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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

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  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  Last time I saw an Awake in life was 1999, and I just checked one out on jw.org.

  Wow!

  So I plugged in the ASCII text from the article "Can You Trust the Media?"

  http://www.readability-score.com/

  Got these results:

  Reading Ease

  A higher score indicates easier readability; scores usually range between 0 and 100.

  Readability Formula	Score
  Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease	59.1

  Grade Levels

  A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.

  Readability Formula	Grade
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level	8.3
  Gunning-Fog Score	11.4
  Coleman-Liau Index	12.1
  SMOG Index	8.6
  Automated Readability Index	7.5
  Average Grade Level	9.6

  Text Statistics

  Character Count	4,957
  Syllable Count	1,660
  Word Count	1,044
  Sentence Count	80
  Characters per Word	4.7
  Syllables per Word	1.6
  Words per Sentence	13.1
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  Eve made our periods painful

  by rebel8 in

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  i was just remembering this teaching--that a mythical woman ate a piece of fruit 1000s of years ago after a snake told her to, and that's the reason we have menstrual pain.. you see, the bible says eve was cursed for her sin with painful childbirth.

  hence we can make up extrapolate that this includes menstruation, which is just part of childbearing.

  then we can make up extrapolate that this applies to all females in the entire human race today, because according to a loving god we should all share in her sin as we all have vaginas too.. i remember crying in total agony while i was insulted comforted by having this scripture and explanation read aloud to me, and thinking how much this knowledge drew me closer to jehovah made me realize what a misogynistic wackadoodle cult this was.. thor causing thunder is more plausible than this.. if dubs take midol, does that mean they are scoring jehovah's lesson?.

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  I can't think of a way to appropriate or rehabilitate that scripture. Once the facts get in the way (cranial size: forebrain, long-term memory, past/present/future, imagination, linguistics, symbols, tools - all the things required to think about God and do stuff to his glory), this becomes trite. There are the hormone swings. I think males have hormone/chemical/mood swings in their own manner.
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  Got Accosted by 2 JW Women While Pumping Gas Yesterday - Weird

  by flipper in

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  absolutely weird.

  minding my own business while pumping gas - this 60 year old short jw lady with fluffed bun styled 60's hair and her 30 year old attractive 5 ' 10 inch jw lady partner came straight up to me as i'm pumping.

  they picked the wrong hombre .

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  I used to go to the DCs in the 20k seat indoor stadium, the Capital Center, MD. This experience has has taken me back to those days, and I can see (and hear), with my mind's eye, the distant rushing sound of applause filling the reverberating, misty air, after the hearing of an experience given from the platform in suit and tie amongst carpet and flowers. This is worthy to receive the applause of 20k survivors.
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  Missionaries to vacate all missionary homes

  by seenitall in

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  latest news from a source (missionary in foreign land):.

  no more missionary homes anywhere in the world.. all missionaries presently in missionary homes must vacate.

  must get housing on your own / from the locals.. circuit and district overseers have moved into many of these former missionary homes.. reasons: liability, cost savings, real estate to be sold or used for other purposes.. needless to say, many of these longtime servants are very unsettled.

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  Is there a metric for the impact or return on investment of missionaries? Are they a loss leader checkbox crucial to some kind of legal religious / tax-free status?
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  Abiogenesis - moving on from the Urey Miller Experiment

  by cantleave in

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  abiogenesis is the field of study whereby the answers to how the chemistry of life was initiated are explored.

  unlike evolution, which is described and understood via a number of falsifiable models which explain the observations made in the natural world, most models of abiogenesis will remain unfalsifiable and hence open to debate.

  the issue being of course that the conditions under which those first chemical reactions occurred no longer exist and trying to recreate an approximation of these in the lab requires a great deal patience, ingenuity and of course some intelligent guess work!

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  Where Do You NOW Think Wickedness Comes From? The Devil or... ?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  i think wickedness comes from evil people.. there are many people in between the two extremes of, overly good people and overly evil persons.. i do not believe in a devil.. i think he is a concept dreampt up by evil ones to blame bad behavior, as a red herring, on anyone but themselves.. the watchtower makes up attrocious lies, brow beats good people not to better themselves,.

  all the while, they are building their own empire.. they say, do not isiolate yourself.

  it is not good for you.. but if you don't agree with them and their current teachings, you will be shunned, disfellowshipped.. that can and does, have earth shattering results.. so many things, i was taught as a born in, are now considered apostate teachings.

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  In Soviet Russia, we isolate you!
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  Are we alone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  the title of this thread is the title of a chapter in the book by richard dawkins that i'm really enjoying in spite of or perhaps because of it having been written for young people.

  i thought i would share a couple of paragraphs on his theories of the kind of bodies aliens on other planets might have :-.

  'let's exercise our imaginations a bit more.

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  Poe's Law, performance art.
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  Are we alone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  the title of this thread is the title of a chapter in the book by richard dawkins that i'm really enjoying in spite of or perhaps because of it having been written for young people.

  i thought i would share a couple of paragraphs on his theories of the kind of bodies aliens on other planets might have :-.

  'let's exercise our imaginations a bit more.

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  Cosmological principle, homogeny, isotropy. That being said, when I was gorging on cosmology years ago there were enough (unproveable, of course) hypotheses that just because our own Hubble volume displays a topological flatness, and the recent Planck results have refined the flatness to (iirc) one in ten thousandths from the critical value, that doesn't mean it is impossible for our local Hubble volume to be a flatness in an otherwise topologically featured surface. As far as our depth of perception into our Hubble volume, ending at the CMB polarization, the cosmological principle holds. The angular scale of the baryon accoustic oscillations (~1.5Mpc iirc) have validated or backed up redshift findings, and both have been backed up by -???- calculations of baryogenesis total energy release as compared to Planck spectrum/intensity of CMB, as well as the lithium:helium:hydrogren:deuterium ratios to be found in the ISM and IGM, i.e., virgin gas from the HYPOTHETICAL big bang that has not had its metalicity increased/altered by stellar cycling.

  As for life: The universe has made alcohol all on its own.
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  Are we alone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  the title of this thread is the title of a chapter in the book by richard dawkins that i'm really enjoying in spite of or perhaps because of it having been written for young people.

  i thought i would share a couple of paragraphs on his theories of the kind of bodies aliens on other planets might have :-.

  'let's exercise our imaginations a bit more.

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  "I don't know what your age is but you sound like an oldschool scientist. They treat science like a religion and indiviuals such as Einstein, Newton, and Darwin are promoted to sainthood. Anyone who dares to disagree with them is banish from the community, literally. That's exactly why happened to Halton Arp"
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  Are we alone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  the title of this thread is the title of a chapter in the book by richard dawkins that i'm really enjoying in spite of or perhaps because of it having been written for young people.

  i thought i would share a couple of paragraphs on his theories of the kind of bodies aliens on other planets might have :-.

  'let's exercise our imaginations a bit more.

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  "The big bang has been disproven."

  uh

  Xanthippe, that's a nice reading level for K12. Maybe if you wrap a copy of it in the cover of My Book of Bible Stories, the JW parents might mistakenly bequeath their children some accurate knowledge.