Posts by Malachi Constant

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My letter to Bethel about the flood
by Cornbread in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.

it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.

that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.
Malachi Constant

When I was young, the WT society supported (a little green book) the "water-canopy theory", a version where the water needed for the flood had been in the atmosphere. I wonder if they have cancelled that teaching or just decided to forget it.
It was argued that high enough in the atmosphere there are conditions suitable for water to exist in vapor phase. One of my first enlightments concerning the authority of the WT was related to this argument. First, if you add so much water in the atmosphere, it is no more the same atmosphere, so there is no point in referring to the conditions now. Second, related, if there were enough vapor to correspond to, say, one kilometer deep layer of liquid water on the surface of the earth, that would make the air pressure down here a hundred times larger.
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Evolution and Creation—both are stories!
by lsw1961 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there are number of nobel laureates and other great scientists in both the camps defending their respective theories of evolution and creation, which means both are just stories, and both suffer from having no eye-witnesses.

if either of them were true, all scientists would have accepted it unanimously as they do with rest of the laws such as law of gravity..

this does not mean that there is no god.
Malachi Constant

If a "story" is something with no hard evidence or something not requiring evidence, then there is a clear differece between creation, for example the ID version, and evolution. If you have an opportunity to visit the science library of a major research university, do that. The evidence for evolution and its confirmed details (new research articles every day) is massive, literally millions of pages. In recent research, for example, the connection between microevolution and macroevolution (check you understand these basic concepts) is studied in controlled laboratory environments. More than a story, that is.
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83,000 theocratic facilites?
by average joe in
1. watchtower
2. bible
a bethelite was telling me that there are 83,000 theocratic facilities world wide.

he compared that to 35,000 mcdonalds and 21,000 starbucks roughly to show the size of the theocratic organization.

i am not sure where the 83,000 comes from what would he be counting?
Malachi Constant

Comparing "kingdom" halls and McDonalds "restaurants", the quality of the spiritual or whatever food they serve is comparable. Bad for your health, not worth of your money, in reality not even looking as was advertised, eventually making you feel deceived, etc.
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The Many Faces of Lett
by Watchtower-Free in
1. social
2. humour
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Malachi Constant

Love the (original) painting by Munch, seen it in Oslo. First felt the "new world version" with Lett's face on it found by Splash to be more scary, then understood he deserves the pain.
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Are the horrendous killings in Paris part of a religious practice?
by clarity in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
islam is a religion of war, not a religion of peace .

seems there are many religions who do not tolerate other groups.

this statement "islam is a religion of war, not a religion of peace" reminded me of what was said at a watchtower convention in 2013 ....using a chilling example of how they condone dis fellowshipping & the soul killing practice of shunning!
Malachi Constant

Many religions, not just Islam, and many holy books, not just the Quran, allow extreme interpretations, the easier the more the meaning of those books needs to be interpreted by a small group or class of "learned" individuals, with free discussion restricted or banned. The Spanish Inquisition is a horrifying example of that. Now there is a heated discussion on who to blame for what happened in Paris. However, to prepare a fertile ground for Isis was started, when the nation of Israel was created in 1948 and ever since Israel has had an unreserved support for whatever they do from American christian extremists.
Somehow all this sounds too familiar.
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Last Days? Are you serious ....?
by Aleph in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
believing we live in the last days?.
Malachi Constant

This world is now not only much better for us to live in than just before 1975, it is also much more stable, thanks to global connectedness. It is better to build life for yourself and for your children in this "old system of things", insted of the "new" one that also by looking at the "signs of times" clearly is escaping from us faster than ever.
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Which bible character do you hate the most?
by Bonsai in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.

he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".

he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.
Malachi Constant

Jehovah (NWT) is. For his numerous, brutal crimes against humanity, all those supposedly because of his... name.
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I think God is a Jokester, I'm starting to appreciate his words.
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
proverbs 27:14.

" a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day".

love it!!!.
Malachi Constant

I find fascinating an idea of a God, who asked his People to go to war to complete his already large collection of foreskins. Like collecting stamps.
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Who is the worst storyteller in the Bible or what book?
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
for me the book of nehemiah, he got to be the worst storyteller ever.

how he made the final cut of the bible, he knew someone.

so a wall is built around.
Malachi Constant

The Judges. Even looks like a collection fairy tales. For example, why on earth would someone 2500 years later want to know how many sons riding on how many donkeys one of the judges had? And the same "information" for another judge.
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Is Religion Dying Out? - AWAKE! NOVEMBER 2015
by GrownMidget in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"have you given up on organized religion?

in many countries the number of people who describe themselves as not religious is growinga trend that suggests an uncertain future for institutional religion.

some of those lands are shown here.
Malachi Constant

First impression: The article must be a bad joke. Especially so in many western countries, where the jw religion is dying out as fast as many "wrong" religions. Of course, the society can count on the fact that most readers do not think so they can publish whatever bs.