New light is Scientifically Accurate!! Here is the Proof!!

by DATA-DOG 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  DATA-DOG

  WT 1981 12/1 pg. 28 paragraph 9.

  " Such adjustments might be said to follow a principle that has been said to govern the progress of scientific truth. In brief, it works something like this: At first there is a proposition made that is subject to argumentation. It holds out great possibilities for enlightenment or practical application. But then in time it is seen to have certain flaws or weaknesses. So the tendency is to go to a proposition at the opposite extreme. Later it is found that that position does not represent the whole truth either, and so there is a combining of the valid points in both positions. Time and again this principle has applied in the way Proverbs 4:18 has been fulfilled. "
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  breakfast of champions

  Oh! They're using the Scientific Method! Yay!

  I imagine them cooking up new bullshit in a test tube over a Bunsen burner with a Tesla coil arcing in the background.

  Actually, their "scientific" explanation sounds a LOT like evolution. Probably because that's what it is!

  Pretty interesting quote DATA
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  mP

  If the Bible was scientific, then why doesnt it contain any useful technology or laws of nature so somebody could actually build something really advanced. Once that machine or whatever was made, everybody would believe, then there would be no need for pathetic fuzzy scriptures that dont really say anything remotely related to the topic they are prsented for.
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  "Time and again this principle has applied in the way Proverbs 4:18 has been fulfilled. "

  Except for the fact that Prov. 4:18 isn't talking about 'revealed truth'/ new light at all! I wonder if anyone at WT has actually read chapter 4 to see verse 18 in context?

  How can Prov. 4:18 be "fulfilled"? It's not a prophecy!

  "Such adjustments might be said to follow a principle that has been said to govern the progress of scientific truth"

  Otherwise known in WT Land as "tacking". This is where you go in a big circle to come back to exactly where you started decades prior- then call it progress.
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  return of parakeet

  " But then in time it is seen to have certain flaws or weaknesses. So the tendency is to go to a proposition at the opposite extreme. "

  What dubs don't know about the scientific method is a lot. A bright 10th-grader would recognize this as crap.

  It reminds me of someone playing darts with a blind-fold. You missed? Try again!
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  smiddy

  If Jehovahs Witnesses have/had the truth today then obviously/evidently they never had the truth yesterday

  smiddy
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  DATA-DOG

  The Nu-light-o-mata-tron is nearly ready for testing! If this works, we will be the FDS!

  

  Anyone notice a resemblance??

  

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  Oubliette

  That's an interesting quote, but a pretty lame explanation of the scientific method.

  Also, scientists are subject to peer review. The GB forbid their followers from even having secret doubts.

  They want to appear objective, but that's clearly just an act.
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  Heaven

  LMFAO @ DATA-DOG!

  Edited to add: Just to add my 2cents worth.... Scientists do not blame any errors they've made on those reading their work like the GB does with its membership. I've never read a Scientist saying "You as the reader ran ahead of us Scientists."
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  Terry

  The elephant in the room? JEHOVAH'S DIRECTION!

  New Light is supposed to be DIRECTION given from heaven and not an opinion process refined by TRIAL and ERROR.

  The history of the Watchtower Society is mostly ERROR represented as Jehovah's Direction.

  This is followed by a period of practical application (TRIAL.)

  The failure of the guesses and opinions is found to be unworkable. (Jehovah's direction flops!)

  I compare the Governing Body's admissions of error to a guy who shits his pants and publicly admits there is a stink.

  Well, yeah, Duh!