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  Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so 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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  _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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i 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 in

  1. social
  2. humour

  tight pants.

  hope he sees it.

  doubtful.

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  A Ferengi troll.
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  Trump is a funny guy. Attacks John McCain

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just 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.
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  July 19th Watchtower Summary. Insanity

  by Lemonp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just 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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  I remember a sister who said that the oceans will no longer exist in order to fit the many resurrected ones. Of course, doing the math - oceans have three times the area of land masses - will still not allow for much of a drastic population increase.

  I do remember the Aid to Bible Understanding book giving a plausible scenario as to how a resurrection of tens of billions of people would be able to live in Paradise. It was probably one of Raymond Franz's contribution since he had a good head on his shoulders.
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  July 19th Watchtower Summary. Insanity

  by Lemonp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just 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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  They've been saying that for a long time. I remember, 40 years ago, the elder who studied with me saying that you had to picture yourself in "The New Order" in order to keep up your faith.
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  Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so 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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  How much do members of the Governing Body get in monthly expenses? Surely not enough to afford gold pinky rings and expensive watches.
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  The Watchtower is stuck in the 1950's for science

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sure they have embraced the internet and electronic media etc.

  by their science is so far off it's sad ...but understandable.. the wt published several articles in the past dealing with reletivity etc.

  yes great....100 years old science today.. where are the quantum mechanic articles?

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  Esse quam videri:

  The Watchtower said that about helicopters? Where would I find that?"

  I forget which Watchtower or Awake article it was in but it was mentioned in Clint Eastwood's movie A Perfect World where a JW child tells an escaped convict, played by Kevin Costner, that his religion is against it. In the final scene the convict played by Eastwood makes the child's mother promise that she allow her son to fly in a helicopter.

  The movie was accurate about JW beliefs with one exception (hell) and was considered to be one of Eastwood's best, though underrated movies.
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  The Watchtower is stuck in the 1950's for science

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sure they have embraced the internet and electronic media etc.

  by their science is so far off it's sad ...but understandable.. the wt published several articles in the past dealing with reletivity etc.

  yes great....100 years old science today.. where are the quantum mechanic articles?

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  The 1950s were actually more advanced in science than the Watchtower. That is the decade when they said that helicopters were of the devil and that rockets would not work in space.