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  Why more highly educated people are less into conspiracy theories

  by Mickey mouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've seen discussions here about how jehovah's witnesses seem to be prone to believing conspiracy theories... https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/04/05/why-more-highly-educated-people-are-less-into-conspiracy-theories/.

  this last paragraph seems particularly relevant:.

  importantly, van prooijen said his findings help make sense of why education can contribute to “a less paranoid society” even when conspiracy theories are not explicitly challenged.

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  NewYork44M

  Good thread. Thus, we know why the Watchtower does not want the R&F to get an education.

  There is no bigger conspiracy theory than the God-Satan battle for world sovereignty.
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  Paradise?

  by AnonymityAnonymous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how do i get to paradise?

  can you use google maps to find the way there?

  i'm looking for some fun at a high-class gay bar and i hear paradise is a great one..

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  NewYork44M

  It must be a slow news day. I have gone to Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Since I was not looking for a gay bar, I can't help you. In any event, the island was quite nice, I highly recommend it.
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  Position of responsibilities

  by bola in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i remembered a time i read in the forum that it is better (especially for men) to seek positions of responsibility in the world than to seek positions of responsibility in the jw organisation.

  please i do not understand that stance.

  explain..

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  NewYork44M

  I doubt that anyone on this forum is seeking a position of responsibility in the Watchtower. You must have read incorrectly.

  Why do you think that women should have different career goals as compared to men? Some might find that sexist and offensive.
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  Have You Found Your Place in the World?

  by Rainbow_Troll in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we were all told when we were in the watchtower that we should be grateful to be part of such a loving family.

  we were told that just beyond the superficial glamour of the world was a quagmire of despair, emptiness and pain waiting to suck us in.

  obviously, we took that part with a mountain of salt or we wouldn't be here today.

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  NewYork44M

  Interesting question. Yes, I think I have found my place in this cosmos. Good job, good food, good friends, and most important - good wine. I hope to keep this up for another 50 years.
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  I need your opinions and recommendations please.

  by bola in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after my exit from the watchtower shunning cult, i have received tons of invitations from different churches.

  but because i am aware of religious cults, i need recommendations of churches that are not cults at all.

  after exiting the watchtower cult, i don't want to fall into another religious cults.

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  NewYork44M

  There is no rule that you need a church. Give yourself a few years and see what works.
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  Mormon Baptizing the dead??

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why the big controversy over baptizing the dead, they are dead folks..i know it's a quirky practice but jewish leaders are up in arms because the lds leaders are baptizing holocaust victims..what harm is it??

  ?hell jw's are preaching everyone will go up in flames no one believe that crap except jw but no one is up in arms, they know they walk a different step....the lds leaders agreed to halt baptisms specifically of jews holocaust victims in 2010 but they are at it again, baptizing jews.

  this is funny as hell to me.

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  If you believe that your earthly life is a prelude to something greater, this seems quite logical. On a related topic, I seem to recall a thread on this site that an elder body attempted to disfellowship a dead person.

  Anyone else recalls this?
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  Santa Claus or the Talking Snake, which did you take?

  by waton in

  1. social
  2. humour

  who are more gullible, believers in santa or the ones in "the serpent"?

  an old man that delivers gifts?

  quite possible, grandpa does it all the time!

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  NewYork44M

  Never believed in Santa; was not allowed to. Always told that Santa is simply Satan with the last two letters switched. Just another evil plot.

  In regards to the snake, yeah, I believed, I am sorry to say. Although I am old enough to have believed that, at the time, the snake had legs.
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  JW's efforts to block sex abuse inquiry squashed

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  fyi.

  the guardian, tuesday 4 april 2017. jehovah’s witnesses congregation's efforts to block inquiry squashed.

  tribunal rejects claim investigation into charity’s handling of sexual abuse allegations amounts to religious discrimination.

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  NewYork44M

  Satan at work again. We must be very near the end of this wicked old system.
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  My Anointed Grandma’s Wavering Faith?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some quick background information: my dad (her firstborn son) died unexpectedly this past october.

  his death has really hit our family hard.

  personally, i have not totally come to terms with this.

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  NewYork44M

  You present a sad situation. Learning theTATT is the easy part. It gets increasing difficult, as a person gets older, to make life changes to get beyond the Watchtower. I can't imagine what a 90-year-old might do to regain her life.
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  Elder doesn't know difference between new moon and full moon

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today at the service group the elder leading couldn't figure out which was which.

  he was trying to convince us that the memorial was at the new moon.

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  NewYork44M

  Maybe he received his university education by reading the Awake!