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  Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

  by LaurenM in

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  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.

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  cappytan

  Yes I can show you definitive proof. To do so I'll use another Scientists - Nikola Tesla.
  "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." - Nikola Tesla

  How is that definitive proof of making scientific discoveries by studying philosophy and metaphysics?

  Nikola Tesla was a great scientist, true. But I would be comfortable in saying that all of his discoveries were based off of physical observation and experimentation and not due to philosophy and metaphysics.

  EDIT: and it bears stating that in the past century there were decades where more scientific progress was made than in all the previous centuries...and that was without resorting to philosophy or the study of metaphysics.
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  Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

  by LaurenM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  cappytan

  Cappytan - In response to Is God "known to exist?"
  No, God is not "known to exist".

  Well, at least we agree on something.
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  Does Anyone Still Believe in God?

  by LaurenM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

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  2. 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:.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

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  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:.

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

  just found out this morning.

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  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.

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  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.