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  Thin magazine make you think, is it?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  jw father in law in hospital, this weekend, maybe last days of his life.

  with his last energy he was reading a watchtower magazine for comfort.

  i could understand.

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  Half banana

  Thin Watchtower magazine =

  unappetising religious prattle

  dreary literature for very old religious has-beens

  last evidence for a failed and dying cult.
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  Warwick is an ASS

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  google earth warwick and turn the map upside down.

  it’s as clear as a bell.. i have been looking at satellite images of assembly halls because of the one in denmark being a pagan design of an all seeing eye like on the us dollar etc.. so i said, what the hell does warwick look like from space?.

  question answered.

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  Half banana

  I'll go with the saiga antelope (Days of f p)....... the other connection is that they are both dropping in numbers and heading toward extinction.
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  Humans brought to Earth, not native to it.

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  below i link the article.

  i thought some points on the claim were interesting.

  such as how prolonged direct exposure to sunlight hurts us vs other animals, sicknesses, etc.

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  Half banana

  BW, I did not mean to put you down-- rather to shake you out of old JW assumptions.

  When we leave the cult we are left with little idea of how the world truly works, we have a jaundiced view of most things courtesy of the Watchtower and it does take quite a while to catch up with reality.

  Do keep posting provocative questions!
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  Humans brought to Earth, not native to it.

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  below i link the article.

  i thought some points on the claim were interesting.

  such as how prolonged direct exposure to sunlight hurts us vs other animals, sicknesses, etc.

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  Half banana

  Bad Wolf said:8 hours ago8 hours ago

  Those who think the idea is ridiculous, there is nothing proving beyond of a shadow of a doubt where or what we come from.

  Please learn from this BW, so that in future you question the wording of what you are posting since your opening statement is completely false. You may speak with JWs and other crackpots in these childish terms but you cannot pit such ignorance against the work of thousands and thousands of scientific researchers.

  We do know without a shadow of doubt where we come from: the same planet as our fossil ancestors do and we can even pin point the region on Earth: The Great rift Valley, in Tanzania and Kenya, East Africa.

  Also, we know what we come from, that is who we come from.

  The earliest members of the Homo family are in the region of 2.5 to 2.8 million years old. We also have a succession of fossil species in the geological record from that time leading up to Homo sapiens that is modern humans. Just to hammer home the point, to prove the connectedness, modern humans bear the DNA traces of having interbred with extinct species of the human family, including Neanderthals and a lesser known fossil human species called the Denisovans.
  

  Most educated Homo sapiens today understand this.

  Evidence is evidence, you can discuss why fossil humans are there and how they got there but you cannot dismiss the fact that humans form a pedigree, an evolutionary branch of ancestors found in the rocks on planet Earth.
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  Humans brought to Earth, not native to it.

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  below i link the article.

  i thought some points on the claim were interesting.

  such as how prolonged direct exposure to sunlight hurts us vs other animals, sicknesses, etc.

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  Half banana

  Bad Wolf how then do you account for the geological record with fossil proto humans leading to fossil modern humans embedded within it?
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  Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

  in one sentence tell why you left the org.

  not 2 sentences.

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  Half banana

  Once I started questioning the beliefs, everything had holes in it especially the two key areas; the authority of the Bible and the authority of the governing body.
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  First Year Without Attending Memorial... And Spouse Is Free Too

  by AnonVet in

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  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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  Half banana

  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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  Half banana

  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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  Half banana

  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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  Half banana

  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.