Those poor dumb suckers.
Apognophos
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WT asking people to sell and uproot life to help w/ temporary building projects...
by EndofMysteries incheck out the new jan 2015 study wt, article, they offer themselves willingly.
they give examples of young and middle age brothers and sisters who are selling their dream homes, uprooting their lives, etc, to move to help w/ building branches, etc, and how they know it's only temporary but not worried about what happens when they send them home.
they then say will you put jah to the test and see if he won't open the flood gates of blessings for you.
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Rick Fenton, please stop lying!
by Watchtower-Free inmakes a good point.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x8i192fbuq&list=uuz1w0ll081jjiycjb298pow.
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Apognophos
Fentonnnnnnn! Rick Fentonnnnnnn! Oh Jesus Christ!
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How to tell how effective JW.TV will be
by bohm inhere is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective jw.tv is going to be:.
in the past, how effective has religious tv been for you?
has watching religious tv made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality?
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Apognophos
Yes, tresdecu, I know of a very similar response from an old diehard JW.
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Terminology the Society Hates?
by toweragent inin my most recent talk, i got counseled for using some terms that were not prefered.
for example i said "new testament" rather than "the christian greek scriptures".
i also used the term "gospel", but even worse, i made reference to the "synoptic gospels" and the "gnostic gospel".. i guess i never thought of it before, but when i looked at the societies information on the matter they always say things like, "the so-called new testament..." or "the so-called synoptic gospels..." why with all the "so-called?".
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Apognophos
This is an interesting subject to me because I once slipped and referred to the "Old/New Testament" in a talk. In the old days I would have only used the Society-approved terminology, but my outside reading and newfound knowledge about the Bible is causing me to forget my JW lingo. I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but it stressed me out for a while wondering what people thought about that.
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Killing In Self Defense
by Cold Steel inthe man was moving around in the darkness of j's home with a gun.
he was certain j. and his family weren't there, but he was wrong.
when a door suddenly opened and a dark figure fumbled for the hallway light, he had only a moment to act.
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Apognophos
I'm curious what you or cantleave would have done in Cold Steel's situation, given that you are too enlightened to carry a weapon?
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How Religion Got in the Way
by Billyblobber ini feel this is an excellent mini-summary of the relationship of religion to science of the years and is a good read.
the only part i disagree with is "defining yourself by atheism.
" marginalized groups are defined that way by the majority and are forced to have it as part of their self identity.. .
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Apognophos
Well, I'll be interested to hear what he follows this up with, since he is saying that he will be discussing a framework of spirituality.
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How Religion Got in the Way
by Billyblobber ini feel this is an excellent mini-summary of the relationship of religion to science of the years and is a good read.
the only part i disagree with is "defining yourself by atheism.
" marginalized groups are defined that way by the majority and are forced to have it as part of their self identity.. .
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Apognophos
Interesting article, and I might agree with some points, but I tend to think that spirituality is not really much of a thing to live by. He basically defines it as an emotion, a feeling of awe. Emotions are the enemy of reason, are they not?
Besides the desire to think clearly, which I believe is aided by science much more than spirituality, I didn't grasp any other reason that he gave for the benefit of spirituality. It certainly can't answer "why" to anything, as nature itself presents no answers to "why". So looking at trees and birds tells us nothing except that nature is nice. To go beyond that is to use our imagination to make artificial value judgments, and that's what religion does.
If someone wants to make decisions in a clear-thinking way, then they should rely on reason. Leave emotions for the things that aren't life-changing decisions, but which make life enjoyable from day to day, like laughing at a movie, or snuggling with your mate.
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How good a commincator are you on this site?
by new hope and happiness inme i try my best but my spelling is bad and some times i get missunerstood...any funny exsperiences?.
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Apognophos
Really? I'm sorry to hear that. I wasn't aware it led to such spelling difficulties, I guess because I don't know anyone who's told me they have it. I know some people here use spell checkers, you should see if you can get that working for you.
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How good a commincator are you on this site?
by new hope and happiness inme i try my best but my spelling is bad and some times i get missunerstood...any funny exsperiences?.
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Apognophos
To be honest, when a post is full of spelling mistakes and weird punctuation, I generally don't read it. If the person writing it didn't care about their message, why should I? I spend large amounts of time composing my posts before I consider them fit for others to read. I re-read and re-consider them, move sentences around to flow more logically, and sometimes delete whole paragraphs.
Surely you can do better than "commincator", "missunerstood", and "exsperiences"? It was a short post, so I was able to slog through it, but the thing is, you spelled "unscrupulous" right, so why couldn't you have put more effort into the rest of your post? I'm not trying to antagonize, just genuinely curious.
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Killing In Self Defense
by Cold Steel inthe man was moving around in the darkness of j's home with a gun.
he was certain j. and his family weren't there, but he was wrong.
when a door suddenly opened and a dark figure fumbled for the hallway light, he had only a moment to act.
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Apognophos
That was a poignant story, thanks Cold Steel. Hard to believe that someone could follow it up with such a foolish remark. Really? Are there no thugs in the U.K.? What a utopia it must be to live there!
The fact is, a person may only need a gun once in their life, but that one time can be life-changing.