(June 15, 2015 at 11:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I think it's quaint and heartwarming that you feel that JW's have made a break from pagan beliefs. JW's fellow christians think they have as well, and strongly disagree with the notion that -JW's- have. Again, I think that this is silly. You're both arguing your doctrines, rather than fact...and quite frankly, neither of you are on friendly terms with facts. The defensive believer in you desperately needs to make this about me.
It isn't, I haven't been saying these things, you have. Own the conversation that you chose to have. -All of you- are indebted to your pagan forebearers. There's no break. Without the pagan influence you wouldn't even recognize your own religions. They would seem as alien to all of you as judaism -already seems- to all of you. Understand? Your polytheistic arianism is somehow better or less pagan than their monotheistic trinitarianism? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds to anyone who was -not- raised as a JW? Are we really already at the point where everything you've been taught is useless, that your only response to me is "oh yeah, well you're -x-"? Why is that? Why did the people who gave you the answers leave you so unprepared against even the most gentle of resistance?
So quit saying that I'm just wrong because you said so and its so sad that I don't know I am wrong and can you believe that I actually believe that I am right because I am so wrong because you said so, yes that was supposed to be as incoherent as your sentences, and give me some examples? Calling me a polytheist only proves that you can take a definition and find a broad definition to fit what JW's believe. And you can't say we subscribe to arianism because we do recognize Jesus as a divine being, just not the almighty.
Anyone who subscribes to cynicism like yourself but thinks its skepticism can never acknowledge when they're wrong. They can never admit to any good in the thing they detest because then they'll have to know that their little of house of cards like reasoning is too flimsy for their small thinking. So again, how do you rope me into these replies? I put you on my ignore list but I still get your messages somehow