As to why the JWs or any other "believers" have a hard time reacting positively to evidence contrary to their beliefs then it's covered under cognitive dissonance theory.
Witness My Fury
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Proof - of what?
by Doltologist ina few weeks ago, these two jovies turned up on my doorstep.
being in a good mood that particular day, i told them that if they could prove that god existed, i'd become a jovie - and i meant every word.. they gave me two documents which they asked me read and told me that they'd be back in a week.
the first was called "was life created?
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Ignorant Atheist Talk Show Host Destroyed by Agnostic Dr. Bart Erhman! Topic "Did Jesus and Paul exist?"
by MagicMItchJensen ini want you to see how fake people are who pretend their open-minded, dr. erhman try's to reason with someone whose mind is totally made up.
the topic is whether there was a man named jesus and paul, the infidel atheist get's owned because he shows his true colors!.
1. when would you tell this fool he stupid or willfully ignoring the facts?.
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I take it you dont like my comments magicmitch, is that because you are a fundie christian with an agenda and are (to use your own words) only "pretending to be open minded"? -
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Ignorant Atheist Talk Show Host Destroyed by Agnostic Dr. Bart Erhman! Topic "Did Jesus and Paul exist?"
by MagicMItchJensen ini want you to see how fake people are who pretend their open-minded, dr. erhman try's to reason with someone whose mind is totally made up.
the topic is whether there was a man named jesus and paul, the infidel atheist get's owned because he shows his true colors!.
1. when would you tell this fool he stupid or willfully ignoring the facts?.
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Witness My Fury
you seem to think (and correct me if im wrong) that if a Jesus teacher existed - therefore God.
Otherwise why are you so hung up on whether jesus existed or not?
It doesnt matter whether he did exist or was made up as it does absolutely nothing to help the god argument along. Yet another messiah among the many of the time shows what exactly? The continued gullibility of the populace to swallow bullshit.
Paul was a nut job cult starter, any reasonably unclouded reading of the works attributed to him will show that.
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Bible Chronology, Egyptology and the Great Flood
by cappytan infact: bible chronology says the flood occurred between 2348 and 2370 bce, depending on which scholar you listen to.
fact: the great pyramid of giza was constructed 200 years before, in c. 2560 bce..
so, if you believe in a literal interpretation of noah's flood, you believe that the egyptians built a great civilization, were destroyed by the flood in 2370 bce, and then somehow, they reappeared immediately after the flood, picked right back up where they left off without skipping a cultural beat.. oh, and isn't it ironic that legitimately studying the great pyramid of giza debunks jw mythology now?
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Ignorant Atheist Talk Show Host Destroyed by Agnostic Dr. Bart Erhman! Topic "Did Jesus and Paul exist?"
by MagicMItchJensen ini want you to see how fake people are who pretend their open-minded, dr. erhman try's to reason with someone whose mind is totally made up.
the topic is whether there was a man named jesus and paul, the infidel atheist get's owned because he shows his true colors!.
1. when would you tell this fool he stupid or willfully ignoring the facts?.
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Witness My Fury
It doesnt much matter if jesus, Paul, peter, mary, simon, Steve, Gary, Nelly, dave or Bob existed or not....
the jesus of the bible is still made up and a myth. there is no ransom, there is no "hope" there is no prophecy, no end times, no future petting pandas in paradise, no eternity in a heaven. get over it.
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Cart Witnessing - Thrilling! Productive! Epic! Er.....um, well, not so much.....
by sir82 intalked with a pioneer recently, she was recounting her first experience with cart witnessing.. she brought the subject up, was going on & on & on & on about how wonderful the experience was, and how great, and how she enjoyed it so much, and it was so wonderful, and oh jehovah's blessing, and on and on and on...... a few questions to her revealed what really happened:.
-- a jw who owns a small restaurant in a strip mall allows jws to set up their cart outside his restaurant.
-- the restaurant is tucked pretty far out of the way, not prominent at all.
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Witness My Fury
Nothing could make me do that, street witnessing was the pits and i avoided it at all costs and thankfully the carts came after I quit. It sounds to me the general consensus among dubs is that it is "easy" ministry time and that is the reason why some want to do it.
Man up and quit.
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I need help with this one. What do you think I should do?
by Quarterback inmy wife is pleasant and easy to get along with.
she is also helpful to many.
lately, however, there is a jw sister who some are curious about has befreinded my wife.
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Witness My Fury
What does your wife expect you to do about it? if this was a man all over you and your wife told him to back off it could make you look like a whimp. I would have thought this is hers to own and resolve, sure be involved and give feedback but she needs to do this conversation herself in my book.
Some sisters are very touchy feely and some sisters hate it. My mother is an example of those that hate it and it makes her uncomfortable, she however speaks her mind and takes no shit from anyone, so if a sister grabs her hand in a prayer at the meeting or gets too touchy she tells them straight out " cut that out please", job done, it doesnt happen again.
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How many times were you told, "You Just Don't Qualify Yet to be an Elder"
by John Aquila inyou think it's the holy spirit that appoints the elders, at least that's what new jw males are told.
the culture within the organization dictates to all young male jehovah's witnesses that unless you are an elder, you will not get the sultry, passionate- brunette, the voluptuous, curvaceous,- blond, or the seductive, erotic, red headed-vamp..
so unaware of the social forces that are shaping your mind, you succumb to the dictum issued by the governing body to conform to the structure already in place- if you want to be successful.
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Witness My Fury
I was led this not so merry dance for several years, then they wondered why i stopped trying altogether and coudnt give a fuck about it. Well, duh... i wonder why that might have been?
I had the "chat" with an elder plenty of times and it was always just out of reach and try again in 6 months (CO visit).. talk about discouraging, especially when ungifted but married to elders daughter ass kissers got made up at top speed. I wasnt ever enough of a yes man I guess.
Background: I was an accidental MS at 23 (because i'd dobbed the double lifers in with the elders icn the POs golden boy son who i thought was my best friend and found i didnt really now him at all) and immediately regretted it and was nearly taken off a few times as i made little effort at the time, then about 27 I got my finger out and made lots of effort and actually believed it all and it showed, 29 i took the watchtower when the elders at the school and was about 6 months away from being an elder (i was told this) then i moved away to work and quite fancied a break so didnt get made an MS in the new cong, then about a year later i moved back to my old cong age 30 and wanted very much to take up where i left off and to be an MS asap and then quickly an elder, ..or so i thought. Absolutely no fricken way was it going to happen. The PO had it in for me (because all those years before his son got his wrist slapped because of me) despite a warm welcome back from him and blocked me at every turn, year in and year out. Then when he pissed off to Ireland the new PO took a similar view and basically if you werent related to him then you had many many extra hoops to jump thru. So off and on about 8 years of mind games and disappointment. I quit at 40.
i wasnt alone in this kind of game, it was mostly about power. obviously any change in the body or the MS pool had consequences for that power that the holy trinity (PO / SO / Sec) wielded. they guarded that power with extreme and petty jealousy.
Glad about it now though. maybe if they hadnt pissed me off so much my head wouldnt have been even open to testing my religion.
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Why did Jesus come to earth? Invite to a DC
by Simon ini just had an invite to a district convention later this month in calgary (i guess they get to clean up the saddledome before the stampede, lol).. they gave me a leaflet asking "why did jesus come to earth?
" so i asked them "so why did he come?".
"well, he came to save us".
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Our hall is asking for money...
by thedepressedsoul ini guess the branch isn't happy with the amount being sent each month since we are way lower than our loan amount.
we now have to another financial survey to see the max amount that can be given.
it is "encouraged" for all to be in attendance and give much forethought and consideration to the amount you can donate each month.
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Witness My Fury
When they take a vote have the balls to vote against.