The more children who get DFed, the more inheritance goes to WT inc. when the parents die.
slimboyfat
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Today's Watchtowe Study, Child Baptism
by BluesBrother insuffice 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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Today's Watchtowe Study, Child Baptism
by BluesBrother insuffice 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 intonight (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 inthere'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 ini 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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slimboyfat
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 inhttp://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 inin 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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slimboyfat
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 in2018-04-16-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?
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Motherly Love, that "Unbreakable Bond"
by Simon inmy father died a couple of months ago.
he'd been ill for some time and had many health scares and heart troubles over the years but always managed to keep on going.
then one time he didn't.. i'm glad i got to know him again and spend some more time with him after so many years missed because of the wts but those years will always be lost forever.
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slimboyfat
This is truly awful. Shunning policy will need to change one day, but it won’t be soon enough. They can’t undo the hurt that is already done.
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Heb. 1:2-3 Proof we should worship Jesus?
by NikL injw.org believes that jesus is not god but a separate entity.
let's go with that for the time being.
in the referenced scriptures the writer of hebrews says that jesus "sustains all things by the word of his power" and has been "appointed heir of all things".
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slimboyfat
It depends what you mean by worship. Even some evangelicals point out that the first Christians didn’t worship Jesus.
For example James Dunn points out that while Jesus receives “worship” in the NT, only the Father receives “sacred service”.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/DID-FIRST-CHRISTIANS-WORSHIP-JESUS/dp/0281059284