when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?
i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.
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But at that time it did seem to make a lot of sense during the "Cold War"
That's what's missing these days.
Back in the 60's & 70s, it was all rubbish and foolishness, but at least it was coherent crap. If you suspended belief in reality, you could pretty easily imagine the WTS picture "fitting" world events. The puzzle pieces fit together.
Today, it's just fluffy panda-petting promises and behavior modification guidelines.
someone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
Peaceful Pete,
Hard science and facts are merely a distraction on threads like this.
On discussion boards like this....but I digress....
when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?
i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.
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You can now read an entire year's worth of Awake magazines in like 20 minutes.
Literally.
Although, which really is worse: Silly bullet points copied from the back page of "Psychology Today", or 40 pages of Fred Franz's blather about the type / antitype relationships between Antiochus !, Ptolemy, etc. vs. 18th and 19th century popes.
Which is worse: Brief, vacuous nonsense, or long-winded pseudo-intellectual claptrap that aspires to be profound but is just essentially word salad?
someone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
So, in other words, it turns out a vaccine with a 95% effectiveness rate, also has a 5% failure rate?
That is, 1 in 20 persons who receive the vaccine will get infected anyway?
Mind-blowing stuff.
Math is hard!
galaxy andromeda flying towards the milcky way is a fact so why god did that ?
i don't see the point, the galaxies will enter in collision in a very long time but i don't understand why a lovely god would do this it feels stupid.
(or there is no god).
I remember a loco, sorry, local "anointed" single spinster tell me that she liked to imagine the angels howling with laughter as they sent galaxies, planets, comets, what-have-you, crashing into each other, like 5-year-olds crashing their toy trucks on a playground.
Good times.
1.jehovah`s witnesses base their bible on christendoms determination of what books of scripture were to become what is known as the bible today,going back to the third century ad.. there were many ,many other books of scripture in existence at that time that these men decided in their own imperfect wisdom not to include them .. where it suited them the jw / gb would use the research of christendoms learned men who compiled bible dictionary`s and bible concordances.. 2.by far the vast majority of jehovah`s witnesses today are off-shoots of many of christendom`s religions from whom they poached members from and then gave birth to their own offspring to grow in numbers.. with all of there self praise of witnessing in all of the earth ,it is mainly wholly contained in lands where christendom has established the major religion of that land and jw`s have poached the most vulnerable people of that time.. 3.how many thousands of people have they converted in bangladesh ?
pakistan ?
china ?
Speaking of India, my understanding is that the JWs there preach almost exclusively to already-Christian Indians, and well over 95% of the population of India is just completely and utterly ignored.
most jws are restricted to letter writing ministry right now.
of course i've heard a load of highly dubious 'encouraging experiences' about it already.. but what i'm wondering is how these letters are actually being received and what effect they are really having?.
i also find it disturbing that jws are being told to put their home address on the letters they send out.
Well, the USPS is getting a lot more revenue as 1 million+ JWs in the US are buying millions of books of stamps.
Oh, did you mean "results" as in "people wanting to convert to being a JW"? If so, then the answer is, technically speaking, "Bupkus".
i can remember when i joined the chess class in middle school.
my mother brought out an older watchtower article about how chess is a game of war.
since i left the cult in 95 i have slowly lost any connection to the cult.
Nothing written about chess for decades. That negative article you remember was written in the 60s or 70s.
They are neutral toward video games, except those they consider to be violent or immoral. They rail against those vehemently and regularly.
Oh, and they also ramble about spending "too much time" on video games. You'd be better off reading the Bible or "preaching", which these days consists of writing letters than no one ever reads (a slight improvement over knocking on doors that no one ever answers).
yes, the long-awaited vaccine entered my bloodstream yesterday at 5 pm.. as steve martin humorously remarked, "good news/bad news.
good news: i just got vaccinated!
bad news: i got it because i'm 75.
So is Bill Gates beaming telepathic messages directly into your brain yet?
if you don’t support certain ideas or beliefs, you may find yourself on the losing end in business, money matters, and community.
curt schilling, a former red sox player who is conservative today reported how his insurance company suddenly dropped him even though he was an excellent consumer with them because of his “ views”.
he was marked by those in charge and evidently was told by the rep he knew that they didn’t like his political views.
No wonder some people are losing it and causing riots and insurrection.
"Look what you made me do. If you treated me better, I wouldn't have to beat you, dear wife."
