life come from the living, and this is a universe of life.
his teachings are truth.
which is why i weight it against the truth of the teachings (and one other thing that i will get to).
Defend away. Why do you believe, or rather, how do you know God has always existed? Please explain to me, because I don't understand how you arrive at this conclusion.
Ok, I'll have a play at it provided you can first answer this question:
How did life begin without God?
life come from the living, and this is a universe of life.
his teachings are truth.
which is why i weight it against the truth of the teachings (and one other thing that i will get to).
Bio, the burden of proof is on you.
Where is the evidence to back your claim?
I'm not claiming anything, I'm defending.
life come from the living, and this is a universe of life.
his teachings are truth.
which is why i weight it against the truth of the teachings (and one other thing that i will get to).
Biometrics, how do you know?
How don't you know?
Wow! Do you use that same logic to buy a used car?
I apply God-given logic and wisdom when buying a used car.
life come from the living, and this is a universe of life.
his teachings are truth.
which is why i weight it against the truth of the teachings (and one other thing that i will get to).
Life does not come from nothing
If the above is true, then who created God?
God hads no beginning or end. God also created our sense of time and the reality we perceive. Therefore your point is moot.
cantleave, he does not have gray hair!
No, but he's got a great comb-over.
does anyone here have any suggestions on handling financial abuse of a senior by the watchtower bible and tract society?
mom gave a lot of money to the watchtower bible and tract society over her lifetime- (6 figures).
after she ran low on funds she made a 5 figure "conditional loan" to wtb&ts.
Here's a hint, you won't get anywhere. My mum got a 100,000+ payout when my dad died in the early 1980s (he wasn't a JW). She was convinced by an elder to "loan" it to build the local kingdom hall. She told me that much that when I was still a JW. Now she won't even discuss it.
There's been many a family inheritance end up in the Watchtower coffers. How do you think Rutherford lived the high life during the great depression.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/13/cmkc1ohf1b.dtl.
yahoo fired its second ceo in less than a year sunday amid concerns about an exaggerated resume, throwing the company into turmoil just months into its latest turnaround effort.. the board ousted scott thompson, 54, who took yahoo's top job in january, after a dissident shareholder questioned the biography he had submitted to the company before becoming ceo.
ross levinsohn, 48, executive vice president of the americas for yahoo, was named interim ceo.
I don't think the degree was the issue. Rather the fact that he'd faked it.
i was taught at the mts school that no elder has ever broke confidentiality.. .
did my instructors lie to me?.
uun .
Even as a child I knew the exact reason everyone was disfellowshipped. It was common knowledge that certian elder's wives would tell all.
does anyone know if the watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping.
i know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.. what is the current platform announcment for a df or da?.
what about court action to recover past donations?.
The measure is what would be considered defamatory (and/or character assassination) by the typical reasonable citizen.
Saying “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” is no more offensive to the typical reasonable citizen than saying “So-and-so is no longer a member of the First Methodist Church”.
Because the typical reasonable citizen does not associate such language with defamation then it is safer in legal terms.
However it could be argued that JW's have a closed community with its own language and sub-culture, where saying “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” is equivalent to saing “So-and-so is is immoral, shouldn't be trusted, and is a low-life” to a reasonable citizen.
does anyone know if the watchtower or individual elders have been successfully sued for defamation follwing a disfellowshipping.
i know some have tried to sue for shunning, and their case had no legal basis.. what is the current platform announcment for a df or da?.
what about court action to recover past donations?.
Wouldn't the public announcement of “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” be grounds for defamation? Given almost all members of the JW community universally associate this phrase with the person having done something bad, or being of bad character, and as a result would shun that person. It's equivalent to saying “So-and-so is of such bad moral characther that they are no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and you should all shun that person”
If I said “So-and-so is a lousy person” in front of an audience, that would be enough grounds for a defamation case.
