Posts by waton

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Noah's Ark : A structure that could never have been built in Noah's day

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the ark encounter located in kentucky (opened in 2016) is a large representation of noah's ark based on the genesis flood narrative contained in the bible.

it is 510 feet (155 m) long, 85 feet (26 m) wide, and 51 feet (16 m) high.. .

genesis 6: 14 so make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

waton

There was a time, not long ago, when woodworking apprentices could not use power tools/ machined stock for the first two years. Imagine the puny pile that could be produced starting from scratch, by 4 workers. Steel tools were not available ~ 3000 Bc. No waterproof super glues to laminate the timber either.

Water turbulence surging at a rate of 10 meter an hour would reduce it to rubble.

The Spruce Goose and Mosquito aeroplanes are about the best wood vehicles made.

Sad, that a carpenter of all people would not discredit that fake news for what it was and is.

So much for the survival promises of wtBtS. inc.

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How Do You Get to Have A God For A Father?

by fulltimestudent in

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the answer is simple, a god must impregnate your mother.. i gave this some thought, as i read the following national geographic article, having had my mind thoroughly impregnated by holy spirit in the 40 years i spent as a temple slave, serving the chief god yhwh and his side-kick jesus, who, unlike me, had been completely begotten by holy spirit.. so with interest, i read about olympias, the mother of alexander the great, who told her son (alexander) that he had been begotten by the chief god zeus, who had turned up on night in her bed and had accepted his advances,.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2019/11-12/queen-olympias-ancient-macedonia/.

olympias is an interesting woman.

waton

The answer is simple, a god must impregnate your mother.

fts: that answer you gave for us is not simple but simplistic.

Unless the universe made itself (unlike the Wuhan waterparks),

the possible creator, one way or another, provided us with mothers. that would make him our great^n father. Even if sex developed to facilitate selection in evolution. so:

keep comments about our mothers to yourself. or

Are you from east of Kaliningrad? denigrating mothers is a favoured attempt to have powerful expressions there.

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Tonight's Meeting

by Studyover in

during tonight's meeting the brother seemed to read out something along the lines of "you may be helping a poor sister who you think may be struggling, but in turn that sister may be getting financial assistance from the government.

it is always best to stick to jehovah's arrangement in these matters so that help can get to those who most need it, including the worldwide work".

i think it may have been an article about social media platforms initially and how they should be avoided and then this was mentioned.

waton

The talk that was given this week in the Local needs in all congregations was about using messaging apps wisely.

Dw: is it correct that it said, everyone that starts a theme, campaign or a site will be held responsible for any adverse outcome?

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Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

by Cadellin in

i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

waton

Most humans though have actually risen above the bestial level

Hb: yes, we are not degenerate As&Es, but evolved from common lower forms. and the cooperation stemming from animal parental nurturing in nature proved so successful in our evolution that we are about to overwhelm the planet.

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JW Excuses

by Vanderhoven7 in

the following list was posted by generation2 in reddit.

perhaps you can add to it.. 1- it's a translation issue.

2- that's how things where then.

waton

only satan questioned.!

that is an apostate thought!

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Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

by Cadellin in

i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

waton

so, what we can tell from nature, that there is free will. even to cause ill for others

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I don't get it - Marriage in WT world

by menrov in

in wt world, a marriage is only seen (considered) as legal if it is registered in the municipality (or similar governmental organisation).

now, if you look at the scriptures, there was no requirement to have a marriage legally registered in order to be considered married.

is it not strange that the wt subjects themselves to and adopts an worldly arrangement setup but governments rules by satan when it comes to a marital status?.

waton

Marriage prospects are a major draw of wt inc and other religions.

In some countries, certain people can not get married, even if they in de facto are. so wt inc makes such unions possible by using the "declaration of faithfulness " arrangement.

Marriage registration is the simplest of the complicated legal hoops wt inc requires is its members to jump through.

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Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

by Cadellin in

i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

waton

There is no creator that is the point.

Ss: while we know that energy is uncreated, eternal, the "father"principal and our struggle to create things argue for some kind of agency at work. , beyond our wildest dreams. comprehension.

The latest wt backtrack was when they almost endorsed the male lyons habit of killing the cubs fathered by his departed predecessor, to sire his own --

as somehow ok, almost like David their pet persona in action.

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My old Congregation is now a book study group of old people!

by Witness 007 in

so i was in a yugoslav ethnic congregation of about 200 people in australia we had alot of refugee witnesses come in from the balkans war.

in the late 1990's we were thriving!

today the young ones have all left "the truth.

waton

There are no more book study groups. At the zoom meetings perhaps 20 out of 150 participate. Amalgamating more "congregations' into one.

soon it will be the "Wyndham" group of the "Melbourne" congregation. again. and

The old are a dangerous bunch because they are the elephants with a goofy but good memory.

The elegant elephants in the room.

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Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

by Cadellin in

i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

waton

The ultimate act of creative genius, would be a making of a system where everything designs itself and drives itself to maximum efficiency in it's niche, without further tinkering.

Wt and others severely underestimate a possible creator.

Even the natural laws might be the once that are left over from all the others that did not work well in their universes.

give credit where credit is due, dont get stuck in arguing about the method. the messy details.