(August 1, 2013 at 3:06 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: They are strictly prohibited from coming to places like this. They cannot read any literature that is not first approved by their Church.
More accurately, they are warned against reading any religious literature that does not originate from the organization. To do so is to flirt with apostasy, and that is effectively a hanging offense.
The ones I know (and having grown up a JW, I know a heck of a lot) are generally very nice and helpful people. The biggest negative is probably with the more zealous ones, the types who can't help but find a Biblical parable in every event that occurs during the day.
I can see why employers love them, though. They're taught very strict adherence to god's moral laws. I know many of them who would never dream of, say, taking home a pen or paper clip from work. Someone who is ultra strict about being honest and forthright probably seems very rare to many employers. Don't ask them to work overtime on meeting nights, though.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
