child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
I never understood how someone would leave the WTS for any other religion. I just dropped my faith like a hot potato after 25 years of indoctrination in JW hullabaloo.
Some people feels that WT is not radical enough, and will leave to pursue even more radical, crazy religion with more extreme devotion that they had left behind.
if satan is the greatest apostate there is, why he was allowed to be in heaven?
job chapters 1 and 2 says that jehovah talked to him.
wasn't jehovah supposed to shun his son and set an example to all parents?.
child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
during the long debate on the question of gay marriage, there have been many competing answers to the question of, "how many people are gay?".
a very anti-gay christian minister in sydney, the reverend fred nile, (who is also a member of the state parliament) claims that the percentage is as low as 1%.. some university (u.of new south wales) research in sydney has suggested 5%, but the authors of the study cautioned that there was a problem in the fact that an unknown number of respondents would likely not admit to being gay.. there are other problems in asking the question.
for example, what does being gay mean?
The percentage of the homosexual men attracted to same sex is probably constant though the ages. Austrian and Prussian/German research is interesting, because it was first larger scientific approach to understand homosexuality instead of religious one and is well documented. In the case of Austrian Empire, there was an introduction for new criminal law that was put into the effect in 1855 and survived in most of countries build upon ruins of Austria-Hungary until 1950 or 1961 respectively. Many laws were analyzed by logical approach by inviting the best scientist the Austrian monarchy had from universities of Vienna, Prague and Gratz. Homosexuality was considered for decriminalization and the discussions were led by Dr. Purkyne, who presented the findings that 1:50 of men have permanent, irreversible attraction to same sex and do not wish to change that. However, emperor Franz Joseph was not interested in legalizing it, and the anti-gay law became effective for the next 100 years.
Forty years later, Austria-Hungary was engulfed with antisemitic waves that reached apex during so called Hilsner affair, where Jews were accused of ritual killing of young maidens. The hysteria originated after several unsolved murders of young women (four or five). Another murder of young woman was associated with local Jewish community and population singled out Jews as the perpetrator of the crime with Hilsner in lead. Nationalists from various Austrian nations accused Jews for committing sexual crimes against the Christians and seducing young men to homosexuality to weaken the morals. Czechs and Germans equally blamed Jews that homosexuality was introduced into the society by them. Various studies from arrest reports from 1890's to 1900 proved nothing that the Jews were more inclined to homosexuality than Germans, Hungarians, and Czechs. I think this was done after analysis of 14000 or so arrest records across the monarchy based for the same "crime against the nature". Actually the numbers were equally distributed among the population around 2%. Nationalists refused to accept that study and maintained well to the Nazi era claiming that Jews were recruiting Germans and Czech boys to homosexual behavior.
So any case, Victorian era concluded that 2% of men are totally attracted to same sex gender. That has not changed with present CDC statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr077.pdf where in 2013 it was estimated that 1.8% of men are gay.
greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.
and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.
but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.
in another thread i saw it mentioned that this elder and his wife were trying to preach to the poster here and said that they liked that jw's had answers to their questions.
i've heard that over and over throughout the years, and it does make sense on a level.
people in other religions sometimes have questions and are told that this or that is a mystery, or that they just have to have faith, etc.
during the long debate on the question of gay marriage, there have been many competing answers to the question of, "how many people are gay?".
a very anti-gay christian minister in sydney, the reverend fred nile, (who is also a member of the state parliament) claims that the percentage is as low as 1%.. some university (u.of new south wales) research in sydney has suggested 5%, but the authors of the study cautioned that there was a problem in the fact that an unknown number of respondents would likely not admit to being gay.. there are other problems in asking the question.
for example, what does being gay mean?
here is a change of pace, what was the nicest thing a jw has ever done for you or you have seen done?
it wasn't all bad all the time!
I have a fond of one sister, that already passed away. She was an excellent cook and baker and she used to share recipes all the time. After book study, she was baking all the goodies, decorated cakes, and even made marzipan decorations. A she shared with everyone. Sometimes she just left wrapped pastry and baked goodies and they were delicious.
There was also one sister who was very well off, because she inherited a huge property in the countryside. She did a lot of field service among homeless people and poor, and was giving them food from her farm like eggs, poultry, and home-made canned products. Otherwise my KH had attitude everyone for on its own, and there was not much social interactions.
in the 60's and 70's when i became a mindless cult follower there.
were gathering for the elite and they would get sh---t face, i mean down right.
drunk.
My JW uncle was alcoholic. He was so many times drunk that it was embarrassing; and he usually crashed at my granny so my JW aunt would not know how wasted he was. My granny eventually refused to open the doors, so he sometimes went to our house and my dad let him sleep a bit on the couch to sober up. As the time progressed, my uncle drunk even more (late 1970's) and got violent to the point that he beat up my father who ended at emergency room to get stitches while neighbors called cops. Afterward, my father refused to open the door at night as he was afraid of the welfare of the kids and my mom. My uncle came drunk several times afterwards, banging on the doors, throwing rocks into the windows, until he passed out on the doorsteps. Last time I saw him 25 years ago, and I think he died from cirrhosis or something similar.
the (almost) pacificism of the jws was one of the things that attracted me to the witnesses when young.
i wondered today, when i read this headline:.
pope francis suggests those in weapons industry can't call themselves christianat rally of young people in turin, francis issues his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry, criticising investors as well as workerspeople who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves christian, pope francis said on sunday.link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/22/pope-francis-says-those-in-weapons-industry-cant-call-themselves-christian.
