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  Socialism

  by Perry in

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  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Terry

  This fella has a Philosophy channel on YouTube where he discusses every conceivable topic.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNPIpbPrIDM
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  Thinking of writing a book about jw's, what should I put in it?

  by purrpurr in

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  i've just finished reading alan miller's "fade from the truth", i enjoyed it and i love that it's freely available.

  so i was thinking of writing a book of my own.

  not an account of my life but more a simple step by step look at jw's and what they are really like?

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  Terry

  I think my book, The Monorails of Mars, may be the only Jehovah's Witness science fiction novel out there :)

  
  
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  The slimboyfat challenge...

  by The Rebel in

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  i hope slim hasn't left the forum, ( again) but i noticed his last post was post 10,ooo which is quite an achievement and a great statistic to say " au revoir" on.

  ( yes i studied compulsory french at school, but " au revoir" is all i can remember so i may as well use it) .

  anyway now for the " slimboyfat" challenge, can anybody here name past or present posters that have made over 10,000 posts?

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  Terry

  I have 17,394 posts.

  Does that count?

  I think the number of TOPICS begun is a far more important statistic, personally.
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  Thinking of writing a book about jw's, what should I put in it?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've just finished reading alan miller's "fade from the truth", i enjoyed it and i love that it's freely available.

  so i was thinking of writing a book of my own.

  not an account of my life but more a simple step by step look at jw's and what they are really like?

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  Terry

  I'd ask myself the question, "How would my book differ in any substantive way from a visit to JWSurvey or JWFacts?"
  
  YouTube's Watchtower Examination series is among the best (let's call them tutorials) presentations for laying bare the dangers of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  I've written and published 2 books myself.

  In other words, unless you are a committed writer with a burning desire to say SOMETHING not already covered, I'd take your query to be an indication there may be better ways to be an activist.
  
  How about 1st person interviews with DF'd ex-JW's as to the fairness of the process and the impact on themselves and their families?
  
  
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  registering for Selective Service at age 18?

  by halcyon in

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  every year this news item was published in the km.

  but i've noticed that i've never heard of it anywhere else, ever.

  how do most young men in the world know that they're supposed to do this?

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  Terry

  The biggest mistake I ever made was registering for the draft when it WAS compulsory.

  If I had a time portal, I'd go back and NOT register.
  There are no do-overs in life, unfortunately.
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  Is reasoning with a JW the answer?

  by Saved_JW in

  1. watchtower
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  when i first left the watchtower society, i can remember being very eager to learn new information, especially information which pertained to discrediting the watchtower organization.

  i called it "the cage stage" .

  this excitement and newfound change in worldview completely rocked my world.

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  Terry

  Some people play cards with deuces Wild.

  JW's, for instance. (A Wild card can be anything you want it to be. JW's want JW doctrine to be "true.")

  If you try to "reason" with a JW, you are playing by THEIR (deuces Wild) rules.

  In other words, they're set up to win and you're not.
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  Thoughts

  by thinker11 in

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  as much as i want to believe in the bible and wish for a god that is watching over us and love us; i find it difficult to comprehend that a loving god will erase mankind with fireballs, earthquakes, and kill childrens, mothers, and fathers who refused to believe in the bible.

  and i can’t help but to take their side in all these.

  i mean: what has god really done to show that he is love and that he exists and is watching how we act.

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  Terry

  Arguably, a consumer society shops in the marketplace of ideas to select the God of the buffet and comes up with the God they think they deserve, generally speaking.
  Those who end up with a God they don't think they deserve are simply shopping in the wrong aisle!
  In Christianity alone, there are almost 40 thousand denominations! Each is a wee bit different than the next.
  Seriously, why not simply do what the others did so long ago, invent your own. Build a better God; build one you can believe in who does all the right things and chuck the rest.
  Compared with Judaism, all the others are Jehovah-come-lately Gods.
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  Peddling God’s Timetable: the Men Who Failed

  by Terry in

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  peddling god’s timetable: the men who failed.

  james ussher (1581-1656).

  your name is ussher – james ussher – and you are the archbishop of all of ireland.. you are living in the 1600s and are obsessive-compulsive when it comes to speculative ideas.

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  Terry

  I was speaking to a "fading" JW in person the other day about chronology. When I casually mentioned ,"There are no dates at all in the Bible," I thought he was going to faint!
  It took the fella about five minutes to wrap his head around something I simply took to be an obvious truism.
  Now, what does that signal but an unquestioning, passive, incurious openness to indoctrination?
  I should never take this sort of thing for granted!
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  What does the rise of Donald Trump tell us about the USA?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i thank one of my former lecturers for drawing my attention to this overview.. after some 100 years, living out its "manifest destiny" dream, as the hegemon of the world, what has this 'dream' done to/for the usa?

  the approaching presidential election provides an opportunity to examine this question.. and what of all the appendage organisations (like the wts) that rode across the world on the hegemon's coattails?.

  the answer may be here: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism.

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  Terry

  Now a Bernie Sanders supporter (Professor Cornel West) advocates violence (as long as it is legitimate violence.)

  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-supporter-cornel-west-backs-legitimate-forms-of-violence/

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  The point being, there are radical thinkers on both sides, each with a moralizing tone in their rhetoric.
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  What does the rise of Donald Trump tell us about the USA?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  i thank one of my former lecturers for drawing my attention to this overview.. after some 100 years, living out its "manifest destiny" dream, as the hegemon of the world, what has this 'dream' done to/for the usa?

  the approaching presidential election provides an opportunity to examine this question.. and what of all the appendage organisations (like the wts) that rode across the world on the hegemon's coattails?.

  the answer may be here: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism.

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  Terry

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJYY1CFKzTg