Posts by Half banana

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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".
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
1. jw
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.
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
1. jw
2. friends
wow lepers could at least cry out unclean unclean
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!
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.
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.. ....
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.
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.
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Clarifying This Weeks Watchtower...CTR Reference
by freemindfade in
1. watchtower
2. bible
what the sunday watchtard said.... in 1876, an article written by charles taze russell was published in the magazine bible examiner.

that article, gentile times: when do they end?, pointed to 1914 as a significant year.

the article linked the seven times of daniels prophecy with the appointed times of the nations spoken of by jesus.. what gentile times: when do they end?
Half banana

Lemonparty, a very good answer you gave at the WT study! The magazine was ambiguous but you clarified it and you might have sown some fertile seeds of doubt.
"Jehovah helped his people to understand the timing of events". (WT)
If one were to examine the subject in hand; its purpose, like all WT drivel, is meaningless self congratulation and reassurance. The participants being Jehovah and his people. Jehovah spoke to "his people" did he? Why then did he give them the wrong information? The wrong date? The wrong events? The same information has been brought forward repeatedly to cover the embarrassment of the wrongness of the Watchtower information and they never get anything right!
Jehovah and "His people" are both in fairyland.
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Introducing Myself
by Peony in
1. jw
2. experiences
i've finally got round to joining the site (after over 2 years lurking!

i was born into jws, pioneered for 10 years (met my husband at pioneer school).

had health issues that saw me catapulted away from 'the centre of the cong' and wow what a different place that was!
Half banana

Hi Peony, welcome here and welcome to the real world! Along with others; it's so good you escaped with hubby. Greetings to him too. Actually I live just outside Oxford as well... (a beautiful city and a lovely part of the country!).