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  What is your IQ? Does it Matter?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i had an aunt that had rheumatic fever as a child and only had an iq the high 70's.

  but, absolutely no one was able to bs her on an emotional level.

  she had an uncanny ability to see through people's bs.

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  IQ is partially a construct of society too. Measuring the ability to know needed things. I read that whites could judge right angles better than aboriginals, but the aboriginal could judge acute/ obtuse angles better--different worlds.

  There is a msuse of intellect and ignorance too. Ancient peoples did not blunder into things, they thought things through despite the story that any innovation was accidental. From making fire with a flint to chimney smoke to knots. They may not have known the formulae but they did observe and engineer.

  I like antique machinery and hear the "how did they build this without a computer? " comment. It is the other way round, " how did they get the data in the first place?"
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  What are some of the weird teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses, past and present?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  i just picked up a few from mark jones as follows:.

  i see is that the vast majority of jws don't seem to understand what their religion actually teaches.. the more controversial or embarrassing doctrine - although still official doctrine that has never been rescinded - is just not talked about anymore in the magazines.

  there are dinosaurs living on venus.https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/2fowhx/dinosaurs_on_venus/.

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  Mr Roboto so they don't practise theological warfare ( lying ) any more ?

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  Sure. It is new lie(t).
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  Meetings for the New Year

  by Iamallcool in

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  this question is for pimo, did your zoom meetings have a new schedule starting on january 1?

  just wondering!

  that’s all!

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  It was actually reasonable. The vote was to change from a noon zoom to 10am. A no brainer. The shared hall (4 total) arrangement requires rotation for fairness.

  The conundrum is how a little baptist church with 50 members can afford their own building while jw's share a building, then some have to drive a half hour or more in city traffic. During a remodel they assigned a hall one and a half hours away, impossible to do.
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  Meetings for the New Year

  by Iamallcool in

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  this question is for pimo, did your zoom meetings have a new schedule starting on january 1?

  just wondering!

  that’s all!

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  Same. last year we were warned the morning sunday would revert to the hall schedule rotation if covid ended. Our coming turn was for late afternoon.
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  Enforced shunning violates free moral agency

  by Yomama in

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  what do you think?.

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  We hide behind family business. It is my business to see my son physically and mentally well, fed, sheltered, has transportation and the means to work on it, and an addressed to use if needed. It is also my business to see that his siblings, mother, grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts know of his welfare and vice versa.

  I do not shun anyone DF, though it may curtail association. As long as they are not a danger. Whether they reenter or not is their choice. I do have to be careful to not encourage staying out lest it bite me.

  We do see people who would not pee on a DF person if he was on fire. I am not that type, known for strong sympathy and kindness which I pride myself on and work at it

  I have never seen anyone DF for associating. Marked yes.

  Obviously I am not a good witness though. I'm on here and human
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  Biblical Anachronisms in JW Literature

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
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  in a recent post ffghost made a comment about how they're always inserting modern concepts into biblical narratives to make it relatable to jw's organization.

  here are some that come to mind:.

  - the capitalized term "governing body" when referring to the older men in jerusalem (really just another group of christians that paul outspokenly disagreed with and didn't look to for approval).

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  People were either big corporate type businessmen ( Peter fishing, Lydia), or disconnected hermits (Jesus had to find a tree, cut it down, haul it into town, to make things).

  Those bookbags would trip anyone😊

  Fleeing Jerusalem they worried about the congregation records being safe. I think the congregation would be way more close than these things passed off today so they would know the works and personalities.

  Jonahs sister would have been married at 14, not living at home.
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  How To Heal a Sick Mind According to the Watchtower

  by Sea Breeze in

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  healing for sickness of mind.

  many who are mentally and spiritually sick are not confined in mental institutions.

  millions are held in restraint, however, in institutions of another kind, religious organizations.... by his prophet god expressed his disgust with such methods and those who practice them.

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  The cure for anything is pray, study (literature-not bible), go to meeting, door to door.
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  Did the apostle Paul, Priscilla and Aquila sell their tents to the Roman army?

  by hoser in

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  apparently they made leather tents for the roman army.

  i had searched this site but i couldn’t find that this topic had been discussed yet.

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  I had always envisioned camels hair Bedouin tents. You sure they didn't have a contract with Walmart? According to talks and WT that is what Abraham used.
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  Newly wed--todays WT

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since i am still "in" i "studied".

  it takes all of 3 minutes to skim the article.

  points;.

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  Since I am still "in" I "studied". It takes all of 3 minutes to skim the article. Points;

  Rent, dont buy,-- rents here is easily over 2000

  Work part time-- the biggest cause of strife is poverty

  Jehoshaphat-- had money, lackeys, and did not live in moms basement

  Acquila Priscilla -- refugees
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  A New LOW for Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  https://youtu.be/eufngqq77tu.

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  Maybe I remembered wrong that they directed to tone it down.

  Any you old ones remember the cemetery work on (USA ) memorial day? I never went but it was done. Maybe put a tract on each marker like they do the flags.🙄