the jws have now been discouraging higher education and critical thinking for a long time.
we have all seen the 'dumbing down' of the wt literature.
on a personal level i have seen many of the perceivably intelligent younger members of congregations leave.
Agreed. Smart kids aren't sticking around like they used to because education and the internet has made it too easy for anyone with an ounce of intellectual curiosity to find real truth that doesn't force you into a mental prison.
That said, I remember as a pre-teen in the 90's asking my parents why it seemed like most of the people in the congregation weren't as smart as worldly people, so it's by no means a new trend.
edit - "the days of noah" damn!.
long story short - i need to go to bed!
i was in edinburgh today with my wife (football, coffee, walks, food, cinema) and i always try to take 10 minutes to have a chat with the jws on the trolley in the "big city".. i challenged an older guy who turned out to be an pioneer about the generation.
i recently ran into a jw i knew from a few years back.you know how it goes, a few pleasantries that always seem much more awkward than they really should (not for me, mind you--for him).and then the question, "so what congregation are you attending?
are you able to make the meetings?
"i'm thinking: do you always start conversations this way?so anyways, knowing full well the jw-mindset, i decided to have a bit of fun.furrowing my brow, i said, "that's an odd question!
Haha. When I saw the title I immediately knew where you were going. I've taken to quoting the movie office space anyone someone "notices" that I've missed some meetings. "I wouldn't say I've been missing them, Bob."
It's fun to confuse people by failing to act like the miserable wretch that they think you are.
joseph why a coat of many colors?this coat is to do with light for joseph.
it would be a reminder of a covenant given to mankind in the form of a rainbow and it would represent all the other covenants.
joseph was to bring gods light into the world and reveal many hidden secrets and become great in the kingdom.
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
Jesus, I'm just trying to lighten the mood. I thought the cartoon was a funny way of saying "I'm not touching that" haha.
I'll admit that I'm not great at interpreting the emotional level of a textual post online, but your initial comment did seem to have a bit of anger/emotion to it:
I cannot believe men are still churning out the bullshit about they are more rational and women are more emotional.
If my use of a funny cartoon is a demonstration that my argument is intrinsically flawed, then I submit that your resorting to profanity right off the bat is just as bad.
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
Thanks FMF haha.
And after all... isn't all this anger just....emotional response
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
So women are better are engaging in mythical activity than men?!?
Now we're getting into semantics. The word multitasking is commonly used to describe a situation in which you perform small portions of disparate tasks interleaved with one another. Women tend to take less of a performance hit when task-switching than do men, in some narrow circumstances.
I feel like we're getting way off track, the point was that men are different than women. and I suspect that there are few people who can seriously disagree with that.
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.
I would love to see you try this phraseology in a thread about religion versus evolution and watch some of our posters make mincemeat of it.
haha. I was thinking that exact thing as I wrote it.
On the topic of multitasking, I wasn't saying that anyone becomes more productive while juggling multiple tasks (this is the myth part of it) I was saying that women are better at it than men. This usually simply means that they take less of a productivity hit when multitasking than do men.
Google is indeed my friend:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24645100
It's a fruitless debate, though, if everyone's going to take offense and read things into it when they're not there. Hopefully this doesn't devolve any further, as I am somewhat interested in everyone's experience even if the methodology will undoubtedly lead to very skewed statistics.
Thanks FMF. I knew while writing my first post that it was only a matter of time until someone reframed it as some kind of misogynist propaganda. I did it anyway.
And for what it's worth, I'd love to have the emotional intelligence that my wife has. It's really inconvenient when I say something that in my mind is completely innocent and it puts someone in tears.
