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  Rejecting something due to unscriptural or pagan origins.....?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so witnesses reject many practices or holidays due to their "unscriptural or pagan" origins.. for example, birthday celebrations, mothers or father's day, christmas etc..... most people in the world will say "but the origin doesn't matter anymore, we follow this custom now because it's a joyful occasion that creates happy times and brings the family together".

  it is still firmly rejected.. so, if the wrong origin is so important, and should result in rejecting something, why isn't the same principle applied to the actual jehovah's witness faith itself!?.

  after all, the very foundation of the organisation was based on wrong understandings of the bible, far fetched teachings and doctrines, links to false religious backgrounds, pyramidology, false predictions, inaccurate beliefs etc...... using their reasoning, it doesn't matter how good something is now, if the origin was faulty to begin with?

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  There was a Watchtower maybe 10 years ago or so? It had two articles. One on wedding bands and one on birthdays. With weddings bands the article says that even though it did have pagan origins, because those pagan things aren't a thing anymore, it's just a custom now and it's ok.

  A few pages later, on birthdays, it totally flips that logic. Because birthdays are pagan in origin, they are wrong. That was one of the first things that really got me to starting waking up. A couple years at Bethel did it too lol.
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  Will the Watchtower ever turn against K-12 public education?

  by cappytan in

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  when i was in school, you never heard about critical thinking skills...not till you started taking college level courses.. i work closely with the public education community.

  now, the big rage in public education is instilling critical thinking skills from kindergarten on up.. and i'm in texas!

  imagine what it's like in more liberal areas.. i would not be surprised if the watchtower started denigrating and discouraging public education (k-12).. it would likely start like this: .

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  A kid in my old cong went to that newsystem school. it's garbage. his dad told me it was great because his kid didn't have to take algebra because it's a waste of time lol. yes, a basic form of math is a waste of time. they did little dances and social things. they even got class rings and had a graduation ceremony.

  long story short, he graduated at 16, pioneered for a couple years, got married at like 18 or 19. good thing he works for his dad.
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  How dishonest was the Apostle Paul?

  by opusdei1972 in

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  2. bible

  may be some of you will be shocked by this question.

  however, when i was studying the bible with critical eyes i detected that paul ( or saul of tarsus) misquoted the hebrew bible in order to get false support for his arguments.

  of course, this tricky kind of use of the "scriptures" was not only used by him, but others, like the author of the gospel of matthew got unsupported doctrines misquoting verses.

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  paul was a fuckin nut job.
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  Will the Watchtower ever turn against K-12 public education?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was in school, you never heard about critical thinking skills...not till you started taking college level courses.. i work closely with the public education community.

  now, the big rage in public education is instilling critical thinking skills from kindergarten on up.. and i'm in texas!

  imagine what it's like in more liberal areas.. i would not be surprised if the watchtower started denigrating and discouraging public education (k-12).. it would likely start like this: .

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  I don't know. Whenever the WT discusses home schooling it usually doesn't view it in a super positive light. Most of the JWs I know that are into home schooling are pretty fucking weird as are most of the schools they setup to do it.
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  To Kill A Mockingbird and Prequel

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  are you a fan of harper lee's "to kill a mockingbird"?

  i read the book as a child and have read it many times since.

  miss lee obviously wrote the book to entertain us, and she accomplished that.

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  Well the lawyers and publishers basically took advantage of a senile old lady to get the book published.

  Also, Watchman is quite literally a rough draft of what became To Kill A Mockingbird.

  I will not purchase or read it.
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  Lowell Mass. City Manager Says The JWs Are Welcome Anytime For Their Conventions!

  by minimus in

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  as a matter of fact, he plans on bringing out info to the lowell city council as to how much of a positive impact the conventions were, that were held in the city.

  evidently, a lot of money was brought in to the city's restaurants and lodging.. go witnesses!!!

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  there isn't shit going on in lowell. i'm sure they appreciated the business.
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  Well isn't this a bunch of BS

  by Doctor Who in

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  well, our sister congregation just had their co visit this past week.

  on saturday afternoon, i was talking to a couple of ministerial servants in that congregation and they stated that an unmarried brother is not fulfilling to the max what jehovah wants of us.

  they stated that the co went on a tirade that if you are unmarried you are being selfish and not following what jehovah wanted for mankind since he created eve as a compliment for the man.

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  That makes no sense at all. Sounds like a CO unsurprisingly pushing his own agenda
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  Master piece!

  by coalize in

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  what we can read in the wt 10/15/2015... they have really no shame!.

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  holy mackerel. "Hey folks don't believe lies about us but don't take the time to verify if something is true or not." How the fuck can they sleep at night writing things like that.
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  Witness phone auto message

  by FayeDunaway in

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  a friend just texted that she just now received a generic phone message from the witnesses to check out the 'best christian resource online at jw.(b)org!'.

  so this is what they're doing now?

  spam voicemail is going to make people like them better??

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  it's absolutely not sanctioned. some dumb rogue pioneer who just found a creative way to get time
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  Elders, disfellowshipping, & baseball umpires

  by sir82 in

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  ok bear with me for second on this one..... i was just reading the other day about "pitchf/x", a type of technology that can accurately track whether a pitch in baseball is a ball or a strike.. a couple of analysts went over 6 years of baseball data.. it turns out that umpires are wrong about balls & strikes about 14% of the time.

  what they call a "ball" is really a "strike" about 13% of the time, and what they call a "strike" is really a "ball" about 15% of the time.

  here is the article.. that's at the major league level.. umpires have to work their way up to the major leagues, just as players do.

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  the solution is robot umpires

  and if you think Pitch F/X is awesome, check out Field F/X. It's data on EVERY player during EVERY play. It's terabytes of data per game. It's mind blowing.