Posts by waton

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Cain - where's the critical thinking skills?
by jws in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just read a post on facebook where somebody is making some wild crazy-talk about the descendants of cain being the beast of revelation or something.. cain was always a strange tale to me.

don't people use any critical thinking skills when they read this stuff?

everybody knows cain killed his brother abel, but do they ever look at the surrounding tale?.
waton

being a vegetarian was not easy, what with the cursed ground, and then trying to feed a hungry god along with that. And then the meal is not good enough. I would be mad too.
And the smart aleck, getting rid of the stinky carrion by burning it. smoke will keep the mosquitos away no doubt, and setting all the priests, mediators up with good meals for the rest of mankind's time on earth.
Met a real, "publishing" flat Earther yesterday, showed him the ocean's horizon from the 3rd floor. did not floor him.
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Female JW parking "attendants"
by neat blue dog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was shocked recently to see on social media a couple pictures of jw sisters at a convention working as parking "attendants".

i put that title in quotation marks because they still don't get the official attendant badge like the male parking attendants do, only the reflective vest.

has anybody else heard of this .
waton

why not? , if Hugh Hefner can do it. but for wt that's hughe.
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If there is a god.....
by Crazyguy in
1. jw
2. friends
“if there is a god, and he is a loving god, then he would of given each of us a time machine” .

crazyguy.

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waton

re arrange the letters
clever, interesting. that is what I mean, imagine a female hitler, adored by all the men, inviting all manner of invaders to come to Germany and pay them for it. An anti fortress Europa. could not have happened in the past but the present. A gift.
She would of given each of us a time machine.
it would violate the free will fantasy , cause and effect.
Imagine some good meaning well intentioned J.W.sending you back to a time
sounds like the punishment of re incarnation.
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If there is a god.....
by Crazyguy in
1. jw
2. friends
“if there is a god, and he is a loving god, then he would of given each of us a time machine” .

crazyguy.

.
waton

young people object to older folks interfering in their lives, imagine the havoc if younger people could interfere with the past lives of their grandparents, or reach forward in time to fix outcomes? http://www.sciforums.com/threads/alma-sees-old-galaxies-before-they-merged-two-ways-to-look-back-into-the-past.160341/page-39
proposition on this linked topic:
The past does not exist anymore. Only fossils of it. We have past through the present, and can only see messages coming from the past, but the emitters have gone forward too, are gone. There is no machine to go back in time, but we are all going forward. While there is plenty of time in the future, we are not there yet.
Be happy that your adversaries, mother in law even , do not have power over the future. Enjoy the now, it is so short.
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In Search of An Analogy
by InjusticeSystem in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hope this finds all of you well.

i'm also hoping some of you might be able to help me with a particular type of de-witnessing strategy that i'm trying to develop more in my own discussions with active family members.

it seems to me that analogy and metaphor plays a prominent role in the society's teaching (critical thought killing) techniques.
waton

How about marking the whole wt apparatus as the establishment and the clarifying comments of Jesus attacking the one in his day as a justification to pointing out digressions of the WT? (particularly doctrinal ones)
How about Joseph's reporting to his father as the quintessential whistleblower? rewarded at the end? even to a double tribe in "spiritual Israel" ?
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This year’s convention
by lastmanstanding in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
two things i noted at this year’s rc.

1) the new teaching with respect to matthew 25:45 which was applied equally to the rank & file jw.

this teaching is also found in the watchtower study for last sunday.. then he will answer them, saying: ‘truly i say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of these least ones, you did not do it to me.. 2) the new armageddon video which was a big shift.
waton

wt doctrine is exactly the opposite of what the bible writers put down about Jesus' sayings. He said "--the least of my brothers--", Calling the magnificent 8 in Warwick the least, rather than the top dogs is not wt doctrine.
Finding the least of the brothers or sisters in any congregation would be easy, just watch the cliques in action, and the ones they ignore.
Have not seen change in that. have you?
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Do you think that race is a factor in education in the U.S.
by recovering in
1. social
2. current
i was wondering if racial bias is a factor in u.s. education?.

would you be concerned if it was?

why would you be concerned?.
waton

It is not skin colour. some of the smartest children are consistently not necessarily white.
check the spelling contests. The bias at Harvard.
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New Hypothesis on Why Fish Evolved Legs
by cofty in
1. social
2. humour
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waton

Yes! the speed of sound is three times greater and the impact more intense in water than in air, so putting distance between you and the abuser by surfacing is greater than you think.
Used to watch the mudskippers. way to go skipper!
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Very little that is factual in the Bible?
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mryipltf3i.
waton

How about the bible expert. President Duterte? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44610872
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This Week CLM Meeting
by zophar in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, this week on the clm there was an interesting comment at our kh.. under the "apply yourself to the field ministry" portion this week, there was the bible study assignment based on the publication: who are doing jehovah’s will today?

published in 2016. the material was from lesson 28 "what can be found on our website?

there is a footnote at the bottom that reads: .
waton

Intelligent answer, and not Wt line. They would prefer to deny, and have the "publisher" loose credibility and avoid that door like the pest, never to be challenged, confronted again.