ray franz who gave us insight into the gb due to a crisis of conscience was an absolute moron, with absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever like all of us have.
i mean, to have a conscience based on some magic man in the sky.. how stupid can you be?
in search of christian freedom?
Vinman there is a great difference as mentioned here between ridiculing a person and ridiculing their beliefs.
Dawkins put it well when he stated that I respect you to much as another human being to respect your delusional beliefs. The problem is that for many religious people their identity is tied up with what they believe.
Belief in made up things whatever they may be does not merit respect.
my father was diagnosed with alzheimers disease.. .
before his dementia grew worse he requested to be baptized in jesus name.. .
when i see him and hear him talk now it is nothing less than a miracle from god.
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/stations/local_brisbane/live?play=true
so i ran into this brother whom ive known for a while and the conversation led into me being invited to come back to the kingdom hall.
we talked for about an hour during which time i explained to him 607 being the wrong date and a lot of other stuff including the child abuse cases in australia.
but what i wanted to relate was the last few minutes of our conversation.
I wish I had this kind of info before my child was diagnosed with leukemia.
when i thought of myself as a christian witness of yahweh attempting to be a footstep follower of jesus, psalm 104 was one of my favourites.
if i was ever in some wonderful scenic area, psalm 104 would jump into my mind, and i'd start to praise yahweh and jesus.. but if something horrible came to mind as in the following video, i'd always think of the favourite christian escape clause, it's all because of adam's sin.
but any connection between natural animal savagery and adam's sin is never logically made in the bible.. interestingly, the supposedly inspired psalm 104 (nwt-the grey one i guess) itself says that:.
1. will jw.org implement all / some of the recommended changes?.
2. will jw.org proudly refuse citing that they will "obey god as ruler rather than men"?.
3. will news about the rc goes viral, and how will the world at large respond?.
I think it needs to become a meme as you mentioned of priests and choir boys.
When it's on saturday night live, or other shows like the tonight show it's over for them.
i always sit in the same spot, just outside starbucks in a vestibule area with a table in the air-conditioned space.
i say "always," but not today.. somebody with two laptops and a table filled with business ledgers was in "my" favorite spot!.
so, i took a tiny wooden table inside the coffee shop on a long padded bench next to 3 other identical tables.. as the clickbait banner ads like to say: "and what happened next was simply unbelievable!".
Terry how old are they?
tell our jw family members, door knockers, and stand sitters that you were very impressed.
by the branch overseer and other elders in australia, they gave a fine witness.. so what will happen, they will tell their friends the brothers in australia gave a fine.
witness.
I was thinking we should all call khs Wednesday and Thursday night right before the meeting by region using blocked numbers. I suggest starting at 7. We are likely to get a ms or elder prepping for the meeting.
Briefly mention Jacksons defense of "our faith" in front of the australian royal commission on Friday. I think we leave what it is about out of it. Give the specific time and link and hang up.
I know for me I almost left with the dateline airing.
recently, several threads have had some debate about logic, evidence, critical thinking and skepticism.
i wanted to write a post discussing those things, hopefully to clarify what those things are, why they are important and how to use those tools.
first, logic, at its core, is simply a method for how to reason validly, how to draw conclusions based on a premise.
i wonder if the royal commission has examined the practice of jws being led to refuse blood transfusion for children when medically necessary to save life or preserve health in relation to the question of child abuse.
i've not heard anything about this brought up.
is the rc concerned solely with life altering abuse only in the form of sexual molestation, or is it looking at how the organization deals with all life altering forms of abuse jw children are exposed to the result of watchtower teaching and society?
