November Awake's I WAS RAISED AN ATHEIST" article

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  • I quit!
    I quit!

    After reading Behemot's post on the article in the November Awake I decided to do something I rarely ever do. Pick up a Watchtower publication and thumb through it. In the article a scientist Frantisek Vyskocil being interview by Awake on how he came to his belief in God and became a JW. He mentions that he studied with a Pharmacologist who was a JW. Well I have a question for both of these men. My question is do either of them realize that they wouldn't be in the professions that they are in if they had been raise as JWs? Instead of being sent to University their parents would have encouraged them spend their lives going door to door handing out Watchtower magazine and telling everyone that the world was about to end. It amazes me how any educated person could buy into this crap. Don't they realize that if they raise their children the way they Watchtower tells them to their children will not have any of the opportunies that they had but will instead be wasting their lives "pioneering" and working menial jobs.

    I used to know a college professor who was a JW. He had two sons. To my knowledge neither of them went to college. I don't think they were given the opportunity. That was a long time ago and I doubt that either of them are still JWs.

  • JamesThomas
    JamesThomas

    I find it amazing that anyone in 2010 still believes that the earth was made in 6,000 years! They must have their head in a location void of anything remotely breathable. And a collage professor who believes this, most certainly has to go to a Proctologist to have their head examined.

  • sabastious
    sabastious

    I find it amazing that people still find this stuff amazing!

    -Sab

  • simon17
    simon17

    The Witnesses don't believe that the earth was made in 6000 years, just that humans have existed for 6000 years (Which is also something that the evidence does not support but at least its a fairly controversial subject among many religions).

    Also I would note that it really depends where you grow up as a Witness. Where I grew up, in a metropolitan area, I'd say at least 50% of witnesses went to college and got good degrees including many sons/daughters of elders.

  • yesidid
    yesidid
    Where I grew up, in a metropolitan area, I'd say at least 50% of witnesses went to college and got good degrees including many sons/daughters of elders.

    I find that very, very, very difficult to believe.

    Perhaps you could give us the name of that city of great enlightnment.

  • moshe
    moshe
    50% of witnesses went to college-

    since when does window washing require a degree!

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    I wonder what embellishments or outright fabricated experiences they came up with to make that one fit. As for the earth, humans supposedly lived for 6,000 years (the earth, according to the Washtowel chronology, is around 48,000 years old--still an impossibly low number). They do that by discrediting every piece of science that proves otherwise--including radio-carbon dating. They claim that radio-carbon dating can be off by tens of orders of magnitude, not just by a few percentage points, to make their crap of a 48,000 year old earth more logical sounding.

  • lesabre
    lesabre

    omg...... i was skimming the topics and i thought this one was titled "november awake's 'I ONCE RAPED AN ATHIEST' article" oooopppsss... lol.

  • JamesThomas
    JamesThomas

    @sabastious,

    I find it amazing that you find it amazing that people still find it amazing.

    You call it picking corn, we call it amazing.

  • Mythbuster
    Mythbuster

    Is there anything in the article that states this guy, Frantisek Vyskocil, ever became a JW? The reason I ask is the article only uses the word "Jehovah" once, when he said he talked to one who was a pharmacologist. This seems weird to me coming from a WT magazine.

    Wikipedia doesn't say anything about him being a JW (not that is the end all be all authority).

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