so as is my habit when i need a good laugh at stupid chat forum threads i popped in to the jay double u talk site and happened on this hilarious thread.
of course i have not read the whole thing, it was just too mentally painful to read those nitwits "reasoning"about "music".. why jehovah's witnesses do not use drums.... .
Let me guess, the JW reasoning went something like this:
Many pagan cultures make use of drumming during religious ceremonies to invoke spirits or their dead ancestors. Drumming is an integral part of spiritistic religions like voodoo. In view of the foregoing, would it be right for a Christian to incorporate drumming as part of the clean, wholesome music that he uses in his worship of the one true God, Jehovah?
i have yet to read about the contradictions in the jw teachings on blood, but i have personally witnessed one.
i am a medical professional and have seen hemopure administered for an active jw who did refuse a blood transfusion.
its not fda approved here, but given in special life saving circumstances.
Actually a JW can have human hemoglobin
Yes, I believe this is true. Haemoglobin is actually a secondary blood fraction, according to Watchtower classification of blood products. So JWs can have haemoglobin if their conscience permits it. That particular JW is unaware of this, or his conscience does not permit him to have it, and, he is unaware of the fact that hemopure is basically just the animal version of the same haemoglobin he is refusing.
However, it's rather foolish that red blood cells are banned while haemoglobin - the thing that makes a red blood cell a red blood cell - isn't considered a primary blood fraction and isn't banned. To throw the JWs' alcohol analogy back in their faces in the proper way: It's as foolish as if you went to your doctor and he told you to abstain from alcoholic beverages, but told you that you can have pure ethanol injected in your veins because it's not an alcoholic beverage but a fraction thereof.
so, apparently, there is an organization which provides structure, curriculum, etc.
for home-schooling of jw kids:.
http://www.newsystemschool.org/index.html.
Any time I hear about children being homeschooled I become filled with feelings of pity for them - the same kind of feelings of pity I get when I see emaciated, starving children.
because of this site i realized that there were many people who were active jehovah’s witnesses really didn’t believe in god at all.
i’m curious how many people believe in god?
i’m not interested in debating why you shouldn’t have a belief in a god or should.
there were many people who were active Jehovah’s Witnesses really didn’t believe in God at all.
Is that the narrative you're using to soothe your cognitive dissonance in trying to explain how a person could genuinely believe in god at one time and then have a change of mind and no longer believe - by denying they ever believed to begin with? Pathetic!
I genuinely believed in God at one time, feels and all! Having done independent research I no longer believe a god exists. More than that, I'm a little embarrassed that I did believe as an adult, that a god exists, given the complete lack of credible evidence in support of such an extraordinary notion.
just seen this announced on reddit:.
ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.
i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.
"Correct there was but that article is years old now but it did say that the helpers were from "the other sheep""
But I don't think the article was saying the helpers must be of the other sheep - just that they could be. So we can't use that article to conclude that a person must be of the other sheep if they are/were a helper.
i have the 2015 watchtower library working fine and have started to enter some book marks.. i have the library program on a flash drive to pass around to some other folks so they can show .
witnesses at their door what they are supposed to believe.
getting the book marks transferred is .
Here's another approach to explore:
If you double click any of the bookmark files listed in your image, will Watchtower library open to that bookmarked article? If yes, then can you open the bookmark file with a text editor like notepad and make changes to it? It might be possible to edit the bookmark files in such a manner that they points to a "relative path" - such as the installed WTLib folder (which can be on a PC or flash drive) vs an "absolute path" specific the particular PC. You can then copy the bookmark files to that "relative path" and use them to open the program and access the information instead of opening the program the conventional way and using the bookmarks interface from within the program. I hope I'm making sense.
i have the 2015 watchtower library working fine and have started to enter some book marks.. i have the library program on a flash drive to pass around to some other folks so they can show .
witnesses at their door what they are supposed to believe.
getting the book marks transferred is .
Another alternative might be to take screen shots of the specific incriminating articles open in the Watchtower library and save them in a folder and create links to them - or possibly even a simple offline website. That way the JWs can see the information framed in their WTLib program and can't accuse you of having doctored information.
Yes, this will require a bit of work - not as much as you think.
i have the 2015 watchtower library working fine and have started to enter some book marks.. i have the library program on a flash drive to pass around to some other folks so they can show .
witnesses at their door what they are supposed to believe.
getting the book marks transferred is .
Maybe a good alternative might be to migrate from using the WTLib to using the WOL (Watchtower Online Library). You can then create transferable internet shortcuts to specific online articles and save these on a flash drive. You'll only need internet access and you'll be limited to publications on or after 2000.
just seen this announced on reddit:.
ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.
i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.
So let me get this straight:
The Governing Body is the Faithful Slave whose role is to provide spiritual food at the proper time. The "kitchen" is the Watchtower Writing Department. And it just so happens that there's a guy in there that goes by the name of Kenneth Cook? And now this Cook has been appointed to provide spiritual food by leaving the "Kitchen" to work as a part of the Faithful Slave who provides spiritual food?
It's all an elaborate joke, right? The idea of appointing an additional GB member came up during a GB meeting and someone said: "Hey wouldn't it be funny if we appointed Cook? Cook ... spiritual food ... get it? Besides, he's already in the 'kitchen'. LOL"
I find the kennedy-Lincoln coincidences far more intriguing.
just seen this announced on reddit:.
ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.
i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.
So The Fake Fools Slave has now become The Eight Fools Slave?
