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  Price for Child Abuse

  by vinman in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  how much money do you think the watchtower will have to dish out for this scandal in australia?

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  Half banana

  Since their income seems to be in astronomical figures even if they were required to pay a billion Dollars compensation that would possibly only knock them back a year or two before they recovered. They would just have to keep construction projects on hold for a bit longer or sell off more of their vast property portfolio.

  What would be more hurtful to them would be to receive exposure in the world media for their uncaring attitude for the victims of child abuse and the arrogance in dealing with it "in house".

  To really hurt this cult will require enormous amounts of bad publicity over a long period of time, then to have most of their money spent on claims against them and thirdly a dramatic drop in the number of followers.
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  Theory of Evolution and humanity are moving in parallel, and in opposite direction too!

  by iconoclastic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  proponents of evolution theory was comfortable with their easiest method of induction that says something like this: i saw a blind man in the us, then in russia, then in australian, then in africa ..., hence all men are blind.

  yet proofs are abundant for the decline (opposite of evolution) we experience globally!.

  1) most humans declined into greed, the result of which is climate change which has the potential to wipe out all life from the earth.

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  Half banana

  Iconoclastic, why not go on a course of critical thinking? Scepticism is the best approach to assess information.

  When you write something ask questions like; is this really true? Is there concrete evidence for this? Is the evidence from a reliable source? Are there arguments which would invalidate this statement? Is my argument internally coherent? Is that evidence falsifiable? If it's not, it's not worth being called evidence, a good example of an unfalsifiable statement is, "God is love", it is thereby rendered to be a mere assumption... on which nothing more can be built.

  When dealing with theorems such as evolution we can ask; Does this statement, or mine, agree with the scientific method i.e peer reviewed by other scientists and does it have have the ability to be replicated to test for its truthfulness? For there is no better way of determining something as being true than the scientific method, unless you have found one?

  You have many crossed threads in your post such as making evolution responsible for the cultural societies of Homo sapiens. If you want to make this link you have to demonstrate that evolution is true or false in the first place and then illustrate the connection. If you are trying to make a logical argument or statement you must remove personal bias and emotion from it.
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  New convention theme

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just wanted to post here real quick, as many have joked about it.

  we had an announcement in our cong last week about the upcoming one day assembly.

  the title of the assembly is "imitate jehovah".

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  Half banana

  "Imitate Jehovah"

  What!-------------- become an invisible, ineffectual non-entity?

  Although attributed with love in people's minds, this God has a hair trigger response to heresy, his outstanding features are genocide, xenophobia, homophobia, megalomaniac power, vindictive to his own offspring and indifferent to the sufferings of those who don't worship him in the specific way he prescribes.

  Jehovah or Yahweh is the very last possible thing anyone should imitate. Most humans do far better than Jehovah. Give the assembly a miss!
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  What went through your mind when you saw this Picture?

  by John Aquila in

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  2. experiences

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  Half banana

  Actually "calamari" was the thing which instantly showed on the brain screen, then I thought "giant squid" then; what a horrid WT illustration? Then I thought it's a depiction of a paranoid state of mind and lastly; a nightmare of magic realism. You did ask.
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  Does Good exist?

  by Bugbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  atheists, deists, or believer.....basic philosophic ground .

  either good exist, or has never been, or is dead.

  those are he the three basic premises that we all humans must take a stand to.

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  Half banana

  Bugbear, I think you are not a native English speaker but as Stillin asks do you mean god or good?
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  disfelloshiped treated worse then lepers

  by poopie in

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  2. friends

  wow lepers could at least cry out unclean unclean

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  Half banana

  I think with the recent publicity about JWs and their inability to act responsibly in child abuse cases, it's they who might be feeling like lepers.
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  Buddhism Anyone?

  by LaurenM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i have recently been delving in buddhism and i must say it all makes sense!

  like, the philosophies and ideas are what i've always believed but could never put a name to.

  for example, they don't believe in god, they teach acceptance of all faiths, that peace can be achieved - not by changing other people - but by changing yourself, that everyone has goodness in themselves, that happiness can be gained internally (not externally as a gift from god), and that life is temporary so we should enjoy it!

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  Half banana

  It sounds good just like the promise of paradise did.

  Buddha= Awakened one...the're already a lot of Buddhas around here.
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  Jesus is not Michael the Archangel here is why

  by paradisebeauty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one of the biggest missunderstanding and unbiblical teaching of the jw's is that jesus is michael the archangel.

  here is what proffessor anthony buzzard has to say about this:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqzffyxno0.

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  Half banana

  The intellectual failure present here is that no one is recognising that the subject matter is religious mythology and not a matter of evidential facts. All that is possible to attempt is to make a coherent pattern from the stories of antiquity. The Bible, both Hebrew and NT are the conflation of eclectic pagan myths and by sanctifying them; religious people will look for unity even where it is flagrantly in contradiction. In mythology people and spirits fuse, they morph and become other characters...if your subjects do that: you are in myth territory.

  There can be no orthodoxy derived from them. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
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  Epigenetics and Why Women are Stripey

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  take five minutes to learn something new today.... here is a very brief introduction to epigenetics with an interesting practical example.. ....

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  Half banana

  I don't yet know how useful it is ...but it's good to know that women are stripey! Thanks for info Cofty.
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  Lurker - just joined

  by Je.suis.oisif in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi all, nothing to report just now.

  wanted to add name to list of those awakening.

  been lurking for nearly a year.

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  Half banana

  Welcome to the real world Oisif (I trust you are only idle as far as JWs go!) Looking forward to hearing your story.