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  Education

  by M*A*S*H in

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  just looking on jw.org at an education related topic; http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201210/what-parents-can-do/.

  be reasonable with regard to how much education to pursue.. as mentioned earlier, education can help prepare your child for responsible adulthood.

  (genesis 2:24) but how much schooling does reaching that goal require?.

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  Gustv, a member of my family still part of the borg was an elder and university lecturer (prof) at the same time, somewhat ironic!
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  Education

  by M*A*S*H in

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  just looking on jw.org at an education related topic; http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201210/what-parents-can-do/.

  be reasonable with regard to how much education to pursue.. as mentioned earlier, education can help prepare your child for responsible adulthood.

  (genesis 2:24) but how much schooling does reaching that goal require?.

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  Just looking on JW.org at an education related topic; http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201210/what-parents-can-do/

  Be reasonable with regard to how much education to pursue.

  As mentioned earlier, education can help prepare your child for responsible adulthood. (Genesis 2:24) But how much schooling does reaching that goal require?

  Do not assume that your child must attend a university to make a decent living. There are other options that are less costly. In fact, in some cases those with trade skills can make as good a living as university graduates.

  I was curious about that Genesis quote...

  That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he will stick to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

  Are they trying to suggest we only need enough learning to leave 'mum and dad', shack up with a wife and understand which bit goes where?

  I reckon the first draft of the last paragraph above left the writing department like this...

  Do not assume that your child must attend a university to make a decent living; windows do not clean themselves you know.
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  Want to make Money $ with a Web Site?

  by sarahsmile in

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  has anyone had success with a high traffic website or blog ?.

  it might take a team of people to accomplish.. ads pay and people count, lots and lots of people.

  does jehovahs-witness.net make money every time someone looks at the web site?

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  That brought a tear to my eye...
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  AMATEURS using BAD METHODS: what possible expertise does the GB possess?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let's start with a very basic common sense question.. if you needed surgery would you go to a graduate of medical school who had been practicing for awhile,.

  or would you go to an amateur who told you god would be telling him how to peform surgery?.

  don't laugh.. it is a serious question!.

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  I can recommend my toothyoligist, he's much cheaper than the dentist I used to see.
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  HOW TO AVOID THE A-HOLE SPIRIT OF SOME HERE...

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. beliefs

  1) take meds for your megalomania and delusions of grandeur.. .

  suggestions welcome.. .

  dd.

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  Can I just say I love this thread; especially when people post (effectively) "Is this topic aimed at me?"... priceless.
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  My JW mother is celebrating my birthday

  by M*A*S*H in

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  it's a breaktrough... my dub mother called to see if i'm free on my birthday weekend!

  cool huh?!.

  oh wait... no...no... oh i see, i have to hire a van for her and help her move house; "happy birthday son!

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  It's a breaktrough... my dub mother called to see if I'm free on my birthday weekend! Cool huh?!

  Oh wait... no...no... oh I see, I have to hire a van for her and help her move house; "Happy Birthday son! Now get that sofa loaded".
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  Satan and the demons, ghosts, spirits, fortune tellers. Are they real?

  by KateWild in

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  2. beliefs

  i believe in god.

  i don't believe he punishes or rewards people.

  so by the same extention i don't believe any spirit beings can communicate with or influence humans.. many who do not believe in god though, have gone to fortune tellers.

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  Just thinking about truthwillsetyoufree's account of their experience with a spiritualist, it reminded me of a Derren Brown series where he recreated or acted out being a healer, fortune teller, preacher, etc... what struck me was what people remembered about encounters with him especially when he was 'cold reading' individuals; they only remembered the 'hits' and forgot all the 'misses'. So when truthwillsetyoufree says the spiritualist said X (which turned out to be true) , it would also be important to know everything else said, then we may well see the misses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdJ9-s3HEg

  As for the account itself... I would guess most at a spiritualist church would be religious or formally religious!? It’s hardly going to be full of atheists! Hard times and losing people - well isn't that everyone? The sacral chakra is usually related to food intolerance not the heart (4th chakra) so that’s odd - sound like fishing to me!

  As for "I've never revealed anything about myself"... cold readers are experts on reading the clues we give off without really realising it. The only way to not give anything away would be to wear a full body paper bag over yourself and make sure you do not utter a single word - even then you could be revealing a lot (eg... you may come across as a doubter). So without doing anything a cold reader might be thinking about: Which meeting did you attend? Is it your first visit or were you introduced? What time is the meeting, during the week or weekend in the day or evening? Who did you sit next to? Did you sit on your own? Did you sit at the back or the front? Are your shoes expensive? Did you chat to other people attending before the show? Is your body language defensive or open? How old are you? Do you look tired? Smiling or concentrating? etc... etc...

  I have always wanted to ask spiritualist why when they receive messages, the person giving the message never (a) gives their name properly (despite later being able to deliver quite complex ideas and messages) it’s always...'it starts with a B sound brian, bob, bobby, bobby alan, yes, Alan, its Alan... and (b) if the 'spirit' can give their name and have a message for someone, why can't they give the name of the person to give it to? The spiritualist always says something like "I have a bobby, brian, sue, alan here, they died of a heart condition or something like that, they smoked I think, possibly had a buggy... does that mean anything to anybody?". If they are really talking to the dead why not "Hi, I have Christopher Hitchens here... he wants to pass a message to his brother Peter... he says 'damn it you were right! Oh, and I left my will second drawer on the right under the TV"!

  Sorry for rambling!
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  The limits of science.

  by Seraphim23 in

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  for a long time i have accepted that when a theist inserts god into some as yet not understood scientific matter, it constitutes a god of the gaps argument.

  as a theist myself, the problem with this for me, is that it implies an arbitrary limit on gods ingenuity.

  for example, the idea that god created automatic processes to do certain things in nature, and yet with other things the need for a direct hand to either tweak or directly organise!

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  On topic... ish?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDYba0m6ztE
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  how to survive a three day assembly?

  by purrpurr in

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  hi i have to go to one of these soon.

  i find it difficult enough to sit through a meeting knowing what i now know.

  how to survive a whole three days???!!!

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  I find surviving a three day assembly quite easy these days. I simply stay at home. This method works for meetings and field service too. You only ever need to not 'stay at home' for sheparding calls, for these it is best to... 'go out'.
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  Atheists and JWs are on the same footing!

  by exWTslave in

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  atheists believe that god should stop the large-scale injustice on earth; if he does'nt, then he does not exist.

  jws believe that god will intervene sometime in the last days!.

  interestingly, both throw themselves on their own expectation of soemthing god should or will do, yet in fact something god does not have to do.

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  I would not say (to paraphrase) 'If bad things happen that proves there is no God'. But, I would say, that 'bad things happening' does disprove certain gods; this is because the definition of certain gods run contrary to 'bad things happening'. The Epicurean paradox, I believe, runs contrary to the Christian god mostly described as being 'all loving, all powerful, etc...'.

  To look at a sillyexample. "If beard exists, it proves someone has chosen to grow beard--it doesn't prove a barber does not exist". If my definition of my God was: A god that is all powerful, loves the clean shaven as beards go against his very nature, beards represent highest moral wrong, he directs his holy spirit scissors at will throughout the known universe, loves all infinately, but those with beards will burn in hell fire for eternity. Now the fact that beards exist would potentially mean my god does not exist...eg if he infinately loves some with a beard, he would not want them to burn in hell, my god has the power to cut a beard off so why would he not?

  An atheist can only really examine your God hypothesis by the characteristics you assign to the god if no direct evidence for your god exists.