The absence of DUE PROCESS and the threat of the "invisible" gun

by Terry 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Terry

  Let's pretend we're all WRONG about religion. Let's say you die and wake up and cows are running the universe. You've got a bunch of bald guys wearing pastel chiffon getups offering everyone else bee pollen. Meanwhile, a guy with horns and a red skintight outfit comes up and shows you a photo of you eating a cheeseburger. Okay, you know you're in deep. The only way it could get worse is if onion rings could sit in judgment of you. But now you've got a lot of holy cows looking to settle old scores.

  Staying on this discussion group for over 8 years has been worth it just so that I could read this post!

  Watchtower theology is NO LESS ridiculous than the tale you've spun. We are just accustomed to hearing it over and over and over.

  Chatty serpents, horny angels, Giants, Ass Jawbones as weapons of mass destruction are exactly the same kind of tale-spinning! If only you'd gotten

  your story in place BEFORE the Watchtower did their's!
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  Good points, Terry!

  Under its judicial system the Watchtower organization has elders sitting on a judicial committee serve as prosecution, defense, judge and jury.

  Watchtower says this is okay because it’s how God had Jews do it.

  But there’s a problem with that: Watchtower does not mimic the central feature of what God had Jews do.

  - Watchtower’s Judicial System at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/04/watchtowers-judicial-system.html

  As a twist of irony has it, Watchtower admits the essentialness of a feature its own system lacks! Publicity.

  Marvin Shilmer
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  “Ha! Never heard the "shun gun" thing before.”

  Coldl Steel,

  Terry invented this clever and deadly accurate neologism about a year ago in another of his brilliant presentations:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/221945/1/The-gun-is-the-SHUN-the-JWs-who-no-longer-believe-but-cannot-leave

  Marvin Shilmer
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  return of parakeet

  Terry (response to Cold Steel's post): " Chatty serpents, horny angels, Giants, Ass Jawbones as weapons of mass destruction are exactly the same kind of tale-spinning! If only you'd gotten your story in place BEFORE the Watchtower did their's! "

  Terry, he did get his story in place before the WTS. He's parroting tenets of the Church of LDS. It's a case of the cultist leading the cultist.
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  Band on the Run

  Pls. Just because the WT Society says that their "judicial" system (which bears no resemblance to either ciivil law or common law. more akin to Stalin law or Mao law) is based on Jewish practice does not mean that it is. I suspect that Jews had appeals to temple authorities and within local synogagues. Fairness is a hallmark of Jewish institutions. I suspect there were ways of leveling the playing field between rich and poor in Israel. My recollection is that a host of Old Testament scriptures supports this view.

  We should not refer to them as judicial councils. There is nothing judicial in them. Kangaroo council is a much more apt term. How about Stalin show trials? The WT has all the markings of not even a Tudor style judicial system. To call it a judicial system is to hurt every country with some semblance of a judiciary.