Posts by jp1692

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Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness

by UnshackleTheChains in

i came across this video, which looks at mental illness among jws.. it is an old video, but really hits the nail right on the head as to the reasons why there is such a high level of mental illness among the jw's.. https://youtu.be/co-b65w-zqs.

jp1692

Although Furuli is definitely a scholar by most academic standards, his field of expertise is Semitic languages, not psychology. He is also well known for being a rabid JW apologist:

Based on his studies, Furuli has attempted to defend the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses—of which Furuli is a member—including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than the broadly recognised dating of its destruction in 587 BC. - Rolf Furuli

His bias and lack of objectivity is obvious in everything he writes concerning JWs.

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Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness

by UnshackleTheChains in

i came across this video, which looks at mental illness among jws.. it is an old video, but really hits the nail right on the head as to the reasons why there is such a high level of mental illness among the jw's.. https://youtu.be/co-b65w-zqs.

jp1692

The Rolf Furuli "study" is highly flawed for many reasons which I will explore in a bit when I have more time.

His pro-JW bias is blatantly evident. Also, he relied on the opinions of JW elders in determining if people suffered from mental illness or not. Yes he did. I kid you not!

It's really a joke.

As LisaRose previously commented about this "study":

Being a lecturer in Semitic studies does not qualify you to do a study on mental health, it's frankly laughable. He may mean well but what are his credentials in mental health? What are his credentials in statistical analysis? Was this even peer reviewed?
You are talking about a religion where it is not acceptable to be unhappy, much less admit to mental illness, so how accurate could any casual study actually be? And in a religion that disfellowships people for bad conduct, how meaningful is any one time study anyway? Anyone seriously mentally ill will soon get disfellowshipped, which is going to skew the results. You would have to do a long term study from birth to determine how many actually became mentally ill, which I doubt was done here. I don't even know how he got this published.

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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

by dubstepped in

jw
friends

so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

jp1692

Here is an excellent video that explains how “micro” becomes “macro” while deconstructing the incorrect idea that there was ever a first human:

There Was No First Human (PBS)

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SKE, and other acronymic crap

by MTSman in

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friends

so, i was sort of forced to spend time with my uber-in parents.

they went on gushing about the website, and the new business cards they have to give out to busy people.

business cards?

jp1692

Here are a few of my favorite anti-JW acronyms:

WTF
BS
STFU
LMAO

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Flat earth vs round earth

by Jrjw in

my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

what are people's thoughts on this?.

jp1692

Is The Earth Really Flat?

“It wouldn’t be fair to just assume the Earth is round or that the Earth is flat without taking a look at the evidence.”

“There is a whole belief system in place that covers every aspect of a flat Earth.”

Evidence or beliefs .... hmm, which should I choose?

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Did man really go to the moon?

by atomant in

l have researched this subject and come to the conclusion that no we didn't.what do others think?.

jp1692

Um, Mars is farther away than the moon. The outer planets are even farther.

Duh.

Thank you Dagney for bringing some current accomplishments to the discussion!

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Interantional friends

by Mayryn in

jw
friends

i am looking for new friends .

jp1692

Welcome from the US, West Coast.

Where are you?

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New Letter: Announcements and Reminders

by Brian J in

letter dated 1/1/2018.

i know they are trying to simplify but it all is such a confusing mess.... forms, dates, calculators, committees, logins, publisher record cards.....jesus would barf.

to all bodies of elders re: announcements and reminders dear brothers: in an effort to reduce the number of letters sent to all bodies of elders and congregations, most announcements from the branch office will now be conveyed to congregations by means of the announcements and reminders (s-147) form.

jp1692

And this good news of the Announcements and Reminders will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the congregations and then the end will come ... soon, after an unknown number of overlapping generations. - Anthony 24:14

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Analysis of 2017 vs 2016 Yearbook reports for Europe

by Splash in

so these countries roughly constitute europe.. here's how well they did in 2017 vs 2016:.

2017 peak pubs.

2016 peak pubs.

jp1692

Hail the Theocracy, ever decreasing!

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Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

by slimboyfat in

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friends

in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

jp1692

CG: Isn't it time to move on?

Great idea. Why don’t you?

Move on. Get lost. Hit the road. Skeedaddle.

What’s it to you if we discuss this until the end it time?