This famous experiment illustrates why it is extremely important to chose your authority figures with great care.
Would Watchtower Actually Murder Members Who Question the F&DS If They Could?
by Sea Breeze 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Sea Breeze
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Vidiot
What Beth said, previous page.
In the olden days, banishment was - for all intents and purposes - a death sentence.
Just not a violent one.
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Vidiot
Touchofgrey - “Imagine if any fundamentalist religion had there own country…?”
Don’t need to imagine.
Iran. Afghanistan. North Korea.
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Touchofgrey
Sea breeze
People are influenced by religious leaders, coerced by beliefs that are promoted by their religion.as we all were when we were jws .
Atheism is not a belief system it's a lack of belief in a god or gods, I'm sure that you don't believe in thor ,Zeus and the other 3000 or so major gods throughout history, so you too are a atheist to these gods.
And yes man throughout history have done evil things to other humans because of the ideology of their different beliefs.
I have several times asked you to provide independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that you believed he did, you have yet to provide any verified evidence, yet you continue to promote your form of christianity as the one true religion.
You have left one wacky doodle religion for equally wacky doodle religion.
Please do independent research into the bible and your beliefs with a critical thinking attitude.
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Beth Sarim
Death is death.
Violent or not.
Stoning,,lethal injection or by ostracizing. Or dying from not taking blood.
Yes,,its extremist.
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blondie
NotFormer14 hours ago
I think I've found it:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/3440/arrogance-true-believer
Good find. I was trying to find a quote I made in one of the Comments.
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AtLeastImNot
The woman with whom I studied told me that it was too bad apostates and wrongdoers could not be execute executed the way they used to in the Old Testament. She said that such persons were lucky that all they got was disfellowshipped and not executed.
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Sea Breeze
She said that such persons were lucky that all they got was disfellowshipped and not executed.
When I hear accounts like this, I am very grateful that I made it out with my life and was able at age 40 to start over and produce two sons to carry on my name.
We were in a death cult. I beat the odds. Many others did not. May the Lord have mercy on those who paid the ultimate price.
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Beth Sarim
Not everyone makes it out of the Borg,,,alive.
Those that do,,beat the odds.
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LongHairGal
SEA BREEZE:
Good for you.
When I walked away from the Witness religion 23+ years ago, I didn’t fully know everything about TTATT.. I hadn’t started to deconstruct the faulty teachings in my head except for one: I rid my mind of the paradise earth teaching and living forever. I felt this was a cruel trick to play on my mind.. I never missed it which makes me wonder how much I believed of it in the first place.
Like you.. I’m glad I got out. But, in my case, Glad I never let the JWs tamper with my life or interfere with my work/career! Sorry for anybody who did.