Srecko Sostar

Srecko, you must understand, @Space Merchant is a good word manipulator. He's not a Unitarian Church, even though that woeful fool knows perfectly well what being part of a church, as a Unitarian member, means. 
He enjoys "misdirection" and the third party nonsense to avoid a DIRECT personal opinion. A sad ploy for someone claiming to be a good debater.
In one hand, he made @JW Insider out to be a liar, since he defended @Space Merchant, claim of NOT being a Unitarian.
So, now he is just a "speculator" (Truther) with information to win debates. You don't need to be smart for that, you just need "time" to research the information on the internet in order to give a rebuttal days later, like he does. 
That being said, you will NOT get a direct answer from such a person.

Watch SM.  
A) I am not the author of this video so I am not misleading anyone. It can only be the author of a video who explaining his faith to the public and causes your anxiety.
B) Fact is, there is no single religion on this Earth that is not the cause of delusions and deviations and misleadings.

This is interesting video to see how people "of your kind" also are separated from "the truth" and belong to "denominations" inside "same" faith. He speaking about individual various ways for person in searching for truth.
Unitarian and Universalist merged together.  Unitarian Universalism was formed from the consolidation in 1961 of two historically separate Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, both based in the United States; the new organization formed in this merger was the Unitarian Universalist Association.
 

Which one (Unitarian) are you? True, false, original, modified, factionalist ...?
 I do not understand. I don't think JW understands you either. So I ask: How is God separated from his spirit? 
Do you have your spirit? And are you separated from your spirit?
I am not separated from my spirit. My spirit and I are one. I am also not detached from my intellect and mind. :))
 

Oh, just as an aside, in Finland the government considers impairing a person’s right to vote in any way to be akin to a crime against humanity and a violation of a persons basic human rights, therefore the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in Finland does not in anyway impose congregational sanctions against any brother or sister who chooses to vote, and does not speak against it in any way whatsoever, which would be a punishable felony, as a violation of basic human rights.
I agree with that.
 
 
 

When I was a teenager I was exposed to the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility towards every form of tyranny over the mind of man.“
I realize now, that since then, I have never been “neutral”. 
 
 
 

If it is true that "true Christians" go from house to house, literally, with good news, then yes, your work is stopped.
According to quotes bellow GB lead a double game. They can't be trusted.
Can you be trusted?  
However, it is only among Jehovah’s Witnesses that virtually all, young and old, male and female, participate year in, year out, in the house-to-house ministry. It is only Jehovah’s Witnesses who truly endeavor to reach all the inhabited earth with the Kingdom message, in obedience to the prophetic command at Matthew 24:14.
Because of the effectiveness of the house-to-house ministry, opposers in many lands have tried to stop it. In order to gain official respect for their right to preach from door to door, Jehovah’s Witnesses have appealed to government officials. Where necessary, they have gone to court in order to legally establish the right to spread the good news in this manner. (Phil. 1:7) And where repressive governments have persisted in forbidding such activity, Jehovah’s Witnesses have at times simply done it in a less conspicuous manner or, if necessary, used other means to reach people with the Kingdom message.
Although radio and television broadcasts have been used to spread the Kingdom message, Jehovah’s Witnesses recognize that the personal contact made possible by house-to-house calls is far more effective. It affords better opportunity to answer the questions of individual householders and to search out deserving ones. (Matt. 10:11) That is one of the reasons why, in 1957, the Watch Tower Society sold radio station WBBR in New York.
- https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/Jehovahs-Witnesses-Proclaimers-of-Gods-Kingdom/Kingdom-Preaching-Furthered-by-Production-of-Bible-Literature/Preaching-Publicly-and-From-House-to-House/
 
 Web Sites of “Jehovah’s Witnesses”: Consider, for example, some Internet sites set up by individuals who claim to be Jehovah’s Witnesses. They invite you to visit their sites to read experiences posted by others who claim to be Witnesses. You are encouraged to share your thoughts and views about the Society’s literature. Some give recommendations about presentations that could be used in the field ministry. These sites offer chat rooms for individuals to connect to, allowing live communication with others, similar to talking on the telephone. They often point you to other sites where you can have on-line association with Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world. But can you tell for certain that these contacts have not been planted by apostates?
11 Having association via the Internet may not be consistent with the recommendation found at Ephesians 5:15-17. - https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/201999403

I have a simple question; Who in the United States banned house-to-house preaching for JW? Who told JW not to go from house to house? 

WT do printing publication on several  locations around the globe, less than before because they shuted down some facilities. 
 
In Croatia, as in many other countries there is no need to have printing licence from law. Because they not printing publications and books. For printing tracts for summer convention program or some other convention twice a year, call tracts for public meetings and Lord's supper is easily to order in "worldly" printing shop.
In Mexico they was registered as Cultural Society.
Why JW's need to be registered as non-profit organization/corporation?? You can be simple Religious Association of Citizens or International Religious Volunteer. Who forced JW's to be registered as non-profit COMPANY??

The GB are the ones that say only they are the Faithful and Discreet slave.
And the GB say that YHWH and Yeshua trust the GB.  
The GB also strictly advise all other Anointed ones NOT TO MEET TOGETHER. 

It's just my personal opinion, but discussion can help a Christian be informed. A person might think that in order to be neutral, it would mean that we should state that the policies of India in 1948, or Peru in 1943, were just as good or bad as the policies of Hitler's Germany in 1941. Neutrality does not mean we remain so uninformed that we can't tell the difference, or that we can't distinguish good from bad, or bad from worse, or mediocre from less mediocre.
Jesus called Herod "that fox." Is it really wrong for a Christian to discuss why Jesus might have called him that?
In Acts, Luke discusses political corruption, a possible bribe that Felix was looking for, and a political motive for some of his actions:
(Acts 24:24-27) . . .Some days later Felix came with Dru·silʹla his wife, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and listened to him speak about the belief in Christ Jesus. 25 But as Paul talked about righteousness and self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and answered: “Go away for now, but when I have an opportunity I will send for you again.” 26 At the same time he was hoping that Paul would give him money. For that reason, he sent for him even more frequently and conversed with him. 27 But when two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and because Felix desired to gain favor with the Jews, he left Paul in custody.
Was Luke being non-neutral in exposing some political motives and corruption?
Someone could argue, that all of those examples are history, or that the examples had a direct effect on God's people. But then again, what happened last week, even yesterday, is also history. And Jehovah's people are still being effected by world events.

There is no evidence whatsoever, zero, zip, nada, Jehovah God or Jesus Christ intervened in anyway whatsoever during World War II or any conflict in modern times in any way whatsoever.
There is no evidence that a single individual’s eventuality was changed by divine intervention in anyway whatsoever.
There is no evidence that any nation’s eventuality was changed by divine intervention in anyway whatsoever.
Irregardless of a plethora of competing religious theories, ideas and concepts, there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest otherwise than we are on our own, and have to manage the best way we can.
Jehovah God did not stop Adolf Hitler, or Pol Pot.
Nor did he intervene in any way in Grand Prairie Texas when four sisters were driving in Field Service, were T-boned at an intersection  and killed.
Of course you are welcome to any theory you want.
Reality, the way things really are, cares nothing about our convenient fantasies.
 

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Just saw a Youtube episode of Jimmy Dore (below) who hits many of the same points that I (and others) have made about Ukraine. A little too defensive of Putin, and too snarky in general, but accurate on most of the points he does present. Some of the best points are about the hypocrisy of the U.S. rhetoric, a point he actually understates.
 

This isn't new, it was talked about before, and the notation of Excommunication existed from the 1st century church and onward. It is related to the binding and loosening of the church itself.
The only reason why many, even EXJWs see it as outlandish is because Mainstream Christendom has already put in the idea into many a totally different view of mercy and Excommunication, the facts speak for itself when you simply do research, the majority against this is Mainstream Christendom and those who adhere to their influence.
In Matthew 16, the keys were entrusted to the followers of Christ, and from there, the actions in regards to the church. Excommunication took on different forms centuries later, and in present day, Mainstream Christianity sees the old ways of Excommunication as a problem, and those who follow any of what was originally present.
In that passage we can see that Jesus is solemnly entrusting the Church with the power to bind and loosen, and this is closely tied with the Church’s ability to excommunicate unrepentant sinners. And it’s more than just an ability. Jesus actually instructs it as the appropriate course of action to be taken in the case of certain unrepentant sinners. They are be ostracized, in the way that the Jews of the time treated Gentiles and tax collectors, therefore, the action of Expelling, is enacted, a cut away from the Church. There are also examples of Excommunication of this level in the Greek New Testament.
It can also be noted that Expelling, hence Shunning Command is further noted/connected to passages like 1 Corinthians 5:11–13 and Matthew 18:15–17 (and ref.), suggest shunning command as an internal practice of early Christians and are cited as such by  practitioners within Christianity today outside of the Mainstream. It is rare for a Mainstreamer to use it, however, there are cases, as of recent, a Pastor complaining publicly (claiming) about immoral blaspheming Witches in his Church.
I do not use the term "Infidels". I am not a Mainstream Christian, therefore, I do not go around the notation of Excommunication.
Within Christianity, there tend to be three major views of the place of Excommunication:
1. We shouldn’t excommunicate anyone, because it’s not merciful.
2. We should excommunicate, because we want to purify the Church of the damned.
3. We should excommunicate, because it’s merciful to sinners.
It is evident as to which one is used and by whom. It can be noted possibly the worse form of Excommunication is Herem, is the highest ecclesiastical censure, perhaps even beyond the shunning command itself, Biblically speaking.
All forms of Excommunication and or Expelling is a practice outside of religion, also, you were already told this in the past.

https://medium.com/@unpolitick/ukraine-2022-true-story-true-history-5c93376e79bf

A new thread on Ukraine was not needed at all. But I wanted to discuss this point of Ukraine "Nazification" in more detail. I think it's much more important to an understanding of what is going on in Ukraine than many people will give it credit.
I thought about avoiding this site [TWNM.org] for political commentary, even though I always find it best to try to write up my musings about any topic, political or otherwise. It's not to convince anyone else, but for some of the following reasons:
in order to more easily see if what I understand makes logical sense when I re-read it. to see whether any challenges to my current understanding make better sense. as a kind of reference for myself about what I may have thought about something in the past, especially useful if at some point in the future I come to think of my past views as stupid To that end I decided to try writing up some of my opinions and ideas about politics on medium.com. I made up an email address for it, and call myself by the name "Geo Politicks" @unpolitick. I don't have a Twitter account or Facebook account, but I might start putting up a few more comments on medium.com. This way, maybe, I can keep comments about politics much shorter over here, where I would prefer to focus more attention on how various political situations effect our brothers and sisters.
Those who don't care to read my longer ramblings (or who might even find them offensive) will be much less likely to visit a link to a blog at medium.com.
At any rate, I just started it on 2/22/2022, and I posted only one article so far. I wrote up two more quick articles yesterday, too, but didn't post them yet.
There is one other point to address, and that is the idea of neutrality. It will definitely be offensive to some here that any discussion of political issues is the same as breaking neutrality. However, I don't think that anyone would argue that it is wrong for a Christian to be against Nazism, and more in favor of stability. Most Christians have good reason to prefer capitalism and/or democracy over communism and socialism, especially when socialist and communist countries prove to be a hindrance to true Christian practice. And there are some nuances to neutrality that are a bit more subtle. For example, if one is quick to accept a report as true even though it was actually intended as propaganda for one side or another of a conflict, then that person has taken sides, usually without even realizing it. Being more informed of the truth or falsehood of a story intended as propaganda can actually make one more neutral, and less likely to be fooled into taking sides. 
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So after all that I will share the link in the next post.

Yes but JWs are forced to shun ex-jws, and those ex-jws could well be innocent, free of the sins that the Elders condemn them for. In cases of CSA people have been removed from congregations for demanding that a pedophile be investigated or removed from the congregation. Sometime that pedophile is an Elder and the other elders protect the pedophile by removing or disfellowshipping the victims of sexual abuse.  Such cases have been proven in the courtrooms of the Superior Authorities. But some people don't want to believe vicitms of CSA, those people would sooner serve the GB and it's immoral Org. 

Widely known practices of shunning that is obligatory religious behavior in WTJWorg.

Here down  is original comment.
Additional comment related to the original:
In this particular situation (Charlie Hebdo shootings) in France, some people who are followers/members of Islam (two Muslims) done violent act in the name of Islam. 
As you see from my original comment, i didn't say how Islam is violent. And i didn't make claim how Muslims are violent because Islam is violent religion.
You made fine observation where we can see how people from various religious background acted violently (individually or organized).
As for the violent act of conduct in WTJWorg, violence of this type is contained in the manipulative actions of religious leaders (guardians of doctrine) and executors of orders (primarily elders and from majority of members). A further psychological act of violence is in the methods of shunning, towards members, ex-members and even towards many who do not belong to the JW religion.
We can always ask ourselves what is harder, to beat and kill someone? Or completely ignore and blackmail someone mentally and emotionally?

Enoch was”transferred” to another location on Earth or some planet in another Star system close to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy …. Might even have been to Switzerland, where he became an Investment Banker, or to FS-45Alc-19 in the Andromedia Galaxy, where he joined a Conestoga Wagon Train going through the mountains to settle a new continent.
The Bible DOES NOT SAY WHERE HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO ….. it only says he did not see death.
Anything else (including THIS SPECULATION) is completely made up, but Heaven is out of consideration by anyone with common sense .….
….. it’s as silly as babies going to heaven, and needing to have their diapers changed 3 times a day, for the rest of eternity.
It is not a lack of faith to just plain admit we do not know, even though with common sense we can definitely figure out what it is NOT.
 

Interpretation arose from several possibilities:
1) Nowhere in the Bible does it claim that Enoch did not seek God's help by means of prayer 
2) Enoch, who is described as a believer and a righteous man, believed that God helps his servants
3) like most worshipers of God, Enoch believed in the power of prayer
4) worshipers of God believe that they can pray to God for all that is in their hearts
5) the assumption is that Enoch feared for his life, so he asked for God's help in prayer
6) he may have asked God to keep him alive so that he would not allow his enemies to kill him
7) someone has written in a book (the Bible) that "God took him", and no one knows what that actually means

Not in meetings. In this case, they don't matter. What matters is the warning, the Watchtower has made by canonical law, how dangerous these sites are.

Reading through some of these comments it’s the first time in my life I have seen the word “translation” used to describe how Enoch was supposedly taken to heaven.

Without dying!
Gimmee a break!
I have previously been exposed to the word “transference”, or “transferred” to described how he was extracted as if by helicopter from his potential and real perils.
The important points to me were this…… the Bible did NOT say, repeat did NOT say, that he was killed. It’s important that the Bible did NOT say he was taken to heaven!
It makes no sense to me that Jehovah would save someone by killing them, whether they “saw it coming”, or not.
Because the word “transference” was used and because it made no sense to me the current explanations from any source, I got to thinking about what does the word “Transfer” really mean. 
What does “transfer” really mean?
The Bible does not provide an explanation, so what would a normal rational person with common sense conclude the word “transfer” or “transference” actually meant in context with all that was going on, back then …… AND The common sense explanation that Jehovah God does not reward faithfulness by killing the faithful?
I know in modern times, if you work for a company and are a valuable and loyal employee, you may be promoted to a new position in another town and be transferred there. They do not kill you, presumably, and they do not send you to heaven, unless of course possibly you are an astronaut, Or a cosmonaut.
Therefore it makes more sense to me to ignore all explanations that do not use simple every day language and simple every day explanations.
….. my guess is, and I’m going to tell people that what I “know“, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and just plain old common sense, including that caveat, Is that Enoch was not killed, did not go to heaven, but was simply relocated or transferred to another location somewhere else on earth.
That makes the most common sense to me, and keeps the meaning of the word and does not assume things that are not said in the Bible.
Otherwise, you’re just making stuff up.
On a non- sequiterial related note, have you ever noted that representations of “ghosts” are always wearing clothes?
Where do they shop?