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  what type of faith do you REALLY want?

  by atheist_R_stupid in

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  i find that when talking people who say they "used to be a jehovah's witness" they say words that show they have in fact, never been one.

  it's like a man that worked for the post office for 30 years in a main major urban hub like chicago or new york... and you ask him, "in your last position, what was your rdo?

  " and the man says "whats an rdo?".

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  TerryWalstrom

  HOPE is a state of mind which says, 'Things are going to turn out just fine even though they sometimes don't." It is a positive outlook tempered by the understanding that real life doesn't always go our way.

  FAITH is a state of mind which says, 'I am absolutely sure of this without a doubt.'  It is an unrealistic and rigid refusal to prepare for contingency or consequences.

  
  

  INTELLECTUAL HONESTY is the willingness to be wrong when viewing all the evidence, as well as the courage to change even the most treasured of one's deeply held 'truths.'

  
  

  PRAGMATISM is measuring the truth of theories and beliefs by assessing the results of their application to real life.  Results are what matter most.

  
  

  In view of the above, I would endeavor to be an intellectually honest pragmatist.
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  Watchtower Accused of Intellectual Dishonesty

  by wannaexit in

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  watchtower never learns.. i applaud dr. singh for speaking out and his open letter to watchtower.

  http://jwalumni.org/2015/01/17/rama-singh-awake/.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Intellectual honesty is the willingness to be wrong when evidence disproves your opinion or belief.

  Intellectual dishonesty is unwillingness to allow complete evidence to come to light.

  The dark, dark pathway is the road taken by the GB and their feckless writing staff.

  
  
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  rama singh WHAT HE REALLY SAID, so you men can stop lying

  by atheist_R_stupid in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "there have been repeated scientific challenges to the.

  theory of evolution in the past, and the nonbelievers of evo-.

  lution cite them as support for their case.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Who exactly is this?  "...people like you..."
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  CANDACE CONTI - MIXED EMOTIONS

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  whatever the outcome of the appeal, i fear that most of us are going to be very disappointed.. a) obviously if the org wins.. b) if the org loses, they will put their plan 'b' into action - damage limitation - which will iinvolve confidentiality agreements being signed by pending/future victims, thereby settling the majority of cases out of court, and winning in several ways;.

  there are probably other benefits, but these are the principal ones, and for these reasons i reckon the floodgates will never be allowed to be opened!!!

  they've seen how other establishments have responded to their pedophile cases, and have picked up some good tips on how to minimise the effects.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I'd rather celebrate victory than dread.
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  The lame HARP of GOD of Joe Rutherford as seen looking back to his silly lies

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  project gutenberg is an online library of books.

  it caters to e-book readers although any of its volumes is easily accessible as html and plain text..

  the harp of god by j.f.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Project Gutenberg is an online library of books. It caters to e-book readers although any of its volumes is easily accessible as HTML and plain text.

  THE HARP of GOD by J.F. Rutherford was first published as an edition of 510,000. Now let’s just stop right there and think about that. A quick look at the following website demonstrates the literary competition for reader interest in that same year.  http://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1921

  The Watchtower’s publishing business had the distinct advantage of free distribution by volunteers. No doubt, at least half a million people were soon reading the bold and utterly false words contained in THE HARP of GOD. Such as?

   Proof Conclusive that
  Millions now Living will never Die

  J.F. Rutherford, as the second President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, writes confidently, persuasively, and with extraordinary authority. In all of this, we are now reminded, he could not have been more misled in this sense of divine guidance and election!

  [443]Suppose we admit, for the sake of the argument that no man knows the day nor hour of the Lord's appearing. What difference does that make? The hour and the day have already passed. He is here! And let all truly consecrated Christians rejoice. "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you," says St. Paul. (1 Thessalonians 5:1) The times and seasons are clearly established by the overwhelming proof that the Lord is now present."

  
  

  Now how silly is that line of reasoning?

   

   
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  What do YOU desperately need, but you've been putting it off?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know why, but i put off getting a haircut way longer than i should.. i might go as long as 5 or 6 months between haircuts.. i desperately need a haircut.. what do you desperately need, but you've been putting it off?.

  (disclaimer: minimus is going to be jealous.

  this sort of question is his tradmark :).

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  TerryWalstrom

  Thinking of maybe an orange Mohican, what do you think?

  
  

  Try an orange Mojito first, you'll be able to think more clearly then!

  
  

  (mo·ji·to

  mōˈhēdō/

  noun

  1. a cocktail consisting of white rum, lime or lemon juice, sugar, mint, ice, and sparkling water or club soda. )
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  What do YOU desperately need, but you've been putting it off?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know why, but i put off getting a haircut way longer than i should.. i might go as long as 5 or 6 months between haircuts.. i desperately need a haircut.. what do you desperately need, but you've been putting it off?.

  (disclaimer: minimus is going to be jealous.

  this sort of question is his tradmark :).

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  TerryWalstrom

  When I get home I pull receipts out of my pocket and put them on a shelf, but I don't throw them away. I never use them or look at them again.

  You could heat a city with the energy from burning all of them.

  Why don't I throw them away? 

  Waaahhhhhhh
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  What do YOU desperately need, but you've been putting it off?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know why, but i put off getting a haircut way longer than i should.. i might go as long as 5 or 6 months between haircuts.. i desperately need a haircut.. what do you desperately need, but you've been putting it off?.

  (disclaimer: minimus is going to be jealous.

  this sort of question is his tradmark :).

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  TerryWalstrom

  I don't know why, but I put off getting a haircut way longer than I should.

  I might go as long as 5 or 6 months between haircuts.

  I desperately NEED a haircut.

  What do YOU desperately need, but you've been putting it off?

  (Disclaimer: Minimus is going to be jealous. This sort of question is his tradmark :)
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  Why are JWs so afraid of apostates?

  by Magnum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why are jws so afraid of apostates?

  their view of apostates seems to be out of the realm of the ordinary, the natural.

  its as if the words of apostates are supernatual or spiritistic as if apostates are some kind of jedi knights who can slightly wave their hands or twitch their eyes and bring one under a spell.

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  TerryWalstrom

  APOSTATES are like the Charleton Heston character in the original

  PLANET OF THE APES

  He was proof the worldview of the Apes was upside down.

  
  
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  The World Seems to Think Putin Is King of The North

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this past october geoffrey jackson told the audience at the watchtower corporate meeting that "they aren't sure who the new king of the north is".. this was applauded as new light.

  but if you look up the search terms putin king of the north your won't see jw.org pop up as a top search result.

  i checked through the first 100 results and n-o-t-h-i-n-g.. isn't interpretation of prophecy the special territory of the jw's.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I am 68 years old. I'm old enough to have lived through the Let Your Name Be Sanctified era of Congregation books studies.

  The U.S.S.R. figured mightily into the sausage factory of Watchtower theology way back then. A lot of guesswork went on with certainty attached. The Cold War made the biblically naive unsettled and their conjectures went into overdrive.

  The U.S.S.R. brought Gorbachev and that red birthmark on his forehead. Oh, what a field day the Bible donkeys had with that one! THE MARK OF THE BEAST!

  Ha ha ha ha.

  Nonsense is nonsense.

  People who imagine the Bible to be something real, will carry on with silliness for two thousand more years just like they did in the past.

  There is no THERE there--but, it hasn't stopped anybody yet.

  These historical moments come and go; come and go, like the tide.

  What do they 'mean?"  What does a cloud shaped like Abraham Lincoln 'mean?'