by LostGeneration 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Kinda goes along with all the stupid faith building stories you hear out in service. Like the time this couple bought a mercedes of craigslist for 50 bucks. Sometimes I try not to blame the people in the religion for this idiotic stories or scientific things but they need to be held accountable to some extent.
Or preaching to the dog, angels directing the work, etc.....
It's hard to know where to start:
Day and night are of equal length on the Equinox
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/187518/1/JW-Science-Quote-1-15
The heart muscle is the source of emotions
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/188251/1/JW-Science-Quote-1-29
Blood is the food upon which the body is sustained
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/188572/1/JW-Science-Quote-2-5
The mule is the limit of the "Horse kind"
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/188887/1/JW-Science-Quote-2-12
Personality traits are carried in the blood
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/189217/1/JW-Science-Quote-2-19
Nuclear reactors are capable of exploding in an uncontrolled reation like a warhead
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/140936/1/JW-Science-Quote-Of-The-Day-8-27
Gorillas have "Fangs" which proves that lions could eat straw.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/141006/1/JW-Science-Quote-Of-The-Day-8-28
Trying to differentiate between blood 'components' and 'fractions'. It's all blood!--mickeymouse
The blood thing cracks me up!! I told my mom, "I don't eat cattle. I mean... I'm okay with eating a ribeye... filet mignon... chuck roast... ground beef... T-Bone... Porterhouse... Ribs... But never a cow!!"
Well, it was a JW - but admittedly not the writers of the Watchtower itself. Unless I missed it somewhere, of course...
The old lady that studied with my mother told her that the Sun was immortal - that is, that it would last forever. She said it in the context that she thought the annointed would be orbiting the earth and would draw their power from the sun in the everlasting new system.
I couldn't believe it, even just as a high school science student in the 60s - I thought everybody knew that the Sun had a limited lifetime (billions of years to go, but LIMITED) due to the nuclear processes involved.
It did make me realize that the notion of the everlasting paradise earth was a fantasy.
How can all the races come from white, black, and Oriental? As I know, there are more than that. What about Native Indians? Eskimos had to have come from a different race, as Orientals trying to survive in the Arctic would have a miserable time in winter. And the Polynesians are distinctly different from Orientals or American Indians. I wonder how many Maori, Native American Indians, Aborigines, or Eskimos that statement would offend by leaving out.
They also leave out that some animals are simply left wild. True, one can befriend a lion--those things are basically pussycats that are a lot bigger. But, I would like to see them try that with a jaguar--which cannot be tamed. Or, try riding a zebra. One might be able to play with a cobra safely--try that with a black mamba or fer de lance snake, and see how long it takes to get bit. People have been able to catch Brazilian wandering spiders and keep them as pets--but, I challenge them to try a Sydney funnel web spider. There simply is no way you are going to be able to live at peace with every single species of animals out there.
And that rubbish that all the pro-evolution evidence will fit on a ping pong table. I could fit all the legitimate evidence for direct creation on that same ping pong table and leave room for playing a game of ping pong. There is no reasonable evidence that Jehovah directly created any species, nor did he use any angel or spirit slave to do the same. Rather, the most I would give him credit for is providing the energy and a simple irreducible law, and then letting things take their course--and then interfering every time anyone starts receiving genuine fulfillment in their lives.
Women have more ribs than men because jehoopla took a rib from Adam (debunked in the 1500s).
masterbation is a sin
One that always bugged me was this notion that the Israelites were somehow super advanced in terms of medicine and sanitation because God purportedly told them to shit outside the camp. This is coming from the same bunch of superstitious ancient nitwits that believed buildings could catch leprosy and said buildings could be cured with bird's blood.
10% usage of your brain!
i can think of 7 million examples.
Evertime I read info like this I ask myself, "How could I have ever believed this silly nonsense?"
