Awake!: Sometimes You Just Have To Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor

by metatron 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  Phizzy

  Thanks sizemik for giving us the full quote, some people say the Writing Dept of the WT is guilty of "quote mining", I say they are guilty of lying.

  Just occasionally in my life I have done asimilar thing, told half the story, a half-truth if you can call it that, or been economical with the truth, as I was in a religion that purported to worship "The God of Truth ", Jehovah, I felt very guilty about doing it.

  The writing guys at WT feel no such guilt, they have been pulled up for doing it so many times but they continue, I am sure they are all Hacks who have no belief in a God of Truth at all.
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  punkofnice

  We are told Triceratops lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago. However, Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 67 to 65.5 million years ago.

  This is of course in line with ‘new light’™ as they ‘evidently overlapped’!

  Here’s irrefutable proof………

  
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  Jeffro

  We are told Triceratops lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago. However, Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 67 to 65.5 million years ago.

  In JW chronology, the Maastrichtian stage probably ended last Thursday.
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  truth_b_known

  I was out in service with the presiding overseer's wife one day. She made a comment along the lines that all dinosaurs were herbivores and that t-rex and other predator dinosaurs used their teeth to strip bark off of trees for food.
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  NewChapter

  Ten Percent. LOL they're jealous.
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  nancy drew

  They were destroyed at dinosaurogeddon when they all became mentally diseased apostosaurases
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  WTWizard

  Slightly more than 10% of Catholics leave. That leaves almost 90% that remain Catholic--which, in this day where religions are expendible and disproven with a mouse click, is a lot. I must add that I am among that slightly more than 10%, since I was raised Catholic and did nothing for that church until I had to disassociate to become a witless.

  However, I am also among those leaving the witlesses. You are looking at around 35% of witlesses born in the cancer staying in the cancer. I am not quite among that number because I was not born in the cancer. And, when all they are exposed to is this kind of rubbish, it is no wonder the witlesses are leaving.
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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Concerning the quote about the Catholics from the Nov, 2011 Awake, p. 29, here is the full quote. It is just a blurb, and there is no context around it:

  “Slightly more than

  10 percent of American

  adults (10.1 percent)

  have left the Catholic

  church after having been

  raised Catholic.”

  —

  NATIONAL

  CATHOLIC REPORTER,

  U.S.A.

  Note that this is not saying that 10% of people raised as Catholics leave the faith. It is saying that 10% of American adults are former Catholics. This translates to saying that (.101 x 217 million adults) 21.9 million former Catholics in the US. Given that there are 35 million people of Hispanic heritage in the US, that is not really a surprising number.

  This is a different measure than saying that 37% of people raised as JW leave that faith. The same pewform.org report contains this statement on page 7:

  Approximately one-third of the survey respondents who say they were raised Catholic no

  longer describe themselves as Catholic. This means that roughly 10% of all Americans are former

  Catholics.

  1/3 of Catholic youths leave their faith... 2/3 of JW youths leave their faith. Hmmmmm , which is worse?