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  Are JW Children Set Up To Fail In The Real World?

  by PublishingCult in

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  2. beliefs

  would it be reasonable to say that children born and raised in the organization of jw's are being set up to fail in the real world?

  if so, why?

  how?.

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  MY You Tube video has been removed

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. beliefs

  my jaw is on the floor.

  after many years my youtube video about jehovah's witnesses and mind control has been taken off the internet.

  here is what the page says.

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  Apostate Psychology

  by Spade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's only fair that the psychology of apostates be assessed as they're intent on analyzing the psychology of jehovah's witnesses.

  http://www.freeminds.org/psychology/mind-control/mind-control-or-brainwashing.html .

  understanding mind control among jehovah's witnesses.

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  What Are Their Motives?

  by headisspinning in

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  i have a question.

  if jws are a cult, what is the motivation of the leaders?

  what are they getting out of controlling all these people?.

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  One thing the WT got right was the Trinity being false.

  by miseryloveselders in

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  i swear only a fool would believe in such a ludicrous doctrine that all three are one.

  ridiculous..

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  Will Religion Become Extinct?

  by satinka in

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  2. current

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197.

  religion may become extinct in nine nations, study saysby jason palmer, science and technology reporter, bbc news, dallas.

  a study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.. the study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.. the team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.. the result, reported at the american physical society meeting in dallas, us, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.. the team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: australia, austria, canada, the czech republic, finland, ireland, the netherlands, new zealand and switzerland.. nonlinear dynamics is invoked to explain a wide range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part.. one of the team, daniel abrams of northwestern university, put forth a similar model in 2003 to put a numerical basis behind the decline of lesser-spoken world languages.. at its heart is the competition between speakers of different languages, and the "utility" of speaking one instead of another.. "the idea is pretty simple," said richard wiener of the research corporation for science advancement, and the university of arizona.. "it posits that social groups that have more members are going to be more attractive to join, and it posits that social groups have a social status or utility.. "for example in languages, there can be greater utility or status in speaking spanish instead of [the dying language] quechuan in peru, and similarly there's some kind of status or utility in being a member of a religion or not.".

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  Wt Org Like an Animal Pack

  by Satanus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  observing how stranglers and those who get ahead of the wt org are left or get ostricised reminded me of similar dynamics in some animal societies, lions, for instance.

  lions and housecats are the only felines that form groups.

  pack members who get sick or injured and become unable to keep up w the pride are left behind.

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  NEED HELP Proving that 607 BC is false and list of flip-flops

  by doubtful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this post is going to seem erratic to some, but i'm afraid it's the best i can do.

  i can only write on this board during the spare moments i have when my mother is not in the home.

  so i need to get as much info in per thread as possible given the time constraints.

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  Higher Criticism and the WTS

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  i have my idea why the wts waxes so strongly against higher criticism, so i would like to hear the views of others on this matter.. i do not want this thread to degenerate into a discussion on the merits or otherwise of higher criticism, but rather for this thread to explore the reason(s) why the wts has to be so adamantly against it.. as a clue to my own thoughts, i suggest that consideration should be given to the wts's silence -- as far as i am aware (and i am open to correction) -- on the subject of lower criticism (and other forms of analysis).. doug.

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  Have the rules changed for inactive people?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  cause i see a bunch of inactive doing disfellowshipping things and its known by the elders and the elders aren't doing anything because they are inactive.... so, just wondering if the rules have changed, or there is more of a loophole somewhere that wasn't there before?.

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