I think that telling people that your studies were online is NOT the best strategy in many cases, but since many colleges are hitting hard times, online programs can only get more popular. As for exclusively distance institutions, I would rather have a degree from the University of South Africa than the University of Phoenix, because it started out as the distance education division of Oxford, and because very few Americans know it is a 95% distance institution with students all over the world.
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Online Higher Education
by SonoftheTrinity insince the faithful and discreet slave class now opposes higher education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', i wonder what their take is on online education.
let's remember that distance education was pioneered by fundamentalist saudi arabia and apartheid south africa for the very reasons that the jehovah's witnesses criticize higher education.
my wife is one of the faithful and i fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up.
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STOP calling JW's a CULT--unless . . . they fit the checklist!
by Terry init is unkind, premature and even irresponsible to label people with whom we disagree using pejorative names.. for example, labeling a movement as a cult.. consider this example:.
sociologists d. bromley and a. shupe once described what they called the tnevnoc cult.
membership was open only to women, who were required to shave their heads, change their names, and wear specific clothing once they had entered the group.
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SonoftheTrinity
Being a member of the Rastafarian community, I would say that we are labelled as cultists by society at large more than Jehovah's Witnesses which is unfair, but at the same time interesting. Perceived antinomianism, which is the opposite of the situation with the Jehovah's Witnesses, can get a religion labelled as a cult too. The different Rastafarian Orders (Nyabinghi, Boboshanti, Twelve Tribes) which resemble Fraternal Lodges more than Churches, vary in doctrine so much that the only thing that keeps them under the same umbrella is a vague patriotic and cultural unity. We are a cult because we love to start house and storefront churches that throw all night rent parties where everyone is invited and not all our square neighbors appreciate our Jerichoesque exuberance. Having values which are at odds with the rest of society doesn't make a religion a cult. Authoritarianism, where absolute power corrupts absolutely, is.
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Online Higher Education
by SonoftheTrinity insince the faithful and discreet slave class now opposes higher education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', i wonder what their take is on online education.
let's remember that distance education was pioneered by fundamentalist saudi arabia and apartheid south africa for the very reasons that the jehovah's witnesses criticize higher education.
my wife is one of the faithful and i fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up.
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SonoftheTrinity
Since the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class now opposes Higher Education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', I wonder what their take is on Online Education. Let's remember that distance education was pioneered by Fundamentalist Saudi Arabia and Apartheid South Africa for the very reasons that the Jehovah's Witnesses criticize higher education. My wife is one of the faithful and I fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up. She already approves of technical education, especially since our boys have both shown an interest in auto mechanics. I've thought about giving them a 6 week learning vacation when they graduate high school at the Barnett School of Bicycle Repair might get them an assembly job where they don't have to deal with annoying people as much as a service job when they graduate. Plus at least for 6 weeks they will know what it is to be young wild and free. Lord knows by the time they graduate high school they will realize how annoying the JW world is for a young black man and that annoying people in your professional life will only bring more stress. Perhaps if they can meet someone within the Organization with the same professional interests they can be study buddies in online university. I have taken online courses and that is the main drawback, that it is too easy to give in to pressure to do things other than study, so a study buddy in the same program of online education is essential. Through online education we can save money, avoid so-called 'bad associations' and the Elders are none the wiser. At least Apartheid and Wahhabism were good for something.
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Any members here from Cornwall, UK?
by quellycatface incompletely understand if you don't want to reveal yourself.
pm if you want to.. i was in a congregation in cornwall for 4 1/2 years, you see.. .
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My namesake is Cornish, so I guess that makes me Cornish-American.
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Should Jehovah Witnesses have Cats?
by RAS innew light!.
there are numerous reasons why a loyal dedicated servant of god should use his bible-trained conscience to arrive at a proper understanding of why cats are not advisable as pets or companions for christians.
consider, then, the following facts: .
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Your parody comes across as a straw man. I thought it was real. I live in an area with a large Muslim population and some schools of Islam forbid keeping dogs in the house so what with Jehovah's Witnesses being so extreme about some things what you wrote made me think it was really a Watchtower publication. You Got Me!
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Raising Children in more than one language
by SonoftheTrinity ini recently told my wife that i am speaking only in the jamaican dialect from now on in my house because she has failed to teach her children her native language because she has put religion first, manners and discipline second, their education third, and her native language somewhere at the bottom.
while i am not jamaican, nor have i been to jamaica i lived in a jamaican rastafarian community as a rastafarian.
i am now orthodox christian as are many rastafarians and i still consider myself culturally rastafarian but no longer identify with their heresies.
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Zakharijah does she speak Broad Scots with her friends or is she growing up in a more English speaking community?
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Serena Williams, has she peaked at 32
by designs inserena got her earliest exit at wimbeldon.
still ranked #1.. for athletes at this level of play are the 30s where the wear and tear start showing.
seems with the french open and now wimbeldon there are a new young crop of top athletes beating the seasoned pros.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsox35ca1so.
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This is my thing. I want the world to be my stepkids oyster so that they can rise as high as their dreams take them, so they can be a Serena Williams if they want to. I mentioned them because they were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses. But as a Stepdad its not my call, and I can't push them to achieve. Only challenge them to rebel. If I can't be the spiritual leader, I must be a spiritual trickster to steal my wife's legacy (her passing down the JW religion) from her just like Jacob did to Esau in order to save them. There is a kind of trickery that is righteous.
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Party in the kingdom hall!
by StephaneLaliberte incheck it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.
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Give them a break. One thing any ex-JW must know is that freeing up is a process. If the JWs would free up I wouldn't have such a problem with them. Remember this is Minnesota. Maybe if they had kept it real and done Kingdom Song in a Happy Funtime Polka rhythm they might have come across as a little more genuine and they would have kept the rhythm better. The Bible talks about Spiritual man and Natural Man and Paul disparaged the Natural man, but music is where the Spiritual and the Natural become one, just as Christ's Divine and Human nature are one. The Kingdom songs as they are arranged are soulless which seems intentional as Jehovah's Witnesses don't have immortal souls like Jews, Muslims, and Christians. They are happy they will survive armageddon, and I am happy that I am superior to them because I have an immortal soul but they don't have immortal souls because they sold them to Witchtower for a bill of false promises that they spinned out of a bad translation. The no beard policy is proof positive that the don't really worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and that their men have no souls. I truly hope that Jehovah saves his people from their leadership and gives them their souls back from the devil who is clearly doing the worst cosmic copywrite violation of all time through the Witchtower Organization.
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Raising Children in more than one language
by SonoftheTrinity ini recently told my wife that i am speaking only in the jamaican dialect from now on in my house because she has failed to teach her children her native language because she has put religion first, manners and discipline second, their education third, and her native language somewhere at the bottom.
while i am not jamaican, nor have i been to jamaica i lived in a jamaican rastafarian community as a rastafarian.
i am now orthodox christian as are many rastafarians and i still consider myself culturally rastafarian but no longer identify with their heresies.
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I recently told my wife that I am speaking only in the Jamaican Dialect from now on in my house because she has failed to teach her children her Native Language because she has put religion first, manners and discipline second, their education third, and her Native language somewhere at the bottom. While I am not Jamaican, nor have I been to Jamaica I lived in a Jamaican Rastafarian community as a Rastafarian. I am now Orthodox Christian as are many Rastafarians and I still consider myself culturally Rastafarian but no longer identify with their heresies. I don't chat Jafaican like some Brixton kid, I chat Jamaican Iyaric Patois, and now that the Bible has been translated into Jamaican (which makes it more of a language and less of a dialect) and available for free on the Bible.is app for both ipad and android I feel reenergized to speak it after all these years since I can't well speak the Jacobean register of the KJV around the house in more than little phrases. The dumbed down stilted and hypercorrected 4th grade Textbook English they use in the meetings (so that everybody can understand) and in all their social activities carries over to real life and is making my kids STUPID. If my wife isn't teaching them her native language I'm speaking only Patois around my house, because if a mans home is his kingdom, and as a mere figurehead king if I can't decide the state religion, this king can at least change the language, especially if the vocabulary is 3/4s the same as Standard English. I know that some people may say that I shouldn't speak a dialect because it might cripple their grammar, but they are already have good grammar at 9 and 10. I speak fluent Spanish, and I will probably also switch to only speaking Spanish if at some point either of them enrolls in it as long as that one is in it. What is it about Jehovah's Witnesses and using the acrolect ALL THE TIME? Its as if 'ain't' were as bad as the F word! As a polyglot, that offends me, and polyglots are smarter than grammar school teachers. As a polyglot I understand the power of language and the power it is exerting on my wife and children, vis-a-vis both worldly media and the Witchtower media and I'm doing something about it!
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If you had the audience of the GB, what is your #1 question you would ask them?
by Darth Fader The Sequel inthere are a million of them and mine is by no means the most important question to ask them if i only had one shot at it.
but, i have always wondered what kind of bs excuse they would give as an answer to this question: "brother goober bum, given that there are both male and female partakers here on earth who claim to be of the 'anointed' and plan on being of the 144,000 ruling with christ in heaven for eternity........ why are the female 'anointed' treated as submissive, second class citizens and why is their opinion on doctrinal matters, matters of teaching and reproving, anything at all.... why are they not recognized while here on earth even though you claim that jesus has selected them to become angels to rule with him?
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Yo Data Dog, them GBs ain't no Heebies! They were were not with him the first so they could not know him now! Them empty suits may be a puppet show, but Jah ain't they puppeteer! I ain't no conspiracy theorist thanks to snopes, but IMHO them name a Witchtower.