If it was standard practice for them to acknowlege their mistakes and apologise for them, then they would have a measure of my respect. At this point, after all of the previous evasive maneuvers and sidestepping from responsibility, no ammount of apology would regain my respect.
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Apologies From The Watchtower Society
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-size: 20px; font-family: arial; color: #0066cc; } .style2 { font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; color: #0066cc; } .style3 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } --> apologies from the watchtower societywhat if the watchtower bible and tract society owned up to its mistakes .
how would you react to it?
naturally, this is all speculation because the .
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my first pledge of allegiance
by BlackSwan of Memphis intoday was parent day at jun's preschool.. and they do the pledge of allegiance.. it was funny because i was stumbling through it trying to remember it.. in all honesty, it wasn't a moment where i thought oh yay!
it was more like, eh, whatever, it's a flag.. .
it was interesting.. .
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Lumptard
I still can't say the pledge....not for any religious reason, though...just because I don't support the policies of the current administration.
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How would you react if someone at the hall called you by your username here
by JH in2 years ago, i went to a meeting and the brother talking in the front said that the internet was full of dirty rats..... he was looking at me when he said that.
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Lumptard
eh...it could happen, but it'd prolly be like seeing an elder at an adult bookstore...it's like, "yeah you caught me, but what are YOU doing here?"
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How polite are you?
by JH inoften i'm following someone into a building and entering the same door, and most of the times, the person in front won't even try to keep the door open so that it wont close in my face.
knowing that someone is right behind me, i'll even wait a second or two and hold the door open for that person.
i guess it has to do with being well educated.
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Lumptard
I'm always polite to my bartenders...
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The original sin
by onacruse inthis is a question i've had for a long time.. according to the biblical account, adam and eve's sin was to eat fruit from the forbidden tree.. now, ordinarily, when we get caught doing something "wrong," we try to hide the "offending" member (the child tries to hide his hand that has the 'stolen' cookie; we hurriedly try to pull our pants back on when mom walks in unexpectedly while we're masturbating, etc.)..
so, if the "sin" of adam and eve was eating a forbidden fruit, then why wasn't their first impulse to hide their hands?
or to wipe off their mouths?
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Lumptard
Our creator is the God of truth. If we can't believe the Bible, what else is there that we can go on? My belief in God's Word allows me to keep my bearings and make a more sensible life for myself. The more I believe it's true, the better my life gets. To me, it's about sanity.
Our creator is the God of truth.
Again, only if you presuppose that the bible is accurate in its description of "God"
If we can't believe the Bible, what else is there that we can go on?
Hmmm....How 'bout science, confirmed history and logic?
My belief in God's Word allows me to keep my bearings and make a more sensible life for myself. The more I believe it's true, the better my life gets.
Good for you....doesn't prove that the bible is true, though...all it proves is that you prefer living according to the bible. If a person prefers to get it on with men, shoot heroin, and rob people, then living by the bible wouldn't make their life "better." "Better" is a term that is relative to personal preference.
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Question for faders (past and present)
by IsaacJS2 ini was just wondering why people fade instead of just quitting right away.
going inactive isn't enough to get dfed, is it?
i was never dfed, though my meeting attendance had been on again off again for months before hand.
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Lumptard
Fading keeps lines of communication open in your family....I recon that is the main reason....to avoid shunning by your family.
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Such a simple question
by 5thGeneration inan elder friend just asked me the most simple question.. "if you had all the power, would you still let the world be like this?"..
i answered "of course not".. then he just said "hmmm"..
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OK.
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Dun Dun Dunnnnnn!!!
by Lumptard inhad a dream last night about my self righteous step dad's jw ramblings...talking about things that didn't make any logical sense.....then i woke up, looked at my clock and it read 6:07 on the dot.....just thought it was kinda funny.
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Lumptard
What would you have done if it said 4:20?
Gone back to bed.
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Who is really considered a Jew?
by Justahuman24 ini've been told by a lot of jewish people - and have read on-line too - that a jewish person is considered jewish only if his/her mother was jewish; that once "jewishness" is passed on through the mother.
now if that is true, then how come the jews consider solomon, moses' sons, david and others mentioned in the bible - and who were important characters too - to be jewish?
ruth wasn't jewish and she was david's grandmother.
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Forgive my ignorance, but what was Ruth, if not jewish?
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Dun Dun Dunnnnnn!!!
by Lumptard inhad a dream last night about my self righteous step dad's jw ramblings...talking about things that didn't make any logical sense.....then i woke up, looked at my clock and it read 6:07 on the dot.....just thought it was kinda funny.
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Greendawn:
Your dream was telling you how nonsensical the dub doctrines are and waking up at 6:07 should reinforce the dream message since that (607BC) is one one of their very erroneous doctrines. But was it a coincidence that you woke up at that time?
That's more along the lines of why I thought it was funny....like it was reinforcing the subconcious/concious thought that WTS teaching is B.S....and yes, it is unusual for me to wake up that early...