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  Gonna read the new bible front to back

  by Jayk in

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  2. bible

  i'm gonna read the new light bible front to back.

  (see how far i make it).

  besides wanting to read more.

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  slimboyfat

  I don't expect to learn much, I just want to understand what I'm up against.

  I listen to “woman’s hour” on Radio 4 for similar reasons,
  
  
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  Borg nearly apologies child abuse victims in Finland

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the attached picture is historical.

  the man on left is ari hakkarainen, representative of jw in finland.

  the woman in middle is reporter susanna päivärinta and the lady at right is josefina pakomaa who was abused by family friend - a jw - when she was 11. a vicious apostate today.

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  slimboyfat

  I think this is a hopeful sign that change is coming.
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  Today's Watchtowe Study, Child Baptism

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  suffice to say that i fundamentally disagree with the point of this article, a cynical attempt to boost numbers.

  it goes against bible precedent and their own long standing practice.

  they timothy as an example of a youthfull christian, a young man.. sure but he was not baptized young .

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  slimboyfat

  The more children who get DFed, the more inheritance goes to WT inc. when the parents die.
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  Today's Watchtowe Study, Child Baptism

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  suffice to say that i fundamentally disagree with the point of this article, a cynical attempt to boost numbers.

  it goes against bible precedent and their own long standing practice.

  they timothy as an example of a youthfull christian, a young man.. sure but he was not baptized young .

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  slimboyfat

  Yes I was told if I didn’t get baptised I’d die at Armageddon. My conductor basically said: “we can’t say for definite you need to get baptised or else killed, but if you ask me that’s how I understand it”.
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  Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

  by Earnest in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tonight (sunday, 13th may) at 20:00 on bbc 2 ... for neanderthal believers, agnostics and deniers.. this first programme in a two-part series investigates what neanderthals looked like and and how they lived in their ice age world.

  it turns out that almost everything we thought we knew about them is wrong.

  they weren't hunched, grunting, knuckle-dragging ape-men at all.

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  slimboyfat

  According to 23andme I’m 0.5% Neanderthal or something.
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  Gorgeous Politicians ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's a saying that says "politics is show-business for ugly people" ... well, they can't all be ugly.. so here are my favourite politicians .... .

  ^^^ caroline flint ^^^ .

  ^^^ liz kendall ^^^.

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  slimboyfat

  Good lord heaven help us
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  Overlapping Generations

  by JRK in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember when that came out, my mother didn't catch it in the original article in the wt.

  it was in one of the review "do you remember" thingies that she caught it.

  she asked me if it means what she thought it meant.

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  I’ve noticed that some JWs seem to take it almost as a badge of honour, display of loyalty, or high level spirituality, that they “believe” the overlapping teaching without questioning it. It reminds me of the high levels of Scientology, where belief in alien gods and planets or whatever is a sign of advanced understanding or maturity.

  I’ve never heard anyone even attempt a rational defence of it.
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  Pew Research:"88% of JWs read scripture outside of religious services at least once a week" ...Highest of all religions

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/07/blacks-more-likely-than-others-in-u-s-to-read-the-bible-regularly-see-it-as-gods-word/.

  graph in article:.

  i doubt this statistic.

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  slimboyfat

  Amusing that the “general public” is more likely to read the Bible than a mainline Protestant.

  Still relying on 2014 survey. Isn’t it about time they did another one?
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  The Label Of "Apostate" And It's Effects

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in my psychology studies we've been examining the use of "labels" and how they influence peoples behaviour.

  i sometimes wonder if the gb or their helpers know exactly what they're doing when it comes to psychological manipulation.. it's been observed that by labeling someone or something it changes your entire perception of that person or thing.

  it colours it entirely, quite unfairly in some cases.

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  As I understand it the insight of labelling theory is that if you label someone as something then it prompts future behaviour in line with the label. It’s the reason, for example, why the justice system is sensitive about prematurely labelling young people as criminals. Young people who are labelled as criminals become criminals, whereas young people who are categorised as needing social support are less likely to become criminals. Labels are powerful.

  In this sense I think JW use of labels is pretty dumb actually. They prematurely label people who have doubts and questions as “apostate” ironically ensuring that they do in fact become “apostate”. This may have worked during a period of growth when they could afford to lose large numbers of members, but as decline sets in I think it’s a policy that will increasingly backfire.
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  BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.

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  slimboyfat

  Since this letter we sent to an individual and his body of elders, doesn’t this necessarily already identify the source of the leak?