today we know that matter and energy are interchangeable, hence they are there always in either form, they are eternal, hence requires no creator.
hence atheism is right in rejecting a creator, but failed in providing any motivation for people to do good.
religions, in their effort to provide a motivating factor for humans to do good, introduced creation stories and other myths; hence they too are right (as far as their intention is concerned), yet failed in producing any worthy resultsworld was steadily moving from bad to worse and from worse to worst!.
I can picture a abiather now... Sitting back in his computer chair with a smug look on his face, half finished cup of coffee at his side. He chuckles to himself, admiring the full page post of absolute gibberish he has made.
Obviously he posted that garbage to get our reactions... Nobody could actually take him seriously! Literally every point is flatly false. He's loving this
what did you imagine would happen?
did they react the way you expected?
how did you bring it up?.
I had been struggling with doubts and cog dis for a few months, hadn't been out in service for months and wife knew why. She had been very supportive the whole time.
One day we were at home, I was showing her some of the WT lies and she flat out asked me if I didn't want to be a JW anymore.. I said no.
Well.. She... Flipped out! I've never seen her look at me that way and haven't since. I've never seen her cry and sob like that. Her head was spinning with automatic cult brain nonsense, I could tell it just didn't compute. After a while she calmed down and we talked it through a bit. I agreed to take another long, hard objective look at things. She wanted me to speak with the elders, of course they could get it all cleared up cause it's the truth, right? After some talking she agreed that talking with the elders is a BAD idea.
Since then she has been great. She's still a JW, but was always kind of a badass one. She barely has a cult personality to begin with, and I honestly haven't seen it since that day. She never comments at the meetings, does max 3 hrs a month in service, misses over half the meetings.
I'm confident that she will leave the JWs with me, and I'm almost willing to wait in with her until she does. She just likes the pre packaged social life and doesn't want to mess up her relationship with her family. We don't talk about JW things often, but she does bring it up sometimes. She also still gets me to explain the JW doctrines that she doesn't understand.
If I could do it again I would have skipped that conversation altogether... The long game works better, and confronting the cult personality is almost always a sure failure.
they have printed a series of articles about suicide.
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I'm curious... Has the teaching that suicide ensures that the person has no chance of being resurrected? I' curious if anything has been printed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127101236.htm.
summary:.
when did humans really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs?
Learning to cook food was a huge step towards elevating our ancestors.
Tight animal skin pants haha
None of those questions matter to a JW or any creationist for that matter. Unfortunately, evidence and fascinating facts are meaningless to someone who would rather bury his head in the sand. The JW would immediately call to question the dating methods, claiming it was just an early indigenous people maybe a couple thousand years ago. Anything to rationalize it and make the cog dis go away.
Thanks for the good info!
we get plenty of company men passing through our circuit, often filled with misinformation and lugging around a suitcase of guilt, they bring more guilt to the weak while praising the braggart pioneers and slapping the "righteous over much" elders.
why are the wrong people getting praise in this distorted community?
i know for a fact many of the elders i served with have issues with alcoholism, when "brother guilt" brought his emotional hurricane through our circuit, i had the chance to eat and help pay for his "seven shots of tequila", both him and his wife were not immune to over-indulgences.
Also depends on the company. My JW guests are always all too happy to indulge in my scotch collection... Partly because most couldn't afford it and partly because they know I won't be offended by their glassy-eyed rosy cheeked shenanigans.
... btw it was soooo boooorrrinnng!!!
draw close to jehovah(tm)/bookstudy:.
excruciatingly boring.
Jehovah doesn't change??! Everything be does is motivatwd by love?? Wow... even if you tossed out the Old Testament, you still can't honestly say that.
These people never cease to amaze
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the conspiracy to mutate and attack the biology of humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtt9rlm0ajw.
my facebook was "lit up" today with all the out cries about the possibility of the organization's website being banned in russia.. as many of you recall this past august a court in russia banned the website and sought to make accessing the website in russia illegal.
well tomorrow the appeal by the org will be heard in court.
if the appeal is denied, jw.org will no longer be available in that part of the world, causing endless lamentations and cries of "persecution", only to bolster the idea that they are truly hated by the world because they are true christians.
Yep. While it's good that Russians won't be lining up to join, this has come as a result of a much larger initiative by Putin to gain control.
Censorship = always bad
went to the movie theatre over the weekend to take in jack ryan (not bad) and saw the trailer for "noah" (russell crowe and a solid cast) whats the bet the dubs will be given a rule encouraged to examine their own consciences when attending this movie.
from what i hear its fairly true to the genesis account, but hey its hollywood with cgi at their disposal.. .
my guess is they will not be allowed to go until the gb 2.0 attend a screening at loews cineplex, grab some popcorn and pop and give it their blessing..
Should change the title to The Epic of Gilgamesh and see if the bible thumpers catch on
this is taken from the bbc's sunday morning show 'the big questions'.
i was going to pick out a few highlights but really, you need to watch the whole thing - it's only 23 minutes.
seriously, i could feel the bile and frustration rising in my gullet .
nonononoNonONONONONONONKNO!!
Unless it is to be presented alongside a list of myths of other cultures. But to be offered as a possible explanation of how the world came to be or an "alternative" to reality, NO. This discussion should have been over before it started.
