Posts by AndDontCallMeShirley

i've never wondered about this before, but i've been on this kick about the supposed infallibility of god.. let's consider for a moment that the flood was real.

god had created the expanse of water in the heavens that shielded the earth from the sun.

this is what he considered to be the the right way to build the earth.

AndDontCallMeShirley

I was just wondering how a Witness might explain this.

JW explanation: "go to JW.Org".

or the WTS hasn't thought about it.

In reality, what does WT actually think through?

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Expanse before the flood... will He put it back?

by BetterGuyNow in

i've never wondered about this before, but i've been on this kick about the supposed infallibility of god.. let's consider for a moment that the flood was real.

god had created the expanse of water in the heavens that shielded the earth from the sun.

this is what he considered to be the the right way to build the earth.

AndDontCallMeShirley

God did it this way so he could eventually blame skin cancer, faded car paint, and polar ice caps on Satan.

I'm a building contractor. If every time I built a project it all turned to crap, after a while someone my question my ability.

Do what god does: blame the project. That we you never have to introspect to find the real source of the problem.

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Why JW marriage is a huge problem for the organization.

by kneehighmiah in

jw
friends

the difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.

but i would say it's hard for brothers also.

i was talking to a jw last night.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Max Reede : My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside.

Fletcher : That's just something ugly people say.

-- from "Liar, Liar".

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Why JW marriage is a huge problem for the organization.

by kneehighmiah in

jw
friends

the difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.

but i would say it's hard for brothers also.

i was talking to a jw last night.

The qualities of a prospective marriage mate in WT Land have nothing to do with love or even liking the other person. Compatiblity is based solely on artificial, contrived, idiotic corporate rules with no other purpose than to perpetuate conformity.

As the 3/15/15 WT clearly showed (through an alleged true experience involving "Bill" from Australia), "compatiblity" with the person you marry is based only on: they go to meetings, they go door-to-door, they read WT literature. That's it.

WT complicates the situation further, through statements like T-Mo3's comments, that a man MUST be at least a ministerial servant to be considered worthy by a JW woman.

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After all, JWs were RIGHT!

by abiather in

1) science and technology appeared as a savior to mankind, yet the overall result points to the opposite direction.. http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-has-human-progress-ground-to-a-halt/.

2) john kerry warns of catastrophe if climate change is not tackled.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4295230.ece (times, saturday 13, 2014).

AndDontCallMeShirley

Pay attention to your feelings. They can be instructive.

"It is tough to discover that what you have believed in and invested your time in for so many years is a false hope and even a fraud/scam. You can spend hours and a lot of verbiage in rationalizing justification and excuses to continue the learned belief system." - Douglas A. Wallace

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Global War on Religion Has Began - Archbishop Wabukala

by cofty in

the anglican archbishop of kenya, eliud wabukala has declared that the terrorist attacks in kenya by al shabaab is part of a global war on organised religion.... speaking to a men's association conference yesterday he blamed "militant promotion of atheism" and called on all religions to unite against the threat.. how long until the geniuses at brooklyn towers quotes him as an authority on world affairs, as opposed to the paranoid buffoon that he is?.

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AndDontCallMeShirley

"militant promotion of atheism"

"militant"- translation: atheists minding their own business and going about their lives quietly.

called on all religions to unite against the threat.

With over 30,000 Christian sects and denominations alone, much less all the other religions, good luck on that one, Archbishop!

So much easier to blame a fictional atheist boogeyman for problems rather than address the real cause (religion).

What a joke.

Calling Atheism militant is like calling bald a hair color.

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What were the calculations used to arrive at the 1874 date of Christ's return?

by Zoos in

we all know the calculations used by the wt to arrive at 1914. fall of babylon in 607 (false year), gentile times, no zero year, ta-da, 1914.. what did they use before that?

i know it wasn't russell who came up with it - he just adopted it.

i'm just curious what they had to explain away when they made the transition.. .

AndDontCallMeShirley

The entire religion is based on speculation.

"Modesty* on the part of the faithful and discreet slave class, commissioned to provide the Christian household with food at the proper time, prevents it from presumptuously running ahead and wildly speculating about things that are still unclear. The slave class strives to avoid being dogmatic. It is not too proud to admit that as of now it cannot answer every question, keeping Proverbs 14:18 clearly in mind. But how thrilling to know that Jehovah, in his own due time and in his own way, will continue to reveal his secrets as to his purposes! Never should we become impatient with Jehovah's arrangement, indiscreetly trying to rush ahead of the Revealer of secrets. How reassuring it is to know that the channel Jehovah is using today does not do so! It is both faithful and discreet." --Watchtower 6/1/97 p.14, par.7

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* if WT is bragging about its modesty, is it really modest??

Isn't that a bit like faking sincerity??

Of course, you are 100% correct Vanderhoven, but WT fails to see its speculating forest for its false date trees.