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  Anxiety, OCD, Hoarding, and the JWs

  by Spiral in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm noticing what seems to be a higher incidence of the above among the local jws than in the "general" (read: worldly) population.

  i don't say this lightly, my wanderings around the fringes of jw society locally is revealing an alarming trend here.

  the poverty doesn't help (there are good jobs, but you need a degree or qualifications to get one).. anyone else see this?

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  I came across a few JW hoarders can't speak for every JW as you don't get to see how every JW lives and what's in their closets, although, what made JW hoarders different to the usual mountains-of-crap extreme hoarders you see on those shows they were neat, clean mountains-of-crap.

  OCD in some or another was rife. One could argue that being a JW itself is a form of OCD. Not surprising really, all those culty non-sensical rules do your head in if you take them seriously enough. Every Jdud I ever met was "thingy" about something.
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  The Perfect Storm in 2018?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been sadly watching as the number of jws in other countries are decreasing (for the most part), while the numbers in the us are strangely increasing.

  while i question the organization's self reporting numbers, i think 2018 may be the year for another mass us exodus.

  leah remini's show will be focusing on jws in her show on a&e.

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  The WT has something up it's sleeve the GB members still appear way too goddamn arrogant and happy to be almost out of a job and destitute.
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  What could be other alternative names for the Jehovah's Witnesses ?

  by Finkelstein in

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  2. beliefs

  how about .... the international brotherhood of stupidity.. the righteous zombies club .

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  In the spirit of Orwellian irony

  The Ministry of Truth or The Ministry of Love...maybe ?
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  New Letter: Announcements and Reminders

  by Brian J in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  letter dated 1/1/2018.

  i know they are trying to simplify but it all is such a confusing mess.... forms, dates, calculators, committees, logins, publisher record cards.....jesus would barf.

  to all bodies of elders re: announcements and reminders dear brothers: in an effort to reduce the number of letters sent to all bodies of elders and congregations, most announcements from the branch office will now be conveyed to congregations by means of the announcements and reminders (s-147) form.

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  It's this sort of letter ie a letter about reducing the number of letters - lol ironic - that perpetuates the illusion amongst "appointed brothers" that all this crap actually means something. Sad really.
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  The watchtower does not have the resources

  by pepperheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.

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  I'm assuming production takes time. Maybe they're having some end of year downtime. Maybe they're between production or in the process of creating new content, changing the progam and using the end of the year to do it. Could be any number of reasons. I spose winding down operations for good could be one them.
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  Matthew 24:34 NEW UNDERSTANDING (January 2018 JW Broadcasting)

  by Alfred in

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  2. beliefs

  david splane explains newest understanding" of 'this generation" adding a 3rd group.... .

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  Hilarious alfred!
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  Will the Watchtower Corporation continue to lie and deceive just to sustain itself into the future ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wts has been selling and promoting christ's return and the end times since the late 1800's, right through all of the 20th century and still continues today on the same core doctrinal premise.. 1914 was set as a year of christ taking position upon his heavenly throne followed by choosing the wts as his earthly guided organization in 1919 according to the wts.

  leaders at that time.. the actual truth is that the wts is a publishing house and it was inherently pressed to make up doctrines which would gravitate attention to its published goods, accurate and honest bible interpretation was a second lesser concern.. the original heads of this religious publishing house (c t russell) first proclaimed that christ had returned in 1874 and 1914 was going to be the year jesus was going to cleanse the earth of all wickedness etc.

  this was obviously a false doctrine tainted with ignorance and a bit of commercialization in reality.. so the question remains what will the wts do in the future, what will the wts do as far as doctrines to allure the general public at large ?

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  I have thought for some time now that they will have to eventually water down their stance on several things but to avoid spooking the herd they will do it like they introduce any change: slowly, incrementally and quietly. Then, act as if it was always that way.

  In the meantime until the final version of the jwbotborg tele evangelism show is here ( drumroll ta da) they willl continue to mislead and confound members and apostates alike with confusing contradictory information and doublespeak IOW they will continue to do what they do best - lie.
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  Anointed Delusions of Grandeur

  by Kohanic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so here is something i've been wondering about.

  how do the 'anointed' come to the conclusion that they are chosen?

  is it some weird collective delusion of grandeur and how is it manifested in such ones?.

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  The "annointed" haha yeah, the annoy-nted more like.

  They convince themselves they have had an invisible annointing from an invisible holy spirit and everyone is expected go along with it

  In any circumstance other than religion it be classed as a some poor sod with a delusion and the people that enable them.
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  UK: Significant donations to World Wide Work 2015-2017

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  i'm analyzing the 221 congregations in the uk that had additional account info.. correct me if i'm wrong, but was it 2015 when the letter was read out instructing congregations to donate excess funds to the world wide work?.

  the amounts donated to the world wide work are significant.

  i still have much work to do.. truthseeker.

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  Where's my hoover I got some more money to clean up - again.
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  Hollow earth

  by Jrjw in

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  2. scandals

  i thought the flat earth conspiracy theory was strange but ive just read an article about a new conspiracy theory that the earth is hollow and that its a paradise there and 8 foot tall intellectually advanced aliens live there who send space ships out every so often to check on mankind.

  apparently lost viking colonies and nazis that fled there after world war 2 are living there immortally 🤣🤣 .

  this world just gets better and better 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

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  I didn't think hollow earth theory was new either but isn't it great you can read whatever the hell you want now?

  Just remember, just cos you read it doesn't mean you have to believe it. Freedom is a wonderful thing.