Posts by sparrowdown

the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..

sparrowdown

Gorbatchov for King Of the North!

Who's with me?

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John Ceder used my satire about annual meeting for real

by Gorbatchov in

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friends

sorry guys,.

the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..

sparrowdown

Congrats Gorby, you're famous! LOL!

A bit like watching SNL and thinking Alec Baldwin is President - too funny.

Where is that sarcasm/satire font when you need it.

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New releases at annual meeting??

by _Morpheus in

this has been mentioned in passing but it seems to deserve its own thread.. this year at the rc, no releases.

instead they wait to drop them at the annual meeting which isnt a even simulcast event.

what is their thinking?

sparrowdown

Maybe they are getting paranoid about the press, the public and apostates getting access to the literature now. The annual meeting is a more intimate gathering one where they are preaching to the choir not the press or the public and a meeting where they can control who gets invited.

Just a thought, but discontinuing RCs if they cost more to produce than the donations they generate is definitely a possiblity.

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Who do they think they are speaking to in their literature?

by Tameria2001 in

it's been a very long time since i read any of the watchtower literature.

because of something i came across, i decided to see how things have changed (yet still the same).

anyways the article i read on the jw org site, and this article was dealing with teens.

sparrowdown

They are speaking to the fully obedient indoctrinated WT robot everyone else just switches off.

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Manifesto presented during Dutch silent protest

by jochie in

we had a very succesfull and emotional protest in front of the dutch branch offcie.several survivors gave impressive speeches.

the mayor gave a speech and one of the dutch mp's did as well.. i will try to post sevaral dutch media items on our youtube channel this week with english subs.. during this protest a manifesto was presented and read to the audience.

the jws were invited to receive this manifesto.

sparrowdown

Well done guys, keep up the good work!

Love to you all.

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Leah Rimini on Jehovah's Witnesses

by sparky1 in

i just saw an ad last night for this.

it will be televised in november on a&e..

sparrowdown

Can't wait, love Leah 's straight forward non-nonsense approach also. She calls a spade an f**king spade!

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Anti-witnessing mistake by me !

by Phizzy in

a couple of times while i was anti-witnessing i have made a fundamental mistake, which was to try to show the believer that it was neither intellectually nor scientifically necessary for there to be a creator.

the discussion got to this point because i said i was an atheist.. this latest time was talking to a street preacher who was not a j.w, but he did the same thing they do, i.e not really listen to the points i made, tried to rubbish science etc.. i have decided when, (if), this happens again i shall say something along the lines of " whoa there !

you have done a huge leap from talking about your bible god to the matter of a creator, if i concede there was a creator, how can you prove it was your god ?".

sparrowdown

Yeah could work with some. People tend to stay in a situation with a set of beliefs until the (perceived) cost of staying becomes greater that the cost of changing. They will believe what they want until they don't want to anymore.

I've often thought that arguing from the position of agreement (at least hypothetically anyway) of a creator as your starting point and going from there may work with someone who still has some ability to reason and an ounce of personal integrity left, IOW a JW unicorn!