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  Just had a shep visit

  by Captain Obvious in

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  they just left.

  we had a nice "encouraging" chat about my inactivity.

  they went through the usual guilt routine, that didnt seem to work so they turned to fear.

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  Tater-T

  nice .. never let'em see you sweat!! LOL

  I'll take my chances is what I always say to that one..
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  Birthdays & Christmas

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the deal with people criticizing jws because they don't celebrate birthdays or christmas?.

  it is as if when someone is born, from a baby, to a child, teen, adult; that one has a responsiblity to celebrate christmas (and i thought it was a free country); and others have a responsiblity to celebrate others' anniversary of one's birth.. i don't get the criticisms as if celebrating either is a great thing and the not celebrating is a bad thing.. data on star trek said that he does not understand why people celebrate their birthdays - a day one can not possibly remember.. what are you actually celebrating?

  the fact that you made it another year?

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  Tater-T

  what wrong with celebrating?? it's fun and as we all KNOW

  
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  Gambling with chance

  by Borges in

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  Tater-T

  it's not gambling.. it's russian roulette .. with an automatic...
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  Just had an elder drop in for a visit

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just had an elder drop in for a visit.

  asking why i hadn't been to the meetings for over two years.

  i told him there's a lot of things i don't agree with.. .

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  Tater-T

  Carl Sagan's Remarks About Jehovah's Witnesses False Prophecies

  Alan Feuerbacher

  A few years after the complete collapse of everything C. T. Russell had predicted, J. F. Rutherford began a process of replacing Russell's unfulfilled predictions with a series of invisible and spiritual events associated with the years 1914 and 1918. By the early 1930s the process was complete.

  An interesting comment on this transformation was made by Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979, pp. 332-333):

  Doctrines that make no predictions are less compelling than those which make correct predictions; they are in turn more successful than doctrines that make false predictions.

  But not always. One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and -- while the events of that year were certainly of some importance -- the world does not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, "Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014.' A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way." But they did not. They could have said, "Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth." But they did not. Instead, they did something much more ingenious.

  They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration were needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry
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  Jehovah's Witnesses have banned this hat, for obvious reasons!

  by JimmyPage in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwt6orqhj6q.

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  Tater-T

  hey jimmy i answered your Pm
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  Would you read your child's diary?

  by DATA-DOG in

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  this is obviously a question for parents.

  i have made my decision, but i am interested in your views and feelings.

  if you are a young person, i would be interested in your thoughts and feelings too.

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  Tater-T

  no.. make that a big HELL NO!! earning your childs TRUST... the most important part of being a PARENT... if they cant trust YOU ..

  WELL IF YOU DON'T GET THAT, THEN YOU DON'T GET IT!!
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  why am i wasting my time?

  by RandomNoise in

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  Tater-T

  can you be more pacific..
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  Guns aren't the problem....

  by MeanMrMustard in

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  Tater-T

  guns don't kill... it's the mutherf@#kin' bullets that kill...
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  Who is brave enough to admit

  by mouthy in

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  they have met me in person?????

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  Tater-T

  I would if I had .... and being a full blown atheist now.. if I started to believe again it would be because of you.. I like the way you project your faith
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  The final and most important question concerning the Watchtower Corporation ???

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the final and most important question ... were the wts.

  doctrines specifically created to attract the.

  attention to the organization's printed literature and to proliferate that literature to its fullest possible.

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  Tater-T

  yes