congrats snowb on your 2000th......ninja.......p.s.....as for JW's...I hate the manipulators and so want to help the manipulated
What Is The Jehovah's Witness Religion To You?
by minimus 39 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
congrats snowb on your 2000th
Thankee, Ninja.
Sylvia
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ninja
np sylv...its so good to have you around......your wee mate from across the puddle
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El Kabong
Trash,... Refuse,.... Rubbish,.... Garbage,....Methane Gas.
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ninja
hey bongy....are you clairvoyant?....that what I just had for dinner
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El Kabong
Spiritual food, eh Ninja?
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betterdaze
I agree with everything journey-on said on the first page. This bears repeating:
I think the GB are figureheads, only, and may themselves not even know who the real forces are behind the "religion/business".
After Russell died, most of the Bible Students left and Rutherford and his cronies were imprisoned, the publishing business was left in shambles.
Some one or some thing applied the cash to get it going again, and eventually the cultish doctrines and high-control methods ensued.
Follow the money and you'll find out who or what the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" is enslaved to... certainly not Jesus or Jehovah.
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minimus
WHO benefits financially?? AnyONE you specifically know??
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millymollymandy
To me it's scary, saddening and heartbreaking. I never knew much about it until I started going out with my JW boyfriend 5 years and 7 months (!) ago - JWs were just those suited and booted people who sometimes knocked on the door before that.
Now all I can see is this controlling organisation that is taking honest, innocent people's faith in the Bible and turning it into something that is ruining and will continue to ruin lives around the world.
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VoidEater
JW Religion = hypnotic state of ignorance leading to bliss (and occasional bouts of anxiety and self-loathing)
People have to believe in SOMETHING.
"I have confidence in sunshine / I have confidence in rain ... I have confidence in confidence alone / besides which you see I have confidence in me" - Hammerstein
It's inherent in a person to want to belong to a group...
We are social animals.
to feel a part of something important.
...and that gets taken to clinical Narcissism in too many cases. Thanks, journey-on, nice post! ;-)