Posts by cappytan

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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

by LaurenM in

do any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?

even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.

the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.

cappytan

cappytan - Before making a Judgement, perhaps you should research the lives of these men - Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Newton, Lomonosov, Mendeleyev
If you can show me one of these men, that did not first delve into Philosophy, you can appropriately call my statement "Bollocks" as you so wisely surmised it as.

I know each of those men dabbled in Philosophy. I like researching philosophy. But philosophy has absolutely nothing to do with physical science. Can you show me definitive proof of how Philosophy and Metaphysics led to their discoveries? Isn't it true that their philosophy and metaphysics had absolutely nothing to do with their discoveries whatsoever, but instead with observation of their actual physical surroundings?

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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

by LaurenM in

do any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?

even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.

the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.

cappytan

I mean all that is known to Exist.

You're stating that on a thread about God. Is God included in that? Do you believe that God is "known to exist?"

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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

by LaurenM in

do any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?

even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.

the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.

cappytan

perhaps beyond their No. 8 creator's expectation, and we are not finished yet, still trillions of years to go?

What does that even mean?

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Meeting changes - just sad, pathetic

by sir82 in

jw
friends

ok, so let's say you're on the gb.

for years, you've been getting hundreds of reports from your hired ss agents, er, cos, about poor midweek meeting attendance, people not showing up for talks, crappy teaching from elders, etc.. so, you make the determination - ok!

here's a couple of choices:.

cappytan

Why the drastic changes?

If you're talking about the mid-week meeting, the changes aren't really that drastic. They just renamed everything.

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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

by LaurenM in

do any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?

even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.

the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.

cappytan

many scientific discoveries, had their origins in philosophy and meta-physical insights.

As cofty would say, "Bollocks!"

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Meeting changes - just sad, pathetic

by sir82 in

jw
friends

ok, so let's say you're on the gb.

for years, you've been getting hundreds of reports from your hired ss agents, er, cos, about poor midweek meeting attendance, people not showing up for talks, crappy teaching from elders, etc.. so, you make the determination - ok!

here's a couple of choices:.

cappytan

What has always confused me about the midweek meeting is ....How does anyone do it? What I mean is this.....I work full time and I get up at 4 AM M-F. How the hell does anyone get prettied up and go outanywhere during the week? I think it is unrealistic and unkind to ask people to do this.

Don't forget how much of a hardship the mid-week meeting is on parents, especially parents of young children. My kids have a strict 8:00 bed time. The meeting night was always an inconvenience and we always had a horrible morning after the meeting.

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My Mother Died Two Weeks Ago

by Perry in

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friends

none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.

just found out this morning.

cappytan

Perry,

I'm sorry, buddy.

I'll be calling you tonight, if you're up for a chat.

Let me know.

- Cappy

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Effect on youths of Bethel and construction cuts

by Tornintwo in

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i know quite a few youths (late teens to early twenties) who have the goal of full time service, as bethelites or international construction, so they're doing the required slog of pioneering in order to achieve this goal.

this is a goal which has been excitedly set out for them the last few years or so at assemblies etc.

now they see the cuts, surely they are going to be discouraged and disillusioned.

cappytan

And, to be fair, he may get some training in something useful for his CV.

A 19 year old "new boy" is gonna learn how to efficiently clean toilets and bonnet buff carpets. That's about it.

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Oooohhhhh the Irony

by konceptual99 in

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just skimmed the new october broadcast.

http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=mp4&output=html&pub=jwb&issue=201510.

check out losch talking about good works and sacred service.

cappytan

They really are starting to go in the direction of mainstream Christianity, aren't they?

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Just recovering from a 'Mormon Mind Melt' ...

by LoveUniHateExams in

i was in town centre about an hour ago to buy a shirt and tie for an upcoming job interview when i was stopped by a youngish, clean cut american young man (20-ish) in a cheap suit.

my heart sank as i thought it was local jws.

to my slight relief, it was mormons!

cappytan

Fisherman: I'm not trying to pick a fight with you or anything, so please don't take this the wrong way. You are a paradox! It's interesting to me that you can easily and intelligently pick out the flawed logic and circular reasoning of Mormons, but completely overlook the flawed and circular reasonings of the JWs.