Village Idiot

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  The GB know it's all lies and wants to dismantle the WTS ... then what?

  by Simon in

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  so imagine the gb have a sudden attack of honesty and realize "crap, this whole thing is lies - we're not god's spokespeople at all !".

  how do you dismantle a religion that has +8 million members in a responsible way?

  you can't just publish a watchtower saying "we were wrong" because that would be irresponsible - you need to let people down gently, put people off gradually.

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  I've thought of this before and I believe that a Watchtower should be written in definitive terms without any gradual "illumination". It's not likely that there will be an attempt to install a new leadership. They are so interlinked with the Governing Body that without it they would just fall apart without them.

  The practical necessities of running an organization that size will also serve as a deterrence to restarting the organization. Who owns the properties and equipment that are necessary to communicate with the rank and file? Part of the process of dissolution will involve divesting themselves of all properties that are used in that regards (Printing presses and Internet equipment). Nothing left for any would be inheritors.
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  Most Poorly Written JW Book

  by JW_Rogue in

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  so i was thinking the other day that the wt corp has produced thousands of books over the years.

  although the writers have changed the style is almost always the same.

  however, some books are just worse than others.

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  @Ding: The Finished Mystery (1917).

  I second the motion on that book. Its idolatry of Charles Russell, claiming that he fulfilled dozens of scriptures in Revelation. Its psychotic ramblings. It is no wonder that a sister who had inherited that book throughout 3 generations wouldn't allow me to read it.
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  Thoughts on John 7:53-8:11??

  by BarelyThere in

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  i always accepted that the nwt said that these verses in john were not in the most reliable manuscripts.

  i thought it was strange that while the "old" nwt at least included the verses, the "revised" nwt completely omits them.

  now i'm trying to do research on my own, but my head is still spinning from all of the information i've taken in the past week.

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  BarelyThere, different Bibles treat those verses differently. They might have the scripture with a footnote explaining the issue or they may not. One Catholic Bible that I had actually had that scripture at the end of the book of John with an explanation as to why it was considered spurious.

  If you go to biblegateway.com you'll find nearly 50 different translations some of which explain why this was considered spurious scripture. The New International Version says:

  "[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—8:11. A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly or in part, after John 7:36, John 21:25, Luke 21:38 or Luke 24:53.]"

  The fact that this scripture is found in many different locations is as telling as its not being found at all in other manuscripts. It indicates that this "add on" account took a while before it settled its position in the text of the New Testament. To make an analogy the evolution of this spurious text was like adding a foreign gene to DNA.
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  Starlight in a Young Universe

  by Perry in

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  the scientific method begins with a faith statement called a hypothesis, and then goes on to look for evidence, for or against support of the faith statement.. secular materialists often change their ideas on exactly how things have made themselves, but never whether they did.. the manifesto for this self imposed mental ban seems to be summed up by geneticist richard lewontin:.

  ‘our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural.

  we take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.. it is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.

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  As you must be well aware of Perry there is Young Earth Creationism, Old Earth Creationism and Theistic Evolution as "theories" amongst believers (including evangelical Christians). It would be interesting to watch a debate amongst Creationists.
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  This idiot just embarrasses me.

  by joe134cd in

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  yup a mentally diseased apostate.. http://youtu.be/e7qmypu7mxo.

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  Witnesses killed my friend today.

  by WasOnceBlind in

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  today has been a horrible day.

  what began as a day of joy finding out that one of my lifelong friends had her baby, turned into a nightmare when her brother called me to let me know she had passed away after birth.

  i was in shock and didn't ask how.

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  Such tragedies are made worse when you first are in elation for the good news then get hit with the bad. Damn them, that's all I can say.
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  New Here

  by Grey Goose in

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  hi one and all.. i've lurked for 3 years, about time i signed up.. i'm a still in ms due to family.. fully awake.. i look forward to getting to know all of you..

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  Village Idiot

  Hi Goose, welcome to the nuthouse.
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  JW.org inaccessible

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  Duh!
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  JW.org inaccessible

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  Why?
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  A Country where no-one under 25 believes the biblical creation story.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  no icelanders under the age of 25 believe the creation story that god was responsible for creating the universe, a new poll claims.the poll, commissioned by the icelandic ethical humanist association, claims that 93.9 per cent in the under 25 category responded that the universe was created by the big bang.

  just over 6 per cent responded with ‘don’t know’ or ‘other’.

  none of the respondents, however, believed that the universe had been created by god.

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  Iceland is very advanced as a society having a high standard of living compared to the United States and a highly competent educational system.