Posts by Funky

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Another Rainbow explained....

by snare&racket in

due to the many variables involved it has been difficult for science to predict how proteins fold to form their uniquely functional state.

proteins are built from individual amino acids up, coded by dna.

protein function is dictated by its shape and amino acid make up.

Funky

I wonder if the JW's will retract and apologise for their 'hypothesis' or simply stay quiet and say nothing about one more false claim

I assume this is rhetorical.

The WT Org does NOT retract and does NOT apologize for ANYTHING - EVER.

Frankly, well over 98% of Bethelites lack the brain power to even understand the significance of the discovery. What almost certainly happened is that some Bethel "writer" in 2008 copy-n-pasted the information from some creationist website, having only a vague notion of what it meant beyond "God of the gaps must have done this". But it sounds convincing to the ignorant, so in it goes.

"Stay silent" is the obvious correct answer for what they will do now.

14

Meetings

by pontoon in

so remember how assembling together is a command and no man or government can stop us, even if it means going 'underground', even if means being arrested, jailed, beat....can't stop us from assembling together----until covid.

now it's "false regligion" fighting for their constitutional right to meet together while the jws seem to be perefectly happy zooming their lives away..

Funky

They are still meeting openly, just via video. You still get guilt-tripped for missing meetings.

In fact, it's even easier to check up and see who is missing now. Just scroll down the list of attendees and see which names are missing.

On the other hand, it is easier than ever to "check out" mentally. Just sign onto the zoom meeting with your name displayed, turn the camera off, and go off to play video games until the meeting ends. Elders see your name and assume you are listening.

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Watchtower's Art Department strange and hidden images

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

watchtower examination has a youtube video about subliminal images drawn by the watchtower's art department.

i'm not a professional artist but i see too many strange and hidden images in this drawing.

i have boxed four examples of hidden images.

Funky

Regarding the songbook change, a lot of times they change the artwork when one of the "real life" people who served as a model gets disfellowshipped.

JWs are so thorough in their DFing, even drawings and photographs of the JW get disfellowshipped!

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Yet More Apostate Damage Control

by neat blue dog in

unbelievable.

okay actually it's very believable.

check out the latest video on jwdotorg:.

Funky

They haven't had so much "bash the evil apostates" content of late. Wonder what caused this sudden outburst?

JWs with too much time on their hands due to COVID restrictions, and researching stuff on the internet, maybe?

11

November campaign

by Brainfloss in

has there been any topics about the november watchtower campaign— what is gods kingdom?

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Funky

Turns out sending letters / emails with unwanted "literature" or fishy-looking links to businesses & government offices is having approximately 0.000 impact on the lives of anyone.

Who'da thunk it?

86

Voter Fraud !

by Sea Breeze in

dick morris sounds the alert:.

https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

Funky

Those are good videos.

You should forward them to Rudy G and the rest of the A-Team.

I'm sure the judges in Pennsylvania, Michigan etc. will be impressed.

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Was 2019 the last convention ever?

by joey jojo in

in a recent feel-good instagram post about the 2019 international convention, a jw remarked, "was it the last convention we will have?".

there is no doubt jw's feel they are truly special and that world events revolve around them directly.

there is also no doubt that whether we get a vaccine for covid or not, and at the moment, its looking very certain that we will, that the world will continue to spin and life will go on, regardless of the beliefs of the jw's.. once the pandemic is over i'm wondering if some jw's will realise that even though they lived through a notable period of time, life kept sailing on, and maybe they aren't that special after all?

Funky

That's true regarding the big international events - they've discovered that even the poorest JWs are willing to pony up thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars to get treated like "rock stars" for 7-14 days.

I know several who have drained virtually their entire life savings to go to one of these things. Then when they get back home, and the buzz wears off after 3-4 days, they immediately start trying to figure out how they can do it again.

I suspect that in the future, nearly all regional conventions will be very low-key, likely held in assembly halls wherever possible, and the glitzy no-holds-barred international conventions will be held every year up to their saturation point (when they run out of JWs willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to be treated like a rock star for 7-14 days).

86

Voter Fraud !

by Sea Breeze in

dick morris sounds the alert:.

https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

Funky

With all the evidence of massive voter fraud the legal procedures must be going really well for the Trump campaign!

Here is their strategy:

1) Present stupid, incoherent arguments in the lower courts (e.g., submitting affidavits which mix up "Minnesota" with "Michigan", claiming votes were changed in Philadelphia by voting machines not used in Philadelphia, misspelling the name of the governor of PA numerous times, etc.).

2) Get laughed out of court dozens of times (aka "dismissed with prejudice")

3) [Inset magic box] Somehow this gets to the Supreme Court

4) Reveal super-duper secret evidence they've been sitting on until now

5) Supreme Court is gob-smacked and rules in Trump's favor

It's all a highly complex, unprecedented legal strategy. 5-dimensional chess, if you will.

86

Voter Fraud !

by Sea Breeze in

dick morris sounds the alert:.

https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

Funky

Now there's this:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/trump-campaign-statement-on-legal-team/

“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”
- Rudy Giuliani, Attorney for President Trump, and Jenna Ellis, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Adviser and Attorney for President Trump

When you're too nuts for a legal team that includes Fruity G.....wow.

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Was 2019 the last convention ever?

by joey jojo in

in a recent feel-good instagram post about the 2019 international convention, a jw remarked, "was it the last convention we will have?".

there is no doubt jw's feel they are truly special and that world events revolve around them directly.

there is also no doubt that whether we get a vaccine for covid or not, and at the moment, its looking very certain that we will, that the world will continue to spin and life will go on, regardless of the beliefs of the jw's.. once the pandemic is over i'm wondering if some jw's will realise that even though they lived through a notable period of time, life kept sailing on, and maybe they aren't that special after all?

Funky

They've already announced the 2021 convention will be like the 2020 one, presented entirely on video & broadcast on jw.borg.

If they have very many more video-only conventions, I suspect it will be really really hard to motivate JWs to attend in-person even when it is finally possible.