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A concerned JW wrote "mistakes will happen."

by InterestedOne in

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in the thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/213523/1/feeling-a-bit-alienated, concerned jw wrote:.

mistakes will happen.

concerned jw, if mistakes will happen, i was wondering what mistakes you feel the jw organization is currently making?

NomadSoul

Carl Sagan said it best:

One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and - whole the events of that year were certainly of some importance - the world did not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014'. A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvinenced in any way. But they did not. They could have said, Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth. But they did not. Instead, the did something much more ingenious. They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the fact of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough- mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration was needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry. [Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain]

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Can you think of anything that is postive about being A JW?

by jam in

they make good neighbors, why because they.

stay to themselves..

Which did you like better: The Watchtower or Awake? ...and why?

by JimmyPage in

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i always liked the awake better because it wasn't as preachy.

less analyzing of what minute thing some guy in a robe and sandals did thousands of years ago and its application for our day.

the awake seemed more secular and less dogmatic.

NomadSoul

I liked the Awake better. I immediately went to the back and read Observing the World, and questions from readers.

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i finally put a couple of pieces together that have boggled me for years.. i would take my family to the conventions and assemblies and for some reason, my wife would always be upset or start an argument in the car on the way home, or in the week that follows.

i realize now that her frustration is that i am not the guy in the demonstrations.

you know, the guy who has the bestfriend/elder who always says the perfect thing and the guy is so humble and does this little talks-to-himself thing where he reveals his deep spirituality and applies the ever-so-wise words of his friend and after that life is just great again!.

NomadSoul

Come get your noo light!

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DO NOT have children in this system!!

by What Now? in

growing up, this is something that my other always told me.

i've had several conversations with older sisters who have said that if they could do things over, they wouldn't have had children.

other couples my own age are horrified at the thought of raising children in "this system".

NomadSoul

My grandma had about 10 kids. Just to have better chances at one making it in the world. lolz

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in the uk it is illegal to smack children so do children in the kingdom hall still get smacked ?

by looloo in

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NomadSoul

What's considered a smack?

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Are you enjoying your REST? Well, the Governing Body SAID you would!

by Terry in

the governing body of jehovah's witnesses: reliable, spirit-led, trustworthy and accurate in their teachings?.

or: unreliable, human led, untrustworthy and inaccurate in their guesswork?.

you decide!

NomadSoul

London Bridge Brought to the U.S.

United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency

VCRs Introduced

M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers

Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals

Pocket Calculators Introduced

Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich

Watergate Scandal Begins

Abortion Legalized in U.S.

Paul Getty Kidnapped

Sears Tower Built

U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam

U.S. Vice President Resigns

Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed

Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects

Patty Hearst Kidnapped

Terracotta Army Discovered in China

U.S. President Nixon Resigns

Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon

Civil War in Lebanon

Microsoft Founded

Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia

First Ebola Virus Outbreaks Strike Sudan and Zaire

Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens

North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000

Elvis Found Dead

Miniseries Roots Airs

South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death

Star Wars Movie Released

First Test-Tube Baby Born

John Paul II Becomes Pope

Jonestown Massacre

Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran

Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran

Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain

Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island

Sony Introduces the Walkman

Assassination Attempt on the Pope

Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan

First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V.

New Plague Identified as AIDS

Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM

E.T. Movie Released

Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina

King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised After 437 Years

Michael Jackson Releases Thriller

Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden

Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC

Cabbage Patch Kids are Popular

Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars

Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space

Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner

U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed

Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India

Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards

PG-13 Movie Rating Created

Famine in Ethiopia

Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered

Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika

New Coke Hits the Market

Wreck of the Titanic Found

Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines

Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds

U.S. Bombs Libya

U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station

DNA First Used to Convict Criminals

Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison

New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday"

West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's Red Square

Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie

U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner

Berlin Wall Falls

Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline

Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square

U.S. President Bush Announces That He Doesn't Like Broccoli

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Copper Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier

Operation Desert Storm

South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws

Official End of the Cold War

Riots in Los Angeles After the Rodney King Verdict

Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided

Lorena Bobbitt Takes Brutal Revenge

Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially

World Trade Center Bombed

Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France

Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa

O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder

Rwandan Genocide

Sarin Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway

Oklahoma City Bombing

Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated

Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain

Two Royal Divorces

Unabomber Arrested

British Au Pair on Trial for Murder

Hale-Bopp Comet Visible

Hong Kong Returned to China

Pathfinder Sends Back Images of Mars

Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash

Scientists Clone Sheep

Tallest Buildings in the World Built in Kuala Lumpur

Tiger Woods Wins Masters

India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons

Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever

U.S. President Clinton Impeached

Viagra on the Market

The Euro the New European Currency

Fear of Y2K Bug

JFK Jr. Dies in Plane Accident

Killing Spree at Columbine High School

NATO Attacks Serbia

Panama Canal Returns to Panama

Elian Gonzalez Goes Home

Mapping the Human Genome

"ILOVEYOU" Virus Hits Thousands of Computers

Microsoft Ordered to Split

Russian Submarine Sunk in Barents Sea

Unclear Winner in U.S. Presidential Election

USS Cole Bombed

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Are you enjoying your REST? Well, the Governing Body SAID you would!

by Terry in

the governing body of jehovah's witnesses: reliable, spirit-led, trustworthy and accurate in their teachings?.

or: unreliable, human led, untrustworthy and inaccurate in their guesswork?.

you decide!

NomadSoul

Well just to name a few:

Aswan High Dam Completed

Beatles Break Up

Computer Floppy Disks Introduced

Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes

Kent State Shootings

Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran

John Lennon Assassinated

Mount St. Helens Erupts

Pac-Man Video Game Released

Rubik's Cube Becomes Popular

Ted Turner Establishes CNN

Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space

Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland

Nelson Mandela Freed

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Just possibly the worst song in the history of music

by JeffT in

christina perri,"jar of hearts".

but i'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to you wail about it.

does your therapy have to include making the rest of the world miserable?.

NomadSoul

LOL This song fits with Jeff's view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Gs4xGw1Eg

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Athiest...

by myohorengekyo in

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god to me would be as refreshing as a cold beer on a summers day.. today iam an atheist.

iam no longer a beliver in other peoples idea of god.

yet iam thirsty to find a god.

NomadSoul

Just have a beer!