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How to Protect Your Faith, and 30 Proofs of God's Existence
by gubberningbody intherefore, god exists.
therefore, god exists.
therefore, god exists.
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Mormon vs JW experience
by thraxer68 ini was browsing some ex-mormon forums and i noticed that many of the experiences sound similar.
people spoke about brain washing, viewing outsiders as being ignorant of the truth, im not sure if im allowed to copy and paste from other forums, if im not please let me know but here are a couple quotes from ex mormon forums:.
"something i very strongly believe, is that even though everything has crumbled to the ground for me right now, i wouldn't change the fact that i left the church for anything.
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Why not make a true religion?
by frigginconfused inwith everthing ive read here it seems like eeveryone has the attitude that they cant fix the wts.
why havent you all joined together and made a declaration of independence?
why not fix it and make a true religion of peace and jesus' message?
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DC 2010 Release - The Origin of Life and its many misquotes
by Designer Stubble inlooking up all the references is a lot of work - one of the reasons nobody normally verifies these, but trust the writers.
as you will see, the writers are banking on this, but it is not a good thing to trust the wtbts writers.
please find the bibliography worked out for quotes 38-51, covering the heading "what about human evolution".. interesting is that many quotes are from the [u]preface[/u] of books, where the authors honestly explain the difficulties and assumptions related to evolutionary science.. [b]what about human evolution?[/b].
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Stupid Ghost hunters and the Witness stories!!!!!!!
by Witness 007 indo you have these dumb "ghost hunter" shows?
these guys visit haunted houses with camera and recording equipment only to film floating lint and dust oooooooh!!!
a ghost orb!!!
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The Generation Watchtower (TOMORROW!) and The Cough of Incredulity
by slimboyfat inthe watchtower will be studied tomorrow that contains the new overlapping generations teaching.
paragraph 10 reads:.
"he evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation.".
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DC 2010 Release - The Origin of Life and its many misquotes
by Designer Stubble ini have just started working my way through the new publication the origin of life 5 questions worth asking.
it is completely appalling.
it is at the very most six grade level and just the first references i verified (which most dubs dont do) have been taken out of context, are completely misquoted or in the example of using the encyclopedia britannica a dated version is used rather than the most recent one, to align with what they want to write, rather than aligned with the newest research.. .
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Is arguing against religion and irrationality just "Preaching to the Choir"?
by inkling ini hear this criticism from time to time, leveled at a range of targets, from the recent "new" atheists, to people arguing for the validity of evolution in the face of creationist claims, to right here at jwd and criticism of jehovah's witnesses and other forms of fundamentalism.. .
"you are just wasting your time, preaching to the converted", and "believers are not going to be swayed by such criticism of their faith, so why bother?".
i'm not sure i had a coherent response to this before, but i do now in the form of this concise and insightful video from a youtube favorite of mine:.
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"Conformity"
by inkling ini am not presenting this as directly relevant, or with an specific angle on the jw issue, so much as just on it's own merits as a really great take on phenomenon of social conformity:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trniufrso8i&feature=player_embedded.
"we can be self defeating in our conformity: say we have a group of people holding opinion x. unbeknownst to the group, half of them secretly disagree.