i said once: that was a well rehearsed talk (CO), convincing delivery. he said "thank you" . i replied: "it is always good if such talent would be used in defense of the truth."
Posts by waton
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10backhanded compliment to Sunday speaker
by road to nowhere ina couple years ago we had a speaker, better than average, give the talk.
since i was still pretty much a believer, i commented to him how i enjoyed the talk, and how it was "entertaining".
it was, but he got mad as it was one of the beat the fear of god (governing body) into you talks.
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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me
by Doug Mason inaccording to the watchtower:.
who received the ransom payment?.
why did the ransomer need to be paid?.
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waton
A stickler for protocol, some of the time. requires to have his son killed to satisfy the [later] law of eye for an eye, "unless blood is spilled.." but has no problems with all the laws of nature violated in all the "miracles of the bible stories. pile stories high of you know what.
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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me
by Doug Mason inaccording to the watchtower:.
who received the ransom payment?.
why did the ransomer need to be paid?.
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waton
you are going too fast. The ransom was "to undo the works of the devil", which started with the talking snake working in his behalf. no talking snake, no ransom required.
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Panpsychism - a philosophy with a future
by slimboyfat inat one time scientists believed that living things and non-living things were made of different material, accounting for the unique properties of living things.
this idea is called vitalism and is no longer popular.
what does remain popular (in fact is still the dominant view) is a similar idea that things that experience the world (humans, frogs, mice) are different from things that don't experience the world (potatoes, rocks, snowflakes).
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waton
perhaps the natural potential to combine to the next higher order is here re-labelled "consciousness?
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Panpsychism - a philosophy with a future
by slimboyfat inat one time scientists believed that living things and non-living things were made of different material, accounting for the unique properties of living things.
this idea is called vitalism and is no longer popular.
what does remain popular (in fact is still the dominant view) is a similar idea that things that experience the world (humans, frogs, mice) are different from things that don't experience the world (potatoes, rocks, snowflakes).
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waton
would a plasma constitute the melding of all the individual consciousnesses of all the included particles?
are we seeing the revival and justification of the pet rock phenomenon?
ps: just because the laws of creation/ nature allowed for the emergence of consciousness now, does not mean that it had to kick in right from the big bang on. imho
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Where to go for the 'Deep Things'?
by cobweb inas someone who has been out a while, i wondered what publications a jw would turn to now if they want to do serious bible research.
are there any meaty jw publications left?
i haven't heard of the insight books being revised.
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waton
There are no more deep things in the cart displays, jworg. but, even current wt teachings are deep, because they are full of pitfalls, wt bible contradictions.
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waton
messages in clouds are written in water. condensed water, product of a purifying process. one that releases energy.
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BLUE PLANET2- A Designer?
by ScottyRex inha well- kind of.. i have read lots of cofty's post on evolution and tbh am so interested at his intelligent and thought proving threads.
they are all factual, unemotional and point to may scientific sources.
they cut through so may per-concieved ideas about life and do have that ring of truth.. but i feel empty and a little uncomfortable.
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waton
It would be awesome if you lived in a society that had developed the technology where programs like "Blue Planet" would create themselves as an outgrowth of our current capabilities.
That all Prior Art patents will have expired, would not mean that work was not involved.
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2018 Memorial and Special Talk Speculation
by SplaneThisToMe inso we all know that the special talk titled "who really is jesus christ?
" will be given before the memorial next year which is very new.
also new this year is that the special talk will be prerecorded and given by a branch committee member rather than a brother from the local congregation.
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waton
Anony Mouse:They have already demoted Jesus as being equal to them and no JW noticed,
details please? wanting to read wt tealeaves with you!
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January 2018 Message of Judgment - What Is This?
by dubstepped ini've now seen a couple of references to this and did a little digging before leaving for work.
i saw someone on reddit in july saying that someone on the inside said a change was coming in 2018 with the jw message, and i've now seen two references to this in the past week.
help a former brother out.
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waton
If the hard ball (of ice) message is to start being preached, the anointed leadership of the WTBtS must already have disappeared.
Is not that message a feature of the great tribulation? and do not the anointed rise to their reward at the beginning of that disaster? and do not the angel dispose of the bodies of the anointed, like Jesus'>,--- just reading the tea leaves of past wt publicity. 2075 is far off.