i find this an interesting read.. https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/perc.2016.14.issue-1/perc-2016-0003/perc-2016-0003.pdf.
I am African-American, and I recall some of the taboos about menstruating girls and women that were insisted upon by The Ancestors.
For instance, we girls were not allowed to prepare meals during our periods.
That suited me quite fine!
LOL.
Thank you for the information
Sylvia
since we have had so many joining up while others have changed their thinking it doesn't hurt to see where we stand now .. this 20 question test is not the definitive test but it may be revealing or affirming....... find out where your religious or nonreligious comfort range is.. i just took it and my #1 choice was that i was a secular humanist.
being a jw was #24........ way way down the list.. www.playbuzz.com/benjaminbirely10/which-religion-best-suits-you.
you start by clicking on the general statement that is closest to how you think.
Christianity
Sylvia
the superstar of all scriptures.
for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.. .
but i just learned something about it.. i try to look at different translations of the bible and the lexham english bible words it a bit different.... 16 for in this way god loved the world, so that he gave his one and only son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
Try reading it in The Message Bible.
You can do it online.
Sylvia
a fascinating article, with color-saturated imagery.
requested that he not be quoted, so there are no snippets here, just a link:.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070612092219/http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html.
OK, can Google now.
This new tablet is giving me fits!
Those articles are 20+ years, but ring just as true today as then.
Sylvia
Sylvia
a fascinating article, with color-saturated imagery.
requested that he not be quoted, so there are no snippets here, just a link:.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070612092219/http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html.
One of the first anti-JW articles that I read!
Also, JW's And The Theocratic Subversion Of Ethnicity - I believe that is correct - can't Google right now.
I was looking for something else at UNC site and stumbled upon Joel's essays.
The rest is history.
Sylvia
... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.
it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.
they take pride in obedience.
Cofty's conclusion is logical, Fisherman.
You MUST know this!
The WT is bloodguilty due to its discouragement of blood transfusions for its members.
I am exploring a hunch of mine as to how this no-blood nonsense came about in the first place.
I believe it has something to do with Charles Drew, blood banks, and the fear of White people that somehow the blood of Black people would "contaminate" them.
This came about during the pre and post-WWII years - the same time frame as WT's development of its no-blood stance.
Sylvia
i used to love reading metatron's posts.
does anyone know what happened to him?.
dk.
Seems that he last posted 2 years ago.
I also loved reading his posts.
Sylvia
i've seen this in a few posts and not sure what it means.
:) please help..
Come Let's All Molder
Sylvia
jerome over on discuss the truth has picked up on something interesting.. in the july watchtower on page 28 of the article entitled “winning the battle for your mind” the following statement is made “keep in mind that satan does not want you to think clearly or reason things out well.
because propaganda is likely to be most effective, says one source, if people… are discouraged from thinking critically.”.
the quote comes from a book entitled: “media and society in the twentieth century: a historical introduction by lyn gorman, david mclean" the watchtower however, chose to leave out a portion of the quote.. the full quote is "therefore, it is likely to be most effective if people do not have access to multiple sources of information and if they are discouraged from thinking critically.. the following sentence which the watchtower also decided was best not to include states,.
Watch those dots ... !
It is ALWAYS a good idea to check the complete quote.
Sylvia
