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  Russia to liquidate Jehovah's Witnesses' organization

  by processor in

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  2. scandals

  http://starconnectmedia.com/2017/01/19/russia-gets-go-ahead-to-liquidate-jehovahs-witnesses-organisation/.

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  You would think that by now politicians would have learned that persecution only encourages religious fanaticism. It's history's most obvious lesson.
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  Promise Keepers

  by schnell in

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  2. friends

  "real men keep their promises.".

  i remember that bumper sticker from the 90s when i was a teenager in texas.

  i didn't know it was attached to a kind of cult.. this article is 14 years old, and may well have appeared on this site before, but i'd like to reference it anyway because i see parallels, of course.. whatever happened to the promise keepers?.

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  Wise men don't make promises.
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  If "the Truth" is the truth, why are witnesses so scared of research?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  it is an often asked question i know, but it perplexes me.. if witnesses are so convinced that they have "the truth", why is the act of researching information from external sources so taboo?

  didn't the bible itself tell people to "use their powers of reason" and also praised ones like the boreans for researching things they were told??.

  seriously, if there is no doubt about the organization being "god's channel" on earth, and it alone having the "truth", surely researching would only enhance such 'facts'?.

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  LOL. Rutherford looks like such a carny huckster in that photo I couldn't help but laugh when I saw it.

  
  

  It's a good thing that he was capable of appearing respectable and earnest when he wanted to, or no one would have been taken in by his BS.

  
  
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  Young People Ask: I’m Attracted to the Same Sex—Does That Mean I’m Gay?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  eurgh!

  more patronizing and uninformed reasoning from the "experts" at bethel.

  this time tackling the sensitive subject of those attracted the the same sex.

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  Some straight boys do go through a phase of homosexuality but this is usually only happens when they are denied access to girls due to stupid religious rules or because they live in worlds created by pervy fanfiction authors.
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  If "the Truth" is the truth, why are witnesses so scared of research?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it is an often asked question i know, but it perplexes me.. if witnesses are so convinced that they have "the truth", why is the act of researching information from external sources so taboo?

  didn't the bible itself tell people to "use their powers of reason" and also praised ones like the boreans for researching things they were told??.

  seriously, if there is no doubt about the organization being "god's channel" on earth, and it alone having the "truth", surely researching would only enhance such 'facts'?.

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  Phizzy10 hours ago

  I asked this of an Elder, who said he did research on non-JW Sites, like Wiki. I thought that's a start.

  He then said that any whiff of a Site being Apostate and he was off. I said "Why ? if something is true, it doesn't matter if Satan the Devil himself told you it, it is still true, why be afraid of truth?".

  
  

  A truth presented by Satan himself is just as true as a truth stated by God. ~ Charles Taze Russell
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  I am a Living Time Machine

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

  everywhere you found telephone booths!

  a call was a nickle.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

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  In some ways I envy you.

  I wouldn't want to be 70 years old, but I think I would have loved to have been young when you were young. The fact is I feel totally alienated from my own generation (Gen X); I always have. Almost everyone I know in my own age bracket is addicted to drugs and functionally illiterate.

  I can do more than imagine how much it sucks to be seventy years old. I grew up around my grandpa and his siblings so I know what old age is like. But even so, you should feel proud to be a member of your generation, for it is, so far, the most privileged generation in history; and not just in terms of prosperity and overall happiness, but in what you were able to see happening right before your eyes (like the Apollo moon landing).
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  Looking for a Book on Evolution

  by Saethydd in

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  2. beliefs

  i am wondering if anyone is aware of a book or series of videos designed to explain evolution to creationists, (specifically the jw strain of creationism if possible) without being patronizing or overly confrontational.

  i would like to have something to recommend to people who challenge evolution, but i know that the sources which convinced me would turn most of them off because of the confrontational and at times condescending tone in which it's presented.. some examples of what i'm looking for would be someone who doesn't claim evolution is a fact until after they have presented all of the evidence that makes it a fact and also have addressed as many counter-arguments as possible..

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  The Origin of Species of Species by Charles Darwin.

  
  

  Why not go directly to the source? Darwin believed in God and never just assumed that his theory was correct, but instead meticulously presented the evidence and did his best to answer the objections of critics.
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  "Punishing Doubt". The need to be "loyal" to the society. GREAT video

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  this is another great video from theramin trees called "punishing doubt".

  fantastic reasoning, and very well presented!.

  really worth watching!!.

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  It was a good video but the producer seems to be under the impression that if Jehovah existed he would disapprove of child molestation and should therefore do something to stop it.

  But if we search the scriptures we find no such prohibition and in fact there is at least one instance where Jehovah orders the rape of younger girls (Num 31:17). As for boys, the prohibition against homosexuality in Lev. 20:15, if we examine the wording closely, we find that it only applies to a man lying with another MAN in which actual penetration takes place.

  I'm not saying that Jehovah exists. But if he did exist, there is no reason to believe that he would disapprove of rape, least of all the rape of children who aren't married and therefore cannot commit adultery by definition.
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  Why the resurrection must be true

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  okay i was thinking about it.

  and it is a transhumanist argument and nothing new, i do realise that before anyone points it out.

  but it struck me afresh today that the resurrection must happen.. firstly, to state the obvious, a rational materialist conception of reality seems to exclude resurrection.

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  You might want to look into Friedrich Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence. Though both mathematicians and consmologists have attempted to poke holes in it over the years, I maintain that the idea, properly understood, still holds water.

  One of these days I intend to write a refutation of all known refutations of the doctrine of eternal recurrence
  
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  Are baptized Witnesses that are no longer in the "truth", but were NEVER DF'D, now to be shunned and treated like disfellowshipped ones?

  by Dunedain in

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  2. beliefs

  a relative of mine was telling me, that in his, and a few neighboring congregations, there is a little confusion amongst some of the jw's about this "issue".

  some families are having a hard time about whether certain relatives will be attending certain family functions, because some family members that are no longer in the "truth", might be invited to these functions.

  mind you, these persons were never disfellowshipped.

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  Yes, it's official now. But even before it was official, associating with faded JWs was not something that you would do if you had any concern for your standing in the congregation.