Thirty five years into the future is way too long for a meaningful guess. Even ten years is too much. We don't even know how many people will be on this planet by that year.
Village Idiot
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Straw Poll: In 2050 how many Jehovah's Witness publishers will there be on average?
by Saintbertholdt infrom the topic i made earlier (see below), it made me wonder about the forum's opinion.. straw poll: in 2050 how many jehovah's witness publishers will there be on average?.
link: http://strawpoll.de/oirz9kyi hope you will participate.. greetings.
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Will the Watchtower ever turn against K-12 public education?
by cappytan inwhen i was in school, you never heard about critical thinking skills...not till you started taking college level courses.. i work closely with the public education community.
now, the big rage in public education is instilling critical thinking skills from kindergarten on up.. and i'm in texas!
imagine what it's like in more liberal areas.. i would not be surprised if the watchtower started denigrating and discouraging public education (k-12).. it would likely start like this: .
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Village Idiot
It's funny you should mention critical thinking skills and Texas in the same post. Here's a quote from the Republican Party of Texas in its 2012 platform (PDF: Do a word search under "critical").
"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
It goes to show that JWs are not the biggest crazies on the block.
There is also a homeschooling movement that has grown amongst conservatives with fundamentalist religion influenced text books.
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Yet more trolley (in)activity
by konceptual99 ini am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.
whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.
i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.
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konceptual99: "Now the overseeing elder has come along and is taking pictures of the inactivity for posterity..."
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JW Broadcasting is dying.
by John Aquila inonce a month about 15 to 20 elderly jw publishers would meet at the kingdom hall and one elder was assigned to set up the system so they could view jw broadcasting.
these publishers were long time pioneers, former elders, and long time publishers who know nothing about computers or the internet.
they are the last batch of those expecting the generation that saw 1914 or understood it--- to not die off.
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Yes, I keep hearing example after example of such pathetic behavior but this one is really bad. -
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Trump is a funny guy. Attacks John McCain
by James Mixon inthe guy don't realize when he attack john mccain he alienated every men .
and women who served in the military.
and this is coming from a guy that.
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Village Idiot
He's a shill for foreign shipping, to the detriment of the U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. jobs.
pros·ti·tuteˈprästəˌt(y)o͞ot/nounnoun: prostitute; plural noun: prostitutesThat word, Nimrath, would apply to all of them.
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Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel
by _Morpheus inso fisherperson sent me a pm asking a bunch of questions re my time at beth hell.
rather than respond in a pm i will post the q/a here as i have nothing to hide.
q:what years did you serve in brooklyn bethel?
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Village Idiot
_Morpheus:
"Milton henschel had a bear skin on his bed.... In his house suite....." -
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People should learn more about the Bible flaws
by opusdei1972 ini have noted that the main problem for those who are seduced by the watchtower society is their ignorance about the bible itself.
people who believe that the bible is the word of god usually ignore the studies on textual criticism and how scientific criteria forbid absurd stories like that of the global flood.
so, i strongly believe that students in schools need at least an obligatory course on "the bible" through the point of view of science and the textual criticism.
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opusdei1972: "But we need a book of a high school level in order to show to the students the flaws of the Bible."
This short list that I organized should be helpful to people at all educational levels.
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The Ultimate Tight Pants video for TMIII, God save us all!
by Wasanelder Once intight pants.
hope he sees it.
doubtful.
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Trump is a funny guy. Attacks John McCain
by James Mixon inthe guy don't realize when he attack john mccain he alienated every men .
and women who served in the military.
and this is coming from a guy that.
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James Mixon:
"Trump charged that the concept of climate change was created by the Chinese to suppress the U.S. economy."
Typical Republican psychosis.
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July 19th Watchtower Summary. Insanity
by Lemonp injust got back from the wt study and it overall was just so blindingly biased and leading.. i had to read it from the platform too, i hope they couldn't see the confounded look on my face as i read this craziness out!.
first we consider the faith of abel, enoch, noah, abraham, isaac and jacob, and moses.. all of these people are held up as sterling examples of blind faith, with the article pointedly saying that their imaginations sustained their faith in gods promises for them.
no mention anywhere at all that all of these characters saw and talked to angels, spoke to god himself, saw and performed miracles, or any of the other feats experienced by these characters.
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JW_Rogue:
"So by virtue of being born in those cultures these ones are pretty much doomed according to JWs."
Their reasoning goes that they weren't expecting to be resurrected into such a magnificent paradise so they will be more likely to convert from their previous faith.
