Apognophos
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Governing Body came to power when/why?
by Apognophos ini've read a little on here about the gb not existing formally until the '70s, and even then not having the top position at first.
something about knorr and f. franz not wanting to give up their own influence?
i just wondered if the eventual transition to a body of men might have been intended to prevent another "1975".
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When your friends are bad for you: JWs as a case study in the dangers of ingroup bias
by Apognophos inhow do you convince someone to get help when their friends all say they're fine?
from time to time i think about how certain illnesses must be very difficult to treat because the sufferer's actual perceptions are skewed.
for instance, how do you convince someone to seek treatment if they are under a paranoid delusion that they know too much and the establishment wants to put them on drugs to dull their minds?
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YRM (Yahweh's Restoration Movement) - Out-JWing the JWs?
by Apognophos injust thought i would point out another religion that shares many of the jws' teachings, including non-trinitarianism and emphasis on god's name: http://www.yrm.org/yrm_statement_of%20belief.htm.
interestingly, they lean even further towards preserving the jewish covenant than witnesses do.
i didn't know it was possible to lean this far while still believing in jesus!
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Jesus' money box
by Apognophos init seems to me that no one ever talks about jesus' money box, sometimes referred to as the poor box.
all we know is that it was a box, and it had money, and judas iscariot kept it (and apparently stole from it).
was it donations made to jesus?
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Why Armageddon is like the end of a Shepard Scale
by Apognophos infor those who haven't heard the famous "infinitely ascending/descending tone", please listen to it now on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shepard_tone.
although the wikipedia version is unable to demonstrate this, one can download similar sounds and play them in a loop and the tone will seem to continue ascending or descending forever (here's a classic ascending tone to download if you want to try it).
as one listens, it seems impossible that it could continue going in that direction without leaving the range of human hearing.
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Mugger: "Your self-importance or your life!" JW: "Hold on, I'm thinking..."
by Apognophos injust a short thought that i wanted to put out there.
it's human nature.
the religion gave us a chance to believe that the world revolved around our little lives -- our every thought and action was of cosmic significance in the battle between good and evil.
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Society claims Bible creation account is unlike pagan myths, clearly doesn't read any scholarly work
by Apognophos inso, during the service meeting this week, they were showing a few pages on the web site that we could share with an interested one (using the projection screen in the hall), and i sat up a little in my seat when i read this part of the page "do science and the bible agree?
" (er, or "does science agree with the bible?
", depending on which place you look for the title):.
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Let's celebrate 2014 by looking back at C. T. Russell's era
by Apognophos inthe society likes to boast about the rich spiritual heritage of their history, pointing out all their organizational improvements and accomplishments since the founding of the religion, and since jesus' reign began in 1914. let's get a sense of historical context by looking at the state of technology during the lifetimes of three end-time prognosticators who set the stage for the modern jehovah's witness religion.. .
miller's, barbour's, and russell's lifetimes.
william miller (1782-1849) started the millerite movement, predicting the end of the world would come in 1844. he died five years later.
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Did my heart become untrustworthy when I was baptized?
by Apognophos ingrowing up as a witness, a scripture that was used heavily by the society began to puzzle me:.
the heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate.
--jer.
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If I were a CEO, and I wasn't very honest...
by Apognophos in...and i was in charge of a big company, and i knew it was going under, you know what i'd do?
i'd gather up as much money as i could hold in my arms and then i would disappear right before anyone called me to account for misleading all those shareholders and employees.
then i'd fake my own death while skiing in colorado and get some papers made up saying i was cremated before too many reporters got into town to snoop around.