Topics Started by Pole
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WTS supports evolution
by Pole inno mistake here.. funkyderek wrote on another thread: for the genesis account to be literally true would require a mutation rate 25 - 40 times that which is observed.
ironically, to be a creationist, one would have to believe in a much faster rate of evolution than any biologist would believe.
that reminds me of a thread from a few months ago where the issue of flood was brought up.. i remember i was really surprised to read that the wts suggests such a hypothesis of post-flood speedy evolution, whose rate far exceeded that of any evolution theory suggested so far.
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The Progress of Civilization - or How is the Modern World Getting Better?
by Pole indo you believe our world is better than it used to be a few hundred/thousands years ago?
do we wage fewer wars?
do people feel safer?
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What is the next flash of New Light?
by Pole ini personally feel they will have to "adjust" the fds doctrine.
the tricky thing is that the fds (whoever they are) won't approve this change while they're still alive.
they don't care, they subconsciously feel it's their end anyway and they won't undermine their doctrinal position having lost all corporate power.. so who will send this beam of new light?
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JWD "clusters" - name one ;-)
by Pole inthis is fluff stuff.
you must have noticed posters on many threads tend to come in clusters.
whenever one of the members of the "cluster" starts a thread, another few are very likely to post on his/her thread.
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Is religion the real reason for many wars?
by Pole ina lot of posters on this board have expressed the opinion that religion is the reason for many wars.
some have even implied that if religion was "banned" the number of wars would be reduced.
pole .
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Maniputlating the media - from www.ajwrb.org. Worth reading.
by Pole insorry if i am preaching to the choir, but has everyone read this document on the http://www.ajwrb.org site?
i showed it to my mom (half-active jw) yesterday and she was shocked by the amount of spin and manipulation the wts resort to.
i guess it's worth reading by newbies whatever their current "stand on blood" may be.. pole.
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"Replacement doctrines" - things which JWs lie about to the interested ones
by Pole independing on the denomination of their interlocutor the witnesses often claim that their religion is free of a whole bunch of non-sensical doctrines which are so common in other religions.
oftentimes, however, it proves that they have something that i'll call "replacement doctines" - beliefs which which are difficult to figure out for the 'interested ones', but which in the long run prove to be just as bad as the stuff they disclaimed or worse.
example: in a catholic country like poland, jws often boast about the fact that they don't have the confession routine, where a person has his/her sins forgiven by a priest who acts as a representative of god.
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Your biggest discovery of 2004?
by Pole inwhat was your biggest intelectual/philosophical/psychological/religious discovery of the year 2004?
was there anything new that you "understood" about our existence?
did you learn something new about human relations or your spirituality?
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Why do you qoute dictionaries when making a point in a discussion?
by Pole ini've noticed a lot of people cut and paste dictionary entries when making a point in a discussion.
how do dictionaries help you get the message across?
do they make you sound more authoritative?