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  Reasons for Leaving

  by maksutov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i finally got my book finished.

  it is available as a free ebook here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/527252 i'm sure the contents are familiar territory to most people here, but hopefully it will be of some use to those who are either thinking about joining or thinking about leaving.

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  maksutov

  I finally got my book finished. It is available as a free eBook here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/527252
  
  I'm sure the contents are familiar territory to most people here, but hopefully it will be of some use to those who are either thinking about joining or thinking about leaving.
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  Google Ranking sites by trustworthiness

  by enigma1863 in

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  2. current

  have you heard about this?

  in the future google might sort website links by how accurate the information is.

  it would definitely put the jw.org website near the bottom of the list.. http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/06/38933/fnc-hn-20150306-morano.

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  Nobody is "turning over the ranking system to an entity like Google". It's not like the internet has a ranking system and Google is now trying to control it! Google has always controlled its own ranking system - every search engine controls its own ranking system. If you don't like the results you get from Google, just use Bing or one of the others.
  
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  Google Ranking sites by trustworthiness

  by enigma1863 in

  1. social
  2. current

  have you heard about this?

  in the future google might sort website links by how accurate the information is.

  it would definitely put the jw.org website near the bottom of the list.. http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/06/38933/fnc-hn-20150306-morano.

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  They have to rank them somehow. Factoring in trustworthiness will undoubtedly improve the quality of search results. It is not censorship. The only ones with anything to fear are those who promote pages that are inaccurate and untrustworthy.
  
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  old wt libraries.

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my wife (in) disturbed to see i had the old libraries for years past on the computer.

  she asked me to delete them this i have done.. anything to maintain her peace.

  she spoke about not necessary they are updated etc.

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  The further back you go, the more embarrassing the 'spiritual food'. JWs are scared of their own older literature, with good reason, and would rather it were forgotten.
  
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  I received my acceptance letter into Nursing School.

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  2. friends

  i've been actively pursuing a career change for quite a few years.

  i've applied for nursing programs at several local public colleges.

  the competition is high for this limited access program.

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  maksutov

  Well done, and good luck!
  
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  Education, education, education....

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  an update on my life post education..... as the governing body continue to denounce higher education, reality continues to prove their words ignorant, ill informed and blatant lies.

  i am proud and astonished to say i have just been accepted for a university teaching hospital post.

  i have a seriously sought after, senior house officer job in intensive care, endocrinology and clinical pharmacology.

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  Awesome. Congrats!
  
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  Rational Buddhism?

  by cappytan in

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  does a type of buddhism exist that doesn't include the metaphysical aspects of traditional buddhism?

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  maksutov

  Sam Harris has some interesting comments on extracting the secular goodies from Buddhism while rejecting the religious elements:
  

  http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/
  
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  Evolution - Myths and Evidence

  by maksutov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have nearly finished writing my 'apostate' book, which i will soon be publishing as a free e-book.

  here is an excerpt from it on the subject of evolution and the misconceptions about it held by jws.

  sorry it's a bit long, but i would appreciate any feedback.

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  Vidiot: Good post, kinda long, all stuff we've gone through before.

  Thanks, yes, the intended audience is those who are either just joining or just leaving the JWs - I tried to document the things I would have wanted to know at that point, as it is a very confusing time when you're trying to sort out what's true and what isn't.
  
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  Evolution - Myths and Evidence

  by maksutov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have nearly finished writing my 'apostate' book, which i will soon be publishing as a free e-book.

  here is an excerpt from it on the subject of evolution and the misconceptions about it held by jws.

  sorry it's a bit long, but i would appreciate any feedback.

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  @abiather: Gorillas did not become humans - please refer to myth number 3, above. I think I understand what you are saying though - you don't think it is possible for a new species to evolve from an ancestral species by natural means, and some supernatural influence is the only explanation you will accept. I'm also pretty sure that no amount of evidence would convince you otherwise, so I'm not going to argue with you. If you spot anything inaccurate in the above sample chapter though, please feel free to let me know. Thanks for your feedback.
  
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  Evolution - Myths and Evidence

  by maksutov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have nearly finished writing my 'apostate' book, which i will soon be publishing as a free e-book.

  here is an excerpt from it on the subject of evolution and the misconceptions about it held by jws.

  sorry it's a bit long, but i would appreciate any feedback.

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  maksutov

  If we can believe Gorilla made such an impossible leap to human, such a great miracle that happened automatically without an external help would eclipse all the miracles reported in all the scriptures.

  Nobody is saying that a Gorilla made a leap to human.