Topics Started by Pole
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Who else is not going to the memorial for the first time this year?
by Pole inwell, it's going to be the first memorial i'll miss out on.
no big deal, but i guess it has to be considered one of the final stages of "apostasy" :-).
i remember i used to see some df-ed people at memorials.
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How much RAM do you have on your machine?
by Pole inhow much ram do you have on your machine?
let's see if someone can beat me.
pole
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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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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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Another example of WTS anthropology - The Flood and racial differences
by Pole inhere is another paradox resulting from the wts stand on the flood:
1. jws seriously believe in 2370 bc as the date of the flood
2. they also believe that by the 1st century ad racial differences had been well developed (i mean differences in the outward appearance of course, and not their early racist views for instance).
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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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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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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.
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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.