Posts by loyal2truth

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A day for a lunar or solar etc year

by stillajwexelder in

about 10 years ago there was a brilliant piece by a legend on this board - may have been farkel.

it was where he showed how ludicrous it was to flit between solar days lunar months a solar day for a 360 day year but those years are 365 to come up with 1914. i have tried searching but struggled.

does anyone remember it and if so can you point to it with a link please?

loyal2truth

I also look at this in my blog: 1914 Debunked: Once and For All (part 2)

arriving at the year 1878 by taking 2,520 of the WT's "prophetic years" of 360 days each instead of inconsistently applying the number to solar years as done by the Watchtower.

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The JW Blood Issue: Resolved!

by loyal2truth in

i just completed writing a series of 8 blog posts dismantling the watchtower's blood policies.. it was my goal to prove that the blood ban is neither scriptural nor sensible.

this is a rewrite of the series of articles i contributed some years ago to the now defunct jehovahswitnessblog site of james peyton (you may also know james as the founder of jwpodcast.

) even though this is a very serious topic, i tried to stay true to the humorous mood "tenny pajamas" always managed to maintain on his site.

I do have much shorter 1-part articles that tackle aspects of this issue (such as How a Leech Sucked the Lifeblood Out of the Watchtower and Why Jehovah Wants This Baby to Die). But I wanted this series to be comprehensive: leaving no stone unturned in showing the full absurdity of the Watchtower's stance, with linked references for every quotation.

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The JW Blood Issue: Resolved!

by loyal2truth in

i just completed writing a series of 8 blog posts dismantling the watchtower's blood policies.. it was my goal to prove that the blood ban is neither scriptural nor sensible.

this is a rewrite of the series of articles i contributed some years ago to the now defunct jehovahswitnessblog site of james peyton (you may also know james as the founder of jwpodcast.

) even though this is a very serious topic, i tried to stay true to the humorous mood "tenny pajamas" always managed to maintain on his site.

loyal2truth

I just completed writing a series of 8 blog posts dismantling the Watchtower's blood policies.

It was my goal to prove that the blood ban is neither scriptural nor sensible.

This is a rewrite of the series of articles I contributed some years ago to the now defunct JehovahsWitnessBlog site of James Peyton (you may also know James as the founder of JWPodcast.) Even though this is a very serious topic, I tried to stay true to the humorous mood "Tenny Pajamas" always managed to maintain on his site.

I hope someone actually visits my site and reads what I have to offer there. Typically I only see a handful of visitors a day, and they appear to be mostly spam-bots. I'd appreciate some human feedback for a change!

The link is: https://www.smmcroberts.net/blog/

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How is a Jehovah'sWitness suppossed to know they are annointed?

by brainwashed-from-birth in

jw
friends

are there any tests/interviews they have to go thru to prove it?.

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loyal2truth

Thanks, Snowbird. I'm glad you liked my book.

You may want to check out my new book: "Layers of Truth", also available for free on-line at http://smmcroberts.net

--Steve

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How is a Jehovah'sWitness suppossed to know they are annointed?

by brainwashed-from-birth in

jw
friends

are there any tests/interviews they have to go thru to prove it?.

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loyal2truth

Black Sheep: Thanks for mentioning my book Falling in Truth. To set the record straight, though, it does not describe my experience of being annointed, but rather of the fictional hero of my book being carried away by emotion during baptism and concluding that he was annointed.

I made up the "experience" out of whole cloth just to illustrate how someone might be challenged/treated who made such a claim while not being considered "strong in the truth". Personally, I never considered myself annointed -- far from it!

--Steve

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JW Novel now in paperback!

by loyal2truth in

jw
friends

i just published a new edition of my novel (based on my jw experiences) in paperback!

it's available on amazon.com, but you can get it cheaper as a download from: .

http://www.lulu.com/content/209926.

loyal2truth

Hello everyone,

I just published a new edition of my novel (based on my JW experiences) in paperback!

It's available on Amazon.com, but you can get it cheaper as a download from:

http://www.lulu.com/content/209926

Falling in Truth: The Education of a Jehovah's Witness

People who have read it have liked it, but you can decide for yourself by downloading the first four chapters.

--Steve

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Is vivisection ethical?

by greendawn in

do you believe that vivisection (animal experimentation) that usually involves causing disease or injury to animals for the sake of scientific research is an unethical practice that should be banned?

loyal2truth

Vivisection is unethical, and rarely (if ever) can the results be extrapolated meaningfully from non-human animals to humans (or across any two species). [One example is penicillin – which is fatal to guinea pigs (whereas thalidomide – which causes horrible birth defects in humans -- had no adverse effects on the many species of animals it was tried on prior to its tragic release).]

The fact that non-human animals kill for food doesn't have any relevance to the question: Is it ethical for humans to inflict their diseases on other species?

Or do we decide what is ethical for humans by imitating non-human animals?

Some have said that "as long as we eat meat we can't condemn vivisection." I beg to differ. Lions are carnivores: their bodies require meat. Humans are not carnivores: we don't require meat to live. It's well known that our bodies are healthier when we don't eat meat. So, there is no justification of vivisection on these grounds.

What is ethical for a lion (eating meat) is not necessarily ethical for a member of the primate family (herbivores by nature).

Try to see it from a different viewpoint. How would you like it if aliens from another planet landed here and started experimenting on us (injecting us with their diseases, and cramming their cosmetics into our eyes, etc)? Wouldn't you accuse the aliens of being unethical? Interestingly, the Watchtower once held that vivisection was unethical, and published some articles in the Awake on it (this was back around the early 60’s I believe). But they have long since switched over to saying it’s okay.

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Is vivisection ethical?

by greendawn in

do you believe that vivisection (animal experimentation) that usually involves causing disease or injury to animals for the sake of scientific research is an unethical practice that should be banned?

loyal2truth

We also have:

Leg-hold traps (banned in 65 other countries).
Canned hunts.
Countless abandoned "pets"
Factory farms
The Veal industry
LD/50 tests (banned in many countries as barbaric and inconclusive)
Caustic eye tests (of cosmetics)
Other painful experiments performed without anesthetic.
etc...

There are a few weak laws that seek some minor level of protection for the countless animals being daily abused in U.S. industries (they don't cover "farm animals" and are routinely ignored by experimenters). Bush is doing his best to repeal those laws.

How great does that make us?