Posts by rmt1

here is a weird fact: as i was watching the official wt video about the new headquarters project (can be seen on jw.org), i recognized the building they were tearing down, the front shot of it.

because this building was used exclusively in the 1986 movie, "the manhattan project".

it's kind of a cult-classic favourite movie from my youth that i still watch.

Another datum in favor of the argument that internet is a dominant force in expanding the context in which thinking persons can perform simple calculations of scale and magnitude and perform sanity checks on claims of divine intervention.

For instance, what was the all-powerful Jehovah's will regarding the Indonesian tsunami of 2004 that killed 230,000 people?

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Average JW's response to new light

by WrongweektostopsniffingGlue in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwcbag-s7ua.

rmt1

wwssg, that's a rare harmony between screen name and pic.

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What Was Your First Experience In Exposing Yourself To "Apostasy"?

by minimus in

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as a young teenager, i would look at "apostate" books at the city library.

i was always intrigued as to what was sooo bad and other than a few writings of some that seemed like they hated the witnesses, i would clandestinely look at literature, especially in "christian" bookstores.. it took years for me to finally disconnect.

i will say that ray franz' books enlightened me the most!.

rmt1

I don't use their word that plays their game for them and that reinforces or insinuates a degeneracy.

People who stand up against a wall of lies are truthseekers. JWs are lie followers and those who stand up against those lies are truthseekers.

Very simple.

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The Revamped Organization

by Nosferatu in

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with the release of the new bible, i can pretty much say that the wt religion is no longer the same religion that i left 17 years ago.

it's bizarre.

they have a different bible, a different song book, a different "youth" book, a different "great teacher" book, and the "live forever" book is gone.

rmt1

"Maybe the literature IS the new world! Look at me, I just figured out some new light! :)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS0Q_kKzkZo&list=PLsW4L56sbHQtfmwOHKhA26E9p0d6X7xon&index=14

Song 14 - All Things Made New (piano)

Rejoice! For God's tent is with men,
And he himself resides with them.
No more will there be pain or crying,
No sorrowing nor any dying;
For God has said: 'I'm making all books and magazines and tracts and pamphlets and real estate investments new.'
These words faithful are and true.

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Any proof that more JW's are leaving in greater numbers then before?

by Crazyguy in

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or is it just wishful thinking on our parts?.

rmt1

"- Allowing elderly & sick to be counted as publisher for 15 minutes each month

- Allowing BOTH parents to count four hours each month for family study

- Dropping the aux. pioneer hours to 30, plus a lot of pressure to peak during memorial month."

Quantitative findings.

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If the Watchtower Society is truly god's only earthly chosen organization then god surely must be an idiot !

by Finkelstein in

that is cannibalistic.

from page 23 of the march 22, 1974 awake!

that is cannibalistic.

rmt1

I get your point.

You find this interesting:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/04/the-red-juice-in-raw-red-meat-is-not-blood/

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Is Richard Dawkins an ostentatious acrimonious supercilious pusillanimous calumnious censorious vituperative querulous embittered obsessive and bombastic bully?

by slimboyfat in

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richard dawkins closes down his free-thinking/free-thought site (www.richarddawkins.net) for 30 days to reconfigure it 'because too many morons were contributing drivel' (he doesn't put it quite like that!

) he is then surprised because those self-same contributors call him everything under the sun (i won't repeat the names flung at him on our ultra -refined boards).

he now wants the site more or less 'peer-reviewed' (by analogy with papers to learned/scientific journals having to be vetted by vips).

rmt1

But is he punctilious?

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DECODED THE WT TODAY!!! SHOCKING!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

if you had the pleasure of hearing the watchtower today what a good way to cover their tracks right after the am!

so if their is any doubts they will scare it out of the rank and file!

i have to give it to them they did their best to plan this out along with all the new light i guess it was to trya and stop the internal bleeding.

rmt1

"The Governing Body may actually BECOME Jehovah in the long run....simply by repetition and LINKING."

(Manifestly)

The question is of time scale. They would need some core of n*20yr generations to die off (and STFU about how things used to be) before they can roll out new convergences of some scripture they found or construed and their own earthly divinity, that they have just received new light upon, from themselves.

Ooooooo: Recommend "By His Bootstraps", a short story by Robert Heinlein.