Spade,
For your convenience, past threads that are still awaiting your reply. Shall I bump them too? Would that help?
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/207373/1/Present-some-evidence-for-evolution
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/205121/1/What-is-a-false-prophet
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/206835/1/Spade-help-me-out-please
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/206699/1/The-Gentile-Times-Reconsidered
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/206752/1/For-Spade-a-discussion-of-sociocentricity
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/205461/1/New-Light
Granted, you don't have to reply. But if you want to discuss something, it's pretty much a given that you should be able to defend your position; otherwise it's not a discussion, just trolling. I'm also curious as to why you're still here after reading the following (that you wrote):
Well, I'm outta here. I initially started researching Jehovah's Witnesses because my wife has been studying with them so I can't digest anymore of the religious hate I'm reading here. I was shown this by someone here and told I needed to protect my wife:
http://www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com/whoweare.html
Upper Room Ministries smacks of a religious hate group. This stuff won't alter anyone's thinking. For starters, I don't believe in a higher power, so whatever adverse consequences a person experiences as a result of blind faith in intangible, invisible beings isn't resolved by exchanging one religious ideology for another or being born again into another religion and engaging in illterate religious psyche warfare. All I could find in the book being studied with my spouse is some doctrinal differences from the way they interpret religious text.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/199643/1/This-information-source-not-for-me
It's been my experience so far, that anything a person wants to find out about Jehovah’s Witnesses, they can find out from Jehovah’s Witnesses. Any and all information ever published by Jehovah Witnesses is accessible to all. The quality of their personalities can be assessed in person at any Kingdom Hall and not just taken at face value unlike the numerous cyberghosts that run amok on the internet. Good educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion, but there are real problems with some former members:
- They sift the facts, exploiting the useful ones and concealing the others
- They also distort and twist facts, specializing in lies and half-truths
- They take sides with others that have deviated from the organization often slandering men who are no longer around to defend themselves
But shun empty speeches that violate what is holy; for they will advance to more and more ungodliness, and their word will spread like gangrene. Hy·me·nae′us and Phi·le′tus are of that number. These very [men] have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some. 2 Timothy 2:16-18
