slimboyfat: "...I have often thought JWs would make a great subject for a futuristic or sci-fi novel."
Why give JWs a future?
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.
slimboyfat: "...I have often thought JWs would make a great subject for a futuristic or sci-fi novel."
Why give JWs a future?
he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....
On an interesting note, there's this article from CNN:
Church of England criticized over prayers for atheist Richard Dawkins
he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....
Cofty: "He is back home and making god progress."
I hope that's a pun.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg
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.
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?
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?
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.
at the base of every hair follicle in your body are tiny muscles known arectores pilorum..
when you are cold, or frightened, or otherwise aroused the muscles contract and make your skin look like a plucked turkey.
this reaction, known as the pilomotor reflex, is caused by a surge of adrenaline.
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.