Village Idiot

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  Should I get babtized?

  by BlackWolf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know this sounds like a ridiculous question but i was talking with my mom in the car today and of course we got on the topic of getting babtized again.

  she told me that jehovah holds me accountable for my sins regardless of wether i am babtized or not so i have no reason to be holding back because it won't change anything.

  my parents are the type of super strict jw who will shun you just for not being a witness.

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  Don't get baptize and don't give them the pleasure of a disassociation letter.
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  Freddy Franz, One of the smartest men of his day????

  by DwainBowman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  back in my teen years this story swept through jw land, that according to, the guinness book of records , freddy franz, was listed as one of the seven, most intelligent , men in the world.

  dose anyone else remember this?

  i remember trying to look it up, but never found anything in print, and ii point that out once or twice , and was told a co, had told about it, and he wouldn't lie!

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  Freddie, as others in Bethel used to call him, might have been somewhat smart (along with Charles Russell) but it was imagination that he excelled in.
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  EXCERPT from Science Fiction novel about Watchtower religion (21 pages)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so many of you have sent me e-mails and messages asking how in the world.

  it was possible to write a science fiction novel about the watchtower religion.. i decided to share the first 21 pages to answer this question.. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1upmawzi8yyzs18rlfw41qxzfcuaus-yynhqium9r0wo/edit?usp=sharing.

  i endeavored, as far as possible, to stay historically accurate.

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  slimboyfat: "...I have often thought JWs would make a great subject for a futuristic or sci-fi novel."

  Why give JWs a future?
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  Richard Dawkins has had a Stroke

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....

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  On an interesting note, there's this article from CNN:

  Church of England criticized over prayers for atheist Richard Dawkins
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  Richard Dawkins has had a Stroke

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....

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  Cofty: "He is back home and making god progress."

  I hope that's a pun.
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  Reduce people's religosity through transcranial magnetic stimulation...

  by Thursday in

  1. social
  2. current

  found this interesting article in the december 2015 issue of the australasian science journal, on whether it might be possible to change a person's beliefs by stimulating their brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms).. "the study by us and uk researchers recruited 38 undergraduate students, with each reporting they held significant religious beliefs and conservative political views.

  participants in the experimental condition received tms to the pmfc for a period of 40 seconds, a process that reduces neural activity in this region for up to an hour.

  control participants underwent a similar process, but with a low level of tms that has no effect on the functioning of the pmfc.. the researchers found that those who had received tms reported significantly less conviction in their beliefs concerning god, angels and heaven following a reminder of death than those in the non-tms control group.

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  I've heard of TMS being used to enhance religiosity, so it's a two edged sword.
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  Really Good DarkMatter Video on the Ridiculous Claims of Religions

  by LostGeneration in

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  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg

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  Thank you for sharing that Lost.
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  Evolution is a Fact #20 - Lucy in the Sky ....

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when donald johanson and his colleagues returned to the afar region of ethiopia in 1974 they were full of optimism.

  it was their second season searching for human fossils around hadar.

  the previous november johanson had found a fossilised knee joint that was dated to more than 3 million years ago.

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  She had a triangular jaw compared to our U-shaped one and a chimpanzee's rectangular jaw. Their upper torso was wider at the bottom than on top with narrow shoulders. And her arms went down to her knees.All in all Lucy was one ugly lady.
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  Most Translated Website

  by Pubsinger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wt claims their website is the 'most translated' and claims over 750 languages.

  but in the drop down language menu there are only about 50. so where are the others?

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  The good news is that most of those languages won't have too many speakers.

  The bad news is that there are not likely to be any "apostate" websites in those languages. I know that Spanish has apostate websites but does anyone know if there are any in Thai or Swahili?
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  Next steps for the Austrailian Royal Commission

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  since the watchtowers' lawyers have (a) failed to make any recommendations to the arc that would bring the watchtower up to date with "best practices and procedures" (b) have failed to submit a proposal for victim restitution (c) have failed to secure funding for a redress scheme and (d) have completely dismissed all the arcs' findings - what's the royal commission's next course of action?.

  i see two possibilities:.

  ) negotiate a settlement with the watchtower.

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  I would expect that the Watchtower would issue a revised version of its manuals stating that all child abuse cases be reported to the police. They have too much to lose if they don't change but then their arrogance and stupidity is beyond reason.