Posts by Anders Andersen

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All Hail Our Robot Overlords

by Coded Logic in

absolutely amazing how fast this technology is advancing.

at the darpa challenge last year the robots could hardly walk up right and it took them ten minutes to walk through an open door frame.

now they're running around outside and opening doors like a pack of velociraptors!

Christadelphian

by Billy1000 in

my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.

i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.

in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.

Anders Andersen

@Billy,

Btw kudos to your politie and calm demeanor.

You behaviour is unlike many other (so-called) Christians and/or Jehovah's Witnesses responding to people challenging the validity of their beliefs.

It doesn't mean you're right ;-) but it's a commendation to your humanity :-)

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Christadelphian

by Billy1000 in

my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.

i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.

in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.

Anders Andersen

@QMI,

Imagine a person making money selling cherries.

He has a basket full of cherries. Half of them healthy, half of them poisonous.

He picks out the healthy cherries and eats them. He tells you about how healthy these cherries are, and how the guy who grows the cherries is such a nice guy.

Then he wants to force you to buy and eat the whole basket including the poisonous cherries. "Because the guy who grows the cherries is such a loving and kind guy."

So, no cherry picking of any kind please.

"Eat your own godfood" ;-)

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Christadelphian

by Billy1000 in

my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.

i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.

in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.

Anders Andersen

Results of shunning in my case:

I hardly know my brother and his 'wordly' family as I have shunned my brother since he was 18. I think I saw him 5 times in 20 years.
I have shunned my sister for about 10 years. My niece and nephew hardly know who who their uncle is.
My mother shunned both of them as well, and missed large part of the early years of 3 grandchildren.

Now, since about September I found out JW are not the truth (and I am confident to say neither are Christadelphians or any other religion)

My brother-in-law and his wife have decided to shun me, without even first talking to me about what I decided and why.
Most of the friends I thought I had, part of the most loving people on earth, serving the God of love (JW), never talked to me again when they heard (not from me) I quit. How lovely and loving.
Friends that do still talk to me and think I'm either insane of fooled by the devil.
On the bright side, I started to reconnect with my brother and sister and some friends whom I shunned...

Religious mandated shunning is evil.

Any religion that practises shunning and makes people 'kill' their own family, blame it on the victims, and then call that 'loving' is a cult.

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Bets on when the UN prophecy will be dropped?

by marmot in

now that i'm free to bet, i figured it would be neat to start a pool on when the watchtower is going to change light bulbs on the prophecy about the united nations turning on worldwide religion.

there is no doubt in my mind that this prediction will be dropped.

not only is this the longest-running unchanged prediction in the wt's history (1925 and 1975 had much shorter gestations) it's the last detailed concrete prediction the society has left in its bag of tricks.

Anders Andersen

Yes, and yes.

So, what can we expect will happen during the coming great tribulation? Jehovah will “cut short” the attack of the United Nations on false religion, not allowing true religion to be destroyed with the false.
W2013

4 How will the great tribulation begin? The book of Revelation answers by describing the destruction of “Babylon the Great.”
[...]
But who will destroy the harlotlike organization? Jehovah God will put “his thought” into the hearts of “the ten horns” of the “scarlet-colored wild beast.” These horns represent all the present political powers that give support to the United Nations, an organization pictured by the “scarlet-colored wild beast.”
W2015

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Un-****ing-Believable

by OneFingerSalute in

just a few observations from this morning.

.. this morning as i was trying to choke back the bile that kept wanting to come up during the wt study one comment in particular screamed cult.. towards the very end as comments were being made about "counseling" others with "gracious" words one of the uber-dub minstral-serpents made this comment, "we see in the last image that the brother is holding a bible as he counsels the other brother.

we look closely at the picture and we can know exactly what he is counseling the brother about.

Anders Andersen

How Christian of those taking issue with your personal grooming not to speak to you first.

Or were the elders just lying?

One could check it out by politely asking 'which one of my brothers has something against me, so I can make it right with him?'

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TV / Movie Clips That Summarize JW.org Life

by jw07 in

this is just meant to be a fun topic.. what are some tv and movie snippets that summarize the conformity and extremism of watchtower life in general?.

i found this trailer for the giver to be dead on :-).

it shows what happens when you start to openly question the organization and its policies.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etspwr5deek&feature=youtu.be.

Anders Andersen

@jw07,

Thanks, I'll watch that one with my still-in wife ;-)

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Need to vent: My loathing for the JW cult increases more and more, while my wife clings more and more to it

by goingthruthemotions in

just as i think my loathing for the jw cult has peaked, it goes higher and higher.

i wish this cult would just go away.

i wish my wife would just wake up.

Anders Andersen

@tornapart

Maybe your husband should watch the broadcasts. Or even better, you could drop some comments on them.

Hmmm....a Royal Commission investigation is labeled as apostate lies?
Wow, asking for money again?
Garlic bread.....really?
Ow that poor little girl. You know worldly people paid her way home?

No better way to wake up...

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I have doubts... can you help me??- A new idea

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i have been perplexed as to how to brung my wife out of jws and to exit the religion... but i had an idea last night.

i know that elders will legitimantly meet with brothers who have doubts and encourage them... not df them .. this is a sheperding call etc.. thus since my wife knows i have doubt s i could say: i want to have two brother over to discuss this ... she will agree.... of course i will hit these guys with biblical textual issues, an biology to where they are stunned and still ask... "so brothers... can you solve this conflict...?".

in this case they will not think of me as an apostate but may question their own beliefs... .

Anders Andersen

Thanks for the update!

You're a lucky guy it turned out quite OK with your wife...

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Who was the Gilead Student that jumped overboard?

by VM44 in

a gilead student from thailand.

a young thai girl who came to new york to attend the gilead school in upstate south lansing, new york, had a mental breakdown.

staff members pleaded with president knorr to send her home by plane, under supervision.

Anders Andersen

@Makemeanunbeliever,

Yes, apparently you have two choices in this:

Misconduct of imperfect human leaders and members doesn't mean an organization is evil. So JW is nothing special, and any religion can be considered God's people. And at least JW should stop bashing other religions, political parties etc because of misconduct amongst them.

Your God chooses adulterous murderers as his leaders. He could have chosen any of the meek, non-murdering, non-alduterous worshippers he has, but he chooses the assholes. What does that say about your God? How is he any better than any other God?