the late great christopher hitchens states that religion is poison and i believe that with my soul.
we are “ born sick and commanded to be well.” under threat of death- both of my parents were abused both physically and emotionally, my wife was what it sounds like verbally abused - the strange part is they don’t see that they are attached to a very abusive religion.
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I think religion is a cancer on humankind.
We're told that we're not perfect the way we are, or given a fear or hell or destruction or that of our loved ones. And the only way to escape it is to allow yourself to be enslaved by Jesus or Allah or someother so-call god. It's a con. If religions were taxed we could wipe out the national debt overnight.
been baptized for two years but being in the truth for longer.
one thing i have always noticed is the lack of young people in the congregation.
does anyone feel the same ?.
In the congregation i grew up in there were lots of families with kids. A total of 35 young ones aged 4-12yo.
Of those 35 only 10 are JWs today. Some didnt even get baptized. Others faded or were DF'd or DA'd.
That's a 68.5% loss of young ones. If this were a business like Coca Cola or McDonalds they'd be firing the directors and bringing in educated people.
Unfortunately, Coca Cola and McDonalds actually care about quality and customer satisfaction... unlike Watchtower.
is this true?
is this really true?!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.
Unfortunately, 99% of JWs wont see this as it's a Bethel newbies video. Most will claim it doesnt exist.
at that time, the life-saving direction that we receive from jehovah’s organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.
its not such a big stretch of the imagination to think that jim jones or david koresh used such reasoning to convince their followers to do what they did, to have absolute faith in what they were saying was from god.
A chilling quote from my mother. She used to say all the time:
If the Watchtower magazine said that the sky is green, then our eyes are wrong and it is green.
is this true?
is this really true?!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.
While so funny; its really sad-I mean not one JW is taught how to grow up and address his or her sexuality in a health, non destructive way. We are taught to suppress , sex is dirty, desire is dirty, that leads to all kinds of problems. Just stack this on top of all the other controlling behavior and Wow thats all I can say.
I dont know about anyone else but i was a heavy porn user in my JW days.
As soon as i left my porn used dropped dramatically... because i started dating girls "properly".
What do they expect? Not only is sex before marriage banned but masturbation too? There cant be many single JW brothers who dont masturbate. There's two 35yo brothers in my old congregation who are popular, goodlooking, have dated in the past but are still single. They must have some high quality pillows.
all creationist arguments follow an identical pattern.. first a quick way to remember the format - 'complexity, complexity, complexity; therefore god'.. now a more detailed guide to formulating an argument.. identify some complex feature of the natural world.
a quick google search or nature documentary will quickly provide inspiration.
creationist websites have hundreds of them you can copy-paste without attribution.. do no research at all on what is currently known about the evolutionary history of this feature.
My favorite creationist arguments include:
If we came from monkeys, why do we still have monkeys?
If you put all the components of an iPhone into a blender and switch it on, it's not going to make an iPhone
If you were walking along a beach and found a slab of stone that had JOHN JONES WAS HERE 1892 you wouldn't say that it was carved in there by natural occurrence or by chance.
Science has been wrong before.
Isaac Newton believed in God!
But it's only a theory.
Oh, yeah, i suppose it "just happened"?
I do believe in science... and God is the greatest scientist.
There are laws of thermodynamics, laws of physics, laws of gravity... so who put those laws in place?
Annoying isnt it?
just seen this announced on reddit:.
ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.
i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.
Thats The Halo Effect in action right there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effectThey are making assumptions about his character over at jwtalk, just from looking at his picture:
This guy looks so kind and understanding too:
is this true?
is this really true?!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.
I couldn't resist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdRbJcl8H-w&feature=youtu.be
is this true?
is this really true?!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.
I don't know how Lloyd Evans gets these vids, id love to do a rebuttal on it too.
The tight pants even got a mention. Tony is likely the instigator for this brilliant video. I notice no GB member had the balls to present this topic.
So the Watchtower has now banned beards, tight pants, certain sleeping positions, sitting on a bethel boys lap and humping sheets.
Fuck, I would make a terrible JW if I went back. There's nothing I like more than sitting on a boys lap with a pillow between my legs while we engage in skinless pornea.
just seen this announced on reddit:.
ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.
i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.
Hang on a minute.... some JWs actually bought that overlapping generation crap?!!!!
