when i first heard the term 'critical thinking' it was as a teenager during a watchtower study.
the study went on to elaborate how we shouldn't be swayed by critical thinking.
there was no explanation that the term didn't mean 'to criticize' thoughts and words, but rather that it means 'to objective think and to evaluate thoughts and words'.
YES!!!!! Every brother who I have EVER heard talk about it on the stage or at an assembly define it as "being critical (as in unjustly picky) of the Org, GB, Elders...
Again I refer you to:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.
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OMG! Really!!!! Is the Earth Flat too?
"Evidently" there is proof about it on the "internets".
GEEZZZEE - Please read a science book!!!!!
THIS IS THE RESULT OF DEMONIZING CRITICAL THINKING!
you all like miracles?
wanna hear some real miracles that have happened?
this is all true folks!
HAAAA - I have heard #1 and #2 -- supposedly #2 happend in our area - it had a slight change (ie the telephone game)
ALL BS.
http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2181.
24 may 2016. russia: jehovah's witnesses face possible liquidation.
by victoria arnold, forum 18. if prosecutors proceed with their threat to liquidate the jehovah's witness headquarters near st petersburg, thousands of local congregations across russia could also face prohibition of their activities and individuals could be vulnerable to criminal charges for expressing their beliefs, forum 18 notes.. the jehovah's witnesses' principal body in russia is under threat of dissolution as an "extremist" organisation after the deadline in an official warning from the general prosecutor's office expired on 10 may, forum 18 notes.
may 21, 2016 to all congregations re: annual items for 2017.
David_Jay
I hope you are right - but i think you are not. They are a cash rich organization, and that isnt going to end soon.
Its gonna take this current "generation" of GB to all die before people start waking up in mass.
may 24, 2016 to all bodies of elders re: release of english revised new world translation in braille
I think its kinda of funny that - you "qualify" to get the bible only after you are buying in to the JW philosophy. You know - because its an expensive book in braille.
Once the individual has made sufficient progress, such as by attending meetings regularly, then he may request the revised New World Translation.)
Didn't jesus mention something like "i will teach you but only after you prommis to believe what I say"
may 21, 2016 to all congregations re: annual items for 2017.
i have drawn the conclusion that when god speaks, he is using the language and the concepts of the time.
he is not revealing a new scientific understanding when he speaks.
that would be distracting from the point being made.
To bad when dog spoke - he at no time revealed any information that could be conclusively proven to have been from - i don't know - the creator of the universe?
Maybe talk about the Carbon Cycle and not the water cycle that is as obvious anything.
Maybe talk about the atom, or about gravity?
Say something about magnetism, continental drift, that there are other PLANETS going around our sun.
Maybe that there are galaxies?
Or maybe he could have said that "at the time of the end, men will discover Dark Matter and Dark energy.
Dude the bible is a bad story with less value than Aesops Fables.
i was reading in another forum, that a letter to the elders instructed them to speak to anybody who persists in wearing tight pants.
if changes don't happen then the instructions are to disqualify him from being a publisher but it won't be announced to the congregation.
i am am curious to see if this letter will surface.
And Jesus wore a beard.....a very HIPSTER thing to do!
Oh and, just a thought re beards: if they are so wrong, then why did God make men naturally grow them?
Dude - you got it so wrong - Beards were made perfect - but Satan Perverted them - so now people wear them to promote themselves as being more important than god.
Evidently the are used in satanic sex rites as well.
have you all noticed the obsession witnesses have of putting jw.org on all their social media sites like facebook, twitter, instagram etc?.
so many put it in their bio section...like some sort of loud proclamation to other witnesses that they are righteous and spreading the message.. it's also very lazy.
now with no personal effort at all, they can just say jw.org and be "witnessing".
