Topics Started by Half banana

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Invitation to be a director
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if you had been invited to become one of seven directors of a religious corporation which has a mainly tax exempt annual income of one billion dollars; how would your sense of responsibility to uphold the tradition of office (and therefore your own privileges) affect your moral judgement?.

for example would you let the corporation fail financially for the sake of pursuing a decision on what you understand to be gods will?.
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The borrowed magic of the memorial
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. bible
myth comes from myth and ritual comes from ritual.

myth and ritual are borrowed in the way fire is borrowed to light another flame.

john 6:53 says that whoever does not eat (jesus) body and drink his blood will have no life in him.
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Is anything holy?
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is anything holy?.

i would maintain that holiness can only come from the attitude of people ascribing something as holy.

holiness never comes from the "holy" object, spirit or humans described as being holy..
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What is the basis for authority for the governing body?
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a word to jehovahs witnesses: what is the basis for the authority the seven members of the governing body can claim in controlling the lives of eight million followers?

the organisation they represent has never got one useful piece of information correct in one hundred and thirty five years... so why should they be believed?.
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What's the mechanism?
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am perpetually challenged by the fact that most jws are completely duped by the propaganda pumped out relentlessly by the borg.

even intelligent ones; they unwittingly grovel to the gb decisions and follow the party line.

they do this for a number of reasons..
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WTS competition
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just now 10am friday morning, had a phone call from central london to tell me that opposite the houses of parliament outside westminster tube station the wts (wobbly trolley society) are standing there being overshadowed by others with loudspeaker and taller placards declaring "jws are a cult".

sounds like fun!.

but will this sort of publicity harm or benefit the jw org?.
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Bible Christianity is Holy baloney
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. bible
underpinning all the claims of the jw org is a belief in the sanctity of the bible as gods word.

this holy assumption is certainly never challenged by the watchtower and neither does the believer dare to use critical thinking to evaluate the source of his or her beliefs.

the watchtower org, for obvious reasons would not do this as they would need to sell up and hand back the money were they to admit that the bible is just a piece of literature and not divine in origin.
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Managing a doomsday cult
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the wtbts have only one objective: to keep their religious engine on the tracks.

the pastoral care of their followers (although they would publicly deny it) is right at the bottom of their priorities.they demand abject loyalty.

as a matter of sociological fact the subscribers to the watchtower belief are on average placed at the lowest rung of the income ladder and in the bottom category of the least educated of religious groups.
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Do you obsess about JWs?
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do we obsess about the jw org?

i admit i do.

the reason is that two of my offspring are still held hostages by the beliefs of the cult..
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Tight Pants Tony goes to see the psychiatrist
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
psychiatrist: so what position do you hold tony?.

tight pants tony: strictly only the missionary position, any other position is the work of satan........ oh!

sorry, i thought you meant... never mind, its the way yous guys speak, it cracks me up!