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  Will the Watchtower ever turn against K-12 public education?

  by cappytan in

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  when 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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  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 in

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  i 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..."

  You mean posterity in the new world?
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  JW Broadcasting is dying.

  by John Aquila in

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  2. experiences

  once 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 in

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  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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  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: prostitutes

  
  

  That word, Nimrath, would apply to all of them.
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  Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel

  by _Morpheus in

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  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

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  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

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  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.