i was supposed to attend the meeting today, one of my once a month duties for the sake of my family and my fade.
i read the wt and i just can't stomach going.... what this wt does is again and again reiterate that only jws will survive the coming destruction and that they should be happy about this and raise ourselves erect...eg:.
we cannot expect that many people will suddenly convert to true christianity.
Millie: Funny that one of the criteria for living through the coming upheaval is how you treated the anointed.
Never mind that there are almost no anointed in any congregations anywhere.
I guess you can treat them well by proxy through your financial support of the FDS, which coincidentally are the seven leaders of this scam!
Let's review: It's a cult!
science can explain how of things, but it cannot explain why of certain things (for example, why did life arise from non-life and evolved from simpler creatures to more complex life forms only to die and disappear?
) so are the conflicted religions whose chief concern is in safeguarding each ones separate identity..
next option is to look for pearls among the stonesusing power of our own reason.
Rebel8, thanks for giving us the context of Sagan's quote.
I knew there must be more to it. The OP contains many examples of WT style misquoting: selectively taking a quote out of context to make it appear to say the exact opposite of what the author intended.
Clearly a deliberate deception.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150913/shunning-cult-practice-jehovahs-witnesses
science can explain how of things, but it cannot explain why of certain things (for example, why did life arise from non-life and evolved from simpler creatures to more complex life forms only to die and disappear?
) so are the conflicted religions whose chief concern is in safeguarding each ones separate identity..
next option is to look for pearls among the stonesusing power of our own reason.
Iconoclastic: Science can explain HOW of things, but it cannot explain WHY of certain things
I completely agree with your thread title. It caught my attention. But you lost my by the fourth word of your long, convoluted and rambling essay, which did not--as far as I could tell (and, yes, I read the whole messy thing)--support your thesis.
You clearly do not understand what science is, how it works or what it does and does not attempt to know, understand and explain.
You might find this thread helpful in understanding science:
so my uber devoted mom called me this morning....wanted to encourage to go to the hall today.
she has called my df brother also to encourage him.
our deliverance is getting near, she says....and you need to get to the meeting today.
The fact is that violence is actually in decline. Anybody want to return to the Dark Ages? I think not!
Professor Pinker explores ideas drawn from his book entitled The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined.
that was the question to me tonight.
because of their beliefs they have a moral compass, a net work of friends and a support group.
they have what they believe is a loving god.
Clarity nailed it, writing with exquisite clarity.
This is a cult. The leaders are manipulative liars and hypocrites. If they--that is, your family--choose to remain in a dangerous, destructive cult, then I suppose that's their right (if they are adults).
I think a better question is this: Who are they to screw up your happiness?
End of story.
is this double talk or is it just me?
it's a comment in the sept 15, 2015 wt about higher education:.
11 today, we are blessed with much knowledge of jehovahs works of creation and the outworking of his purpose.
There are at least two things going on here:
1. The Governing Body is aware of the clear correlation of people attaining education and leaving the organization. They publicly assert that it is due to "Satan's corrupting influence." Whether they know or not that it is actually because these people learn to think critically and see what real academic writing is or not we can only speculate.
2. The Governing Body is jealous. They don't want anyone to have what they don't have, which in this case is an education. Every single one of them is an uneducated yahoo.
Let's review: It's a cult!
i was supposed to attend the meeting today, one of my once a month duties for the sake of my family and my fade.
i read the wt and i just can't stomach going.... what this wt does is again and again reiterate that only jws will survive the coming destruction and that they should be happy about this and raise ourselves erect...eg:.
we cannot expect that many people will suddenly convert to true christianity.
... love for Jehovah and to support the anointed ...
It's important to notice how they constantly link "Jehovah" with themselves. This is a deliberate and very powerful tool of manipulation.
It subtly creates the illusion in the minds of "the believers" that obedience or disobedience to "the anointed" (Read: The Governing Body) is obedience or disobedience to Jehovah.
Let's review: It's a cult!
now after 21 years in professional psychology/humanities, i love talking to brothers that adopt a slow pace in speech, and low tone of voice when they deal with the rank and cold un-associated ones.
my mirroring their present state in personality seems to psych them out for a bit.
i then tap into my fast injection of logical sense, that throws them off.
HBTS: It's the lowering the head, crossing the arms across the chest, taking a breath, like they're really thinking hard about a reply ...
You forgot the stroking of the chin!
2005...three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day.
at least 80% of humanity lives on less.
than $10.00 a day.
ROH: Please at least quote Richard Dawkins when your using his words verbatim!
To whom are you directing your rant?
