Erratum, should anyone ever read this thread...the giant elk had antlers up to 3.65 meters wide or 12 feet.
Half banana
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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.
by fulltimestudent ini'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.
as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.
and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).
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The Anal Retentive Biblical Jehovah
by Brokeback Watchtower infreud came up with the idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anal_retentiveness.
i would like to sight some examples of a anal retentiveness of the biblical deity.. the garden of eden and the death penalty for eating a fruit, which by the way was passed on to all future offspring requiring an anal retentive jehovah to provide a suitable sacrifice of his only begotten son to correct the situation and thus make it possible for forgiveness from the big guy and remove the death curse.. working on a saturday= death penalty.
mandatory blue thread and fringes on all israelite garments.. death penalty for touching the ark of the covenant to prevent it from tipping over.. exclusive devotion only to be given to him, bowing to other gods/idols forbidden.. grows hot with anger and becomes violently enraged killing off all kinds of human and animal life with a flood when humans not living the way he feels is right.. threatening to tread on mankind like a mighty man crushing grapes under his feet when pissed off.. loss of self control when pissed off over insignificant trifles.
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Half banana
Jehovah is the anal retentive par excellence and in their attempt to be gods themselves the governing body try to be likewise.
I would also add a few other damning characteristics which they exhibit: manipulative, pharisaical, plank in the eyes, hypocritical, deliberately ignorant narcissists.
Still-- their mothers probably loved them.
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Everything I once knew as a JW, is now wrong.
by fulltimestudent injust had 2 nice witnesses at the door.
without boring you with all the to-ing and fro-ing.
i invented a friend who became a witness back in the early 1950s, this friend tried to get me to become a witness, because his teachers father (a leader in that congregation) told him that the big a was coming in 5 years (which was true).
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Half banana
As you say FTS, JWs are no longer knowledgeable. Dumbing down is needed because the more educated people are, the more likely to spot the logical errors which the JW religion is built on such as believing that the Bible is the infallible word of God.
There are two new factors to be reckoned with today, the first is that the educational level of the average youngster in the first world is much higher that in the previous generation. Secondly there is the availability of information on any subject at the touch of a few computer keys. This mass of information also accounts for the proliferation of fake news and so it still requires a sceptical approach to learning to sift out the rubbish. Witnesses never use the sensible sceptical approach, they are bludgeoned into being gullible by social pressures within the religion.
JW doctrine does not trade in facts at all just airy fairy beliefs. If one belief no longer fits what is credible, JWs claim new (and presumably divine) light and concoct something which more people will believe more easily. The most pathetic and laughable new light was that when Jesus said "generation" he actually meant "overlapping generations"!
By the way don't you think that this particular "new light" must be the marker for the beginning of the end of the JW religion?
This sort of shifting sands approach to "Truth" will eventually wear thin for the majority of JWs and they will wake up to the fact that the org has no fixed dogma, no truth, no revelation, no credibility or authority.
The JW religion does not represent the future, they think along the lines of a past era, the nineteenth century USA Bible Belt to be precise and surely they must go the way of the dinosaur.
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E-mail chains that became doctrine
by paradiseseeker indigimon, pokemon, hello kitty, "waka waka" by shakira... are things that all of a sudden became frowned upon because of a random menopausal jw housewife that read an e-mail chain that said that those things were satanic.
furthermore, we were explicitly warned about pokemon and waka waka from the platform of a district convention.
have you experienced more examples of such mastery of critical thinking?
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Half banana
JW thinking is simplified thinking. Instead of a nuanced appreciation of life's wonders, JW brains have been re-wired to put all ideas into one of two boxes designed by the governing body and they are labelled: GB approved or Satanic.
On top of this childish over-simplification there is the matter of narcissism, the excess of self love to which the governing body attribute all importance to themselves. Notice for example how they have now cornered the market in heavenly rewards! So anything which takes the focus of attention of the flock away from the leadership is bound to be pronounced a bad thing and therefore should be put into the 'Satan' box.
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In case you want to see mass quantities of ignorance / stupidity on display....a dinosaur thread on JWTalk
by sir82 inhttps://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/34840-what-does-the-bible-say-about-dinosaurs/.
amazing how many words can be expended discussing things that people have utterly no clue about..
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Half banana
It's like reading the proceedings of the International Idiots Convention. Its the way adults talk when they have been brought up in a cage without access to the real world.
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2018 Regional Convention program available on JW.borg
by sir82 inhttps://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/convention-program-2018/.
friday.
be courageous and very strong”—joshua 1:7
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Half banana
Just because Satan and the apostates and all the rest of the world are out to get me, doesn’t mean that I’m paranoid..............
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JW Funeral Talk Outline
by Phizzy inhi all,.
a friend has a jw funeral coming up and wants some input if possible, so a copy of the latest outline would be invaluable to him when he talks to the elders, another question he and his brother, neither now jw's, wish to give a eulogy, is this allowed ?.
any advice will be greatly appreciated..
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Half banana
A eulogy might go:
"Fred was a wonderful man, he wasn't the slightest bit interested in his religion in fact he hated it but as an example of what a good chap he was, he went along to the meetings to please Mavis..."
An ordinary church funeral could cope with this truthfulness but not the JW cult.
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What’s the most effective way to wake the largest amount of JW’s up?
by Farmer Jim1 inwhat can one person do to save as many people as possible from this organisation?.
youtube videos?.
mail shots?.
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Half banana
One avenue is for awake elders to take as many friends with them as they exit. Two awake elders working together could probably take out half the congregation if they played it right. I believe seventy or so left the Lethbridge, Alberta congregation after the departure of James Penton.
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Since the Borg is so interested in money why not do the following to keep and gain new members:
by Sour Grapes inmake the taking of blood transfusion a conscience matter since the bible forbids just the eating of blood.. have youth programs for the congregations like basketball teams, baseball teams, etc.. still not allow the celebration of christmas and easter because of the pagan origins, but allow birthdays, mother and father day celebrations.
the cart people currently love baby showers to celebrate the birth of a baby but then they can't celebrate the birth date of the same baby one year later.. only have the best speakers give the talks on sundays.
too many monotone, just read the outline speakers now.. drop the members giving talks during the clam meetings.. allow the jdubs to count time to visit the sick, help the elderly with chores, to visit members in nursing homes.. not have meetings for service on saturday mornings.
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Half banana
Why would anyone want to perpetuate a life-suppressing toxic cult?
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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.
by fulltimestudent ini'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.
as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.
and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).
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Half banana
The likelihood is that dark skin in the climate and latitude of southern England would be unsuccessful as a dominant trait in the population of the time. Before farming was invented humans lived on the very edge of survival, so anything favourable to surviving up to breeding age (teenage) would be passed on as a helpful trait to the species and any unfavourable traits would be bred out of the population.
Dark skin protects from strong sunlight but does not encourage the absorption of vitamin D as pale skin does, so Cheddar man’s family under these conditions would likely result in contracting rickets with leg deformities, due to vitamin D deficiency. This would greatly hamper a hunter’s success in the field. With limited information about his contemporaries we can’t know how typical the blue eyed swarthy man was, although his DNA clearly remains a component of north-western Europeans. However when farming and cheese arrived on the scene dark skinned people could happily have survived under grey northern skies. Cheddar cheese arrived in the 12th century by the way.
Since at 10,000 years ago it was not long past the time of the recent ice age, you could still walk from Denmark across Doggerland to England. Mammoths would have just recently become extinct on your path but you might have encountered giant elk with formidable two meter wide antlers. There would have been pioneer travellers from the east exploring new living space on the western edge of Europe.
There were however earlier human residents in Britain at various sites so this guy is by no means the oldest Briton. There had been Neanderthals living in the caves at Cresswell in Derbyshire followed by modern humans who carved the walls there around 15,000 years ago in fact the last ice age was the first one which Homo sapiens heroically endured. Strangely Neanderthals, who seem to have been cold adapted, died out before the coldest episode began. The average annual temperature in Southern England 18,000 years ago was -3 Centigrade! (“Ice wedge formations” only occur at or below this temperature and I have seen a number of them locally in pits and quarries in Oxfordshire.)
For the record, The 'Red Lady' of Paviland in Goat cave on the Gower peninsular, near Swansea South Wales, is the red ochre coloured skeletal remains of what we now know to be young man who died about 33,000 years ago.
Cheddar man’s forebears appear to have come from the Near East. In Turkey at this time the Mesolithic nomads were building their remarkable sculptured temple like structures at Gobekli Tepe.