so i ask because of all the books, mags and testimonies that the wts promotes.
not only the wts, but many other christians attempt to speak about the bible with authority.
how do we measure who is an authority if we don't know that much?.
There is no such book as the bible.
It is a random collection of books written by multiple authors. They lived in a superstitious pre-scientific world. Some of them had the moral sense of an ISIS warlord. They taught the virtue of genocide, slavery, forced marriage, rape and wholesale baby-murdering.
Arguments about what it all "means" has been the cause of so much hostility in the history of the world. It doesn't "mean" anything.
i haven't been on for quite some time, but i was wondering if you could dispel this for me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a5nd2x8erz0.
there's also video of him in which a woman claims to have been visually impaired and was healed.
Get back to me when a "faith-healer" restores a limb of an amputee.
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
It's astonishing that anybody can write such drivel in the 21st century without embarrassment.
an analysis of watch tower of britain’s last (january 2013) child safeguarding policy by barbara anderson.
last year, i was asked to review watch tower of britain’s child safeguarding policy and its implementation.
what i discovered was depressing and disappointing especially because the policy contained just a single statement (#18) directing elder/trustees on how to protect children in their congregations from avoidable harm - they were to restrict a repentant abuser “…from being alone in the company of children.” the policy did not explain what procedures to follow to assure that abusers would obey that rule.
Thank you Barbara. Marking thread to read carefully later.
so that was a "shocker".
i was not able to attend the meeting.
i had a more important one with my other apostate friends in the area.
I asked a JW on a literature cart in Edinburgh why growth has stopped in the western world. He said it was a sign that they were so close to the end.
I told him that in my day increase was a sign we were so close to the end.
it's time for me to move on.
i would like my leave with a good reason why we should leave j.w.
organisation.. from my son a birthday card:-.
Rebel - Great post. For me the importance of not exposing my children to the cult made it impossible to stay in. Every other consideration was secondary to that.
If you mean you are moving on from the forum then let me wish you well. Would love to meet up some day.
how has offending become the worst crime of the 21st century?
actually, forget being offensive, just telling the truth that may be uncomfortable or offensive.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/717627/free-speech-crackdown-eu-report-british-press-hate-crime-violence-terror.
Incredible how many "gas explosions" there have been around Europe in recent months.
How can a problem be solved unless we name it? ISLAM is the fucking problem!
a recent o.p origins of the universe bought home to me with ovbious clarity that i have no scientific background.
this realization was rather embarrassing for myself to admit, particularly as my child of 11 has began asking some rather intersting questions on scientific matters.
anyway i have subscribed to " scientific america" because i find it a great magazine for those with no scientific background.
It's an amazing resource. Incredible that it is free!
i realize that the anointed class inherits heaven while the great crowd inherits a renewed planet earth, but how and when are the anointed chosen?
are these people born with spirits or do they grow them as they live?
when they die, they don't sleep but go right to heaven, right?
Nobody has a "spirit".
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
He's gotta make a living
$400 per hour is more than "a living".
That $400 is the same amount an 'OK' lawyer would charge (per hour)
He isn't a lawyer or a psychiatrist or a psychologist. He is a "counselor".
he would make sure we all new that was the old one. Buy the new one!
Apparently large chunks of the new one is a copy-paste of the old one.
