one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.
this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.
just wondering, as i will be visiting active jw family in ohio in a few weeks, do you think it will be worthwhile dropping it into a conversation, about the wtbts pyramid near his grave, or try some other topic to try and wake them up.
i was never baptized and don't really care if they get upset or not, but it is only a day trip from ohio to pittsburgh, and thought it would be fun if they denied it, and then drove their to see it for ourselves.
Personally the pyramidology aspect is interesting as an historical setting. It does show to those who know about it that Russel was influenced a lot by other religions and it took almost a century to form the JW org as we know it today: not surprisingly the WT now affirms that Russel was not the faithful discreete slave. My point, which incidentally I was discussing last night with my wife during our amily study is:
If Russel was demoted and no longer believed to be the faithful slave, I would assume for the lot of BS he wrote, what about Rutherford with his 1925 resursection of the princes? and waht about Franz with the brilliant ideas of 1975?
Worth dropping the topic to see if they really study the history of the JWs!!
l thought this would be an interesting exercise to read the different responses.
my question is what makes you think your gods chosen medium?and prove it.
This is my firs post. I habe just joined the forum. A bit about me:
Male, active JW, baptised at 17 in 1982. Simple publisher who reports an average of 5.5h/month.
These would be my questions to teh GB:
1. Why did the GB never apologise publicly for the mistakes of erroneously pointing to dates, like 1925, 1975?
2. Why do we need to report the number of hours we spend in the ministry, surely this is a private gift to Jehovah, so it should be private. (if it were not for upsetting my wife I would starty putting an "x" on the hour coloumn!)
3. Why the GB keep the finance of the world wide work secret? Surely if we belong to the org. I need to know how the money is spent and if we need to give more or not, in order to gauge my contributions (personally I stopped putting money, morally I cannot accept that Millions have been used to pay out lost court cases for child abuse)
4. Why have we stopped the TMS with talks which were used to train males to become public speakers? Are we going to see a decline in public speaking skills now that we do not instruct males through the TMS?
