“Divergent”: “If it has to be "refined" over and over again, how can it be called truth?”
EXACTLY!
Posts by SAHS
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42Today's Daily Text - Being Uneducated And Ordinary... WTF!!!
by Divergent inthursday, march 3. they were uneducated and ordinary men.—acts 4:13.. in recent years, the spiritual instruction provided by jehovah’s organization has reflected an increased emphasis on simplicity and clarity.
consider three examples.
first, there is the simplified edition of the watchtower.
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Car crash
by truthwillsetyoufree inboy who was seriously injured in a collision at gamlingay in cambridgeshire last thursday has died.. nine-year-old archie stevens, of western way, sandy, bedfordshire, died in hospital early on saturday afternoon.. the collision at about 10am in drove road, which involved two cars, also resulted in the death of his grandfather, 68-year-old martin harker, of green acres, sandy, who died at the scene.http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2016-02-22/nine-year-old-boy-dies-after-cambridgeshire-crash/.
the boy and his grandfather were jehovahs witnesses and they were on field service when a car drove into them.
the lad, who is the son of an elder who moved to a cambridge congregation to serve where the need is greater, was on life support before the sad decision was made to turn it off.
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SAHS
“truthwillsetyoufree”: “The boy and his grandfather were Jehovahs Witnesses and they were on field service when a car drove into them. The lad, who is the son of an elder . . .”
Do you have a link to any specific online media reference to this? I’m certainly not doubting you in any way. I’m just curious, that’s all.
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The murder of a young lady
by truthwillsetyoufree inpolice have launched a murder investigation after a 20-year-old woman was found dead in her flat with neck wounds.. a friend claims bethany hill, 20, from statford-upon-avon, warwickshire, may have had bleach poured down her throat.. an ambulance was called to the scene on hertford road around 7pm on wednesday, february 3, but the victim was pronounced dead shortly after.. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6915417/20-year-old-found-dead-in-her-flat-may-have-been-force-fed-bleach.htmlthe young lady was raised and baptised as a jehovahs witness.
she spent most years of her faith in the same congregtion as archie stevens who died in a car crash and is mentioned in another thread.
a couple of years ago, the young lady stopped her activity with the witenesses to seek a normal life.
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SAHS
I can’t help noticing that any reference in that newspaper article to Bethany Hill having been “raised and baptised as a Jehovahs witness” is conspicuous by its total absence. Is there any link to any other newspaper report which specifically includes such a reference? -
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Special meeting this weekend in canada anyone know what it is about?
by hoser init is announced for sunday afternoon.
i am just wondering if it is a local thing or national.
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SAHS
This special meeting is actually going to be presented by the visiting zone overseer to the Canadian Bethel branch, which is actually to take place on Saturday, March 5, 2016. (I don’t know his name. Nor do I care.) It will be streamed into local congregations live that day, but some other congregations will have the taped program broadcast online on the following day, Sunday, and add it to their regular consideration of the Watchtower study (which will probably be condensed).
I’m not sure of the scope of attendees to be tied into the program as it’s being streamed live for some congregations and shown the next day for others, but since it is a zone overseer’s visit, I would imagine that the coverage would be at least for all of Ontario.
But I myself actually have plans for when the taped program will be shown this Sunday to attend my first meeting of a secular humanist meetup group (arranged through “meetup.com”). The actual link is: “http://www.meetup.com/YorkRegionHumanists/?” So, luckily for me, I sort of have an excuse to miss this zone overseer’s visit. (I’m taking some more baby steps in my fade.)
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Memorial campaign with videos??
by BeautifulMind ingood morning from the east coast.
i have a question.
a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.
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SAHS
“stuckinarut2”: “As with all "new" forms of activity, it is for the purpose of keeping those IN occupied and distracted...NOT about those outside....”
That appears to be what really has been going on, from a human anthropological perspective.
“steve2”: “They drop by your doorstep to ask to show you a video that features a website that tells you how to ask for a visit.”
Absolutely PRICELESS!
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Memorial campaign with videos??
by BeautifulMind ingood morning from the east coast.
i have a question.
a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.
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SAHS
I suppose that some householders might watch as the witness played the video just out of curiosity, but once they’ve seen what it’s all about, they probably wouldn’t bother with the witnesses any further. The householders would be, like, been there, done that. -
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What Is The Watchtower's Biggest Problem?
by minimus inthe organization has many problems.
certain doctrines are problematic.
the men who run the organizaion have issues.
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SAHS
“sherrie11”: “What is the most recent cult to appear since the seventies?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements”
Yikes, that’s quite a list! And that’s just since the 70s. It sure goes to emphasize the old saying: “There is a sucker born every minute.” . . . . And, how!
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The Pope Tells Trump He's Not A Christian
by minimus inthis should be fun.
building a wall is unchristian.
i can't understand why the pope is getting involved in american politics.. poor donald..
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“David_Jay”: “Catholics do not teach or believe the pope is infallible. Pope=infallible, that is the Watchtower at its most ignorant, uneducated height.”
Well, don’t forget the longstanding traditional Catholic concept that when the pope is formally speaking “ex cathedra,” then what he says is supposedly infallible.
Now, whenever the Watchtower governing body meets together (apparently every Wednesday), then, apparently, as a collective body their decisions (now by 2/3 majority vote) represent the direction of the holy spirit (i.e., the spirit from Almighty God). Although, with the track record of that governing body (which apparently now solely comprise the faithful and discreet slave in its entirety in all the earth – big surprise!), it’s obvious that the Watchtower governing body has no more credibility – or infallibility – than my left foot! (Any arguments to the contrary, please bring ’em on!)
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The Pope Tells Trump He's Not A Christian
by minimus inthis should be fun.
building a wall is unchristian.
i can't understand why the pope is getting involved in american politics.. poor donald..
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SAHS
“slimboyfat”:
Thank you for the link regarding the rise of early Christianity as it related to the epidemics during the Roman empire and the social connections among Christians versus the pagans (at the very bottom of the first page of this thread). I read it all, and it was quite interesting as to a logical and scientific explanation of that phenomenon.
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What Is The Watchtower's Biggest Problem?
by minimus inthe organization has many problems.
certain doctrines are problematic.
the men who run the organizaion have issues.
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SAHS
Science. Good old cold, hard, stark science. I.e., “humans” have been around as such for a hell of a lot longer than their bronze-age Jehoover-inspired life manual states.