Posts by Rattigan350

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Are you going to heaven?

by compound complex in

greetings:are you convinced (with all due humility, of course) of your future destination according to religious beliefs?

perhaps you'd simply like to journey through outer space, but return eventually to our beautiful planet, earth .

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Rattigan350

There is no evidence that anyone has consciousness in the spirit realm; otherwise why hasn't anything been done to the earthly realm?

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Why Is Stealing From Local Municipalities Not A Sin To JWs? Construction For Example?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

when i begin to think about jehovah's witnesses and stealing from cesar my mind begin's to spin.

last year while walking through a very popular elder's house he showed me how he had doubled the house from the original blue print plans.. .

the inspectors of the county are incompetent or received a bribe, how can you add 1500 sq ft without the building inspector catching the error?

Rattigan350

Rattigan who is suppose to pay for the Military? Schools for kids ages 5-18? Provide loans for students to grow the Economy with Hi-Tech Jobs, adding revenue stream. Should the Government collect taxes to pay the injured military soldiers or should we toss them on the street? What is your opinion of Anarchy, good or bad?

The military and people who work for the govenment earn their money. But I'm just saying that if a business or person had a good business year, then the government would demand more of that through income taxes. But what did the government do to earn it? If someone won millions in lottery, the government gets a big cut. For what? What did they do to earn it?

If I make a million, then Coca Cola doesn't automatically get some of it, but the government does. Why? The government should be like a business and those who use it should fund it.

There doesn't need to be a military; why can't everyone just get along? (Vote for Rodney King.)

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For All Jehovah's Witnesses: When did Jesus begin ruling as King?

by Darth Rutherford in

to all jehovah's witnesses, here is an easy question you can answer... when did jesus begin ruling as king?.

watch tower answers:.

following his resurrection, jesus ascended to heaven and waited at gods right hand until 1914 to begin ruling as king.

Rattigan350

The seven times put upon the throne of Jehovah ended in 1914, 2520 years after it started in 607. Thus when the kings in the line of David lost their sovereignty, then there was a pause for 7 times, then the only real king who was destined to rule, took power.

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Pastor Rick Warren's son commits suicide

by StoneWall in

here's a link but there is already many newscast carrying the story.. .

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/06/17632420-pastor-rick-warrens-son-matthew-commits-suicide-church-says?lite.

edited to add: for any that don't know rick warren here's a quick copy and paste from that news article.

Rattigan350

They say it is mental illness. But why does it always have to lead to destruction?

I say it is because he believed he was going to heaven. Why not die and speed up the process?

False religion destroys.

Or maybe he was secretly gay and couldn't deal with his dad as pastor.

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Do WT Bible NWT pick and choose word meanings to suit their agenda?

by *lost* in

can anyone offer thoughts on this.

any examples.

i just discovered this.. nwt v kjb isaaiah 14;12. kjv - uses lucifer.

Rattigan350

The NWT is the most accurate translation and the translators did not have an agenda other than that.

The critics only don't like how their precious trinity is not being promoted by it. Well, too bad.

It is not promoted by the NWT because it is not true.

Lucifer is not the proper translation of that and you should do research into that.

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Moses and his God directed mass genocide.

by AMO in

was wondering what modern day christians take is on the slaughter of hundreds of thousands perhaps millons, on his god directed journey to the promised land.???.

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amo.

Rattigan350

My take? I don't see the problem with it. They all would be dead by now anyway, so what is the difference?

IF they had not died, they would have multiplied and the population would be so much more today.

That change in history would have a great effect today.

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Why Is Stealing From Local Municipalities Not A Sin To JWs? Construction For Example?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

when i begin to think about jehovah's witnesses and stealing from cesar my mind begin's to spin.

last year while walking through a very popular elder's house he showed me how he had doubled the house from the original blue print plans.. .

the inspectors of the county are incompetent or received a bribe, how can you add 1500 sq ft without the building inspector catching the error?

Rattigan350

OP, How do you get stealing from "doubled the house from the original blue print plans."?

And there is no such thing as stealing from the government as they don't have the right to anything anyway.

The government steals from everyone by demanding tax when they don't earn it.

The government is politicians who are liars and thieves.

But I am frustated about how my wife, who is a pioneer, does not work, but will run up the credit card with her pioneer friends

and gas and do other congregation things.

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Were You A Sneaky Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

jw
friends

you know, the type that looked like a model witness but at home you were not the best example o your family?.

or maybe you accepted from the faithful slave that oral sex was bad, but you did it secretly---same with masturbation.. or perhaps you put in some wonderful hours and placements on that report slip, knowing you might have exaggerated just a bit.. so, were you one who practiced what you preached?.

Rattigan350

I never broke the rules because I never believed there were rules to break.

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Logical Fallacies in WT Publications

by Oubliette in

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Rattigan350

why do people keep writing "marked" or "marking" in threads?

Is it like a marking talk?

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How exactly did Jesus fulfill the law NOT the prophecies.

by mP in

theres a clear difference between prophecies (predictions of future events) and laws(stuff you should and shouldnt do).. now since xians always says jesus fullfilled the law, how does one fullfill a bunch of requirements like dont murder, dont worship idols, shave your beard like this etc.. there are 613 laws in the torah, jewish rabbis have done all the hard work and we have a nice list on wiki.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_mitzvot.

im confused which of those some how select a unique individual to be the unique messiah ?

then again there were many messiahs, every king and priest of israel and judea was a messiah.

Rattigan350

" Jesus is never mentioned by name or title(son of god, messiah etc). Why didnt Moses simply write Jesus son of God here ? The answer is of course Jesus is a new made up invention that only appears in the NT, there is no Jesus in the OT. If you dont blieve me ask any Rabbi."

Think about it. If Moses had said that the person would be named Jesus and gave more specifics, then everyone would name their kids Jesus and arrange the specifics.

Yes, that was how to identify false prophets in that many would claim to be the messiah and how to find the real one and what to do with him.

But the issue and problem never is who Jesus was just as it is not about whether God created everything. The issues is what Jesus and God will do in the future and when.