Good one Ding
Feb 2012 public WT - they dare to comment on Harold Camping!!!
by Mickey mouse 47 Replies latest jw friends
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DaCheech
thumbs up, lost!
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SweetBabyCheezits
Per Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain:
One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and - while the events of that year were certainly of some importance - the world did not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, "Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014'. A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvinenced in any way." But they did not. They could have said, "Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth." But they did not.
Instead, they did something much more ingenious. They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration was needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
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Knowsnothing
First off, I'd like to puke.
Next, this bears repeating.
near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
I'll drink to that statement.
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SweetBabyCheezits
Aye!
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designs
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You know when I read things like that I wonder about myself as an adult and all of those years with the Org.. Had somebody shot Novocaine in our Cerebellums
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3rdgen
Designs, Novacain in the brain, Yup, a shot 3times a week. Boosters 3 times a year.
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kazar
They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout.
Very true and funny Sweet......and all the more hilarious for those of us who bought into it (like me).
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smiddy
And they had the audacity to quote (out of context ) Carl Sagan in their support of a creator [ Life-How did it get here? By evolution or creation?
if you read between the lines that is.
smiddy
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jwfacts
Interesting that they refer to Campings prediction as a "prophecy". The Watchtower hates their interpretations to be called prophecies, as that then labels the Watchtower as false prophets.