To “OUTLAW”: I love that cartoon picture above, with the “BRAIN CHECK” room. Except, it’s actually not accurate – because they would never allow a woman (female) to work behind any counter like that. That, as we all know, would take, not a brain, but a penis.
Posts by SAHS
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35The Reason Why JWs Won't Leave The Cult Is Because They Won't Think!
by minimus inthey simply refuse to think, to reason, to ponder.
they are lazy!.
even if they might feel that something isn't right, they won't research an issue or a question.
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The Governing Body Need To Get Their Head Out From In Between Their Derrière And Start Reading What Apostate Sites Are Actually Saying
by frankiespeakin init does no good for the governing body to burry their heads up their ass in denial as to what people who have left are saying about them and their insane selfserving teachings.
i know denial is a real bitch to deal with and i'm sure this bunch of over the hill gang will have a hard time doing google searches and they are probably not sure where to look but they oughta get some one to show them how to find all this information, this willful ignorance is really hurting them, and reality can come crashing in more horrible ways the longer the denial exist and is hiding valuable information you really need before you proceed to make better decisions for your company and the direction you want it to go..
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I think that the GB must actually be aware on some level deep down, in the purely logical part of their brains, that the teachings and policies of the WTS (including themselves and their founding predecessors) have all along been bogus at least, and even dangerous and deadly at most. This has indeed resulted in many deaths due to policies regarding blood and organ transplants, as well as victims of rape, severely injuries, murder, and suicides regarding political party cards (Malawi) and even alternative military service (prison rapes).
But the hard and simple fact is that they just don’t care. The GB has been painting itself into a corner since the get-go, and they are not too keen on changing their established status quo on things like celebrating the holidays, birthdays, or even beards for men and microphone handling for women. Their attitude has always been, “Tough. Either snap completely into line or we’ll kick you out. Oh, and of course we’ll take your family away from you too.”
The whole GB/WTS thing is really just a sectarian hierarchical bureaucracy, which will always put their own interpretation and rules above people’s basic welfare, just like one would expect of any such cold, self-serving, man-made religio-political-corporate machine.
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I Don't Think The Witnesses Really Care If You Can Explain Doctrine As Long As You Accept Them!
by minimus ingone are the days of getting into discussions about their beliefs.
doing major research to prove a position or watchtower doctrine is a thing of the past.
all they want from you is to surrender and accept everything they say as undeniable truth.. do you agree?.
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“NVR2L8”: “Why attempt to explain your beliefs when they are already explained in the WT literature or reasoned out for you in the reasoning book.”
Well, the Reasoning From the Scriptures book quickly became old light, or dark light, don’t you know. That’s why the covers are such a dark shade of brown. . . . which is certainly an appropriate color for what’s inside.
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RELIGIOUS FANATICS
by NAVYTOWN inmy personal definition of a 'religious fanatic' is a person who believes that their religion is the only one that has the truth.
all other religions are considered apostate or the work of satan.
any attempt to present alternative views is met with either outright dismissal, or else pre-programmed answers supporting their current religion.
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A typical JW: I’m not a fanatic! I know I’m not. The Faithful and Discreet Slave tell us JWs through the pages of The Watchtower that we are not fanatics. And the Faithful and Discreet Slave also tells us JWs that we are definitely not a cult. So, there you have it. . . . [brief awkward pause] . . . . So, can I leave you with these latest issues of The Watchtower and Awake! magazines? You know, if you look into our literature, you can see for yourself that we are not fanatics and that we certainly are not a cult. You had better take these magazines, because . . . . well, because, if you don’t joint our one-and-only true religion, they you and your children will definitely die at Armageddon!
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Poll--How Many Believe In God, Do Not Believe or Are Not Sure Of His Existence?
by minimus ini believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.
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Excellent thread, “minimus.”
I don’t believe in any of the “gods” which people worship, including that of the Bible (or any other “holy book”). This “God” and his son “Jesus” thing, I believe, is just another kind of cultural mythology – I call it “Christian mythology” (just as you have Hindu, native Indian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman mythology). When you stop and look at the whole spectrum of religious beliefs, they always involve some kind of gods or demigods going back and forth between the earthly and heavenly/spiritual realms, performing some kind of magical feats or miracles, and divulging some kind of mystical or “divine,” hidden knowledge from the realm of the gods. Looking at it from a modern scientific, sociological, anthropological perspective, I think it’s all mythology (of one brand or another, depending where you were born). Religion is simply a projection, or reflection, of the human psyche, whereby all that is evil or good is represented by some devil or god which can punish or protect.
I believe that humanity at large is really in a sense living in a kind of “psychological thriller” in that there is a big “twist” at the end of it all – that “twist” being: there is no “god,” as such. There is simply nothing there – at least nothing that anybody thinks of.
I am, indeed, an agnostic. What this means for me is that I believe there could possibly be some kind of entity or set of processes which may fit the idea of “intelligent design,” but if and whatever that would be, I don’t believe it to be of any kind of form or nature which anybody seeks to describe in any contrived, humanly way. Whatever may be existing as such an entity or set of processes which humans would classify as “god” is not something which can be humanized, anthropomorphized, or otherwise “creaturized” in any form or manner whatsoever, any more than the photons (gage bosons) comprising electromagnetic radio waves. Regardless of any profound creativity or benevolence arising from the whole of what the concept of “god” may be, I believe that the entity of “god” would have a raw and fundamental essence and substance which is purely a mathematical phenomenon.
To put it as simply as I can: I believe that if there is anything which could fit the bill as being “god”; i.e., originator of all that exists, then I do not think that it would be anything like anybody thinks it to be. That’s the big twist: everybody is wrong.
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Contradictory geneology of Jesus
by rebel8 inso i'm reading another carl sagan book and he seems to invariably find a way to slam j-dubs in each one.
(i can't say i blame him.).
anyway, in this one he discusses the fact that the gospels give contradictory geneologies of jesus--differing lines back to david from joseph, and a different number of generations.
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“hamsterbait”: “Stephen Hawking wrote Brief History of Time.”
You’re absolutely right. Stephen Hawking was indeed the one who wrote “A Brief History of Time.” I was actually thinking of the books “Broca’s Brain” and “Cosmos” – those ones were by Carl Sagan.
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The did it to me again... TOOK my wife, My Life, Family and Friends, this time I'm fighting fire with fire
by Greybeard inbaa bull onn (knock knock).
baa bull onn (knock knock).
baa bull onn (knock knock).
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“Greybeard,” I’m guessing that you are more of a right-brained, creative, artistic sort of person than a left-brained, mathematical/analytical/mechanical sort.
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Is Armageddon part of the Great Tribulation? what was WT writers word?
by prologos inor put into other words:.
is armageddon included in in "all the things" that are to come to pass during the 'generation' that jesus spoke about?.
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“prologos”: “. . . do not count on the Governing Body, FaDS to be around, they will have withdrawn before the climax is reached.”
Well, isn’t that just like those old geezers!
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Contradictory geneology of Jesus
by rebel8 inso i'm reading another carl sagan book and he seems to invariably find a way to slam j-dubs in each one.
(i can't say i blame him.).
anyway, in this one he discusses the fact that the gospels give contradictory geneologies of jesus--differing lines back to david from joseph, and a different number of generations.
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“rebel8”: “. . . the geneology should trace back to Mary, since she was his bio mom, not Joseph.”
That’s quite a valid point. You would think that would be the case, but it only shows the misogynist Jewish – and thusly WT’s – view of women. I would wonder why Almighty Jehovah would bother “transferring” the life of his only-begotton son, Jesus, into the womb of a particular Jewish woman, thus becoming Jesus’ “biological” mother, and then not consider her family lineage but, rather, her husband Joseph’s. That would certainly seem to lend itself to the usual, typical stretching of the WT’s “headship principle” – all well, it’s just Jesus.
Carl Sagan was quite a smart man. (It’s funny – my long-time elder dad speaks highly of his book, “A Brief History of Time.”) I think Mr. Sagan must have owned some kind of anti-bullshit glasses. He could certainly see through something like the WTS like it was made of the clearest glass.
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The did it to me again... TOOK my wife, My Life, Family and Friends, this time I'm fighting fire with fire
by Greybeard inbaa bull onn (knock knock).
baa bull onn (knock knock).
baa bull onn (knock knock).
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“Greybeard”: “WE BOTH WENT TO THE RECENT CONVENTION ON CANNABIS! BEST ONE SO FAR! I WAS ABLE TO LAUGH THOUGH THE ENTIRE . . .”
LOL! I can just picture you sitting there at the convention laughing away. That would have been priceless to see. It would have sort of taken the edge off it for me.