This guy did the Bayatyan vs Armenia case on conscentious objection for the ECHR as a lawyer.
He did actually a good job, I was impressed by his plea. Hope he wakes up one day using logic.
George One Time
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Petr Muzny: A Law Professor Explains His Faith
by konceptual99 inthis is absolutely feckin' priceless.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/viewpoints-origin-of-life/petr-muzny-law-professor/.
in yet another appeal to authority, jw.org has trotted out a professional to vouch for creation.
this guy is a law professor.
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George One Time
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George One Time
This is what the local elders make of it. In my congregation a longtime respected elder was just removed from his privileges having his disfellowshipped son visiting him while he was recovering from a serious illness.
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I found a list my Wife is makingof subjects i have told her about the BORG.
by goingthruthemotions inso me and my wife have not been on speaking terms for about 5 weeks, and when we do .
talk…it is arguing about the jw cult and more of a barrage from me telling here all the stuff i have learned.
i know i shouldn't do this....but, i get so freaking p.o ed aobut what this cult has done to my family.
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George One Time
I would be afraid of such a list too. This doesn't seem to be the list of someone who intends to do research for herself.
I am also in a situation where I brought up some troubling subjects to my wife and she seems to be writing her thoughs on paper too. However see writes at least the Bible verses down that help her to cope with my "serious doubts".
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Impact of NWT
by menrov inhi all, just recently i was thinking about the period of my study and eventual baptism as jw.
it took many years, i guess in all about 10 years.
various times i stopped the study but after a while it started again.
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George One Time
Reading the Arabic Bible, which was more literal translated than the NWT, opened up my eyes for quite a number of subjects. However, the Bible has so many horrible things in it, especially in the Mosaic law, that you cannot conceal those by translating it in a different way. So it was reading the Bible that helped me see ttatt.
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JW refugees and politics
by Anders Andersen inin the netherlands, an action going on to get two brothers from sierra leone a residence permit.. the men fled the horrible civil war in their country when 14 and 11 years old.
without parents.. they have now lived in the netherlands more than half of their lives.
they are well educated, have nothing in sierra leone and everything in the netherlands.
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George One Time
I happen to know them, however they are actually from Nigeria, so Sierra Leone is a foreign country for them, like they say in the article.
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Do you recognize?
by Gorbatchov ingorby has had a personal paradigm shift lately.. from one point to an other i "feel" and "think" different about the jw subject.. - no more interest in doctrine.
- no more interest in things that happen 100 years ago into an religion.. - no more taking statements too serious.
it doesn't matter me at all what a generation doctrine change is all about, it doesn't matter me at all that brother elder said "blablabla boe!".
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George One Time
Since I have to stay in, because of my relatives, I do still care about it. I am looking for opportunities to wake them up. So I try to keep up with the developments and give them tidy bits of information.
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CLAM Video: Aug 22-28 2016 – “Jehovah Will Care for Our Needs”
by Nicholaus Kopernicus inthis video showed a married brother with three children living in a nice domicile and working full time.
his employer demands that he change his working pattern such that it conflicts with his being able to attend wt meetings at the weekend.
the brother decides not to yield to his employer’s demand and is thus dismissed.. the brother seeks for work very actively over a significant period but without any alternative being found.
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George One Time
In this video too, a job offered was far away and thus refused. Why not show our beloved brothers and sisters that sometimes it is useful to be flexible and move to a place close to the job? That might not be possible for everyone, but for many it is.
I know a brother who was a farmer. He told me that he was frowned upon in the congregation, because he had to work at different times. You had to work part-time at an office in order to be a good witness... However he concluded that they did eat after all!
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to lie or to deceive (w 12/2016, par 18, 19)
by George One Time inwhy not use a biblical example, like jacob when deceiving his father isaac?
jehovah himself seems to have no problem with deceiving.
or 1 kings 22:19-22 "who will deceive ahab?
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George One Time
Why not use a biblical example, like Jacob when deceiving his father Isaac? Jehovah himself seems to have no problem with deceiving. Or 1 Kings 22:19-22 "Who will deceive Ahab?" Oh, did I mention the GB?
W 12/16 Set free by Undeserved Kindness
Are we determined to avoid both lying and deception? (See paragraph 19)
19 For instance, a man tells his boss or fellow workers that he cannot be at work the next day or that he must leave early because he has a “medical” appointment. In fact, his “medical” appointment is merely a brief stop at a pharmacy or a quick visit to the doctor’s office to pay a bill. His real reason for not being at work is so that he can get a head start on a trip or so that he can take his family to the beach. There may have been a grain of truth in his mentioning a “medical” appointment, but would you say that he was being honest? Or was he being deceptive? You may know of similar instances of deliberate deception. Perhaps this is done to avoid punishment or to profit at others’ expense. Even if no outright lie is told, what of God’s direction: “You must not deceive”? Think, too, of Romans 6:19, which says: “Present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.”
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Changes & Clarifications on our belief. DOMINO EFFECT blamed for late coming into print
by TheWonderofYou inin the august broadcast bro splane explains this point deeper.. when the brothers are sitting together and joyfully speaking about clarification of jw belief, they often encounter and deal with that "domino-effect" when one scripture has effects on others.
so all changes are carefully considered before they come into print, one after the other but late.. lately he mentions the "godfathers" brother jaracz , barr as good examples of reading the bible progressivly, they were very progressive at there time.
what ever this could mean he did not explain it?.
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George One Time
Domino? House of Cards!
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Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?
by notjustyet inwhile i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.
for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.
i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?
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So the interesting question is: Did Jehovah God himself choose the decimal numeral system? (His son will reign for a thousand years etc.) Or did he adapt himself to a system that humans invented?
Without a television at home ( to protect us children from bad influences), I read all the old Awake magazines. And yes, it was helpful eventually - to wake me up.
*** g71 2/8 p. 11 What the “New Math” Teaches Your Child ***
Different Numeral Systems
The decimal system is called a base-ten numeral system. But any other numeral base can be used. Babylonians used a complex base-sixty system and the Mayas of Yucatán calculated in base twenty. Today computers use the base-two system. “New math” courses familiarize young children with different numeral systems. The purpose of this is to help them gain a better understanding of the familiar decimal system, and of arithmetic in general.
The base-five system is perhaps the easiest one to learn, and it may be taught to your fourth or fifth grader. In this system, which uses only the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, each position has a value five times greater than the position to the right. Thus in the number 324, the first numeral represents itself, or 4. The second numeral, instead of representing 2 tens as in the decimal system, represents 2 fives. And the third numeral, instead of representing 3 hundreds, represents 3 twenty-fives. So 324 in the base-five numeral system is really 89 in the base-ten system!
This same pattern is followed in every numeral system. Thus in the base-six system each position has a value six times greater than the position to the right. And in the base-eight system each position has a value eight times greater than the position to the right. Note the value of the number 324 in the numeral systems below as compared with its value in the decimal system.
324 in base five = 75 + 10 + 4 or 89
324 in base six = 108 + 12 + 4 or 124
324 in base eight = 192 + 16 + 4 or 212