What absurdities stand out to you now that you've left the MADNESS??
The idea that God allowed his creation to be thrown into chaos, evil and darkness to prove Satan was wrong. What a stupid thing to do, and what a stupid thing to swallow?
now that i've been away from the cult going on 4 years, one huge absurdity that sticks out in my mind is that we were doing things out of service to an invisible king.
let me repeat an invisible king, whose only proof that he existed was through a global public relations magazine distribution campaign.
no visible show of this king's sovreignty, no activity by this king to act on his campaign platform.
What absurdities stand out to you now that you've left the MADNESS??
The idea that God allowed his creation to be thrown into chaos, evil and darkness to prove Satan was wrong. What a stupid thing to do, and what a stupid thing to swallow?
after reading this news on the link below i wonder, what do you think could have found curiosity on mars?.
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_curiosity-may-have-made-historic-discovery-on-mars_1767511 .
curiosity may have made 'historic' discovery on mars published: wednesday, nov 21, 2012, 13:54 ist .
???? Ethos - consuming your post allocation so that you don't have to reply to all those outstanding questions??
he's asking if i've read the first page of the new watchtower.. says page 8 admits and exposes the society's mistaken expectations.. says that both mags have been adjusted to reflect the understanding of generation.
asking if it is my position that witnesses have made claims to be inspired prophets.... and saying if it is, maybe *we* can consider together some examples in the bible of others who have had wrong expectations and have gone ahead of god's timetable and see how god handled that..
You will notice that this “admission” in the January Watchtower starts by asking the question, “Have Jehovah’s Witnesses given incorrect dates for the end?”, and starts the answer with, “Jehovah’s Witnesses have had wrong expectations …” After that, everything is we do this, or we do that - thus making it a collective admission on behalf of all Jehovah’s Witnesses. This is a typical example of the Watchtower Society shifting the blame from the leadership to the R&F. Had they said something like, “The Watchtower has given wrong expectations etc” then I might have some respect for it, but, unlike didgeridoo, I have absolutely no respect at all for this pusillanimous excuse for an admission that admits nothing from those that need to admit, and has not the slightest hint of an apology.
there are no less than two (watchtower publications) examples where six year old toddlers have been baptized.
what do you think?.
len.
JWs are quite incapable of applying to themselves the “rules” by which they measure other religions, whether it be criticising doctrinal changes, false prophecies, sweeping wrongdoing under the carpet, or child baptism. Such rules do not apply to them because, as NewChapter said, they have the Truth!
the jws just called.
they are new to the congregation since i left in 2002/3.. they were offering a dvd for deaf people to 'learn what god requires of me".
i said there were no deaf people here.. the other guy that was just standing there asked if there were deaf people in this area.
Jookbeard, you could always go to jw.org and request a bible study....
let's say there is a new law.. once each year the leader(s) of any religious group have to answer 20 questions in public on tv posed by their critics.. twenty questions are allowed for a one hour presentation.. of course, we would expect softball answers.
except for one thing: the questioner can press a "bullshit" button!.
that would mean the question is repeated and another answer was called for.
If you’ve ever watched a seasoned politician avoid answering a question you’ll know that you will never get an answer from someone who doesn’t want to give one – even when the answer is a simple as yes or no. One of that species of sub-humans managed to avoid answering such a simple question about twenty times in a TV interview before the interviewer gave up with another question, “so you’re not going to answer the question?” but he didn’t get an answer to that one either. Even a bullshit button won’t help, but it’s still interesting to speculate.
My question would be – In view of the Watchtower’s many failed predictions given in the name of Jehovah, why should we not apply Duet 18:22 to it?
the jws just called.
they are new to the congregation since i left in 2002/3.. they were offering a dvd for deaf people to 'learn what god requires of me".
i said there were no deaf people here.. the other guy that was just standing there asked if there were deaf people in this area.
Perhaps the WTS just overproduced and have initiated this campaign to unload them.
how does a person (non-jw) outside the organization get this cd the wt publishes?
how much does it cost?.
note: i'm not asking how much it's worth.
If you can't get hold of the CD you can get most of their books from here;
Ethos – you have a lot of questions to answer here, so I’ll just repeat the issue that jwfacts has raised, “the ongoing evidence that Holy Spirit is not directing the organisation”. In answering it please explain how an organisation can knowingly misrepresent and lie in attempts to cover over past mistakes? If you need examples use the search facility above, but I would rather not debate examples, just how you can reconcile the lying with "God is Truth".
if this is "the truth," why has the information provided over the years contained so many errors?
at what point does "error" become "outright lie" for you?
how high (or low) are your standards for your spiritual leaders?
As Witness My Fury has said, they knowingly teach one thing that they know to be false – that Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon in 607 BCE. They cannot correct that error because too much else starts unravelling. How can the GB claim God's direction when they KNOW they are teaching falshoods?