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  The Bible and its use of excesses beggars belief ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  how many accounts of the bibles use of excesses can you recall ?

  i will start off with a favourit of mine.. the inauguration of solomons temple and the sacrifices offered .2chron.7 :4-5 , 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep ?

  c,mon.

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  @ Sea Breeze...

  Didn’t Jesus teach almost exclusively using parables and allegories?
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  The WT will now produce a Jesus Movie (Series)

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
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  i'm actually looking forward to their warped view of matthew, mark, luke and john for this.

  the drama from 2015 wasn't that bad.

  however.... yeah steven lett mentions othe films about jesu are plagued with false religion.

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  Tom Ellis as Satan.
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  May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.

  let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.

  france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.

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  "...Brexiteer..."

  Like the Rocketeer, but more political.

  
  
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  Jws failure to protect their vulnerable follower

  by Fadeaway1962 in

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  2. scandals

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545969/amp/jehovahs-witnesses-criticised-failing-stop-devout-followers-plan-stab-wife-49-times.html .

  elder should face some kind of criminal prosecution..

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  Vidiot

  Also remember that the vast majority of these folks were positive that Armageddon was right around the corner, so why bother air the Org's dirty laundry when the New System would solve any problems like that?

  
  

  BTW, something you said before...

  "...a means to protect the image of the organization in the public's eyes..."

  Don't kid yourself.

  At this point, the Org doesn't give a hairy blue fuck about how "Satan's World" thinks of them, and hasn't for a while now.

  It's all about shoring up their legitimacy and authority in the eyes of the membership now, by whatever means necessary (and keeping their tax-exemption to stave off insolvency, IMO).
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  The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

  a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

  13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

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  You had to plan an all-day hike just to take a dump.
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  The WT will now produce a Jesus Movie (Series)

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm actually looking forward to their warped view of matthew, mark, luke and john for this.

  the drama from 2015 wasn't that bad.

  however.... yeah steven lett mentions othe films about jesu are plagued with false religion.

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  JesusVision: A Limited Series (viewer discretion advised)
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  If not the WT/JW relgion where else are 'we' to go? Why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism?

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes jws wonder if the wt/jw is not the truth, 'then where else are we to go?

  ' i say 'why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism and why not a secular philosophy which teaches a way of life?

  ' what do you folks say?.

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  "...where else are we to go?"

  Who says you have to "go" anywhere?
  
  
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  The Bible and its use of excesses beggars belief ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how many accounts of the bibles use of excesses can you recall ?

  i will start off with a favourit of mine.. the inauguration of solomons temple and the sacrifices offered .2chron.7 :4-5 , 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep ?

  c,mon.

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  Rocketman123 - "The bible writers bullshitted for emphasis and self glorification about many things..."

  Even that's saying a bit much.

  All indications are that they never intended books like Genesis to be viewed as literal in the first place.

  They were theological and cultural teaching aids.
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  Watch this, and don’t shoot the messenger...

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. social
  2. current

  hopefully i’m doing this right and it will display for you.

  this is an interview with michael yeadon, former vice president and chief science officer of pfizer.

  of course he has been attacked, slandered, shunned, ect, and this will never be allowed on social media, but he has taken the time to appear in an unpaid interview.

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  "Rogue virologists"...

  otherwise known as the Umbrella Corporation.

  
  
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  I Will Give President Biden Credit

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  he’s really implementing the democrats agenda!

  he’s wasting no time !.

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  Dissilusioned JW - "...during the years I attended college I did purchase a scientific book and science magazines which did have articles in support of evolution and I did read those articles and I did wonder, while reading them, if evolution is true."

  It's amazing how interesting a subject can be when not you're reading about it from a source that's automatically biased against it.

  Looking back, realizing evolution had to be true - and more importantly, that creationists' (including the WTS's) efforts to refute it involved misdirection, semantic pretzel-twisting, and information presented out of context (not to mention ignoring inconvenient information)* - was probably my tipping point.

  
  

  *Once again, for the newbies, lurkers, and trolls...

  ...if you have to cheat to defend your beliefs, your beliefs don't deserve to be defended.