It's simple: Some people learn tolerance when they leave the Watchtower, others learn intolerance. There are only two paths.
No need to guess which path Mr Robert King is on!
WHAT'S GOING ON AT E-WATCHMAN???
by snowbird 17 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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changeling
Robert King is an egomaniacal wacko! Simon just hosts a website.
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ninja
when I first had real doubts about the watchtower mob being the faithful slave....that board helped me a lot........I dipped my feet into the sea of apostasy thru it.....it helped me a lot at the time.......so in my case it was beneficial....I am a fully fledged apostate now...."sniff"....got horns,forked tail and a pitchfork very cheap through "apostates r us"
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snowbird
Ninja, I thought all Scots were dour penny-pinchers and you come out with this:
am a fully fledged apostate now...."sniff"....got horns,forked tail and a pitchfork very cheap through "apostates r us"
That's what we get for stereotyping, huh? I always enjoy your posts. You help to keep things on an even keel around here.
Snowbird
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Highlander
I agree with Ninja,
Though my current opinion is that Robert King is a bit of a nut-case, I have to admit that his website did help me to get my feet wet as well.
I originally viewed JWD back in about 2001. Later in 2005 I went to the e-watchman site. I never participated there, but I read every commentary he had. For me it was an easy step to take. Robert King disagrees with the WT, but wants everyone to remain a J-dub until Jehovah returns to 'cleanse' his organization of all the problems and mistakes that has occurred with in the WT corp. That kind of thinking can be comforting to the average j-dub. You get to acknowledge all the problems with 'jehovahs organization'™ and yet you can keep all the fuzzy feelings you get from believing you will live forever in a fantasy paradise earth.
It was the e-watchman site, that acted as a 'stepping stone' in bringing me back to JWD in Dec of 2005.
So in reality, I do think e-watchman does serve a purpose in the grander scheme of things.(at least for me it was helpful)
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neverendingjourney
Wow! I haven' spent much time on e-watchman, but I just watched Robert King's video on his book's website. The guy looks and sounds like a regular dub to me. He uses the same porous logic that all JWs use. http://jehovah-has-become-king.com/word-from-author.html
He starts off his video by saying:"It’s becoming more apparent by the day that a time of great trouble lays just ahead for us. In fact, no civilization has ever been confronted with the peril that is now looming."
Ughh..just exactly why is that so apparent? No civilization has ever been confronted with the peril that is now looming? Really? Tell that to the American Indians!
It's stupid. It's the kind of talk that rallies fellow believers, but will not sway the minds of people that don't already believe as he does. His logic is just not that convincing. He anticipates objections and then lists off a bunch of factors that prove that our times are special, like none ever before. They are all things that could potentially happen in the future. Not anything that we are actually seeing today.
He later says something along the lines of: who can deny that the conditions are just as those in which the four horsemen are to appear? I can. You can point to any time period and claim that the world conditions are just as the Bible described would be the case during the "last days." It seems to me that Robert King was a frustrated dub who felt that he should be rising faster in the JW ranks. He probably got laughed at and decided to try to fill his need for attention by beginning an online movement. -
steve2
Robert King's problem is that he is a mere planet (namely, Earth) revolving around the Sun (The Watchtower Society) that wishes he were the Sun. His sort never stray far from a familiar orbit. Hence he is as orbitally fixed to the Watchtower as the Earth remains orbitally fixed to the Sun.
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greendawn
I wouldn't be surprised if the man behind e-watchman is strange since he is basically a JW he believes in all of weird their doctrines and only differs in the way the cult is being run by the GB. To him it is the true religion nonetheless.