My friend who is a JW handed me some literature and I was shocked by the childishness of the language. I felt like I was reading something from second grade. I find it hard to understand how anyone with a higher education could be taken in by their stuff.
jstalin
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Please don't take offence at this ...
by Joe Grundy ini'm not a jw, never have been, and in no danger of becoming one.. having read several of the wt mags and publications (and many more extracts on this and other sites) they come across to me as being very patronising in tone and full of pseudo-scholarship, misquoted (or unnamed) sources, references taken out of context, mis-translations, etc.
i'm aware of jw 'teaching' on the subject of higher education for its members (i.e.
not a good or necessary thing) so i can understand why many jws raised in it may not challenge the publications.
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Holidays
by I-follow-the-narrow-path injw's don't celebrate holidays, because they are pagan and would offend jehovah god to partake in them.
what about the memorial though?
i mean, why is it okay to celebrate that?
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it annoys me that they don't use God's name.
The Jehovah's Witnesses falsely put Jehovah in the New Testament. The name does not appear in the original greek scripts.
Check out this thread on the topic:
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evidently
by Jerry1 intake the watchtower cd and do a search on the word "evidently".
after you see the number of hits what sentence can you make.
using the word "evidently"?
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jstalin
Similar results with "apparently"
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Interesting response to entering "faithful and discreet slave" on WTBS site
by wanderlustguy intry it...
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jstalin
Wow.. only one reference to the FDS on the official web site, and it's in relation to molestation!
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Sagan and anyone who care toreply
by jw in.
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only intelligent replys.. 2.no big bang replys.. what is your theory on how humans came into existence?
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jstalin
Right this minute ;jw is sat at her computer pissing her knickers with laughter over how easy it is to get you lot wound up. To her this is like sticking a stick in an ants nest and watching them all scurry about. When are you lot going to wake up and realise she is a TROLL
You're probably right. But I like to get wound up once in a while. It's a win-win situation then.
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Sagan and anyone who care toreply
by jw in.
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only intelligent replys.. 2.no big bang replys.. what is your theory on how humans came into existence?
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Would you say that the field of abiogenesis has a model that explains all necessary realities?
I'm not sure what you mean by "all necessary realities."
As far as I am aware, abiogenesis requires quite a lot that has not yet been explained in any model. But I am open to the prospect of being proven wrong. I like the experience. It tickles.
Heck, me too. It's a theory that is still being worked on. One example of a step in the right direction in vindicating that theory is the Miller Uray experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment
Could it have been aliens? Maybe. Could it have been god? Maybe. Could it have been the flying spaghetti monster? Maybe. But since there's no evidence of those theories, I prefer to go with theory that at least shows a modicum of logic and evidence. I could be wrong, certainly, but show me the money!
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The Story of Adam & Eve
by LaCatolica ini learned that the story of adam and eve was exactly that, 'a story'.
i remember learning that in my religion class in high school.
i learned that the old testament was filled with tales and that none should be taken literally because these were stories of oral tradition.
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Sagan and anyone who care toreply
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As for JW - you clearly are not interested in intellectual debate. My initial response was one based on science. You immediately then accuse me, and others, of being unintelligent. Your head is stuck in the sand and you are unable to debate facts or reality, so your response to anyone who doesn't post what you want to hear is to call them unintelligent. That's the initial response of the individual who is simply unable to debate the issue at hand - attack the person, not the argument.
I'm more than happy to listen to and debate competing theories, as long as they are backed up with demonstrable facts. You, my friend, need to look deep inside yourself and ask why you're even here in the first place, posting obvious troll threads.
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jstalin
This is the physical universe, stop trying to apply these Laws to realms you know nothing about.
With all due respect, god is a subject that you can know nothing about as well. You pre-suppose that there is a god. How do you know? There is no evidence for said god-being. You form a straw-man argument by saying that there must be a god because we are too complex for there not to be a god, yet promptly exempt god from that requirement. I argue based on facts, evidence, and testable theories, which all work to explain the universe around us quite well. God has yet to be demonstrated or show up to say "hi."
God is purely an emotional, internal experience.
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The Story of Adam & Eve
by LaCatolica ini learned that the story of adam and eve was exactly that, 'a story'.
i remember learning that in my religion class in high school.
i learned that the old testament was filled with tales and that none should be taken literally because these were stories of oral tradition.
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jstalin
I went to catholic school and we were taught about the same thing - Adam and Eve were a story with a moral, not necessarily literal people.