If it walks like a cult and quacks like a cult, it's a cult!
If it walks like a DOOMSDAY cult and quacks like a DOOMSDAY cult, it's a DOOMSDAY cult!
Is the Watchtower Society a Doomsday Cult?
by God_Delusion 18 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Open mind
So glad you're back and posting again OUTLAW!
This place just wasn't the same without you.
And yeah, they, like all systems of religious belief are by definition a cult, and as OUTLAW so graphically demonstrated above, they can't shut up about the Big A being right around the corner.
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Dagney
Have you talked with any JW's recently? It is still the topic of conversation as ever. "It's sooooooooooooooo close! Can you feel it!!!" uttered in glee!!!
Yep, death and destruction to billions of people is almost here!!! Yippeeeee!!!!
In answer to your question, yes.
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blondie
The WTS quibbles about that they do not believe that the literal earth will be destroyed. But what is the definition of a doomsday religion or cult in general?
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00DAD
JWs are NOT a Doomsday Cult. They believe that planet earth will not be destroyed, only 99.9% of the people on it that don't believe a bunch of isolated, uneducated, out-of-touch-with-reality old men in Brooklyn that can't figure out what common words like "soon" or "generation" mean.
Have a nice day!
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botchtowersociety
I believe the religion of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has nothing to do with doctrine. I believe it is an enabling system for persons with ambiguity intolerance.
Fascinating.
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00DAD
A mbiguity intolerance, which was introduced in The Authoritarian Personality in 1950, was defined in 1975 as a “tendency to perceive or interpret information marked by vague, incomplete, fragmented, multiple, probable, unstructured, uncertain, inconsistent, contrary, contradictory, or unclear meanings as actual or potential sources of psychological discomfort or threat.”
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OldGenerationDude
Yeppers, that's it.
"If I can't be certain that I have the one true religion, why practice religion at all?"
is a common view of one with AI (which does not stand for "artificial intelligence").
The reason many of us are here is because we likely don't have problems with AI--some among us might, but generally this is why many of us didn't fit in.
The ambiguity we might not tolerate now is how the hell the Governing Body got to the place it is now!
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TheWonderofYou
Friends,
this is a very serious matter as you know. Children shouldn' be afraid of Armageddon, nor of the doomsday anymore.
I pray for it.
Little drama:
Caleb afraid of Boomsday.
Caleb: „Doom, Boom, boom. Kawumm.“om: „Caleb, what are you doing now?“
Caleb: „A friend gave me this magazine. [g 12/9] And the picture ist so freightening.“
Mom: „Do you know which magazine this is, Caleb? It is Awake, Awake is magic and fantastic. You should never read these magazines any more, or should you look at it, because they are dangerous for your mind, arenn't they?“
Caleb: „But the beautiful comics Mom hmmm.“
Mom serious: „Caleb.“
Caleb: „What is a Boomsday?“
Mom: „Doomsday Caleb, you are not kidding about very serious matters, are you?“
Caleb: „No mom“.
Mom: „Do you remember how our God thinks about fantastic magazines that are freightening?“
Caleb: „We should throw it away or burn it“.
Mom: "Very good answer Caleb, Our loving God will be happy if you destroy everything
that propagates a false bad image of him. You'r really smart boy."
To be continued.
Additional info: As Awake 12/9 observes, the theologians !!! are really the worst sort of people: they don't stop debating endlessly these things! Awake never freightens someone, it gives hope! People have been shocked for decades about their theological interpretations about the great tribulation, armageddon and the millenium. [theologican dont speak much about such JW matters in reality!. Also theologic terms dont appear as if in the bible there would be no discussion about hell, eternal jugdment, because JW dont understand these matters] Theologians freightened the whole world with their misleading interpretations of the bible, according to awake. Only Awake always made clear that their will be no end of the world and a paradise. Our little planet earth will never be destroyed. The doomsday is mostly fantasy. BUT Awake has so to cover Doomsday and Watchtower has to cover Armageddon:because the public false meaning about these matters must be corrected. Wt and g dont speculate about armageddon they only must "biblical correct" the matter, because these words appear in the bible and have a special hopeful meaning. And someone must interprete it right. bla bla bla