Posts by slimboyfat

for example, one sister claimed that before she became a jdub she would regularly talk to demons and they would even fix stuff like her washing machine!

Yes when I was young JWs talked a lot about demons invading your life. Not so much now. I wonder what made the difference. Maybe it's just part of the wider trend of secularization of society, from which JWs are not entirely immune.

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No blood Cards are back??????

by dugout in

at the meeting last night, at the annoucments at end of meeting they said make sure u take your ped card.

i said to myself what is a ped card?

blood cards are back.

slimboyfat

No what's that?

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Jehovah's Witnesses post 'anti-gay' 'Harness Your Habits' leaflet in North Devon

by OrphanCrow in

jehovah's witnesses post 'anti-gay' 'harness your habits' leaflet in north devon.

devon and cornwall police have said a leaflet posted through doors in north devon isn't a crime – despite it advising gay people to "control their urges".the leaflet, entitled "how to harness your habits", was distributed in north devon by jehovah's witnesses and contains an article asking "what does the bible say about homosexuality?

"in it, the religious group states that "rejecting homosexuality" is completely different to "rejecting people of a different skin colour" and says their views are the same as people who "view smoking as harmful and even repugnant".it also compares gay people to animals, but says "unlike animals, they can choose not to act on their impulses".the journal was contacted by a reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, who felt "belittled" by the leaflet.

slimboyfat

How on earth does it follow that if something is based on the Bible it can't be hateful or unlawful? It seems perfectly obvious to me that the leaflet is both able based and hateful. These are by no means mutually exclusive.

Suppose a church banned disabled people from attendance and quoted Leviticus 21:18-22. That would be okay because it's Bible based?

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No blood Cards are back??????

by dugout in

at the meeting last night, at the annoucments at end of meeting they said make sure u take your ped card.

i said to myself what is a ped card?

blood cards are back.

slimboyfat

Why would eelders have a list of medications?

Someone on the forum sent me a copy of the infamous "allogeneic" blood card from around 2000. I really appreciate it and will keep it safe.

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Evolution Gap - Where's the Fur? Redux

by shadow in

i am posting a second topic on this subject since the first one became overrun by snakes.. cofty posted a link to a published paper discussing this topic and referred to the information in it as "facts".

here is my summary of that paper along with comments on it.. one of the opening statements says that:.

two frequently debated aspects of hominin evolution are the development of upright bipedal stance and reduction in body hair.. so for those who believe this is a stupid topic, it is a subject of interest to many stupid people including the authors of the paper referred to by cofty.

slimboyfat

This is indeed the problem with viewing "facts" as fixed and proven entities. There are no facts outside of context. There are no facts that are immune to revision.

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Reading The Bible Again After Leaving

by pale.emperor in

at the moment i dont beleive in anything.

im pretty much an open book, but my critical mind is very alert to bullshit.

but anyway i decided to re-read the bible with a non jw filter.. i researched online first which is supposed to be the best translation out there.

slimboyfat

I like to read books translated and presented individually including long introductions and footnotes. I especially like Robert Alter's translation of Genesis, The Song of Solomon by Ariel Bloch and The Book of Job by Raymond Scheindlin.

Robert Alter in particular points out all the words and phrases that are repeated in similar stories and themes that recur that may be missed in other translations.

Plus reading the book of Job as a book in its own right without canonical contextual baggage makes it much more interesting.

And non-religious renderings of the Song of Songs are much clearer about the erotic language used.

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Evolution Gap - Where's the Fur? Redux

by shadow in

i am posting a second topic on this subject since the first one became overrun by snakes.. cofty posted a link to a published paper discussing this topic and referred to the information in it as "facts".

here is my summary of that paper along with comments on it.. one of the opening statements says that:.

two frequently debated aspects of hominin evolution are the development of upright bipedal stance and reduction in body hair.. so for those who believe this is a stupid topic, it is a subject of interest to many stupid people including the authors of the paper referred to by cofty.

slimboyfat

The first book I read was The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. It convinced me. Then I read The Selfish Gene. I began to suspect that Dawkins has a particular slant on evolution that is not,universally accepted: the focus on gene selection to the exclusion of selection at other levels. Then I read Almost A Whale by Steve Jones and Why Evolution is True by Jeremy Coyne. I also read a few small booklets on evolution and human evolution produced by the British museum. These were very good and well illustrated. I tried to read The Ancestors Tale by Dawkins but didn't finish it. In fact I didn't finish a few of his other books. Meanwhile I read Evolution as a Religion by Mary Midgley and various books by Raymond Tallis and Thomas Nagel that argue there is something wrong with reductive Darwinism.

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Automatic log-out after a period of inactivity on this site?

by stuckinarut2 in

hi simon,.

i noticed that most financial sites like banks have an automatic log out after some time of inactivity.. could a similar thing work here perhaps?.

if someone has logged on, but not used the site for say 20 minutes, could they be logged out and have to reenter the passwords?.

slimboyfat

I think it's a bad idea to link this site in any way with Facebook. It doesn't matter if it's only for logging in, even the suggestion of link to real identity will scare a huge number of JWs away.