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  Atheism would not appeared if …

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  · if religions were immune to division.

  · if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

  · if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

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  Bungi Bill

  ....... and if some of us (myself included) are not just totally "Religioned Out"!

  - which is maybe just a more polite version of having had a good, old fashioned "Gutsfull".
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  Elder doesn't know difference between new moon and full moon

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today at the service group the elder leading couldn't figure out which was which.

  he was trying to convince us that the memorial was at the new moon.

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  Bungi Bill

  Well the WTS always liked to say that it required "no special abilities" in order to qualify as an elder!
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  Anthony Morris - The Higher Education Broadcast

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i had jw broadcasting on in the background while i was working, i like to keep up to date with their crap.

  which is strange because when i actually was a jw i hated reading or watching their material.. anyway, on the streaming section, anthony morris comes on screen telling me that higher education is bad and "the better the university, the greater the danger".

  i never would have believed it if i hadn't seen him say it myself.

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  Bungi Bill

  "We wont need doctors or lawyers after armageddon, but we WILL need carpenters and plumbers!!".

  Further proof the bloody fool doesn't know what he is talking about!

  Construction activities also require the services of para-professionals such as quantity surveyors, drafting technicians and survey technicians, as well as professionals such as architects, structural engineers, civil engineers and town planners (these are cited as examples only - the list is by no means an exhaustive one).

  All these professions together contribute a much different set of skills than that which can possibly be provided by even somebody holding an advanced trade qualification.

  For a few brief years during the "quickbuild" kingdom hall era of the late 1980s and early nineties, it seemed like the WTS had finally woken up to that one. If so, then the likes of this bright spark has just as quickly forgotten!
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  Anthony Morris - The Higher Education Broadcast

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i had jw broadcasting on in the background while i was working, i like to keep up to date with their crap.

  which is strange because when i actually was a jw i hated reading or watching their material.. anyway, on the streaming section, anthony morris comes on screen telling me that higher education is bad and "the better the university, the greater the danger".

  i never would have believed it if i hadn't seen him say it myself.

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  Bungi Bill

  They know how important professionals are to their org. They use them all the time.

  Too right they do - and always have done!

  As people would express it down in this part of the world "They ought to be shot with a ball of their own $h#t!"
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  JW apologetics websites.

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lately i have been studying some basic christology and jesus in the old testament and why first christians believed jesus was god in the flesh.

  really interesting stuff.

  i am not really sure if i fully understand it but i do now realize why pastors go to university and bible school for a number of years and also how their beliefs are not just based on a few verses that can be edited in the nwt.

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  Bungi Bill

  Now my question here is when you were in , did you understand the incredibly complex and twisted explanations of the WTS or did those briefcase full of books just make you sleep better at night.
  

  As I said earlier, there was a time when I thought that I did.

  (And we all know what Thought did!)
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  JW apologetics websites.

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lately i have been studying some basic christology and jesus in the old testament and why first christians believed jesus was god in the flesh.

  really interesting stuff.

  i am not really sure if i fully understand it but i do now realize why pastors go to university and bible school for a number of years and also how their beliefs are not just based on a few verses that can be edited in the nwt.

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  Bungi Bill

  Joe Grundy

  The 'unanimity of beliefs' of the 'first christians' seems to me to be a myth,

  I think you just nailed it!

  That is why councils such as that held in Nicea in AD 325 were convened - i.e. to try and establish some common ground.
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  tidbits from recent C.O. visit

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "all people in the world are currently considered enemies of god" gee i wonder where some poeple get the idea that we are an extremist organization.. " jehovahs chariot is moving forward at blazing speed!

  " in what reality is contraction and downsizing moving forward?.

  "it used to be that if a congregation reached 150 publishers we would split into 2 congregations now if we have 2 congs.

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  Bungi Bill

  It has been nearly 25 years since I last attended a kingdom hall during a CO's visit. It sure does not sound like I have missed much!
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  JW apologetics websites.

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lately i have been studying some basic christology and jesus in the old testament and why first christians believed jesus was god in the flesh.

  really interesting stuff.

  i am not really sure if i fully understand it but i do now realize why pastors go to university and bible school for a number of years and also how their beliefs are not just based on a few verses that can be edited in the nwt.

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  Bungi Bill

  B. When you were in , did you think or ever think you understood the bamboozle.

  There actually was a time when I reckoned that I did fully understand the whole piece about the trinity:

  - but that was when I had only heard the WTS's version of things.

  At that stage, I had read everything I could get my hands on that the WTS had written about this matter (heavily laced, as it was, with selected quotations from Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons). Little did I then realise that the concept of the trinity was something fiercely disputed over a period of several centuries during the early Christian era - and definitely not something to be fully comprehended from an eight second TV sound bite (or similar)!

  These days, I identify with the sentiment expressed by Steve2

  I personally could give a tinker's cuss whether the God of the Bible is one, two or three in one.

  Bloody good one!

  
  
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  In the yearbooks, why 'lands' not 'countries'?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why does watchtower say that the 'world-wide preaching work' occurs in x amount of lands, not countries?

  well, i have a theory.

  hear me out.

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  Bungi Bill

  LUHE

  - by Crikey, you may just have a point there, too!
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  Number of Muslims protesting London terrorist attack = ZERO. Number of Muslims protesting forced Mosque closure in France = HUNDREDS

  by kpop in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so it is now two days after another islamic terrorist attack.

  how many muslims are in the streets protesting and condemning this evil?

  how many are marching in all the big cities condemning this in mass protests?.

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  Bungi Bill

  The need is more for surgical precision, rather than a "Kick the Saloon Door Down and Let Drive with the Six Guns" approach is all I was trying to say!