My own college degree (B.A. in Liberal Arts) ultimately proved to be of no value, as I failed to obtain marketable skills, despite graduating summa cum laude. The money and time spent on my "education" cannot be recovered, and thus my college experience has been a source of bitterness to this very day. Over 70% of the janitors with whom I currently work likewise have a B.A. in Liberal Arts.
bennyk
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College Degree = $23K more a year salary
by under_believer incheck out the news on this recent press release from the us census bureau.
here's the google news listing for it (so you can see all the places this story has been covered): click here.. .
lest anybody think the society is taking a softer stance on this issue, well, they're not.
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Could a JW be disfellowshipped for lack of "Faith"?
by JH inlets say that a jw tells an elder that he prays and nothing happens.
then he tells the elder, that after praying so often and asking for reasonable things, i don't believe anymore that god answers prayers, because i was honest in my prayer and god didn't grant me what i wanted.
i was just wondering if an elder could see this as "lack of faith", which then could be a good reason to disfellowship someone.. .
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bennyk
"You know, allot of times when someone is depressed it's because their hiding something"
Response to the above: "You know, a lot of times when someone says something completely devoid of intelligence, it's because they're an empty-headed moron..."
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United Nations Day
by bennyk inaccording to my calendar, 24. october is "united nations day".. as you celebrate "united nations day", be sure to spare some kind thoughts for the beast's former lover, the watch tower society.
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bennyk
According to my calendar, 24. October is "United Nations Day".
As you celebrate "United Nations Day", be sure to spare some kind thoughts for the Beast's former Lover, the Watch Tower Society.
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Question about apostosy
by gordon d inplease correct me if i'm wrong.... .
isn't the wtbts's stance on apostacy defined as a member who denounces the authority of one of god's holy spirit inspired spokesmen?
if so, when paul and barnabas had the argument over taking mark on a mission trip.... which one was apostate?
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bennyk
01. April 1986 QfR:
Do we have Scriptural precedent for taking such a strict position? Indeed we do! Paul wrote about some in his day: "Their word will spread like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of that number. These very men have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some." (2 Timothy 2:17, 18; see also Matthew 18:6.) There is nothing to indicate that these men did not believe in God, in the Bible, in Jesus’ sacrifice. Yet, on this one basic point, what they were teaching as to the time of the resurrection, Paul rightly branded them as apostates, with whom faithful Christians would not fellowship.
This is most fascinating. When the F&DS was supposedly appointed in 1919, the Watch Tower Society was still teaching that the Resurrection had begun in 1878 -- a teaching not altered until 1927 -- and which teaching the WTS now rejects as false. Does it not bugger the imagination to believe the Lord appointed over all his belongings an organisation that (by its own published standard) would be 'rightly branded apostate, with whom faithful Christians would not fellowship'?
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Are you really free from the Watchtower?
by yaddayadda inthe thread on how long it took you to get out of the organisation made me think.
i honestly think anyone that spends more than half an hour per day on anti-jw sites like this is, psychologically, not out of the organisation at all, despite their best protests.
the watchtower clearly still fascinates them to the point of an obsessive, compulsive need to frequently post on this website and others.
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bennyk
It is true that the Society has no hold whatsoever on me, personally.
But I won't be entirely free of the Watch Tower Society as long as they are still holding hostages.
I hope you can understand that.
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Mars bars made with blood
by 5thGeneration inanyone remember back 15 years or so ago when some brothers used to think mars bars were made with lecithin derived from blood .. we had a sister call the company and interrogate them.
funny.. .
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bennyk
I remember worrying that some glue and fertilizers also had blood in them. We were told we could call the manufacturers to find out for sure. Extreme beliefs forsure.
Little Bo Peep
WHY call the manufacturers? You weren't intending on EATING the glue and fertilizers, were you?
(BTW similar thing with a "brother" who was reluctant to use plywood... on account of the bloody glue.)
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Older WT quote reveals attitude toward disfellowshipped family members
by OnTheWayOut inhey, i discovered this older quote from reexamine.org.
i could not believe how serious it was about what a family .
member was not allowed to do with a disfellowshipped .
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bennyk
The law of the land and God’s law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship.
You can almost feel their dismay; after all, if you can't kill YOUR RELATIVES, who can you kill?
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The answered prayer
by Ade injohn 14:12 "most assuredly, i say to you, he who believes in me,the works that i do he will do also;and greater works than these he will do, because i go to my father.13"and whatever you ask in my name, that i will do, that the father may be glorified in the son 14:if you ask anything in my name, i will do it" .
i understand that we ask for our prayers to be answered through jesus name as jesus is the amen.many will give a different answer to this question from the trinitarian/non trinitarian viewpoint.jesus says here that he will answer your prayers if you ask in his name.
does this mean it is ok to request from jesus during the prayer.
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bennyk
Why did Stephen commit his spirit to Jesus at the momoent of his death instead of to the Father?
See John 5:21,25-29.
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Ray Franz CoC, was he in denial? Just asking.
by Wasanelder Once ini was reading a little coc last night where ray f. disusses the witch hunt at bethel that resulted in all the oustings.
as i read the doctrines that he questioned, (not judging him right or wrong), i noticed that he was questioning some of the fundamental beliefs of the wt.
ie: gov.
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bennyk
Ray told me he continued attending meetings in Alabama in an attempt to gain some time to share the truth about the WTS and its teachings with a number of his friends (those outside his immediate circle). I believe him. I did the same thing myself (although not in Alabama).
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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bennyk
If memory serves, in one of the the Oct. 1966 Awake! 's, it was clearly stated that the millenium would have to begin no later than 1975. So the big white bird is correct (sorta). The statements of the forementioned Awake! implied that Armageddon could begin earlier than 1975. Of course, the Society was proven a False Prophet by the non-events preceeding 1976.