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  Thoughts on African Americans and Slavery

  by Simon in

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  let's start by saying that slavery is of course a terrible thing, one of the worst crimes imaginable, and that "slavery" rarely implies good treatment, anything noble or defensible.

  nowadays, even god doesn't escape judgement from our enlightened views with passages about slavery in the bible usually glossed over because they are shameful.. but not all slavery was equal.. because of the media, movie industry, racial tensions in the us regularly shown on the news and our taught history, i think most people's knowledge and idea of slavery is that of the north atlantic slave trade where white people took africans to work in cotton fields.

  this idea is probably also re-enforced because the largest group of descendents of slaves we see today are african americans (usually in the us or places they subsequently migrated to).. but it's incomplete.. it's only when you look into it more that you discover that there was much more to the slave trade than that, otherwise it would have been just called "the slave trade" and not "the north atlantic slave trade".. some 12.5 million slaves were taken from africa to the us with just under 11 million surviving the trip so it obviously took a terrible toll immediately, even before any maltreatment once they landed in the americas where conditions and treatment were truly awful.

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  I believe it was brought up during the last summer Olympics that Brazil had the highest number of African slaves.
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  Occupations that will disappear

  by joker in

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  while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

  i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

  does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

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  I remember one brother who would get angry when people would say that medical practitioners would not be needed in the "New World". He would say, "I guess when you fall and break your leg your bone will magically set itself."

  The perception of what perfection is in the minds of most Witnesses is down right nutty buckets. As a child my father once asked me during our Bible study "If Adam and Eve were perfect, free from sin, how were they able to disobey Jehovah?" The question stumped me. Perfect just means free from defect. You don't become like Wolverine with mutant healing abilities. You don't magically have the knowledge of the universe downloaded into your head. The work of your hands isn't with out flaw.
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  Why do some Jehovah's Witnesses choose to be atheist or agnostic?

  by Cassaruby in

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  "traumatic as the initial transition may be, it can lead to the development of a truly personal relationship with these two greatest friends [the father and the son] .

  .. "whatever sense of 'belonging' that membership in some religious system may create, it can never compare with the power and beauty and strengthening benefit of the intimate personal relationship the scripture presents .

  from reading joseph campbell i've come to understand that there are functions to religion or mythology.

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  First - Jehovah's Witnesses have done an amazing job over the years proving that all other religions are false. It's true. Once you see that Jehovah's Witnesses are wrong, you've now reached an important point in existence - the realization that all religion is false.

  Second - So now that you know all religion is false, who is "God"? It can't be Jehovah, Jesus, Allah, Odin, Zeus, Ra, etc. So, we are left with a nameless entity that has never communicated anything to mankind.

  Third - Science is merely acknowledging what we observed. There is nothing that has been observed that even suggests there is a "God" other than what is man-made.
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  Rank & File Reaction to Leah Remini Series

  by freemindfade in

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  2. entertainment

  wife and i have watched the whole series and just finished episode 7 last night.

  personally, i am seeing a great deal more subtle and day to day similarities to watchtower than the obvious ones i already knew existed, ie shunning.

  very eye opening and heartbreaking, even more so than going clear in my mind.

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  My wife and I watched the movie "Going Clear" on HBO (I believe it is now available on Nextflix). It is a 2 hour documentary on Scientology. After watching it we looked at each other and said, "This is just like the Witnesses."
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  How to reply when someone asks about your spiritual health

  by RodrigoGuerreiro in

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  2. experiences

  first of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").

  she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?

  you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .

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  Q: How is your spiritual health?

  A: Health is of the flesh. Spirit is or is not of the flesh. I am one with the Force. The Force is with me.
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  The reality we must face.

  by The Rebel in

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  my dearest dad is 90 years old today.

  we are far away, separated by geography, but never will i allow an organisation that indoctrinated false love separate me from my dear dad.

  i love my dad and we had our differences but never will i allow that organisation take away my love for my dad.. happy bithday dad.

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  Rebel:

  We are in the same boat and it tears me up. My father is a great man. He did so many wonderful things before he joined the cult. Now that I have found the truth about the Truth, we longer stay in contact as we once had.
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  Watchtower and Theseus' Paradox

  by jwabuse.com in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  came across this today researching something for work, and thought it was an interesting thought when applied to wt.

  with so many fundamental changes and revisions, can they even be correctly viewed as what they are perceived as by active jws?

  if your baptism was an oath of loyalty to the organization, which organization?

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  Mind blown! Great find.
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  I found out why TPTM3 hates "tight pants"!!!!!!

  by Darkknight757 in

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  https://youtu.be/j1c2kzjbcga.

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  My eyes - they burn!
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  Article: A Look at Canada's 12 Most Wanted Fugitives (Look who is #2)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-look-at-canadas-12-most-wanted-fugitives.

  december 6, 2016. by sam cooley.

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  I've been in law enforcement for nearly 20 years. From day one I have had to deal with Witnesses, especially in child abuse cases. It's one of the things that lead me to leave the organization.

  For the past 4 years I have been assigned to the US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force. Many of my fugitive cases have involved Witnesses and those case have often involved sexual abuse of children.

  The only way a person can be successful at going on the run and not getting caught is to walk away from everyone they have ever known and never make contact ever again. You can never use your name or your social security number.

  I worked a case that took us 4 years to locate and apprehend the guy, but we got him. His mother was mailing him money. He rented a room from a little old lady. That lady said that he never left his room other than to walk to the drug store to buy cigarettes.

  It is my hope that McLean is arrested and tried before I retire.
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  Was the ransom premature? Shouldn't the effects of Adamic sin have been reversed at the time of Jesus' death?

  by deegee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if the ransom was paid at the time of jesus' death (mark 15:45, matthew 20:28, 1 timothy 2:6, hebrews 2:9), then why weren't the effects of adamic sin (sickness & death) reversed at that time?.

  it seems to me that either:- the payment of the ransom was premature.

  - god was not satisfied with the payment of the ransom; it was not sufficient to make up for adam's & eve's so-called "sin".hasn't god extracted enough from mankind as payment for adam's & eve's "sin" given the billions of persons who have lived and died?.

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  For Christian religions, it was paid and is in effect. Remember, they all believe that accepting Jesus as their lord and savior results in going to heaven upon death.