Posts by sparrowdown

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Child Broadcast Star is Going Home to Die.

by Slidin Fast in

the february broadcast has an item which in my view exploits a young very poorly girl.

it seems that the girl is quite a character and her faith seems to be strong.

she was baptised as a pre-pubescent innocent girl and is purported to be a regular pioneer at age 13. now read what her local paper says :-.

sparrowdown

At least the Borg got their shameless infomercial in before she died.

God I hate this org.

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Next steps for the Austrailian Royal Commission

by Coded Logic in

since the watchtowers' lawyers have (a) failed to make any recommendations to the arc that would bring the watchtower up to date with "best practices and procedures" (b) have failed to submit a proposal for victim restitution (c) have failed to secure funding for a redress scheme and (d) have completely dismissed all the arcs' findings - what's the royal commission's next course of action?.

i see two possibilities:.

) negotiate a settlement with the watchtower.

sparrowdown

Great points Zeb. I can see them packing up and selling off the branch, maybe have some sort of office for any business that cannot be handled online. They may make some superficial adjustments to the way things are done in Oz, but they will string out the commission as long as they can. Their version of " you want us to pay up then make us."

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Gas Pump "Witnessing"....Is this a thing?

by Bob Loblaw in

i've seen this twice now within a month.

a car group hanging out at a gas station.

one of the cult members jumps outs of their car and runs up to a "worldly" gas pumper, arm stretched out, tract in hand, and here comes the juvenile at best question.

sparrowdown

Gas pump witnessing- orange mocha frappuchino anyone?

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Most Translated Website

by Pubsinger in

wt claims their website is the 'most translated' and claims over 750 languages.

but in the drop down language menu there are only about 50. so where are the others?

sparrowdown

This is an area WT actually excels at. Translating bullshit into bullshittier bullshit and then translating that bullshit into to a language or in the mysterious case of the missing languages a bullshit language.

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Re: Quarterly Organizational Accomplishments Video Series

by pixel in

dear brothers:.

we are pleased to inform you that a new series of short videos will be produced to emphasize the acceleration of the worldwide work of jehovah’s witnesses.

(isa.

sparrowdown

Earplugs, freddo, earplugs with your fave music playing, and if anyone looks at you funny just smile and nod. 😉

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Just handed in my Disassociation letter

by Thirteenth tribe in

tonight my dl was posted by hand by my husband (a worldly guy).

i had the luxury of being at work distracted whilst he posted it.

i have been baptised for just over 2 years and studied since 2010. i couldn't take it anymore, not just the zealous dislike/disgust for 'people in the world' (this includes my husband and 99% of my family btw) but the obvious.... the investigations into child sexual abuse.

sparrowdown

I agree with you about cutting all ties their ideologies are toxic, even in small doses.

Great decision, welcome to your sanity returning. It won't happen overnight but it will happen.

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Attempted arson Kingdom Hall Australia Feb 9 2016

by Watchtower-Free in

http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/blog/2016/02/09/break-enter-arson-beenleigh/.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/kingdom+hall+of+jehovah's+witnesses/@-27.7070899,153.2022375,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x97799a9c520da3ff.

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sparrowdown

The cases I know of where this happened the offenders turned out to be.

In one incident it was a return visit.

In one incident it was someone who had studied on and off for years.

And in another it was the unbelieving boyfriend of local woman who was studying.

There was another one as well which involved graffiti turned out to be ex-husband of a sister who lost access to his kids.

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"These Words Must Be On Your Heart" Propaganda Film Review

by WatchtowerReviewz in

new watchtower movie review for those interested.. .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggj7rlof1o8.

sparrowdown

Great review of a truly awful movie.

JWs will eat it up with awe and wonder as evidence of the great and powerful movie making abilities of GB/Jehovah.

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Re: Quarterly Organizational Accomplishments Video Series

by pixel in

dear brothers:.

we are pleased to inform you that a new series of short videos will be produced to emphasize the acceleration of the worldwide work of jehovah’s witnesses.

(isa.

sparrowdown

Because propoganda is very effective, and WT knows that.

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When is a theory 'just a theory'?

by HB in

the titles of cofty's excellent recent posts are all preceeded by the words "evolution is a fact...".

richard dawkins is encouraging people to use the term 'fact' in relation to evolution, especially when debating with creationists as the word 'theory' is confusing to many, and the latter often takes the discussion off on an often unproductive tangent.

the following may be of interest, it's from the bbc website - part of a regular series of articles called 'the vocabularist', discussing the origin and meaning of words: .

sparrowdown

Theory means unproven to JWs until they are describing the overlapping generations theory then it is fact.

It reminds me of how JWs use the term "critical thinking" like it really means bitchy thinking.