Posts by kurtbethel

word is that up to 33% of the homes have a dvr now- a digital video recorder- and the evidence is that they just don't see any political advertisements.. 10 years ago 41% in the usa read a daily newspaper- today that number is down to 23%.

maybe we will just flip a coin in the ballot booth to make our selections rather than try to wade through the negative political/ pac propaganda to make our picks.. i wonder what campaigns will be like in another 10 years?.

kurtbethel

(Timer started on how long before someone's sense of equal time and fairness forces them to take Kurt's bait...)

There is no bait. It is a rhetorical question. I do not want to watch that nonsense, so I skip through it when watching recorded material.

I suppose someone could answer my question with some bit about me being a masochist. I assure you, I am not a masochist.

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Are Jehovah's Witnesses an American Sect?

by cedars in

this faq was recently added to jw.org.... .

are you an american sect?our world headquarters is located in the united states of america.

however, we are not an american sect for the following reasons:.

kurtbethel

I am just going to address 2 of the 4 lies.

Some define a sect as a group that has broken away from an established religion. Jehovah’s Witnesses have not broken away from some other religious group. Instead, we feel that we have reestablished the form of Christianity that was practiced in the first century.

There are two possibilities with this claim. If the Watchtower is not a sect that broke away from established religion, then it could have existed independently since the first century, or it could be created from scratch. To support the first claim, they would need to demonstrate that there was an organization in the first century that used the name "Jehovah" incessantly, taught that Jesus would return in 1914 to establish his kingdom, and distributed literature door to door promoting that teaching of obeying a governing body in Jerusalem. They would also need to demonstrate the movements of the governing body out of Jerusalem and their migration to eventual headquarters in New York. Failing to demonstrate those, they could show that they set up their religion from scratch without drawing beliefs from any other religions. An examination of their early literature from their first decades show this claim would be false. Instead, it shows a group that derived from certain sects of Christianity, but broke away from it, apostacy is the proper term, to follow their own distinct beliefs.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are active in their ministry in over 230 lands and countries. No matter where we live, we give our primary allegiance to Jehovah God and Jesus Christ, not to the U.S. government or to any other human government.—John 15:19; 17:15, 16.

This is easy to disprove. The corporations that the Watchtower use are incorporated in states in the USA. A corporation is a legal charter, granted by a state, that creates a fictional legal person which is directed by humans who are part of the corporation. States in the USA are human governments. All of the Watchtower corporations got their legal power and existence by an act of the state they were incorporated in. This makes it interesting in view of the Watchtower assertion that human governments are Satan's goverment. Logically, this would make the Watchtower the spawn of Satan. Whatever the view you have about that, it is clearly an American corporation.

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Homes with DVRs don't watch political advertisements

by moshe in

word is that up to 33% of the homes have a dvr now- a digital video recorder- and the evidence is that they just don't see any political advertisements.. 10 years ago 41% in the usa read a daily newspaper- today that number is down to 23%.

maybe we will just flip a coin in the ballot booth to make our selections rather than try to wade through the negative political/ pac propaganda to make our picks.. i wonder what campaigns will be like in another 10 years?.

kurtbethel

Why would I want to see Obama bashing on Romney instead of telling me the benefits of having himself as a president?

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New Trademark (tm)

by bats in the belfry in

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kurtbethel

My days of not taking the Watchtower seriously have certainly come to a middle.

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Daring Aussie Skydiver to Attempt Record-Breaking Supersonic Freefall Monday, Oct 08,2012

by Scott77 in

http://www.space.com/17752-extreme-skydive-from-120-000-feet-animated.html.

kurtbethel

I was fascinated by watching his mom as he jumped. Her face and reactions ran the course of apprehension and fear, then relief as his chute opened up, then tears of joy when he landed.

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Last night was my martyring

by outsmartthesystem in

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it went as expected.

i had multiple opportunities to pounce on their inconsistencies....but i refrained.

because i was recording it.

kurtbethel

I have found questions in Watchtowerland to be pro forma. You ask the questions they give you to ask, and answer them by parroting back the words in that paragraph. Deviating from that will get you in an evasive runaround loop or a bombastic lecture that answers a question you didn't ask. I recorded a lot of it, since whatever the laws are, the Watchtower claims that the preaching work is a public ministry, so I was recording a public event. Just they dare start legal action against me, and then the recordings become a public record with more listeners than my piddling youtube channel would get.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-01-2012 WT Study (CITIZENS)

by blondie in

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carry on as kingdom citizens!.

way we can learn gods law is to study.

kingdom citizens appreciate warnings.

kurtbethel

Pure language? Ha!

Quick, tell me what a "generation" is?

They have a corrupt language.