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  "How Awful This Place Can Be!" Life at Bethel by Keith Casarona

  by Dogpatch in

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  remember the video of all the nice dudes who were on the governing body in the 70s?

  (here's a refresher).. well this is what their lives were really like - the same as when i was there.

  by the time it got to the end, all was left was chicken backs.

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  I always thought life in Bethel could be like this:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1iND6vtcE
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  Electronic Radio Biola sold in Awake! magazine for $465 each

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  2. medical

  well, it was actually $35 usd each, but i adjusted for today's purchasing power of us currency.

  see these interesting articles on the most bizarre medical equipment sales scam of all time.... http://www.seanet.com/~raines/biola.html.

  http://www.seanet.com/~raines/abrams.html.

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  This is more funny in portuguese because biola sounds like "boiola". Boiola means faggot, WT selling faggot radios! LOL
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  Personality types and religious adherence

  by EdenOne in

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  i was going through the personality types of the briggs-myers test (take the free test here) and noticed how some types are naturally inclined to follow rules and expect order, while others are inclined towards feelings and emotional appeals, other are naturally inclined to help out others ... what do you think?

  are there certain basic personality types that pre-dispose the individual to adhere to a certain type of religion ?.

  eden.

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  Rebel8, I discovered MBTI last year through a post you mentioned your MBTI type (INTJ) in this thread:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/226778/1/a-grunts-bethel-experience

  Many thanks!
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  JWs and Gog and MaGog...What Gives?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so how does gog and magog pertain to jehovah's witnesses?

  the latter-day battle is described in ezekiel 38-39, and it doesn't mention jehovah's witnesses anywhere.

  the prophet does write, however: .

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  Now JW's must be concerned with Google and MaGoogle.
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  Catholic Cardinal Says Adam and Eve Didn’t Exist

  by His Excellency in

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  2. experiences

  http://consciouslifenews.com/catholic-cardinal-adam-eve-didnt-exist/1127457/

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  There's a first homo sapiens couple but they were born millions of years from one each other, and the "Eve" came first.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam

  They were not created by a god, they were a product of darwnian algorithm (hereditary, mutation and natural selection).

  Evolution or nonchance retention by random mutations.

  We were made from a non conscious process that can make complex things from very simple things.

  But in this century the intelligence emerged from evolution will creat a new kind of intelligence, an artificial intelligence. Then we'll not be the smartest guys around. And the firsts steps have already been taken by the IBM Watson.
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  Personality types and religious adherence

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was going through the personality types of the briggs-myers test (take the free test here) and noticed how some types are naturally inclined to follow rules and expect order, while others are inclined towards feelings and emotional appeals, other are naturally inclined to help out others ... what do you think?

  are there certain basic personality types that pre-dispose the individual to adhere to a certain type of religion ?.

  eden.

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  Actually the subject it's so fascinating that even a kind of cult was made out psychological types. It's called Pod'Lair.

  http://www.podlair.com/
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  Personality types and religious adherence

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was going through the personality types of the briggs-myers test (take the free test here) and noticed how some types are naturally inclined to follow rules and expect order, while others are inclined towards feelings and emotional appeals, other are naturally inclined to help out others ... what do you think?

  are there certain basic personality types that pre-dispose the individual to adhere to a certain type of religion ?.

  eden.

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  For the INTP ones, I'm on an INTP forum and it's very interesting to share ideas with people who have the same personality type. Here's the link:

  http://intpforum.com/index.php?

  I think there's a lot of type-related foruns to any MBTI type.
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  Personality types and religious adherence

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
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  i was going through the personality types of the briggs-myers test (take the free test here) and noticed how some types are naturally inclined to follow rules and expect order, while others are inclined towards feelings and emotional appeals, other are naturally inclined to help out others ... what do you think?

  are there certain basic personality types that pre-dispose the individual to adhere to a certain type of religion ?.

  eden.

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  I'm an INTP.
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  Why does the Watchtower material not capitalize the pronouns in reference to Jehovah

  by I_love_Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "koine greek was the language used by writers of the old testament greek septuagint and the greek new testament.

  the original greek new testament was written in all capital letters, without spaces, punctuation, accents or diacritical marks.".

  http://biblescripture.net/greek.html.

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  Well if they want follow the original. They could not allow a translation. Just like Qur´an you must learn the original language.

  If someone really cares about what the Bible says I think not translate it's the best way to really understand the message.

  Those here who speaks more than one language will understand.

  To those who just speak english please just watch the movie "Lost in Translation". Every translator is a traitor, really.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQnH450hPM
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  Fastest growing Religious group in the USA is "None of the above" it is "No Religion'.

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have anyone read this report published by jonathan.

  turley in oct. 10, 2012 ?

  don't know his credentials or.

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  I think the believe in a god it's a venial sin.

  I think atheists must focus on attacking organized religion. God is a so loose concept that's impossible to direct deconstruction.

  I know the god belief it's what leads people to organized religion, but organized religion it's a objectively defined concept. God is what everyone wants to be, there's no two people with the same god concept.

  Focus must be organized religion. Organized religion must end.

  I think that's exactly the path social evolution are taking, the nature always goes to easiest way.

  The god concept outside a organized religion it's so silly it's innocuos.

  So let the no religion group (atheists, agnostics, independent theists) grow up!

  Let's all of us unite under the big shiny umbrella called no religion group!