Island Man

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  Really beautiful Watchtower article about truth

  by Anders Andersen in

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  this is the singlemost best watchtower article i have ever read.. it almost brought tears to my eyes (please note the almost ;-)).

  "what is truth?

  "this question is one which every sincere christian should ask and seek to answer.

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  "I like the quote from CTR that says, "a truth told by Satan himself being just a true as a truth told by God himself".

  Huh?, come back with that again."

  You know, like when Satan told Jesus that all the kingdoms have been delivered to him and he can give them to whomever he wishes, and the JWs use Satan's words to say he is the ruler of the earth? The JWs obviously accept that truth spoken by Satan, don't they?

  So share the old 1879 Watchtower article with JWs and when they protest that they will never accept a truth from Satan or say that Satan can never speak truth, just ask them to explain why they accept Satan's words to Jesus as truth.
  
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  New Word Coined In April 2016 WT!

  by Naoscillator in

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  and the word is... .

  canaanitelike!.

  here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.

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  On further thought, why use the word Canaanitelike? The writer could have used the word Canaanite since it is also an adjective. So why did he go out of his way to use Canaanitelike when he could have used the adjective Canaanite? I think it reveals something about this particular writer. Could it be that this particular writer is less of a judgmental zealot and so is reluctant to call people Canaanite and feels compelled to soften it to Canaanitelike? Maybe he was told to use Canaanite and he decided to soften it to Canaanitelike and it was approved.
  
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  New Word Coined In April 2016 WT!

  by Naoscillator in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  and the word is... .

  canaanitelike!.

  here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.

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  Oh come on. There's nothing wrong with the word. You can tack "like" on the end of virtually any noun to coin a new word. It's a legitimate practice. Criticize the Watchtower indoctrination - the Watchcraft - all you want, but the language mechanics is sound. It's valid because Canaanite is a noun. The parody examples such as "parasiticlike" is not comparable because parasitic is already an adjective so it would be wrong - redundant, I think - to tack "like" at the end of it. However, parasitelike should be valid, because parasite is a noun. The only criticism I will make is that perhaps they should have added a hyphen - Canaanite-like.
  
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  OK friends lets be honest, if a Nuclear Holocaust took place today how many of you would return to the KH?

  by James Mixon in

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  speaking for my self, no way in hell.. this question to see if you really have been deprogramed,.

  do you 100% believe it is not the truth.. a fourth of the world hit by a nuclear attack..

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  "I don't worry, because of where i live, it would be vaporized 1st strike"

  I don't think there's a better way to go.
  
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  Jehovahs witnesses fastest growing religion, my ass.

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. beliefs

  they the wt are always stating this, yet let's look at just one set of figures.

  the average birth rate in the world is roughly 18 babies born per thousand.

  the catholics have a membership of roughly 1 billion members.

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  I don't believe for a minute that the JWs are the fastest growing religion. But I don't think you are correct to cite the number of babies born to Catholics as being indicative of the rate of growth of the Catholic church. The rate of growth is not about the number of new members. Its about the number of new members compared to the existing membership numbers.

  To illustrate my point. Imagine a country - country A - that has 1,000,000 people and another country - country B - that has 100,000,000 people. In 2015, country A has 1,000 new births, while country B has 10,000 new births. Which country grew faster? It was country A - the one with fewer births. How? Because country A had a growth rate of 1,000 / 1,000,000 = 0.1%. But Country B, while having more births, grew by 10,000 / 100,000,000 = 0.01%.

  So saying that the Catholic church had 18,000,000 babies born to Catholic parents does not mean that the Catholic religion is growing at a faster rate than the JW religion.
  
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  Twelve Days of Evolution - A video a Day

  by cofty in

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  from the guys and girls at "it's ok to be smart".. stay curious!.

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  "Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"

  Know what's very funny and ironic about that quote? It also applies to the JW religion - the very religion that denies evolution is also itself a product of evolution in startling ways that mirror the evolution of life on the planet.

  More than 90% of all species that have ever lived have gone extinct. Only those that had the traits or evolved the traits to survive in changing environments have survived. This mirrors JW teachings and publications. More than 90% of all publications ever printed by Watchtower have gone out of print (extinct) because they could not survive the changing environments or times which destroyed their credibility.

  An intelligent designer would not have made such a wide variety of species only to have them go extinct. Likewise if the Watchtower organization was truly spirit directed then God would not have directed the organization to print so much publications only to have the vast majority of them discarded as old light with the passage of time.

  So just as nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, in the same way nothing in the history of JWs makes any logical sense in the context of a spirit directed organization; but it all makes perfect sense in the light of the evolution of fallible human ideas.
  
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  Twelve Days of Evolution - A video a Day

  by cofty in

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  from the guys and girls at "it's ok to be smart".. stay curious!.

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  JW response: "Oh but it's still a mosquito - it's still the same kind. It's micro-evolution not macro-evolution. Show me a mosquito evolving into a bird or a cat then I'll listen."
  
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  Literature being discontinued, including Isaiah's Prophecy and Reasoning book

  by Richard_I in

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  congregations get an annual letter that tells what can be ordered for literature (it's mainly a list of audio cds/dvds for the deaf), but this time it included publications that will be discontinued, and this included the isaiah's prophecy book and the reasoning book, and i think i saw the draw close to jehovah book.

  i meant to take a picture of the letter but forgot.

  the branch is only going to give what they have on stock, when that stock depletes that's it, you won't be able to order those publications anymore.. this is in canada so i don't know if this is worldwide..

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  Crazyguy: "Just like Jesus the Bible will be used in name only and of course they can change the Bible more anytime they want to say what they want and the rank and file will eat it up."

  Speaking of which, I've noticed that since Watchtower introduced the read scripture citations in the literature, less scriptures are being read at JW question and answer study sessions. It seems that many conductors are interpreting the presence of the read scriptures as being indicative that only those scriptures need to be read.

  In the past, before the advent of read scriptures, conductors used to have more scriptures read during question and answer sessions.

  But to stay on topic I think the Daniel Prophecy book is worse than the Isaiah books. And the reasoning book? The reasoning book reeks of the same kind of disingenuous PR spinning that guilty politicians use to save face in the eyes of the public during a scandal. It is not a christian publication. It is corporate public relations publication to spin JW beliefs and practices in a palatable way to the public, complete with false analogies, logical fallacies, dishonest definitions and cherry-picked information.
  
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  Best Christmas Song?

  by snugglebunny in

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  a catchy little number this one!

  curiously, this little known christmas song by perry como was actually the theme tune to the odessa file movie back in the 70's.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1uddoh-yu.

  so what have you got?.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlF2ERlEXdE
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  Best Christmas Song?

  by snugglebunny in

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  2. friends

  a catchy little number this one!

  curiously, this little known christmas song by perry como was actually the theme tune to the odessa file movie back in the 70's.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1uddoh-yu.

  so what have you got?.

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  Island Man

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_SEzZxC91U