Posts by Slidin Fast

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Science and Watchtower's astounding ignorance

by Diogenesister in

well these goof balls at jwbroadcast apparently think the study of pure science means not having any "practical application".

oi vey.

sanderson may speak russian but he is so ill educated he appears to think that researching a subject and formulating a theory about it means that's the end of it - in other words he's saying it has no practical use.

Slidin Fast

This is the most breath-taking example of complacent ignorance I can remember. At least since the last one from the same source.

One of my favourite programs is the BBC's The Life Scientific, it interviews scientists, looks at their achievements, and hears of their lives and path to making the breakthroughs they have made. However for everyone at the sharp end of these sucesses there are thousands who's work will never be directly world benefiting. Without those though we wouldn't have the other.

Professor Martha Clokie is studying hospital acquired bacterial infections and how viruses can be used to fight them. Yes you effing tit, yes you Mark Sanderson, these infections kill hundreds of thousands per year. The evolution of these bacteria is making antibiotics ineffective. If you had your way, they would have no one to understand them, far leas fight them.

Professor Elizabeth Fisher spent 13 years trying to get a human gene into mice. What a useless life? Oh! It's to help study motor neurone disease.

For anyone in the UK, this series,The Life Scientific,is refreshing. food at the proper time. I recommend it.

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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

by minimus in

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she certainly is passionate about climate change.

🤔.

Slidin Fast

But she is better at preaching.

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Can someone compare the midweek meeting now to what it was say in the 60`s - 80`s ?

by smiddy3 in

i can`t believe the tidbits i`m finding out about the changes ,dumbing down of the meetings i used to attend and participate in up until the late 1980`s ...

Slidin Fast

neat blue, you are right, there is still opportunity on occasion. One problem is that there are very few talks now, especially for a none "appointed man" like me.

I get an occasional bible reading, not much room for creativity there although come to think I've had some fun with pausing and emphasis. Other than that there are sometimes presentations, 2 or 3 minutes. I always do those extemporaneously, unrehearsed. I've had some fun with those also. It frightens the householder to death. The cong loves it. They like a bit of entertainment.

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Can someone compare the midweek meeting now to what it was say in the 60`s - 80`s ?

by smiddy3 in

i can`t believe the tidbits i`m finding out about the changes ,dumbing down of the meetings i used to attend and participate in up until the late 1980`s ...

Slidin Fast

I go armed with my trusty iPad. I open the approved app on which every word of the meeting content is provided. (This doesn't require much disk space). Then I open my Kindle app and lose myself in the latest book I am reading.

Yes as a locked in PIMO, these meetings are at least tolerable. Every now and then I stick my hand up and read a scripture. I sometimes answer but only perhaps on a factual matter or my own spin on something, never the party line.

By contrast, in times gone past there was some meat to look at. It may have been rancid and full of poison but it did require some "research" and mental exercise. Talks were the product of your own research and could be laced with your own creativity and imagination and could thus be quite enjoyable. Now, they are totally a rehash of the provided material, no deviation, no individual flair. Without Kindle I would despair.

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JW's revelling in their online statistic...

by The Fall Guy in

...that their web site is the most translated in the world.. https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-website.php.

do jw's genuinely believe that statistics prove divine backing?

you can fool some of the people some of the time...there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!.

Slidin Fast

Yes and according to today's WT that results in 230 BS requests a day. Yes I said BS.

That number seems pathetic to me. 83,950 per year. That would include all sorts of none serious, phantom or prank requests and of course one a small percentage of those starting a study would get to baptism. I think I would have kept that little bit of info to myself.

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"Get Over It!"

by The Bethelite in

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this is what my children tell me... get over the whole jehovah's witness thing!

yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and i need to also.

my exgirl friend who was raised as a jw also has said the same thing.. my children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities.

Slidin Fast

I started to try and respond to this last night, you deserve encouragement so here goes.

There is a route through it. Of course, living in the past, obsessing over it and having no other interest or motivation in life is not healthy. The life lived, the sum of our experiences however is who we are. We can't pretend it didn't happen or didn't affect us.

Somewhere, there is healthy and a positive outlook on life. I think that your kids recognise that and are trying to help you look forward a little. I read your book, I think it will help all who read it but try to look forward and build something for yourself now.

So, you don't have to get over it, but you can get on with it. We all know the selfish bastards suck the life out of people, now is the time to be a little selfish and look after yourself.

The first thing people who go and serve in refugee camps learn is that they don’t give their sustenance to others even though they may be starving, what good are you to others if you succumb yourself. You have written painful accounts of your own experiences, they helped me, and I am sure, others. So, it is not selfish to look after your own mental strength. Try to understand how you have helped others by looking back but now you need to look forward.

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Great Crowd and a pair of elephants, invisible.

by waton in

for lurkers: current study article 1st december wt.

in sept. study edition.

details hidden in the discussion: a pair of 'elephants in the room', and their calves.

Slidin Fast

Of course, that thinking was influenced by two incorrect assumptions: (1) that the great crowd would reside in heaven and (2) that the great crowd would be made up of less zealous Christians."

And (3) They know WTF they are talking about

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Leprosy, WT and Witchcraft

by Slidin Fast in

the book study this week dealt with jesus and the 10 lepers.

we have long been told that the isolation of lepers was an application of scientific wisdom long before it was understood in any other context.

well, yes it could be said that this quarantining did help protect those uninfected.

Slidin Fast

The book study this week dealt with Jesus and the 10 lepers. We have long been told that the isolation of lepers was an application of scientific wisdom long before it was understood in any other context.

Well, yes it could be said that this quarantining did help protect those uninfected. However, it is now known that extensive contact is necessary io transmit the disease to others.

How the following precautions help I'm not sure. '"his garments should be torn and his head should be left ungroomed and he should cover over his mustache and call out, ‘Unclean, unclean!" Lev 13:45.

The idea of loving provision for the sick doesn’t seem to have be very well understood back then. These unfortunate people shunned for no fault of their own were further condemned by Jesus it seems for forgetting to say thankyou when this was reversed.

Anyway, back to Leviticus. Right, it’s OK. When you are better, there is a procedure to ensure your cleanness. Just see the priest, get a couple of birds, use one living one to spray the blood of the other unlucky one (with some scarlet and hyssop) over you, sleep outside your tent for a week and you should be fine. Phew, that’s all right then.

So when the WT in all its wisdom said the following last year the nonsense and witchdoctor cures contained in Leviticus are worth examining. You can't claim that the text is written by the god of the universe when it contains a germ of wisdom on one hand without questioning the superstitious claptrap on the other.

MEDICINE
THE BIBLE, THOUGH NOT A MEDICAL TEXTBOOK, CONTAINS SOME PRINCIPLES THAT REFLECT ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH.
Isolating sick people.
The Mosaic Law prescribed keeping people with leprosy separate from others. Not until the plagues of the Middle Ages did medical doctors learn to apply this principle, which is still deemed effective. Leviticus Chapters 13 and 4

wp18 No. 1 p. 6

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How to make donations via the internet on JW.org

by eyeuse2badub in

holy shit!

i went to the meeting on thursday night to hear my grandson and my daughter give their "talk" on the misery school!.

the very first part on the next meeting that follows the misery school was a 15-20 minute part, with a video of course, on the many ways to donate money to the wt!

Slidin Fast

Couldn't agree more. if you need an emetic from the pharmacy, save your money and watch that video.

Give us your money, your estate when you die, your property and any stocks or bonds you may have around. All preceded by how the WT support those made homeless by natural disasters.

Heart-warming, yuk.

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Anthony Morris looking for members with construction skills..Now and after Armageddon

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

here is a screenshot from a youtube video (521 and the circus continues) where anthony morris blasts post-secondary college & university education.

''we will not need doctors or lawyers after armageddon.

so, anthony...what occupations do the society need '' today'' and after armageddon?

Slidin Fast

Certainly need lawyers now.