One needs to understand that Satan the devil or lord of evil was created to counter goodness.
LOLz.
Know me not, you do.
Posts by Scully
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40Why did Satan want to kill Jesus?
by FaithfulBrother inwhy would satan have wanted to kill jesus if jesus' death would defeat satan and save mankind?
why would satan enter judas at the last supper and get judas to betray jesus, leading him to his death, if this death is what defeated satan?.
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Why did Satan want to kill Jesus?
by FaithfulBrother inwhy would satan have wanted to kill jesus if jesus' death would defeat satan and save mankind?
why would satan enter judas at the last supper and get judas to betray jesus, leading him to his death, if this death is what defeated satan?.
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Scully
That question actually gives more credibility to the notion that Jesus orchestrated his own execution. He had been a pain in the @$$ with the Jewish priesthood in control at the time - doing good deeds on the Sabbath, exposing their moneychanging in the temple, etc. They wanted him silenced - dead - to protect their corrupt practices. Jesus wanted to be a folk hero, and being martyred played into those plans too.
It's not terribly unlike the way the WTS used to incite riots by encouraging JWs to picket churches, and then suing for human rights violations once they were arrested.
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Jehovahs Witnesses and AML
by Marvin Shilmer injehovahs witnesses and aml.
today i uploaded a new article addressing the dilemma faced by jehovahs witnesses diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (aml), and the doctors who desperately want to provide the best medical outcome.
the situation is not what jehovahs witnesses are led to believe.
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Scully
A while back, I read People of the Lie, by M. Scott Peck. He made reference to Erich Fromm's definition of necrophilia, which included
the desire of certain people to control others--to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.
In contrast, the "biophilic" person
appreciates and fosters the variety of life forms and the uniqueness of the individual, he [Fromm] demonstrated a "necrophilic character type," whose aim it is to avoid the inconvenience of life by transforming others into obedient automatons, robbing them of their humanity.
In other words, necrophilia, as defined by Fromm, included the murder of the individual, if not in body, then definitely in mind and spirit.
Sound familiar?
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Does Anyone Know Anything About a New Request for Black Sisters at Bethel?
by OnTheWayOut inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cur3jfect5a.
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it suggests that the gb has asked black sisters to go natural with their hair..
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Scully
Don't you know that a decent weave takes precious hours away from Proclaiming The Good News™?
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Book - Richard Dawkins
by LV101 inanyone out there --- please be so kind to recommend the dawkins' children book re evolution.
i've ordered magic of reality but have a feeling it's the wrong book.
didn't see a children's book listed at amazon.
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Scully
I bought the book, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting to see from Dawkins. I flipped through it quickly and put it away. I'll have to sit down and read it this summer. I have some Evangelical Christian in-laws coming to visit and don't want them to overstay.
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Jehovahs Witnesses and AML
by Marvin Shilmer injehovahs witnesses and aml.
today i uploaded a new article addressing the dilemma faced by jehovahs witnesses diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (aml), and the doctors who desperately want to provide the best medical outcome.
the situation is not what jehovahs witnesses are led to believe.
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Scully
A conservative estimate of preventable deaths in year 2011 among Jehovah's Witnesses suffering severe anemia is right at 2,000 souls.
I remember posting a long time ago, that if the number of deaths among JWs for lack of blood transfusions occurred all at once, instead of one at a time, in isolated incidents, the body count would be greater than Jonestown, and the outcry against the practice would be deafening.
918 people - men, women and children - died at Jonestown. We have here a conservative estimate of 2000 preventable deaths in 2011 among JWs. That's more than TWO Jonestowns in a single year.
This has to stop. We have to start making a lot more noise.
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I am VERY surprised that........
by Iamallcool ini am very surprised that a very pretty lady that is i/o psychology doctorate major, she would like to go out with me on date.
she knows that i do not have any college degree.
to be honest with you, i am pretty much intimidated by her intelligence.
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Scully
Don't be silly, you're her latest psychology experiment.
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The Hypercorrection Effect - Scientific American article
by Scully inpermanent address: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=certainty-principle-people-who-hold-false-convictions-are-better-at-retaining-corrected-information.
certainty principle: people who hold false convictions are better at retaining corrected informationresearchers have used imaging technology to spy on the brain as it corrects strongly held beliefs, shedding light on how we might learn from our mistakes.. by charles q. choi | friday, april 27, 2012. image: flickr/olly newport.
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Scully
james_woods:
OK, I have read it twice and I don't completely understand the JW connection.
"People who hold false convictions are better at retaining corrected information"
Are we trying to say that JWs (who do hold many false convictions) - would be better at retaining information AFTER they let go of the false convictions?
Or, are we just saying that people who join things like the JW religion are highly impressionable, and are easier to retain suggested ideas?
Actually, what I took away from the article was that the person who goes the extra mile with their JW studies - the "true believer", if you will - who knows, for example, the scriptures to support the WTS's blood doctrine, or the scriptures that "prove" 1914 is the year that the Gentile Times™ ended, based on 607 BCE as the year for Jerusalem's destruction, who feels those beliefs in their heart of hearts, when presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, will have their beliefs fall apart like a house of cards. These are the ones who feel betrayed by the WTS, people who cannot unsee what they've seen, or unlearn the corrections they've learned.
On the other hand, there's a huge number (the vast majority, I would imagine) of JWs who go through the motions, more or less as social JWs. Doctrine is something the Governing Body sorts out. It's not for the Sheep™ to understand. You just trust what the Organization™ tells you and obey, and that's all you need to do to survive Armageddon™. They're intellectually lazy when it comes to the nitty gritty of the JW belief system, and you could show them stacks of evidence to disprove any number of JW doctrines, and they don't care beyond repeating the WTS's mantra: "That's Apostate™". The evidence doesn't have the same impact because they haven't invested in The Truth™ on an intellectual level - and that's how the WTS likes it. It creates dumbed down, fiercely loyal, poorly informed followers, rather than bold, well-informed and confident individuals.
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Watchtower threatens to sue their own
by blond-moment inexamining the scriptures daily.
interesting.
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Scully
I love this part:
Watch Tower has not given you permission to ... distribute its materials.
So the Legal Department has no problem with someone NOT going Door-to-Door™, because that would involve the distribution of Watch Tower materials, without the expressed permission of the copyright holder, Watch Tower.
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The Hypercorrection Effect - Scientific American article
by Scully inpermanent address: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=certainty-principle-people-who-hold-false-convictions-are-better-at-retaining-corrected-information.
certainty principle: people who hold false convictions are better at retaining corrected informationresearchers have used imaging technology to spy on the brain as it corrects strongly held beliefs, shedding light on how we might learn from our mistakes.. by charles q. choi | friday, april 27, 2012. image: flickr/olly newport.
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Scully
It's articles and research of this kind that make me wonder whether the JWs who refuse to change, despite overwhelming evidence that we provide to them that the belief system is rubbish, are not really "true believer" material, like I used to be, and are more likely to be social JWs, who don't dig too deeply into the doctrines or examine their beliefs beyond the superficial.
