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  The Evolution of Morality - Jonathan Haidt

  by cofty in

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  the question of how humans came to have a moral sense is one of the more interesting challenges offered by believers against unguided evolution.

  even informed christians who accept the reality of evolution feel a need to add an additional step where god imbued man with a conscience.. non-supernatural explanations of the origin of morality usually focus on simple examples of reciprocal altruism and the ability to empathise with fellow creatures.

  secular moral systems most often rest on the single foundation of the effects actions have on the well-being of conscious creatures.

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  I remember reading/hearing somewhere (it may have been Dawkins) that morality, or the desire to do what was 'right', evolved because we developed in small groups. We soon came to realise that we got along better by being nice to each other, and because we were in small groups, and we knew everyone very well, it was easier to be nice to them than to not be. It's thought that those who went against the developing social norms were perhaps killed or exiled.
  
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  Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

  by Roberto Carlos in

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  please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

  click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

  jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

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  Disney isn't interested in fixing this. I had tickets and asked them to stop the JWs from doing this or refund my ticket price. They refunded my ticket price........

  Good - I would have refunded your ticket price as well. Only less politely.

  Where on earth did you get the idea you can blackmail a business into obeying rules you arbitrarily impose?
  
  
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-12-2017 WT Study (FREE WILL)

  by blondie in

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  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

  bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .

  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

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  I think I'd literally shoot myself in the head if I had to sit through a WT discussion on how I should use my free will.

  Yeah - best to use our free will by being nowhere near it!
  
  
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  Don't be afraid to go to college

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  i thought this was a good video showing how the logic is faulty from the gb.

  just bare with lett for a minute.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1otsrp0bp4.

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  Just bare with Lett for a minute.

  That's a spelling mistake that has brought up a terrifying mental image.

  Can someone please pass the brain bleach!
  
  
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  I have just watched The Godfather movies 1,2 &3 this past week.

  by smiddy in

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  many years ago i had only seen the third movie and had never seen the first two for some reason ,so i saw them on stan this past week and enjoyed every second of it.. their were even occasions i could see the gb being depicted in it s portrayal of the rc church... its 45th anniversary is coming up this week since it was first shown in cinemas.

  what is your view of this trilogy ?

  what were your fav .moments , comments made in the movies?.

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  Funny you should mention this, I watched the Godfather for the first time yesterday. Really enjoyed it. It's definitely of its time though. Planning to watch 2 and 3 soon.
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  The reality of "shunning" and character assasination highlighted at the Australian Royal Commission

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  once again, the arc has brilliantly highlighted the reality that any witness who either fades or disassociates is subjected to active official shunning by the organization.. the "brothers" tried to state that it was the choice of the indiviual who steps away from the organization to shun them!

  they actually tried to make it out to be the fault of the one who leaves!

  then they tried to say that those who fade are not shunned!.

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  ...if it's really the Truth, why do its representatives not feel compelled to tell it?

  And I'm sure they'll be that proud of their performance that we'll see write ups in the watchtower and demos recreating it at the assemblies.

  When hell freezes over.
  
  
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  This week's wt paragraph 13 and 15 free will

  by poopie in

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  does forcing people to shun other people violate free will?

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  Does forcing people to shun other people violate free will?

  Nobody is 'forced' to do anything. We each have our own free will, whether we choose to use it or not.

  If we didn't all of us on here would still be going.
  
  
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  What's your degree of anti-JWness?

  by Landy in

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  so, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is absolutely pro-jw, 5 is neutral and 10 is youtubing nutjob apostate, where do you stand?.

  i'm probably around a 6. i have the view that jws are a nothing marginal religion.

  if i hadn't been brought up as one i doubt they would have ever entered my consciousness.. the reasons it's a 6 and not a 5 is that i have some concerns over their child baptism and safeguarding procedures, but i think it's down to them being a bit dim rather than any pro child abusing ethos.

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  Putting aside your ad hominem bollocks, I do accept your point. No. 1 on the scale should have been described as a nut job, Steven Lett loving JW.
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  What's your degree of anti-JWness?

  by Landy in

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  so, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is absolutely pro-jw, 5 is neutral and 10 is youtubing nutjob apostate, where do you stand?.

  i'm probably around a 6. i have the view that jws are a nothing marginal religion.

  if i hadn't been brought up as one i doubt they would have ever entered my consciousness.. the reasons it's a 6 and not a 5 is that i have some concerns over their child baptism and safeguarding procedures, but i think it's down to them being a bit dim rather than any pro child abusing ethos.

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  Interesting topic. I would first ask what exactly do you mean by anti-JW.

  How much a poster dislikes the WTBS I suppose. For whatever reason.
  

  As others have posted, it's not that in black and white. I have no respect for the WT organization, and other than this forum I don't think much about it (unless I have to talk about my upbringing). I'm not in a campaign against them, and I'm not interested in convincing anyone about what I believe, nor my stand or opinions about them. Also, since I am in the USA, I protect their right to exist as a religious organization, as that's how I protect mine.

  That's pretty much me. I haven't been to a meeting for over twenty years and I haven't really given them a thought until I got sucked in to this place. Now I stay just to piss off data dog ;)
  

  More importantly, to me being anti-JW means keeping them in my life, which is the opposite of what I prefer to do. In order for me to be "anti" them, I need to keep myself updated with whatever nonsense they come up with. My path is about minimizing their influence and relevance in my life, so remaining up to date and keeping up with their crap creates a negative impact in my well being.

  Again that's what I feel. Coming here does me no favours tbh. It's almost as if I'm an ex-jw again :(
  

  We are different people, with different experiences, even as JWs we had different experiences. They treat women differently, they treat the LGBTQ differently, they treat children differently, so the degree of influence is different. Hence, your scale may not make sense as you presented it. Though I think this is an interesting topic.

  I think that's what I'm trying to get at. The most common emotion on here seems to be bitterness. If some one is DF'd or similar then they are going to be a lot more anti-jw than I am as someone who simply stopped going. I agree that it's perhaps not a simple as a 1-10 scale but a person's feelings toward the JWs can be a cummulative amalgam of all their experiences and feelings.
  
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  What's your degree of anti-JWness?

  by Landy in

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  so, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is absolutely pro-jw, 5 is neutral and 10 is youtubing nutjob apostate, where do you stand?.

  i'm probably around a 6. i have the view that jws are a nothing marginal religion.

  if i hadn't been brought up as one i doubt they would have ever entered my consciousness.. the reasons it's a 6 and not a 5 is that i have some concerns over their child baptism and safeguarding procedures, but i think it's down to them being a bit dim rather than any pro child abusing ethos.

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  Landy

  Landy has a tendency for pseudo-intellectual dick measuring, just like Richard Oliver and Fisherman.

  <waves>