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  Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

  ) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

  he starts off with an illustration.

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  thedepressedsoul

  I wish I had an audio recording. He started his talk right off with it.
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  2015 Convention Reminders Video!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  credit goes to mike & kim.. .. https://youtu.be/yj3x6wjrsaq .

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  I'd like to touch on what someone said about Witnesses being huge A holes there.

  As a parking attendant we'd ask brothers and sisters not to drop off on the side of the building where the buses were pulling in and to please drop off at the proper spot on the other side of the building.

  Dude, those guys would pull up 10 feet and whoever had to get dropped off would go running out of the car right after I kindly asked them to pull to the other side of the building. It was nuts. This would happen so many times that it got old.

  As an inside attendance I remember seeing sister 100lbs over weight pioneer book it down the hallway to get her seat.

  You ask people to not save an extra seat and they give you the death stare. I kid you not there are some very very rude people there.

  Soon they're going to come out with a video on how to wipe your ass properly.
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  Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

  ) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

  he starts off with an illustration.

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  thedepressedsoul

  There was just so much wrong tied into that statement. Fear the devil and turn a blind eye to that pedophile.
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  Evidence based folks: what is your stance on GMO's and why?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.

  chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.

  i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.

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  thedepressedsoul

  This conversation is over my head. I didn't get a edumication as a young jw.
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  2015 Convention Reminders Video!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  credit goes to mike & kim.. .. https://youtu.be/yj3x6wjrsaq .

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  thedepressedsoul

  Man they really insulted all of their old timers! These were the guys that sold all of their magazines, fought tooth and nail at the door and actually did bible research. Now they're being portrayed as an old bunch getting trampled over.

  Also, no offense but there weren't too many skinny JW at my recent assembly. There is a weight issue and yet they portrayed the "worldly" people as the fat ones.
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  2015 Convention Reminders Video!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  credit goes to mike & kim.. .. https://youtu.be/yj3x6wjrsaq .

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  thedepressedsoul

  I see their discouraging of higher education has really paid off. They can't even get to a convention without being told how to. Let alone think about other topics for themselves.
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  Satan is more dangerous then pedophile - Assembly Part

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?

  ) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

  he starts off with an illustration.

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  thedepressedsoul

  I am sitting at the recent assembly, bored out of my mind (Have you ever heard anyone call these things fun?) and the next speaker walks out on stage.

  He starts off with an illustration. He asks the audience to imagine that you and your family live in a house and come to find out a pedophile lives directly across the street from you. He states, "wouldn't you do whatever was necessary to protect your child, to keep them out of harms way? Would you not take proper measure to insure their safety, whatever the cost?

  In my mind I can't help but think how ironic this illustration is. I was wondering if he was "awake" and secretly telling all JW parents to get their kids out of this organization for their own safety. I was wrong though, what he says next completely took me by surprise.

  He then goes on to say, "There is something even more dangerous then that pedophile living across the street to your children..." "Satan the devil is after your children, something even more dangerous then that pedophile!"

  I wanted to stand up and shout out, "you sick SOB!" This guy is honestly saying that there is something more dangerous than a pedophile living across the street to their kids? You are honestly saying that a parent needs to take more precautions with an invisible entity that is after your kids than a physical sick man across the street that can do physical AND emotional damage to the whole life of that child? Heck, in JW land the parent wouldn't even know their is a pedophile sitting right next to their kid at a meeting if it was up to the GB and elders. Yet, here is this elder saying a parent would want to take precautions to one living across the street. At least their is distances, walls, and knowledge separating your kid and the sicko.

  This religion is F'ed up. They have such a twisted and down play view of pedophiles. Not only do you use a illustration that would apply to every child that is in this religion and that actually happened to a lot of young JW kids, you then go on to say the devil is worse and requires more caution then a human predator?
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  I'm my favorite type of JW - Double Life

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the borg's tactics on most jw work.

  they put fear into their mind, they guilt trip them and basically make them scared to do anything when they are away from the kingdom hall.

  it allows them to control every aspect of their life.

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  No, I'm pretty sure any addict would.

  I'm guessing you are still sticking with that illustrations. You remind me of how JW are with no one can have a different view. Sure you're not still blind?
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  I'm my favorite type of JW - Double Life

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the borg's tactics on most jw work.

  they put fear into their mind, they guilt trip them and basically make them scared to do anything when they are away from the kingdom hall.

  it allows them to control every aspect of their life.

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  thedepressedsoul

  You have no idea if someone at your table is bluffing or not - you only know that you're bluffing.
  

  Or if they're an addict... ehm
  
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  I'm my favorite type of JW - Double Life

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the borg's tactics on most jw work.

  they put fear into their mind, they guilt trip them and basically make them scared to do anything when they are away from the kingdom hall.

  it allows them to control every aspect of their life.

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  thedepressedsoul

  Yes, that all plays a vital role.

  I guess this is why JW say not to use too many illustrations. People get hung up on them and focus on that aspect. Thanks for turning this into a gambling post and what an addict is...
  

  Here you go buddy: http://www.psychforums.com/gambling-addiction/

  Can't tell if you have a gambling problem or are trying to explain 1914 to me