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  Indoctrination or insistence on being right?

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  nobody likes to be wrong.

  so after being taught that they have "the truth" for so long, is it that jws just don't want to admit that they are wrong so they'll keep going in the same direction rather than reversing course?

  this is different from indoctrination when you truly believe what you're saying.

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  The more things change, the more they stay the same

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  oldskool wrote on another post that "the 'truth' is an experience, and the 'beliefs' are designed to get you to behave as a member of the experience.

  " i've read a lot here about the many changes to the wtbts in recent years.

  but this got me thinking about the practices or, for the most part, non-practices that make someone a jw.

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  Interesting Prince quote from current Entertainment Weekly (yes, another Prince thread)

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

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  2. current

  this weekend, i was reading my cousin's hard copy of the entertainment weekly prince tribute (may 6, 2016 issue) and came across a very interesting quote.

  ew journalist leah greenblatt, who conducted the last major magazine interview with prince in august 2015, recounted him saying: "religion is beautiful as long as you don't become a fanatic and start shutting other people out, other ideas.

  prince may have still been a jw, but it sounds like he had a very open-minded approach to it.

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  Higher Education - is it really the end of the WT?

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a non-jw, before i started looking into things, i must say i only encountered intelligent jws.

  so i was quite surprised to read here and in the pew report about their low overall educational achievement.

  granted, my exposure was limited (less than a handful of people over a lifetime) but i met two of them in post-college education (graduate school) at a very good school.

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  Just in time for Memorial season...

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is short and quick but maybe it's a seed to plant in the 10 days until the memorial.

  i have talked to jws who tell me their reason for not eating the bread and drinking the cup is because that was only a new covenant with his disciples (and in their wonky extension, the 144,000).

  but i just thought of a few things.

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  inquiring mind has 3 questions

  by OutsiderLookingIn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a few questions from a newbie.

  answer one or as many as you want.

  1. why cleaners?

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