nice to be here.
still a pimo and struggling through my fade.
i still have several jw friends on social media.
The point I feel is, that the Witnesses are supposed to be Polically Neutral.
That's the claim, but they've really lived up to it. The JW parent organization has stumped for the U.N. and taken sides on gun control, environmental and social issues.
Why would the rank and file behave any differently?
how many of you remember these?
(since these are old i don't think the tower will get a hernia.).
a stroll down memory lane!https://docdro.id/ylyfur6peace among men of good will.
I don't recall circuit assemblies at Laurel...
You're right. I misspoke. These were district conventions.
ever since i came out of the witnesses, i've become very political.. i've heard lots of arguments back and forth for many things.. in the u.s. there is the argument that it is "racist" to want to deny entry to muslims.
while there is freedom of religion, there is also the very valid concern of maintaining democracy and a justice system that is based on modern values.we as exjw's constantly quote the pew center for statistics on jw's such as: they are last place in the us for members of a religion that go to university, and second-last for poverty levels of members of a religion.
we accept those statistics and mention them as proof of how damaging the jw's are.now, let's use the same center for some very scary statistics on islam:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/.
Anna,
As a Jewish person, I find Spinoza far more palatable than Voltaire, Kant or Hume.
ever since i came out of the witnesses, i've become very political.. i've heard lots of arguments back and forth for many things.. in the u.s. there is the argument that it is "racist" to want to deny entry to muslims.
while there is freedom of religion, there is also the very valid concern of maintaining democracy and a justice system that is based on modern values.we as exjw's constantly quote the pew center for statistics on jw's such as: they are last place in the us for members of a religion that go to university, and second-last for poverty levels of members of a religion.
we accept those statistics and mention them as proof of how damaging the jw's are.now, let's use the same center for some very scary statistics on islam:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/.
So if you want to investigate further, its up to you
I have to admit I'm perplexed by the fixation on philosophy at the expense of the scientific innovation of people like Newton and Galileo and more specifically, the fixation on Voltaire at the expense of people like Spinoza and Kant, but we all have our own areas of interest.
ever since i came out of the witnesses, i've become very political.. i've heard lots of arguments back and forth for many things.. in the u.s. there is the argument that it is "racist" to want to deny entry to muslims.
while there is freedom of religion, there is also the very valid concern of maintaining democracy and a justice system that is based on modern values.we as exjw's constantly quote the pew center for statistics on jw's such as: they are last place in the us for members of a religion that go to university, and second-last for poverty levels of members of a religion.
we accept those statistics and mention them as proof of how damaging the jw's are.now, let's use the same center for some very scary statistics on islam:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/.
I would argue that racial Antisemitism has its roots in the religious Anti-Judaism which predates the enlightenment by many centuries.
how many of you remember these?
(since these are old i don't think the tower will get a hernia.).
a stroll down memory lane!https://docdro.id/ylyfur6peace among men of good will.
Anyone notice the address on the Accommodations Form?
917 Lyons Ave., Laurel, MD. 20810
The horse racing facility in Laurel was regularly rented for circuit assemblies. Since the racing season runs from April through November, it was perfect for the JW's, as the venue was largely vacant the rest of the time.
ever since i came out of the witnesses, i've become very political.. i've heard lots of arguments back and forth for many things.. in the u.s. there is the argument that it is "racist" to want to deny entry to muslims.
while there is freedom of religion, there is also the very valid concern of maintaining democracy and a justice system that is based on modern values.we as exjw's constantly quote the pew center for statistics on jw's such as: they are last place in the us for members of a religion that go to university, and second-last for poverty levels of members of a religion.
we accept those statistics and mention them as proof of how damaging the jw's are.now, let's use the same center for some very scary statistics on islam:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/.
I don't know of any Christian religion that wishes to follow the following Bible texts literally:
That's because both Christianity and Judaism experienced this thing called the enlightenment during roughly the 17th through 19th centuries.
Concepts such as the primacy of reason, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state emerged and crystallized.
Islam did not get that memo
this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
The Stanford seroprevalence study is very good news. In the interest of accuracy though, influenza burden is not modeled in this fashion. Cases not requiring medical attention are almost entirely a matter of self-diagnosis via questionnaire. Asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases would similarly fly under the radar and not be included in mortality estimates.
i was just watching this on you tube, about the growth of the lds church.
i think these numbers may support a number of theories that have been discussed on here.
(1) the jws are bigger as a religious organisation.. (2) jw membership is more engaged, as well as, more ethnically diverse.. (3) wt is been honest with its counting.
Ex Mormons and Ex JW's both look at each other's religions a little wistfully sometimes and neither seem to understand the differences that make comparisons difficult.
The grass is always greener I suppose.....
a little background first.
my first father- in-law, levi peterson was born in 1889. he personally knew rutherford.
he started the newark, ny congregation.
Russell plagiarized his belief in 1914 from John Aquila Brown, a Seventh Day Adventist.
Brown died 20 years before the Seventh Day Adventists were founded and the 1914 date actually came from Barbour.
He was however one of the first known expositors to claim that the 7 times of Nebuchadnezzer were a 2520 year prophetic period.
