863 injw magazines have claimed the flood story has so much detail that it couldn’t be just a made up story.. is it detailed?
name one person outside of noah’s family.
name one nephilim.
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waton
TOMO can get his whiskey
punkofnice,
good connection to the topic. Only a structure build like a whiskey casked, (aged in an Oak barrel , with steel bands) could have possibly survived the catastrophic flooding of the deluge event. really, it must have been like going over Niagara Falls.
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Details of Noah’s Ark
by enigma1863 injw magazines have claimed the flood story has so much detail that it couldn’t be just a made up story.. is it detailed?
name one person outside of noah’s family.
name one nephilim.
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waton
the naive writers of the story had no idea what a flood would be like that rises at ~ 10 meters an hour, the turbulence, the forces of the repeated pounding on such a large wooden vessel, held together by dowels, tenons and dove tail joints. How about the inevitable waves, with a worldwide reach not limited by coastlines coming every 2 minutes or so.
all these bible stories are insulting in the light of what we know now. The fact that the "co creator" of the mighty cosmos endorsed it, speaks volumes about the authenticity of the claims.
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If death is the result of sin, why do animals die?
by Orgull inmy first week of posts here were very serious and all the wonderful, encouraging replies helped me very much.. so now i want to ask something semi-frivolous.
(actually it's one of the many things that don't make sense to me about "the truth").
why do animals die?.
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waton
.their son [Abel] who god found righteous was the first person to die.
enigma 1863 . never thought of that. yeah, scripture has it that "the one with thinking ability will be hated." Abel was smart, he had all these sheep die on him, and the meat, fat, i was useless, even the cats and dogs would not eat it. so he sacrificed them on the altar, rather then send the offal to the dump.
Evolution: survival of the fittest.religion: survival of the dumbest.
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If death is the result of sin, why do animals die?
by Orgull inmy first week of posts here were very serious and all the wonderful, encouraging replies helped me very much.. so now i want to ask something semi-frivolous.
(actually it's one of the many things that don't make sense to me about "the truth").
why do animals die?.
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waton
what would have stopped all the ravenous vegetarians, lyons, hyenas, bears to eat the fruit, leafs, roots, bark from the tree of life, even after the posting of the angels?
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Passport to Heaven
by JW Answers injehovah's witnesses believe that only 144,000 go to heaven, where as the bible teaches us that all who come to jesus can!
nothing in the bible for 144,000.. the bible teaches that salvation is not through religion, works, self righteousness or human effort.
but salvation is only through the person of the lord jesus christ.. feel free to watch below.
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waton
The flood was to clear out the waters in the heavens covering the earth.
Rg350, just explain to us what these waters in the heavens were, that need to be cleared. How were they held up ? in a bubble under 1000 atp? 14 0000 psi pressure? or was the H20 suspended by orbital velocity, like the rings of Saturn? or was the water stolen from mars? may be in a vaulted transparent firmament ceiling held over the four cornered flat earth?
Jesus from a muscle powered wood working family, like Noah's, must have had deep respect their accomplishment. No wonder he quit , while the quitting was good, to rise above it all.Even Elon Musk thinks we ought to leave, and the sun is half way through its life.
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Wedding Anniversary #62
by smiddy3 inhi friends , i thought i would just let you know it`s my wife and i, 62nd wedding anniversary today.. not that we were able to celebrate much as my wife wasn`t up to it today .. however i did manage to give her a couple of champers at home ,while i had a couple o ales with friends down at the club and managed to put on lotto for tonite and a couple of keno`s from the club ,you never know the god`s might smile upon us for doing something right after all these years.?.
take care guys.. smiddy 3.
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waton
well, congratulations and best wishes to you, smiddy3 and beloved one.
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Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?
by Roger Kirkpatrick inthesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
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waton
From the Opening Post:
the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect
Right, wt writers expected the date, again and again, never happened as they prophesied. unapologetic, evil.
why were wt's 1919 appointment claims presumptuously? Because the very same article admits that the inspection to determine whether the first feature was carried out properly and the subsequent appointment over all the master’s belongings is yet future!
Yeah, the appointment in 1919 could not possibly be based on their record, their 1919 doctrines. wt writers then still stubbornly insisted 'the world had ended [ In 1914 ], and that the generation that started then, millions will never die." ***
that is the oldest lie, warmed over by wt.
** proclaimers book, with the 2 witness rule, advertising signs in in 2 languages on 2 continents
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Bait and Switch "Bible studies"
by Vanderhoven7 inmark jones, a witness for over 30 years describes what jws call bible studies offered to the public.. .
"they (jehovah's witnesses) offer you a free home “bible” study - which turns out to be a study of a watchtower publication with the bible brought out as an afterthought to try and prop up whatever current idea the governing body are claiming is “the truth” this week.. i think it’s underhanded.. when my parents became jehovah’s witnesses and they offered people a free home “bible” study, this is what they brought to study with them:.
what, did you think they were going to study the bible with you?.
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current JW doctrine is that the anointed will survive INTO the GT but die before Armageddon.
a Watcher, thank you! I stand corrected. I took liberty with the timing. I read that the partakers will pass away at the onset of the Great Tribulation. Given that these now immortal warriors, will have to be trained to fall in line, and the rest are at it since their resurrection in 1918, I figured to give them the most time possible.
Important is, that wt does not teach any more that their 1914 generation will survive the end.
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Musings About...Spirit Beings
by titch infolks: this topic might seem a little "out there in left field.
" but it might be something to think about, or perhaps it's something that you have wondered about in the past.
i know that i sometimes wondered about it, , even when i was "in" the jw organization.
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waton
Even mainstream physicists dapple in more than our 3 dimensions plus time. We know that energy can not be created or destroyed, so it is eternal in the past, and already waiting for us in the future, we move into.
The laws that govern our universe seem to be very efficient, reflecting a creative intelligence. Speculation by various ancient or modern religions aside, we can not escape that tremendous work was done before our arrival, awakening.
The bible paints only a caricature of what must be involved.
With energy and its various expressions, being eternal, it certainly can be seen as a carrier of messages, information.