Posts by CookieMonster

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Watched The Bunker Videos Again On JWSurvey

by JW_Rogue in

i watched the bunker videos again and noticed something strange.

even though none of the characters had actually been disloyal to the org when commended for their loyalty they all say "it wasn't always that way".

it was always that way, none of them had actually sinned!

CookieMonster

This has to be a new level of crazy....lol

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JW TV, this month about evolution

by bohm in

this month the last segment is about evolution.

one is with a sister with a university education in biochemistry who (presumably) teaches at a highschool or public school.

she says that left handedness of amino acids indicates life was created because "if it was a random process half would be right handed and half left handed" (paraphrased).

Watchtower should stop embarrassing themselves with pseudoscience, everything I was told and learnt in the Evolution or Creation book was utterly biased and misleading. When it comes to evidence and scientific method it is very hard to deny evolution.

I wonder if one day the Watchtower will take a similar stand as the rest of the worlds religion and acknowledge that evolution is fact and the creation story was a metaphor.

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This man knows more about sanctity of life than the entire governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses

by CookieMonster in

sikh man uses turban to save dog from drowning in canal.

when sarwan singh a devout sikh saw a dog drowning in a canal he decided to act immediately to save the dogs life.

he took off his turban which is a sacred symbol of his religion.

CookieMonster

Sikh man uses turban to save dog from drowning in canal

When Sarwan Singh a devout Sikh saw a dog drowning in a canal he decided to act immediately to save the dogs life. He took off his turban which is a sacred symbol of his religion. You are only allowed to take it off while bathing or at home but not in public which is disrespectful. He made a rope out of it, clambered down, tied it around the dog and lifted it back to safety.

He said “The moment I started taking off my turban, people watching around were shocked. They thought I was disrespecting my faith,” he added, “but what was important at that point was to save the animal’s life.”

A man who truly understands the sanctity of life, the governing body should read this and hang their heads in shame. How many more more lives will have to be sacrificed on operating tables for refusal of blood transfusions? How many more before they realize that life is more sacred than the symbol which represents it?

You can read the heart warming story and watch the video on the link above.

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New Field Service Report

by cognac in

jw
friends

has anyone seen this?

when did that happen?.

http://www.jw-archive.org/post/137681838624/new-service-report-jwinspirational.

CookieMonster

If it was me, I would post the videos on my Youtube channel and count the number of hits.

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What went through your mind when you saw this Picture?

by John Aquila in

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CookieMonster

Why is it that the great crowd get tested twice by Satan for an earthly reward while the anointed are tested once and rewarded with a 1st class ticket to heaven?

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Witnesses killed my friend today.

by WasOnceBlind in

today has been a horrible day.

what began as a day of joy finding out that one of my lifelong friends had her baby, turned into a nightmare when her brother called me to let me know she had passed away after birth.

i was in shock and didn't ask how.

CookieMonster

Truly tragic, very sorry for your loss.

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You don't paint the rooms on the Titanic

by TTWSYF in

this was the line my nephew gave me regarding why jws don't give alms.

i had several rebuttals to give him, but didn't.

i was hoping for some comments from this board.

CookieMonster

I never understood the anti-charity stance. Even Jesus cured the sick & fed the hungry before delivering his sermons. He encouraged charitable works not just to your own spiritual bros & sis but also to be extended to the rest, yes even your 'enemy'- as taught by the parable of the good samaritan.

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Conversation with a Biblical scholar - Richard Dawkins

by CookieMonster in

quite interesting when you look at the bible objectively and the historical records.

it highlights the problems of using the bible as authoritative and validation of history.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxcutg0lvr0.

spoiler: didn't know that the immanuel prophecy attributed to jesus as being born from a virgin is actually a mistranslation.

CookieMonster

Quite interesting when you look at the Bible objectively and the historical records. It highlights the problems of using the Bible as authoritative and validation of history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxCUTg0lvr0

SPOILER: Didn't know that the Immanuel prophecy attributed to Jesus as being born from a virgin is actually a mistranslation.

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Evolution is a Fact #2 - DNA Functional Redundancy

by cofty in

in the first thread in this series we looked at how the same protein molecule can be assembled by many different sequences of amino acids.. we took the example of cytochrome c and saw that there are many times more possible sequences than atoms in the known universe.

however the sequences in humans and chimps are identical, and as we look at species less closely related to us by evolution the more differences we find.

this is very compelling evidence for common ancestry.. in this post we are going to look more closely at the dna code behind those amino acid sequences.. the "language" of dna is made up of just 4 "letters" - a,c,g and t.. sequences of letters are read off in groups of 3 called codons.. acggcctcgaatgccttc would be read as acg gcc tcg aat gcc ttc.