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  First Year Without Attending Memorial... And Spouse Is Free Too

  by AnonVet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  sorry for the use of "the spouse" and "s" (for spouse).

  still trying to protect our identities.. well, i started questioning everything about 2 years ago.

  woke myself up.. the spouse wasn't thrilled at all.

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  That's so encouraging Anon Vet, there is nothing like mental freedom after being deluded!
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  Gruesome details in last night's memorial talk

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night's memorial talk in my cong went into graphic gruesome details about the torture of jesus and how the stake killed people.

  i mean medical level graphic description!

  step by step details of each injury and how it killed!

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  Religion feeds off "gruesome".

  The more gore, the more heart wrenching; the higher the emotional level achieved and therefore the effect of being more aware 'spiritually'.

  It's a con trick.
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  Pope Francis: 'There Is No Hell'

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wow, now this is interesting.. in another interview with his longtime atheist friend, eugenio scalfari, pope francis claims that hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear.

  " this is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the catholic church about the reality of hell and the eternal existence of the soul.. https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell.

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  I love this information. There is no greater and more successful religion in the history of mankind than the RC Church and what Papa Francis has said has put a cat among the pigeons. The rest of the magisterium must be in a state of panic! What, declare there is no fiery hell? Good grief! Removing the fear of everlasting hell will take away our very best tool for obedience to the Church.

  JW cult HQ will note with interest the reaction to giving up long held doctrines merely for the sake of reason. . . you lose out on CONTROL which is at the heart of all cult teachings. Whatever happens, the flock must not be allowed think for themselves!
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  Do you remember the time, way back, when people could buy tobacco and would actually inhale carcinogenic smoke sometimes all day long...for pleasure?

  Do you remember when society was stratified with the richest land-owning few lording it over the hard working and poverty stricken majority?

  Do you remember a time when in the USA the Second Amendment allowed everyone to hold lethal weapons because armed militias were thought to be a sensible way to safeguard communities?

  Do you remember how it used to be when crackpot religions held sway over millions of believers who were driven by guilt into doing the bidding of the cult leaders, back in the day before people understood and practiced critical thinking?

  Yeah!.........they were the bad old days.
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  Venus and Freedom, let's remember not to quote the Bible as a reference book. Solomon is a fictional character as are the twelve tribes of Israel and their twelve patriarchs. (Twelve sounds more convincing in a story) This was told to aggrandise the mixed race of nomadic immigrants and exiles who came to live in a desert land so poor that no one else wanted it.
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  Memorial.. To go or not to go

  by Emily1987 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, as some of you will know myself and my husband are in the process of fading.

  haven't been to a meeting since beginning of 2017. .

  we weren't planning on going to the memorial, but last week my mother broke down and said that we have to go to the memorial even if it's the only meeting i go to this year.

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  Wouldn't it be dishonest to give your mother a false hope?

  Tell her and demonstrate that you love her by some other means but it is folly to concede to JW superstitions that by attending the memorial you'll get a free pass at a fictional Armageddon.

  Your clear cut actions may make her recognise there are other things outside of the religion which are more important than the JW beliefs .

  Look after your mum.
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  MPs demand action over Jehovah’s Witness abuse allegations March 26, 2018

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the guardian (uk), monday, march 26, 2018. mps are demanding government action after more than 100 people contacted the guardian with allegations of child sexual abuse and other mistreatment in jehovah’s witness communities in the uk.. “i am extremely concerned, but not surprised, by the allegations of child abuse within the jehovah’s witness movement.

  whenever there is a closed society with an inherent power imbalance, the potential for abuse is there,” said the labour mp sarah champion.. she said she would be raising the issue in parliament and demanding that the government take actionto make sure all children were safe.. alex chalk, the conservative mp for cheltenham, said he planned to raise the issue in parliament, saying it was not just an historical issue but an ongoing child safety concern.. “my instinctive thoughts are that the sheer numbers and seriousness of the allegations coming forward is concerning ... if even half the allegations coming to light are true then it’s clear that an entrenched culture of cover-up and flawed in-house investigations continues to this day,” chalk said.. champion said she was concerned that victims had to report their abuse to elders, without independent scrutiny.. she also expressed concern that abuse claims can only be taken before a committee for investigation if there were two witnesses to it.

  “abuse happens in the shadows, so to ask for a second witness is ludicrous and effectively prevents reporting,” champion said.. read full article:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/26/mps-demand-action-over-jehovahs-witness-abuse-allegations.

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  These are the right words coming from the British government members describing the behaviour of the leadership of Jehovah’s Witnesses:

  “ Whenever there is a closed society with an inherent power imbalance, the potential for abuse is there,” said the Labour MP Sarah Champion.”

  She also declared, “.... to ask for a second witness is ludicrous (in sex abuse cases) and effectively prevents reporting.”

  And according to MP Alex Chalk “...... an entrenched culture of cover-up and flawed in-house investigations continues to this day”

  It is the governing body of JWs who are responsible for demanding thoughtless Biblical injunctions which protect the abusers and then they make matters worse by not giving any serious help or protection for the abused.

  JWs literature always talks about love-- but in practice it is a very uncaring religion.
  
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  If you're expecting a mass exodus anytime soon, FORGET ABOUT IT!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have to make a token appearance at the k.h.

  once a month or so and this week went to a different hall.

  and believe me they are all still totally oblivious to all the negative news about the pedophiles and shunning that have come under scrutiny by the media and other governments.

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  Yes but when the truthful evidence of their dark secrets gets revealed and they wake up to having had the wool pulled over their eyes, they should leave in droves.
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  “Genetic entropy” is twaddle Hooberus.

  It is designed to sound good to those who wouldn’t understand. Entropy is a specific term from physics which is merely applied metaphorically to decay. Genes do not suffer from entropy!

  In the process of evolution if any organism has a genome which can no longer cope with its environment, it simply doesn’t breed and dies off, it’s as simple as that.
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  How old is mankind? The question has to be understood in the context of evolution. This is because humanity evolved from earlier types of human-like ancestor species called hominins and we probably know more about these peoples generally than we do of the very earliest Homo sapiens. The reason being that fossil skeletal evidence is very rare to start with, only by unusual chance conditions will a skeleton ever be preserved and fossilise, and to find the earliest populations of Homo sapiens in a fossilized state will be extremely unlikely but who can foretell what might be found in the future?

  However rare they are to find in the field, there is nevertheless a vast collection of fossil human remains (JW org insists there are very few!) and also there is abundant evidence for their ancient presence by stone tools preserved in caves and settlement sites all over Africa.

  One of the best methods of preservation of human bones has been to find individuals who had the misfortune to suffocate and die in a rain of volcanic ash during an eruption. This chance happening has taken place numerous times in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa which is known as the cradle of mankind. Here, at the pace of a lame snail, the crust of planet Earth has been unzipping itself for aeons creating these murderous volcanic events and then revealing its actions millennia later as the giant cracks open up. In doing so, this tectonic plate activity yields a number of fortuitous gifts to palaeontology in Kenya and Tanzania.

  The first is that the ash from volcanic eruptions at a certain distance beyond the pyroclastic flow can preserve in stone a snapshot as it were of everything which was present on the landscape; footprints, animal tracks, men and beasts. The animal assemblage found in these deposits is important for dating hominins. For example the evolution of members of the pig family (suids) is well documented in the Great Rift Valley and the dates for each species is known as are many other evolutionary lineages of African fauna. A system of relative dating exists, known from the layers of volcanic sediments with earlier animal and human species at the lower layers superimposed by later species progressively revealed in the ascending strata formed mainly from volcanic events. Not only can the stratum containing the hominin and animals be ordered from relative dating (evolutionary sequences) but the matrix material can be radiometrically dated (see Cofty’s excellent recommended reading on the subject by Dr R Wiens).

  On top of that there is another dating method to corroborate the radiometric and that is palaeomagnetism which works very well in airborne volcanic deposits. This is based on the fact that Earth over geological time, for no known reason, reverses its magnetic polarity, the north magnetic pole becomes the south. There are minor reversals within the major reversals which can pinpoint events in time to the dating expert and palaeontologist. It works by the polarity of molecules of sedimentary material containing traces of iron aligning to the prevailing polarity on deposition. By cross referencing all of these dating disciplines against the backdrop of known prehistoric climate epochs; dates emerge.

  The small brained short bipedal hominin called Handy Man (thinks: Fats Domino) alias Homo habilis is considered the first of the genus Homo whose debut was made about 2.5 million years ago and died out around 1.4 million years back. There have been many Homo species following Handy man including the important forerunner of our species Homo erectus who arrived around 1.9 million years ago.

  As scientific evidence emerges there has been a continuous pushing back the date for the earliest Homo sapiens and this year 2018, the evidence looks now that our species has been around nearly 300,000 years. Twenty years ago the fossil evidence was only for 150,000 years, twelve years ago it was 195,000 so the field of scientific endeavour is active in this territory.

  Or did God make man in 4004 BC as Archbishop Ussher decided after calculating events in the Bible?