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  Should I help my wife get the kids ready?

  by dazed but not confused in

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  should i help my wife get the kids ready for meetings, service and assemblies?

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  stapler99

  No, why the heck should you!? This just makes it look like you are agreeing with your wife that the children should attend the meeting.
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  "The Calendar of Jehovah God"

  by cabasilas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1935 saw the brief attempt by jehovah's witnesses to adopt a new calendar freed from any connection to other religions or with names derived from paganism.

  the 1935 yearbook published without much explanation a chart showing "jehovah's year of ransom 1903.

  " the yearbook said: "a series of articles in explanation will appear in the golden age.

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  stapler99

  I came across this on another forum and had never heard of it. It's crazy even by JW standards.
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  Scientific Careers and Race

  by Quendi in

  1. social
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  stapler99

  dgp - I was talking about groups as well. Of course not every individual in a group is similar to the average for that group. For example women tend to be shorter than men, but that doesn't mean that there aren't tall women or short men. My understanding is similar to NewChapter's who has explained in more precise terms what we might call a racial trait.
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  Scientific Careers and Race

  by Quendi in

  1. social
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  stapler99

  Just because we find something unpleasant or upsetting doesn't mean that it isn't true. Instead we should base our beliefs on evidence, not emotion. That's what science is.
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  Scientific Careers and Race

  by Quendi in

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  stapler99

  Racial distinctions are a result of varying evolutionary histories between the different races. If appearances can differ by race, it is possible for elements of personality and intellectual capacity to vary as well. So we shouldn't automatically assume that people from different races have the same ability to contribute towards science, even if they are given the same opportunities to. If you do believe that, you need evidence for it.
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  What would be the standing of a born-in who were always there (field work and all) but never baptized?

  by dgp in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may be an elementary question but i was never a jw.. i wonder if such a person can actually exist.. i assume a born-in knows basically all about jehovah's-witnesses by the time he is, say, 16. if he were to postpone baptism, this person would not be in the same situation as a worldly who doesn't know an iota of anything, but would not be a brother, either.

  what would be his real standing?.

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  I wonder how many people would meet this description. I imagine it would be very few who carry on attending meetings, going on service and so on into adulthood.
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  Disturbing new YouTube video showing Anthony Morris's approach to teenage baptism

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if anyone was under the illusion that all baptized jw children become dedicated solely of their own volition, then hopefully this new video should be a wake-up call.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgbjdgoj-u.

  (unfortunately, due to the soundtrack i've chosen, this video is apparently banned in germany.

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  stapler99

  What a fucking prick and what a fucking cult. This needs more exposure so the religion can be seen for what it is.
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  Help with Mathematical Concepts, Not Arithmetic

  by Band on the Run in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my math background is embarassing.

  my public education was very sad.

  although i received good grades in college track math courses, i never understood the underlying ideas or motivations.

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  stapler99

  breakfast of champians - does || mean the "or" operator? If so:

  Would like to prove A || C.

  If A, then A || C.

  Otherwise, assume ~A (not A). Then A || B implies B. Then B along with ~B || C implies C. And C implies A || C. Quite simple.
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  Jonathan Edwards loses his faith

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-435374/olympic-champ-jonathan-edwards-insists-marriage-intact-despite-christianity-crisis.html.

  the author of the article makes the comment:.

  "he has a deep, theological comprehension of the bible, making his spiritual meltdown even more unlikely.".

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  stapler99

  It's an old story but I didn't know about it. I always find it surprising when somebody of his age loses his religious faith.
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  Bro. Lett (Governing Body) borrowed illustration from an outspoken WT critic

  by fugue in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we're discussing this over on jwr:.

  http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12805.

  a jdub has posted a video of a talk that stephen lett, a member of the governing body, just gave at a special assembly day in iowa.

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  stapler99

  The version of the bird sharpening its beak goes back at least to Grimms' Fairy Tales:

  There was once on a time a shepherd boy whose fame spread far and wide because of the wise answers which he gave to every question. The King of the country heard of it likewise, but did not believe it, and sent for the boy. Then he said to him: “If thou canst give me an answer to three questions which I will ask thee, I will look on thee as my own child, and thou shall dwell with me in my royal palace.” The boy said: “What are the three questions?” The King said: “The first is, how many drops of water are there in the ocean?” The shepherd boy answered: “Lord King, if you will have all the rivers on earth dammed up so that not a single drop runs from them into the sea until I have counted it, I will tell you how many drops there are in the sea.” The King said: “The next question is, how many stars are there in the sky?” The shepherd boy said: “Give me a great sheet of white paper,” and then he made so many fine points on it with a pen that they could scarcely be seen, and it was all but impossible to count them; any one who looked at them would have lost his sight. Then he said: “There are as many stars in the sky as there are points on the paper; just count them.” But no one was able to do it. The King said: “The third question is, how many seconds of time are there in eternity.” Then said the shepherd boy: “In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over.”

  The King said: “Thou hast answered the three questions like a wise man, and shalt henceforth dwell with me in my royal palace, and I will regard thee as my own child.”

  http://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/the_shepherd_boy