Thanks! Marked.
A contribution from one of the members!
by Atlantis 46 Replies latest watchtower bible
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problemaddict
Wow. I have never seen any of these at all. My favorite is the which is the right religion illustration of a tree with "kingdom fruits", and another one with war, hypocricy, hate, and the worst of all.....BINGO!!
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kneehighmiah
According to tract "Which is the Right Religion" Bingo is bad.
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SecretHeart11
Wow. Love that BiNGO is serious enough to be up there by name on the tree of horrors. Lol.
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clarity
Thanks a lot Atlantis..... I wasn't around in 1948, but all this
pile of rubbish was still there when I was sucked in, around
1959-60!
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Makes my blood run cold, to look at it now. All for nothing.All that so called truth has changed, all those mags/brochures/books
are useless scrap paper now.... hidden, thrown away!
All that work Printing this stuff, shuffleing it d2d, just wasted time!
THE MESSAGE wasted effort ....that generation is dead!
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Amazing there are 7 million people still looking to watchtower
for TRUTH .......even Carl Sagan was amazed at their stupidity!
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a kinda depressed clarity today!
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clarity
What Carl Sagan thought of jw propaganda.
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An interesting comment on this transformation was made by Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979, pp. 332-333):
Doctrines that make no predictions are less compelling than those which make correct predictions; they are in turn more successful than doctrines that make false predictions.
But not always. One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and -- while the events of that year were certainly of some importance -- the world does not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, "Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014.' A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way." But they did not. They could have said, "Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth." But they did not. Instead, they did something much more ingenious.
They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration were needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
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Watchtower-Free
Thanks
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Vidiot
Yeesh.
Is it just me, or does the phraseology of some of those titles have an uncanny resemblance to tabloid-style headlines?
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tootired2care
Marked
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mynameislame
I like the bible truth or pagan scare picture considering their propensity for using scary pictures.
Wonder what their scary pictures and tactics are called? Spiritual scare-fare I guess.