Posts by d0rkyd00d

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Christ vs. FDS At District Convention 2012

by d0rkyd00d in

my girlfriend is a baptized jw (complex situation, don't ask).

i am a non-believer who faded many years ago.

i wanted to give her a challenge when she attends this year's district convention, and offer that i would attend next year's dc if i was incorrect.. .

d0rkyd00d

My girlfriend is a baptized JW (Complex situation, don't ask). I am a non-believer who faded many years ago. I wanted to give her a challenge when she attends this year's district convention, and offer that I would attend next year's DC if I was incorrect.

My challenge is to mark down every time they mention the FDS, governing body, God's organization, etc., compared to how often they mention Jesus Christ as being their mediator / savior, to see how outnumbered he is. If they mention Christ more than the former (or even just the FDS), then I will attend next year. From anybody who has already attended, what do you think the results would be?

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Essential Watchtower publications

by peggaloon in

hi friends,.

i have a very nice jw friend who is willing to hand me some old copies of books / magazines that they are throwing out.

he comes with a long background of the cult so he has many years of literature (50 years possibly).. which are the essential books / magazines i should try to get off him to help me in my evangelism to the witnesses?.

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God's Kingdom of A Thousand Years Has Approached

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I used to be a JW! Shocking, I know

by NewChapter in

it's true.

i used to be a jw.

i was duped.

d0rkyd00d

Enlightenment isn't all fun and games. :-P

I believe it was Aristotle who said "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Logic is a wonderful tool, in that it provides a deductive process to see if an argument makes sense. But even logic only goes so far in determining Truth with a capital "T."

But living "in the mystery" isn't so bad once you get used to it. :-)

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Love of video games = love of violence? August 2012 Awake!

by sd-7 in

page 4-5:.

"video games: 'the uncomfortable fact is, videogames have an unhealthy obsession with bloodshed,' stated a british magazine for video-game enthusiasts.

it added: 'to some degree, a love of videogames demands a love of violence.

d0rkyd00d

Take-out-of-context much?

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Love of video games = love of violence? August 2012 Awake!

by sd-7 in

page 4-5:.

"video games: 'the uncomfortable fact is, videogames have an unhealthy obsession with bloodshed,' stated a british magazine for video-game enthusiasts.

it added: 'to some degree, a love of videogames demands a love of violence.

d0rkyd00d

Here's the last paragraphs from the article.

The problem with violence in videogames isn’t its mythical ability to corrupt the nation’s youth, but that for so long it has been the only meaningful interaction with the game world. Alternatives have always existed, but only in the last few years have they begun to permeate into the major blockbusters. When they become as much a part of the language of game design as 20-hit combos, the medium will become richer, and offer rewards to those people who see no merit in it now.
“I don’t think it’s a problem, insofar as it is really just a symptom of the immaturity of our form,” says Hecker. “I think violence is a tool that will be in the toolbox, but it will be joined by other actions and emotions, hopefully including love, jealousy, betrayal, and all the other characteristics that make art great and are meaningful to people.
“Violence is meaningful and powerful, except when you use it to the exclusion of all other dramatic and emotional tools; then it just becomes gratuitous and meaningless. Killing your hundredth orc is no different from killing your tenth orc, but killing your spouse in a jealous rage and then having to deal with the consequences is completely different and is the stuff of great art… Uh, fictionally speaking, that is.”

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What apostates fail to recognize is...

by nananana in

you can cut & paste all the excerpts from articles you want...you can leak all the boe letters, you can pretend to be witnesses and come to the conventions and meetings...but.

no other organization can begin to rival the success and magnitude of the prophecy found in mt 24:14. so apostates....don't waste your time spending countless hours digging up articles and reading books to convince yourself to turn away from jh's organization.

no matter what "evidence" you find you cannot ignore the obvious fulfillment of matthew 24:14.. .

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Atheism or Agnosticism, which one is correct?

by Joey Jo-Jo in

this has been bugging me for a while, and while i dont want to turn this into something about semantics i think that we should quickly define what an agnostic and atheists are.. richard dawkins defines 7 different types of atheist ranging from weak to militant atheists, but along these definitions there appears one definition with a strong resemblance to agnosticism.. to me an agnostic is a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in deity/deities, but there are those who define agnostics as a ignorant who simply just don't care or don't have the intelligence to come to sound conclusion.. an atheist can be a person who disbelieves in a deity/deities based on the current mathematical and scientific understandings of the universe, as well as understandings that can refute certain religions such as the strong influence of protestantism christianity in america.. .

from here i will refer deity as anything ranging jehovah to a real spaghetti monster, it's not important because a) we dont know b)for the purpose of this discussion it is not important to define what we believe god to be.. an argument that can be used about a deity is -we cannot prove nor disprove that god exists- this is referred to as a null hypothesis, an assumption that we cannot create a hypothesis to prove or disprove this deity.

this to me is agnosticism and is more correct than the idea of atheism.

d0rkyd00d

It is not a contradiction to say you are an agnostic atheist. I think most people view it as a sliding scale, where there's certainty of existence on one end, certainty of non-existence on the other, and agnosticism somewhere in between. What I'm suggesting is that atheism and agnosticism exist on two different scales. One can be certain in their belief that God doesn't exist, yet still admit they don't "know" in the same sense that I "know" other things empirically.

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Atheism or Agnosticism, which one is correct?

by Joey Jo-Jo in

this has been bugging me for a while, and while i dont want to turn this into something about semantics i think that we should quickly define what an agnostic and atheists are.. richard dawkins defines 7 different types of atheist ranging from weak to militant atheists, but along these definitions there appears one definition with a strong resemblance to agnosticism.. to me an agnostic is a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in deity/deities, but there are those who define agnostics as a ignorant who simply just don't care or don't have the intelligence to come to sound conclusion.. an atheist can be a person who disbelieves in a deity/deities based on the current mathematical and scientific understandings of the universe, as well as understandings that can refute certain religions such as the strong influence of protestantism christianity in america.. .

from here i will refer deity as anything ranging jehovah to a real spaghetti monster, it's not important because a) we dont know b)for the purpose of this discussion it is not important to define what we believe god to be.. an argument that can be used about a deity is -we cannot prove nor disprove that god exists- this is referred to as a null hypothesis, an assumption that we cannot create a hypothesis to prove or disprove this deity.

this to me is agnosticism and is more correct than the idea of atheism.

d0rkyd00d

Agnosticism and atheism pertain to two completely different subject matters, as was mentioned before. Atheism deal with belief, agnosticism with knowledge. One can be agnostic about the existence of aliens, but still believe they exist somewhere in the universe. They are not mutually exclusive, as many of the comments here would lead one to believe.

I am an agnostic atheist. I don't know if God exists. I don't believe God exists, by most definitions. Define God, and I will tell you whether I believe that specific notion. I think folks who simply stop at agnosticism don't care to determine a set belief on the matter. No big deal.

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How to Record a Judicial Meeting

by 00DAD in

introduction: this subject came up on another thread and seemed important enough to justify its own thread:.

judicial hearing procedure, chapter 7. recording devices.

"recording devices should not be allowed.

d0rkyd00d

Another deflective statement suggestion:

"Did you bring any recording devices?"

"Well, I was thinking about recording the meeting....why?"

"Recording is strictly prohibited blah blabitty blah blah, baaaa-aa-aa."

"Oh wow, I wasn't aware that was frowned upon. Well I guess we can just get started then."

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Compare JW technophobia with Mormon interests

by Terry in

i thought this article was rather revealing:.

why do mormons love pinterest?

on one level, it's not surprising that pinterest, the social bookmarking service where users curate images by 'pinning' them with links and commentary to themed boards, is a hit with mormons.

d0rkyd00d

I actually think it's all for Romney's campaign.