Posts by stuckinamovement

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The Challenge and the Result

by stuckinamovement in

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i remember being late for my senior year chemistry class.

as i grabbed the last seat in the back of the room i could tell that a boy in my class was engaged in yet another debate with the teacher.

jim was a bright student but he felt that he knew more than mr. roberts our chemistry teacher.

stuckinamovement

Nvr2L8, I thought your analogy was genius. I just couldn't remember who had posted it. Thanks

siam

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The Challenge and the Result

by stuckinamovement in

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i remember being late for my senior year chemistry class.

as i grabbed the last seat in the back of the room i could tell that a boy in my class was engaged in yet another debate with the teacher.

jim was a bright student but he felt that he knew more than mr. roberts our chemistry teacher.

I remember being late for my senior year Chemistry class. As I grabbed the last seat in the back of the room I could tell that a boy in my class was engaged in yet another debate with the teacher. Jim was a bright student but he felt that he knew more than Mr. Roberts our Chemistry teacher. Mr. Roberts had been teaching at my school for the past 40 years and every student loved him, at least everyone but Jim.

Today’s debate was about the chemical reaction between Sodium and H2O. Mr. Roberts had patiently described the explosive effects of combining these two elements as well as the potential damage that this combination could cause. He explained that combining H20 and Sodium can create an explosion that can greatly burn people. Even if you survived the explosion there would be long lasting genetic effects that you could potentially pass on to your children.

Jim outspokenly argued that Mr. Roberts was mistaken, and that it was simply a lack of understanding on Mr. Robert’s part about how to handle the experiment. Jim insisted that the experiment was safe and that new studies had proved that the two elements could be safely combined. Half of the students in the class seemed to side with Jim while the other half sided with Mr. Roberts.

As I observed from the back, I could see that Mr. Roberts was becoming more and more exasperated with Jim’s constant challenges. Finally Mr. Roberts turned to the class and said, “In the interest of fairness, I see that there is only one way to solve this disagreement. Jim please take the lead on this experiment. The sodium is stored in cabinet 4.” “ Since you don’t seem to need my input on this I will be stepping out for the day and will see the class tomorrow, in the meantime, I want everyone to stay for the experiment to determine if Jim is correct in his challenges”

Jim agreed and began to set up for the experiment. He pulled the sodium out of the cabinet and placed in in the vacuum chamber. He then took the water and proceeded to place it in its own vessel. Jim turned to the Class and said “Mr. Roberts just doesn’t understand current chemistry. He is a nice guy but he is misled by conventional thinking. On the count of three I will open this valve between the two chambers. One….. Two….. Three…….”

I lost 15 of my classmates that day in the explosion. 11 of us were badly burned and received skin grafts. The Doctors told the 11 of us that survived that our genes had been changed and that our children and grandchildren would with a certainty have deforming birth defects. Ironically, Jim survived the explosion. As I look in the mirror at my disfigured face I wonder to myself….

· Was it fair for Mr. Roberts to allow the experiment to proceed even though he knew what the likely outcome would be?

· Why didn’t he simply dismiss the challenging student?

· Why couldn’t he have dismissed the rest of the class except for Jim, thereby isolating the damage resulting from the challenge?

· Why did Mr. Roberts allow 15 students to die, and 11 of us be forever deformed in the interest of proving a student wrong?

Was Mr. Roberts simply so insecure in his knowledge and authority that he had to allow death and destruction of innocent bystanders to prove his point?

Special thanks goes to a jwn poster who thought of the framework of this scenario that stuck in my mind.

siam

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New light Watchtower magazine leaked from organization weeks ahead of general release

by cedars in

http://jwsurvey.org/governing-body-2/new-light-watchtower-magazine-leaked-from-organization-weeks-ahead-of-general-release.

if doctrinal explanations are missing from the article, it is because they are also missing from the magazine.. i would like to give my thanks again to my source for supplying me with the magazine article weeks ahead of its scheduled release.

it showed remarkable courage, because risks were taken.

stuckinamovement

Cedars, you are doing an amazing job mate!

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We Believe...A Short primer on Witness Doctrine

by stuckinamovement in

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we believe that 99.9% of earths population will be soon put to death because of their unrighteousness and hatred of god.

this probably means that you wont make it.

sorry bout that.. god is using us to warn the entire world of mankind.

stuckinamovement

Bump

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Watchtower shell game and the Apostate rube who cries FOUL!

by Terry in

in the traditional traveling carnival there is a shell game at work.

the pitchman entices a group of people to watch him place the pea under one of three walnut shells as he hides it and switches quickly first this and then the other shells.

the object of the game is to bet something on where the pea might be.

stuckinamovement

Great post

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The Watchtower Penitentiary

by stuckinamovement in

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learning the truth about the watchtower society can be very painful for a number of reasons.

first, it is so disconcerting to realize that the core of your existence and the foundations of your beliefs are false that it can throw you for a real loop.

as witnesses we are so confident in all of the answers we have been given, to questions that we never asked, that we mentally put ourselves up on a pedestal above the masses of poor, blind, wicked humanity.

stuckinamovement

@2+2=5

indeed the corridors in the watchtower pen are busier than the corridors during the session at a DC.

siam

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Part 1 of the 2013 Conti and Simons interview now on YouTube (questions posed by JWN members)

by cedars in

a while back we ran a "competition" whereby people could pose questions of candace conti and rick simons for them to answer in a video.. there were so many questions that we needed to do a series rather than just one video.

this first instalment is now on youtube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhvfefpig4a.

here are the questions that were answered.... (to rick, asked by "exwhyzee") is there a possibility that part of the ruling, if you overcome the appeal, will be that the society must make an announcement outlining the details of the case to its members, as well as an apology to candace?.