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  Shooting in the foot (homophobic video)

  by Syme in

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  2. beliefs

  with the newly released homophobic video by the wts, it gets clearer that those people can't stop shooting themselves in the foot.

  they are already under examination and de facto trial by the australian committee; more and more people and officials in western democracies inquire into their abusive tactics and put them under the microscope, and what do they do?

  they release a video which confirms those worries.

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  To me being Phobic about something, you have to have an irrational fear of it to the point that it is interupting your daily activities. It used to be that to be called intolerant, phobic or bigoted, you had to actually do something mean or harmful to someone else or be behaving irrationally.

  The witnesses black and white stance on homosexuality is extremely harmful to all the gay kids growing up in organisation. They are being told that their natural desire to love and to be loved is somehow evil. They are being told by their parents that they should never be in a relationship with someone whom they're attracted to because they're parents don't want them to die in the smoke and fire of armageddon which is "right around the corner".

  It that's not an irrational fear - if that's not a phobia - I don't know what is.
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  Understanding The Bible ... The "Linchpin" Effect

  by Littleleslie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  understanding the holy bible.. .

  after many years of study of scripture, our bible study group has discovered something very important that needs to be realized or absorbed, before one can come to a correct understanding of the bible.

  we call it, the "linchpin" effect... .

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  God is not the author of confusion . . .

  . . . just joking! He is really out to deceive everyone by inspiring a book no one can understand. Haha, take that humans!
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  NEW PEW Research data on Jehovah's Witnesses just released

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was expecting people who "identified" as jws to follow watchtower beliefs more closely than these pollsters report.. .

  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/26/a-closer-look-at-jehovahs-witnesses-living-in-the-u-s/.

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  Coded Logic

  Like any religion, what "is" and "isn't" a member is a bit ambiguous. The Watchtower says there are around 7 million publishers. A fair portion of these are unbaptised. And of those there is some percentage that doesn't really have a grasp on JW theology.

  There are also people who are not publishers or who are inactive but still identify as JWs because they occasionally go to meetings or are studying. Their answers too will influence the stats.

  Lastly, there are publishers, baptised ones, ministerial servants, elders, pioneers, etc who are trapped in the religion but no longer believe everything the WT teaches.

  We don't just get to cherry pick the JWs who are toeing the party line and say "only their responses matter". We have to look at the whole picture of what it means to be a JW in various states and transitions.
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  Fed up with Prince? try: Un petit blog de France

  by Half banana in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just spent ten days working in france, i arrived late on friday night and the first thing saturday morning two visitors ominously strolled into my garden..

  i was offered the flimsy awake which i opened and was immediately struck with a very false image.

  the article gave the feel that the magazine was scientifically credible.

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  Isaiah had a word for sphere (Isaiah 22:18) but instead decided to describe the world as being flat. It's almost like the Bible was written by iron age men who had no understanding of their world. Weird.
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  Trump or Contested Convention?

  by Coded Logic in

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  for those of us who are hillary and bernie fans, which is the better outcome - to have donald trump as the republican's nomination whose unpopular with most americans?

  or are we better off watching the chaos of a contested convention and the party eventually putting up someone weak like john kasic or jeb bush?

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  What makes you say Trump is "unpopular with most Americans"?

  Trump/s approval rating has consistently hovered around 30%. Whereas his unfavorable rating has been over 50%. Though, as the GirlNextDoor correctly pointed out, a far better descriptor would have been "majority" rather than "most".

  The Huffington Post keeps an up to date Meta-analysis or every poll measuring the favorable/unfavorable rating of Clinton and Trump. Where as you can always find polls that are outliers and shows the two neck and neck - this sort of information isn't helpful. However, an aggregate of all the polls helps plot any trends that may be developing. And, as best we can tell, it doesn't seem like Trump is gaining any traction with American voters. Unsurprisingly, the majority of people seem not to like him.

  http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/donald-trump-favorable-rating
  
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  Trump or Contested Convention?

  by Coded Logic in

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  2. current

  for those of us who are hillary and bernie fans, which is the better outcome - to have donald trump as the republican's nomination whose unpopular with most americans?

  or are we better off watching the chaos of a contested convention and the party eventually putting up someone weak like john kasic or jeb bush?

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  For those of us who are Hillary and Bernie fans, which is the better outcome - To have Donald Trump as the Republican's nomination whose unpopular with most Americans? Or are we better off watching the chaos of a contested convention and the party eventually putting up someone weak like John Kasic or Jeb Bush?
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  Not the Author of Confusion

  by Coded Logic in

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  609 african independent charismatic.

  black american apostolic.

  african independent charismatic.

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  I honestly don't see how the inspirations of Bach and Michelangelo make religion any less full of crap.

  People used to build highly detailed and intricate models showing how the Earth was the center of our solar system. But such creativity doesn't make geocentrism any less bogus.

  And who knows what far more beautiful work Bach or Michelangelo might have produced had their minds not been vandalized by the small mindedness of religion.
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  Any thought behind your " Avatar"

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think that's the correct phrase?

  anyway when i first came here, that little picture that "the rebel" hides behind, was a self portrait of a very sad man, who simply had too much knowledge.

  now i feel after 7 months here, i should repaint that " avetor" give some happiness to the eyes, and a contented smile to the lips.. in short my " avetor" was a self portrait of a man with too much knowledge.

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  Coded Logic

  My Avatar is the symbol the Romulan Empire. Descendants of the Vulcans, they rejected Surak's teachings during the Time of the Awakening and marched under the banner of a bird of prey. Thus the raptor symbol.

  Romulans are stubborn, emotional, and prone to profound arrogance.

  Sound like anyone we know?
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  Not the Author of Confusion

  by Coded Logic in

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  609 african independent charismatic.

  black american apostolic.

  african independent charismatic.

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  Not sure why Wild Thing got a thumbs down. Giving you a big thumbs up!
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  What was there before the Big Bang?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

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  Coded Logic

  you cant have something come from nothing.
  -SWN

  How do you know this? Have you ever observed a lack of space time and energy? How would you know how it behaves?

  I'd recommend you do a little reading on entropy. It doesn't just imply that we can get something from nothing. Rather, it means that "nothing" is inherently unstable and will always produce something.

  Our intuitions are useless here. We have no prior experience in the formation of universes that we can draw upon.  "That doesn't sound right to me" is not a valid objection.