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The true nature of our hearts cannot be discovered until we accept our potential place among society. But if that is true then how do I keep working at a labor dead end job and keep my true desires to explore and live a more fullfilled life suppressed?
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
reply to post by edmc^2
Nope, no silver lining. The only positives things that will come from these tragedies are technologies developed to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
Just another few big earthquakes, they happen all the time. They're tragedies, but they're not out of the ordinary.
Originally posted by bogomil
reply to post by edmc^2
I find it extremely tasteless to take advantage of tragedies to further your own missionary obsessions.
You could have cut down your un-necessarily long, over-embellished and basically non-sense sermon to:
"What did we tell you?"
and still have this little inner glow of being righteous.
Not that this would have been any more convincing, but at least you would have played with true colours, instead of this piece of repetitive propaganda-clichées.
Originally posted by bogomil
reply to post by edmc^2
I find it extremely tasteless to take advantage of tragedies to further your own missionary obsessions.
You could have cut down your un-necessarily long, over-embellished and basically non-sense sermon to:
"What did we tell you?"
and still have this little inner glow of being righteous.
Not that this would have been any more convincing, but at least you would have played with true colours, instead of this piece of repetitive propaganda-clichées.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
reply to post by edmc^2
I wanted to point out one thing. The last time a 9.0ish earthquake hit? Well...it was 2010. Before that? 2005. Before that one? 2004. Odd thing being that 2 of those three were in the 'ring of fire', the most tectonically active region in the world.
Here's a list of the 10 most powerful earthquakes since 1900
Tectonic activity will continue. The only thing we're doing is getting better at measuring it.
“There will be great earthquakes” (Luke 21:11)
Not just earthquakes but “great earthquakes”. Is this true? What are the facts? Make a comparison before and after 1914. How many “great earthquakes” occurred before 1914 and at what rate and intensity? After 1914 what do the facts show? ATS has some great statistics of earthquakes which confirms the fact that since 1914 earthquakes around the world are ever increasing in great number with great intensity and magnitude. Is there any other time that this was/is true?
You present a message, which only is meaningful for you and likeminded. This message contains in itself aspirations of exclusivity and monopoly, and when varieties of said system have had strong influence on society, the results have been catastrophic. As often as not extremist christianities have committed open and dictatorial physical violence, they have taken it upon themselves to suppress any kind of medical practise, opposition is censored, etc.
Jehovah's Witnesses were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime. The Nazis targeted Jehovah's Witnesses because they were unwilling to accept the authority of the state, because of their international connections, and because they were strongly opposed to both war on behalf of a temporal authority and organized government in matters of conscience.
Because of their conscientious objection to participation in military service, whether armed or unarmed, Jehovah's Witnesses have often faced imprisonment or other penalties. In Greece, for example, before the introduction of alternative civilian service in 1997, hundreds of Witnesses were imprisoned, some for three years or even more for their refusal. In Armenia, young Jehovah's Witnesses have been imprisoned (and remain in prison) because of their conscientious objection to military service. The government of South Korea also imprisons hundreds for refusing the draft. In Switzerland, virtually every Jehovah's Witness is exempted from military service. The Finnish government exempts Jehovah's Witnesses from the draft completely...
Women and children have been, and still are occasionally, considered property or secondclass human beings.
Minority groups have been exposed to atrocities, justified with christian doctrines.
United StatesIn the United States, numerous cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses are now landmark decisions of First Amendment law. In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties."[12]
The most important U.S. Supreme Court legal victory won by the Witnesses was in the case West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette, in which the court ruled that school children could not be forced to pledge allegiance to or salute the U.S. flag. The Barnette decision overturned an earlier case, Minersville School District vs. Gobitis (1940), in which the court had held that Witnesses could be forced against their will to pay homage to the flag.
The fighting words doctrine was established by Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942). In that case, a Jehovah's Witness had reportedly told a New Hampshire town marshal who was attempting to prevent him from preaching "You are a damned racketeer" and "a damned fascist" and was arrested. The court upheld the arrest, thus establishing that "insulting or 'fighting words', those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech [which] the prevention and punishment of...have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem."
In a more recent case, Jehovah's Witnesses refused to get government permits to solicit door-to-door in Stratton, Ohio. In 2002, the case was heard in the U.S. Supreme Court (Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton — 536 U.S. 150 (2002)). The Court ruled in favor of the Jehovah's Witnesses, holding that making it a misdemeanor (to engage in door-to-door advocacy without first registering with the mayor and receiving a permit) violates the first Amendment as it applies to religious proselytizing, anonymous political speech, and the distribution of handbills.
So spare me the sanctimoneous sugar-coating, where MY protests are the 'anger of the unenlightened', who without reason criticise your self-appointed holy good-guy absolutes.
Your new-age like tactics of 'holier-than-you' smugness doesn't fool anyone except the saved, so to keep the whole system alive, the christianities are stooping to bribe people into convertion, because most western. educated people increasingly aren't buying your non-sense.
You always have the option of REAL communication, instead of semantic propaganda maneuvers. So instead of scholastically trying to turn black into white, you can relate directly to some central points in my posts.
PS People involved in or related to catastrophes don't need candy-floss fantasies. They need blankets, medicines, shelters, fresh water, hospitals, food. So posting your Disneyland-in-the-sky picture twice only adds to the cynical arrogance.