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It's probably just following the Bible at Matthew 10:35: "For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." - NIV

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Watchtower® and their education

by punkofnice in

ok. i'm a brit as some of you know.. what i noticed with the wbt$ is how they only seem to write from an american cultural standpoint.

not a bad thing if you're one of my cousins form the usa i admit........ but.... here in the uk there are some things that are meaningless to us.. eg hazing.

this was warned about in a study and over here we had no idea what it was and it kind of alienated the congregation from the study.

Heaven

Watchtower Botchtower is definitely a 'made in America' religion.

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Christmas lights

by Gorbatchov in

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this night i installed christmas lights in the trees in the front garden of our house.. we all like it, the children like it, so this is the first year we have this lightning.

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hope the elders will like it too ;-).

Heaven

Come on... I'm a visual person here. Can you post some pic's? Please?

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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

by breakfast of champions in

this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.

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Heaven

It would be awesome if they told them that Armageddon is not coming. Now THAT would be cool.

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Science is right in its details, but wrong in its direction

by exWTslave in

science observes, studies and analyses the basic nature of all the components constituting the part of any experiment, follows the principle of cause and effect, and come out with equipments that would contribute to our comfort and save us lots of time and energyall of which are ultimately aimed at making life on this earth happier, longer and healthier, thus making this world a better place to live.. yet man day-by-day becomes more and more unhappy and discontented, and world is becoming bitter and bitter!

it means: though science is right in its details, it has gone wrong in its direction.

it failed to rightly judge and assess the true nature of its prime object (man) for whom it works.

Heaven

As Carl Sagan once asked a group of people he was with "How many of us have had to take penicillin in our lives?" There was only 1 person in the group that had never had to. That says the majority of people have Science to thank for bettering their lives at least through penicillin.

I'm sure we can come up with many more.

Of course a lot of what the OP points out comes from someone who has never lived in ancient times. I'll take what Science and the rest of our modern disciplines has provided us over what they had in ancient times ANY day.

I have lived without modern conveniences. It's not an easy life.

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comment from an uber dub regarding the $13.5 sex abuse case will just blow you away.

by joe134cd in

i was talking to an uber dub friend last night who lives in the san diego area.

he knew nothing of the $13.5 million dollar law suit.

when i tried to tell him that this is a systemic problem, and that this could perhaps be the tip of the ice burgh.

Heaven

Most JWs think these problems are rare in the organization. They have no clue.