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Bro at table set up wouldn't answer question (but still counted his time)
by ShirleyW ini asked when they would start offering gray bible and she said two weeks, then the only bro at the table saw my headphones in my hand started in by saying " i see you're plugged in, do you have a smartphone?
to which i said no, because i just had a feeling that must've been a new angle to tell folks about the new bible app.the sis said they would start offering it in two weeks the bro goes on to mention that you can download the app and you get the bible in five different languages and mentions some other stuff you can do onthe app, i said all this technology reminds when the society admonished you all to stay away from the interenet about 25 years ago .
you should've seen his face, he was smiling but was thinking "how does show know" behind that smile.
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The Revised NWT - A great timewaster
by Listener insometimes the wtbts are just brilliant in coming up with new ways of wasting the jws time.. with this new edition they will have to be getting their head's around new terms and phrases.
many jws will know a lot of verses off by heart, now they will be required to relearn them which will be no simple task.. they have been told to keep their old nwt for research purposes.
now instead of looking up one scripture they will have two bible's to look up.. the writing committee now has so much new material available to them to write copious articles about.
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Combatting cult mind control by steven hassan
by goddidit inso i've been hearing a lot of good things about this book.
apparently, some of its readers were actual believing jws and it deprogrammed them.. i'm curious why they read it in the first place though, since jws are discouraged from reading anything outside their own literature.. i know a recent convert who i'd like to help.
i could buy him the book.
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The US Government actually deserves credit for the WT heading it's way down....
by EndofMysteries inthe government wanted the wt shut down as well.
they found out that the wt teaches all it's members not to get an education, not to get any good paying job, to spend all their time placeing magazines and being window washers.
so they said, we'll make the cost of insurance, infact require insurance by law, increase the cost of living on everything, then the wt members won't have any spare money to donate and the wt will just fade away due to lack of money.. so the wt after the economy and all cost of living going through the roof the past few years, plus some lawsuits, is suddenly cash starved.
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Are we alone?
by Xanthippe inthe 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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Counterpoints needed
by goddidit ini'm looking for some brief counterpoints to some or all of the following claims made by a jw.
this will be very helpful.
something brief with links would be best.
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Link to Golden Age 1925 prediction- primary evidence of JW cock-up on Archive.org
by Julia Orwell intrying to convince a jw that the wt predicted 1925 is hard because they won't look at anything from 'apostate' sites.
but the american archive organisation is a disinterested organisation who publishes anything ever printed in america online for research and scholarship purposes.
they are not apostates because they publish all religious, political, judicial, legislative etc online for the public to research.
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Bad argument
by goddidit inin my quest to help jws wake up i came up with this (at least i think i came up with it myself, can't be sure).. i was hoping someone could help me refine it to be as easy as possible to understand and as hard as possible to weasel out of by some semantics.. just to be clear, i'm an atheist.
this is written for the context of jw beliefs.. .
premise 1: even if a position is true, it is possible for an argument in favour of it to be a bad argument, e.g.
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Literature of false teachers
by goddidit ini'm going to ask a jw if they are discouraged from reading books outside of their watchtower publications.
when he says "no" i want to counter the claim by showing the numerous examples i've seen in their literature of exactly that.
trouble is i don't know where they are.
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Undeniable
by goddidit ini've got an audience with a believing jw.
yes, i know he's not really listening.
i see all the usual signs of cognitive dissonance.