The recent Mars origin blip is an example of terrestrial evolution being up-ended. I think it's nonsense. I believe it's nonsense. I conjecture it is some planetary scientist who unconsciously devised a new way to get funding for a sexy theory that finally garnered testable evidence. I roll my eyes at it sternly, but I cannot know he may not be onto something.
Posts by rmt1
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20"Do you believe in God" is an absurd question! Why? Because.....
by Mr Fool inif a jw asks me "-do you believe in god?
" and i answer "-no, i dont believe in god" he/she assumes that i m not interested.
and that s because of a total closed mind.
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payback? bitterly upset....
by losingit ini don't even know where to start.. more than anything, i'd like to say that i am not a woman of vengeance.
i am very much a forgiving person.
if you say "i'm sorry," and you're genuine, i can move on from it quickly and easily.
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"And the elders, well... they are clearly a bunch of incompetent men who are put in positions of authority with no real knowledge of how to counsel people, essentially hungry for power."
That's the whole JW story right there. The distant, expansive, cartel could not be sustained without the local street gang of pushers, armed with various instruments of psychological and emotional torture, keeping the territory in fear and extorting protection money.
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Are JWs more negative than normal people?
by Julia Orwell incompare a typical conversation with a jw to one with a random non-jw:.
run into jw in the shops.. .
jw:[surprised] julia!
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rmt1
Performance art.
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JWs don't know it's about money. JWs have access to the common sense to smell a rat. JWs refuse to act on their common sense and human decency, properties of the species developed and honed and refined over tens of thousands of years, and willfully suppress these out of self-conscious fear they will lose the socially and financially valuable alliance of believers. If every JW was permitted to vote anonymously on various controversial topics, without a shred of a threat of retaliation, and the results of this poll were made instantly available to every other JW, without a shred of a threat of retaliation, the numbers would collapse dramatically. The GB's primary job is to keep JWs from actually sharing amongst themselves, without a shred of a threat of retaliation, what they actually think individually. The GB's primary job is to keep JWs from comparing notes on how their common sense and human decency naturally react to various insults and offences, aganst common sense and human decency, that are intrinsic and non-negotiable to staying in the GB's graces. If honest communication were permitted between individuals, repeatedly, and with iteration to new individuals, collective common sense and human decency would find the rat. Money.
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Circuit Accounts Servants Confesses how the SCAM WORKS!!
by JT inyes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.
i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.
as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?
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This is sort of disappointingly bald. I am (sort of) disgusted with the capacity of accounts servants to not stand up, walk out, and never look back. I left the Swatara PA congregation in 1999 specifically because they were training me to be the accounts servant, and I got the final, unbearable, eye full. Sorry, accounts servants who I am disgusted with - I know you're human; I know you're stuck in a Stockholm scenario. I get it. You don't have choice.
This thread is gut wrenching.
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"It's Demonic" - What's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a JW say?
by schnare ini was at a amusement park here in calgary today.
my jw mother and my young brother came to visit for a week,so me and my sister thought it would a nice idea to take them to do something fun.
i guess they had a part of it called hallo street and my mom was getting all sketched out from all the halloween decorations around.
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Please consider that this ostensible stupidity is not actual, medical, clinical, cognitive incapacity "stupidity".
Consider that it might be pernicious, deliberate, fully conscious, fully self-aware, fully sanctimonious, fully pretentious, fully willful costly signaling or conspicuous consumption of a costly (stupid) belief to other members of the tribe as a form of banner, heraldry, sigil. People cannot be this stupid. People are not actually this stupid. People can be pretentious sanctimonious pricks who impose their superiority on others by displaying how costly their belief is. People >are< pretentious sanctimonious pricks who impose their superiority on others by displaying how costly their belief is. They don't have to believe anything. They have to demonstrate what the belief requires, if they believed it, and the conspicuous display of that stupidity is the key to answering a challenge/authentication protocol, among the tribe, that basically says, "Are you still with me? Are you still against them?" Consider. Clinical stupidity cannot explain what JWs do. Stockholm syndrome alone does not either. Letting JW rank and file get away with being stupid is letting them off the hook. They are not stupid. They are weak. They have failed themselves and they have failed their children to act on their well-founded doubts. They are weak because they have chosen, and continue actively to choose, to not find the strength to do what they know is right. If they are chained in bondage to family members, yeah, fine, I lost my entire family. All of it. -
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"It's Demonic" - What's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a JW say?
by schnare ini was at a amusement park here in calgary today.
my jw mother and my young brother came to visit for a week,so me and my sister thought it would a nice idea to take them to do something fun.
i guess they had a part of it called hallo street and my mom was getting all sketched out from all the halloween decorations around.
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Late 70's, early 80's: My dad lectured me at 10 years old about how a cereal box stand-up cutout of the Lucky Charms elf would be looking at me as I slept. My mom made me throw away the Kenner Yoda figure because her friend counselled her that she heard Yoda was a wizard. Still haven't checked that Sparlock video...
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Which is more weird ? Nov 15, 2013 page 20
by jwstudy inwhich is more weird ?.
english standard edition or simplified edition?.
instructions we may receive, whether.
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Tagging another thread, can this difference be explained by the TWS needing to transition from a centralized English-speaking fleece to a broader ESL fleece, who (striving not to make a racist statement here), due to various compounding effects of marginalization, particularly socioeconomic and educational, may be more easily persuaded by this wording?
It's hard for me to see all the calculated movements of the money-changers, and the painstaking attention to the absolute lack of detail by the sales floor, culminating in >anything< that unnecessarily trims their stock of potential fleece / customers. To argue so is to argue that the remaining fleece can be squeezed much further. Is that the case? Would preemptorally excommunicating people that haven't done a wrong by their own rules really bring in new converts?
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I had NO idea about the letter to Hitler......
by Flg8ter inthis was brand new to me........did some research, like we're not supposed to do ;) and dug up crazy stuff that i had no idea about.
my whole life we were taught have bad and evil "christendom" was for trying to pacify hiter during his rise to power, and how different we were for standing up to him!.
then i found about the letter dated june 25,1933 from rutherford and his writting team to hiter.
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I could have added that TWS appropriates to itself the cathexis or shock value of Hitler. It claims a power of righteousness, and a magnitude of Godly favor, that is linearly proportional to the unrighteousness of the sum of Nazi atrocities. Discount, leverageable, street credit or war story. Good for building a mythology proportional in height to the length of the shadow of Nazism.
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Okage Takes Issue with: November 1st 2013 Watchtower Magazine
by okage injust a few issues i had from looking at this potential new york-printed toilet paper:.
pg 4: the lie that made god nameless.
this sub-article talks about how god's name is jehovah and quotes isaiah 42:8 "i am jehovah.
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Thank you for the citation of source material. I can figure that this is at least a remotely intriguing point of contention in the JW menagerie, being as you do have some archeological facts to work with.