"raised in the truth" during the 50s, 60s,and 70s i repeatedly read and heard from the platform how reading the magazines weekly "was the equivalent of a college education" and how many had turned their family economic situation around by being "trustworthy" and giving up expensive bad habits most "worldly people" had.
sounded good.. what is the reality?
how does avoiding higher education, and then spending up to 20 hours a week getting ready for, commuting, and then participating in meetings and field service affect family finances?.
I remember a visiting elders talk one Sunday, he was talking about the dangers of higher education and putting people off going to university. Yet, he was a university educated architect.
I really resented his talk because I had woken up by then and was severely regretting the choices made for me by my parents concerning my own education.
I don't know how he could look young people in the eye and actively derail their futures.
jws often try to justify their religion as being the only true religion.
questions like.
which other organization is doing this or that?
JW's expect people at the doors to challenge everything they have ever learned and believe in, based on a discussion at the door using jw literature. They expect people to turn their backs on everything they hold dear.
Yet, they are not willing to answer the most reasonable and justified questions about their own faith, and will shun you for doubting.
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.
at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.
single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
"If you talk to God, you are praying, if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
Spoke to my JW dad yesterday- he didnt even know TM3 was gone.
this book was published around 1990, but was never studied (to my knowledge).
does anyone know the reason why?.
I dont believe we studied it.
I remember thinking some JW's might find other religions interesting if they studied the book.
in the recent coronavirus scare, masks were promoted as one way to minimise possible infection.
a study, reviewed yesterday by an english medical commentator, dr john campbell, says, no!.
watch what he has to say on this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3vy2lyqn1a.. the study he reviews can be found at: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.cd006207.pub6/full.
Dr John Campbell- Doctor of Philosophy, not medicine.
If you take a look at this study, there are some serious criticisms of it.
I never believed masks were perfect but I wore them during the pandemic anyway. If they help - even a little, then whats the problem with wearing them? At the very least, if they are wearing one, it should prevent someone spitting all over you as they talk.
My experience with people that dont like masks is that its more about the fact they dont like being told what to do, not about science.
https://www.health.com/cochrane-review-do-masks-work-7112631
jw magazines have claimed the flood story has so much detail that it couldn’t be just a made up story.. is it detailed?
name one person outside of noah’s family.
name one nephilim.
The largest modern, wooden ship, the Wyoming, built in 1909, was 450 feet long - about 50-60 feet shorter than the ark.
The length caused it to flex and buckle in heavier seas and had to be constanly pumped with steam pumps to stop it from sinking, although it had metal bracing for support.
Also, no one seems to know with any certainty what gopher wood was.
dear friends,.
i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.
it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.
I dont agree with everything in your letter about vaccines but it has made me realise there are probably a lot more JW's out there who arent happy about being forced to vax just to attend meetings.
It could be the deal breaker that pushes more to leave.
i remember having read somewhere, but i cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using only jw publications, like "insight on the scriptures" (chronologies) for example.. do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?.
thanks..
scholar
joey jojo
It all depends on the astro program you use and its methodology otherwise you can get different results such as that done by Dr. Rolf Furuli in his published research using professional software.
scholar JW
So, before designing the programs for the different astronomical charts, all the software engineers from around the world got together in order to create a consiracy just to discredit 607 BCE?
i remember having read somewhere, but i cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using only jw publications, like "insight on the scriptures" (chronologies) for example.. do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?.
thanks..
If you go to skyview Cafe astronomical website and punch in the date 586, 587,the planets and constellations are right where the Babylonian clay tablets say they are for that year, not 607.
