As always the content is excellent and the presentation superb.
Since I know you are a perfectionist, let me nitpick.
On page 13 change
"Act’s report of the meeting’s message".
to
"Acts' report of the meeting’s message".
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"The Watchtower's Achilles' Heel"
by Doug Mason inif reasoning with a jehovahs witness on the watchtower societys interpretations of the kingdom of god, parousia, the cross, blood, and so on is unlikely to break the wtss mental stranglehold, what then is its achilles heel?.
http://www.jwstudies.com/the_watchtower_s_achilles__heel.pdf.
doug.
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NSA spying on Vatican! My JW parents are SOO EXCITED!
by BU2B init just came out yesterday that the nsa has spied on the vatican and pope francis.
when i went over my parents house yesterday, you could see the excitement, the energy in their eyes when they talked about it.
my dad even pumped his fist like he won something when he was talking about it.
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Emeth,
The apostles did not get it wrong. Jesus spoke very clearly and misled them. It was Jesus who either lied or promised and had no power to deliver. When are you gonna realize that "this generation" died almost two thousand years ago.
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Fastest growing Religious group in the USA is "None of the above" it is "No Religion'.
by jam inhave anyone read this report published by jonathan.
turley in oct. 10, 2012 ?
don't know his credentials or.
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There's hope. Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet, which has, and will continue to liberate many people from the bonds of superstition.
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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)
by slimboyfat inafter some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
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Agree with Farkel and JWFacts. SBF is B.S.ing or he is nuts. He reminds me very much of my own brother, who died many years ago when he was only 34. He craved the opportunity to call the attention of others, especially by doing the unexpected and the crazy. His untimely death may have been related to the fact that he always displayed an abnormal behavior, including taking gratuitous risks, even with his own life. Somehow my brother was well enough to finished university and become an architect, but definitely, he never fit in, and he loved it, or so it appeared.
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Catching the Governing Body with their pants down around the ankles
by Terry inthe following information is significant and extremely useful.. for what?.
for proving a point about jehovah's channel of communication.. what about jehovah's channel of communication?.
it is a fool's paradise of misinformation, awkward and ridiculous assertions and hard-headed nonsense presented as superior divine insider knowledge.. ***.
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Excellent and very valid point. It took them 15 years for the light to get brighter, just about the average life for their teachings. Unfortunately, a new more compassionate understanding of the blood as a life saver may be loaded with too many civil law suits, therefore the old light will have to stay much longer than any other "revelation". Sad and sickenning!
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The reason behind why the ex-JW community can never match Jehovah's Witnesses' success.
by Stand for Pure Worship inan average of five kingdom halls being constructed daily, almost 8 million brothers and sisters, dissemination of bible literature in 595 languages, 111,795 congregations worldwide, distribution of 179 million bibles available in 116 languages, 239 countries where jehovah's witnesses have a presence, etc.. need i go on?.
on the other hand........... crisis of conscience, freeminds, the awaa, jw.net, ummmmmm........hmmm........idk six screens or something?
not exactly working out for you guys.
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Success? The number of hours to get a single baptism is 6 or 7,000. Add to that the fact that most baptisms are indoctrinated children from birth. Success was the 90's. You can only get children, depressed people, and very poor third world country people. I guess your argument is not very persuasive, nor are your doctrines and bible studies.
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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)
by slimboyfat inafter some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
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B.S.
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steve does a wonderful job of showing that he is sovergien over everything.
Quite the sovereign indeed! Isn't he the same guy wo incites David to number the Israelites and then kills 70,000 innocent people to reward David's obedience (2 Samuel Chapter 24) Better than just sovereign, let's call him a cruel ruthless tyrant.
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A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian
by cofty ina manual for creating atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it.
peter boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than twenty years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
- amazon.... "boghossian has provided an indispensible chart book for all of us who must navigate the rising sea of magical thinking that is inundating america today.
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You, sir, and all who think like you, are to be pitied for your arrogance and your foolishness.
Excuse me... Who is arrogant?
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Jan 2014 WT study - more vomit
by EndofMysteries inarticles such at "100 years of kingdom rule" in which jehovah has 'in a sense' begun ruling as king, and jesus in a sense was made king.
even though the kingdom hasn't actually come.
it's not clear if the 1,000 year reign has began or not, if so only 900 years left of jesus rule?
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Also worth noting is how the graph in page 15 is plotted inaccurately to make people believe that growth has remained steady. If you do the math, the period between 1980 and 2000 shows an average growth of 193 K publishers per year, while the period between 2000 and 2010 shows a much smaller growth of just 119 k publishers per year. These number when properly plotted should show a marked decline in the slope of the graph. If you look at the Watchtower's graph you hardly can tell there is a change between the two slopes 1980-2000 and 2000-2010. To illustrate, the change in slopes is comparable to slopes changing from 60 deg to 37 deg (or 30 deg to 18.5 deg). Quite a difference!!. Mark Twain was right when he said "There's three types of lies: Lies, damn lies, and the Watchtower statistics". I obviously slightly modified Twain's quote at the end.