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  The worst idea in the world

  by Bugbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now i´ve been thinking …(a very rare occupation for my brain) and the question is :.

  what could be the very worst/dangerous/harmful thought in our head?.

  could it be that we are more beautiful / stronger / smarter / faster than the rest of our human brothers or sisters?.

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  Chook

  The idea that I am God, has occured a few times. But The ones that got that idea are very easily disclosured, they simply cannot perform the miracles that goes along with beeing God!
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  The worst idea in the world

  by Bugbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now i´ve been thinking …(a very rare occupation for my brain) and the question is :.

  what could be the very worst/dangerous/harmful thought in our head?.

  could it be that we are more beautiful / stronger / smarter / faster than the rest of our human brothers or sisters?.

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  JeffT

  Yes, I think that narcissim, sociopathy, and other mental dissorders, are empowered by the by the Idea that God is with me.
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  The worst idea in the world

  by Bugbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now i´ve been thinking …(a very rare occupation for my brain) and the question is :.

  what could be the very worst/dangerous/harmful thought in our head?.

  could it be that we are more beautiful / stronger / smarter / faster than the rest of our human brothers or sisters?.

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  Bugbear

  Now I´ve been thinking …(a very rare occupation for my brain) And the question is :

  What could be the very worst/dangerous/harmful thought in our head?

  Could it be that we are more beautiful / stronger / smarter / faster than the rest of our human brothers or sisters?

  Or, could it be that we believe that we have a direct contact with God. That God tell us what is right or wrong. That we have understood the will of God and are able to interpret the will of God from an ancient scripture:

  If so, we also feel the need of informing the rest of humanity what God want them to do. And since we have the right from God, we can also punish those who doesn´t agree.

  I think the very Idea (in our head) that we are with God (In God we trust), is the very base for most of all the killing, bullying, raping, terrorism, war, nonsense believes (ghosts-spirits-demons, immortal souls), a.s.f.

  This Idea (God tells me), is the reason for us humans living in this chaos.

  What do you think?
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  Signatures on posts

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  can i please ask people not to repeated signatures on their posts.. i have pm'd a few people directly with the request as i've noticed them but i guess the inevitable "explain why / show it's fair" means i need to make it publicly to all .... everyone's name and avatar is already displayed next to each post made so anything added at the bottom is really superfluous and just reduces readability on smaller devices where screen-real-estate is already at a premium.

  if the layout is redesigned for mobile devices with the poster name at the bottom then it looks kind-of stupid (e.g.

  "said simon - simon ...").

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  Ive got you
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  I heard that Watchtower get Government funding

  by Mozzie in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  being a recognized religion here in australia i heard they get government funding.....if this is true, i don;t see why as they seem to do okay funding themselves .

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  Bugbear

  In northern Europé the WTBS proudly announced 20-30 years ago, that they never accepted any “worldly” contribution for their activities. That included governmental subsidy. Today they have applied for subsidies from the state for youth and educational matters….They have all the time been refused.

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  My daughter graduated Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours yesterday.

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. family

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  stash: /intesoft-inc.appspot.com/post/867be77a3c2f41bd8d3b930cbfb629c0.html

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  Bugbear

  Congratulations to you and your daughter. Educations are the best way to avoid superstitions ideas.
  
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  Calling All Who Were JWs Between 1967 and 1980

  by -Crossroads- in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello jwn,.

  to introduce myself, i am still in the jws but learned ttatt some months ago.

  i now ask this question to get more info on a past teaching.. between 1967 and 1980 was when the 'current understanding' of the wts was that organ transplants were cannibalism, and thus abhorrent.

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  Bugbear

  I do remember a speech in 1974 when a brother tried to explain hearth transplantation and their consequences. In the Bible it is explained that your heart is your inner soul together with the blood.

  And when it was obvious that a man could live with another man’s organ and blood, a lot of confusion was rocking the Soc. The speech was utterly so confusing that I saw a lot of attendance’s “smiled”. Nothing was really explained.

  At that time many members of the cong. also said that vaccinations where absolutely forbidden. Now that is something I haven´t been able to trace in written. But it really shows that many religious societies, with their antique visions of “life”, do not understand science and reality reasons.

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  Open discussion on "Spiritual Intelligence"

  by Fernando in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was a surprise to learn that there are quite a number of si books, and si tests, out there.. what are your thoughts on si?.

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  Bugbear

  Does this mean that either the pope or some Mullah can challenge the title “world championship” in SI?
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  Where does WT get their money?

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i assume they get most of it from cash donations and assets left in wills.

  there may also be some income from invested assets.

  i guess they get a lot of money from old jws who die childless or with only df'd kids.geographically i assume they get it mostly from a few countries that have many publishers and strong economies.

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  I can tell you that here in sweden, they have closed the bransch office, sold out the assembly hall, and a number of KH:s. Its surely shows that northern europe is not their "money maker"... But sweden denmark norway and Netherlands are also the most atheistic countries in the world. No religion will have any success here. Not even the different Islamic versions...

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  Things I Never Knew When I Was A Witness!

  by disillusioned 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there are some things that as a witness i never knew.

  maybe i was just going through the motions, attending meetings and not listening much.

  never was very good at personal study or underlining answers in watchtower or book study (i never ever answered up) was too shy.. i never knew when i was a witness that they taught that jesus had looked down on the earth in 1919 to see who was serving god most accurately, and of course he chose a small group of bible students living in america!

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  Bugbear

  Yes, there were many things I never knew. But there were also many things I knew, but suppressed. I did not know the business idea, that the WT had. To let voluntary people build and by them estates, and then selling them on the market with profit. I didn´t understand the brilliant idea to cover up all these transactions within a tax free org. registered as a non-profitable org. or an international Aid org. I didn´t know that the soc. where a member of the UN (NGO). And I had no idea that many of the elders in the cong. took advantage of their pos. and became pedophiles.

  And I can assure you that there are still many things we never know….

  Bugbear