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"Life" Brochures: 3 Easy Disproofs
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
it may be time consuming and exhausting to correct all of the deceptions, half-truths and out of context quotes contained in the watchtower's new brochures, so i'll make it simple.

here's 3 easy points that disprove all of their nonsense.. 1) australia proves evolution happened - what's the one country in the world with the weirdest animals on earth?

australia!
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DC 2010 Release - The Origin of Life and its many misquotes
by Designer Stubble in
1. watchtower
2. bible
looking up all the references is a lot of work - one of the reasons nobody normally verifies these, but trust the writers.

as you will see, the writers are banking on this, but it is not a good thing to trust the wtbts writers.

please find the bibliography worked out for quotes 38-51, covering the heading "what about human evolution".. interesting is that many quotes are from the [u]preface[/u] of books, where the authors honestly explain the difficulties and assumptions related to evolutionary science.. [b]what about human evolution?[/b].
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GB closing down and selling Central American Branches to be serviced out of Mexican Branch
by cattails in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the gb is closing down and selling all central american branches.

the congregations are to be serviced out of the mexican branch.. they end the letter by saying that aren't the congregations in the.

central american territory to be expecting great rejoicing since they'll.
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Help! Hold Me Back From Voicing My Opinions And Getting Shunned!
by nextdoorgirl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am new to this board after lurking for awhile (thanks so much for creating this place simon, and for everyone's shared thoughts!).

i am going crazy because i have recently allowed myself to begin thinking (and it is so fun!

) and i am an outspoken person, and it is very hard for me to keep my opinions and discoveries about this place under my hat!
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I never believed in demons
by drew sagan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for the entire time i was a jw (1999-2007) i never believed in demons.. a few times i remember this getting me into small confrontations with jws.

a jw would talk about how demons were scary and powerful.

i would argue that i've never seen a demon, and that to be affraid of such things was silly.
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Evolutionists - please help!
by Georgiegirl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok. (taking deep breath) i am finally at that point in my recovery where i am ready to look at evolution as more than a loose theory which is clearly disprovable by the fact that all the bones proving it could be in a coffin.

or, um, some illustration like that.. i feel like first i have to "unlearn" the jw teaching of evolution to learn what "real" evolution is.

then, learn about that and then see how i feel.
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The movie "2012." Has everyone turned dub?
by parakeet in
1. social
2. entertainment
has anyone else seen the preview ads for the movie "2012"?

it's like wt armageddon illustrations come to life (except that everyone's not dressed like it's still the 1950s).. what's the deal with the year 2012?

i thought it was just a dub thing.. .
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Help me with research for video: "Evidence: The WT breaks up families"
by seattleniceguy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm interested in trying my hand at a youtube video.

i'd like to do a piece giving evidence that the wt actually breaks up families since, to my mind, this is one of their worst real offenses.

the outline will go something like this:.
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Endosymbiosis --- A challenge to Dawkins' Universal Darwinism
by hamilcarr in
1. jw
2. friends
inspired by dawkins' notion of universal darwinism, biologists have been trying to prove that all sorts of evolution can be explained by a simple paradigm of random mutation and natural selection.

because of dawkins' ardor to spread the word, many have no idea there's far more to discover about evolutionary mechanisms beyond natural selection.. one of these challenges to dawkins' universal darwinism is called the endosymbiotic theory, popularized by lynn margulis in the 90s.

she's known for her bold rejection of some neo-darwinian interpretations.
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Noah's ark - Can't believe I once actually thought it was true
by sam_sane_now in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when i was a jw i didn't even question that the noah's ark story might not be true.

i didn't realise that it wasn't achievable for a handful of people to gather literally millions of animals - two of each kind - and fit them into a boat where they would all survive for many days.

i didn't think about the fact that if the highest mountain was covered with water then how could plant life like trees and flowers come to exist again, especially so soon after, with the raven grabbing an olive leaf was it?