"Thanks for your kind intentions. I appreciate your comments about the value of humility. It is indeed so vital to humbly keep examining our faith, free from arrogance or pride. To do so with a keen focus on truth and honesty is also so important. I hope you are keeping well. Love...."
stuckinarut2
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"You owe Jehovah humility and HONESTY" - an email from a JW
by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho inhey forum goers.
i'd like your opinions on constructing an email reply to this shocker below.
bit of background about the sender: she is a middle-aged, cheery uberdub whose siblings left when a schism occured in her congregation in canada way back when.
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Craziest Speculations You’ve heard about the end and paradise
by Addison0998 inwe’ve all heard them all our life.
my two biggest stupidest ones i think are, “ we can really tell the end is almost here with the way people drive on the highway.” and a girl who said she wants to hurry up and marry her boyfriend because she’s scared if the end comes before their married, she’ll have to wait 1000 years to marry him.
oh and also a poor old lady saying that she hopes jehovah wipes away the memory of her disfellowshipped sons that he will have to destroy.
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stuckinarut2
We will still be able to use all the machinery to clean up the new world.
Machinery that runs on oil based fuels no less ? wtf? who is going to produce that??
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You Might Be in a Cult if...
by awake!watcher in... you are told to trust the slave as you do jehovah and jesus..
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stuckinarut2
...if the organization needs to constantly tell its members how "happy" they are!
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You Might Be in a Cult if...
by awake!watcher in... you are told to trust the slave as you do jehovah and jesus..
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stuckinarut2
...if the organization fits the BITE model perfectly!
Behaviour control
Information control
Thought control
Emotional control
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Are You Proud of Your Country?
by snugglebunny insome people are of the opinion that it doesn't make any sense to be proud of one's nationality because we had nothing to do with where we were born.
the decision wasn't ours.
they opine that it's ludicrous to be proud of our countries' prior achievements if we had no part in those achievements because we weren't even around then.
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stuckinarut2
Australia has some terrible things in its past. But it has progressed well, and no doubt will continue to do so.
So, yes, I am "proud".
I am also very appreciative of the life we get to live here in this country. Not a day goes by that I am not thankful for the many, many things that could very easily be taken for granted.
I feel that this appreciation is a far greater feeling to be valued. Never take the lifestyle we get to live for granted.
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Another enlightening reason why I don't go to meetings
by joe134cd ini was informed by my jw father tonight that the reason i don't go to meetings is because "of a guilty conscious".
i just done an eye roll and walked away.
i just can't make this stuff up..
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stuckinarut2
When my father asked me why we didn't attend anymore, I replied:
"well Dad, I thank you for raising me to value the qualities of Truth and Honesty. It's for this reason that I can no longer attend meetings. Truth and Honesty is not present there."
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Learning New Words
by compound complex ingreetings, fellow lexophiles:.
last night, i watched a cool road movie, the trip, with steve coogan and rob brydon.
they were counseled by steve's dad to take an "anticlockwise" route home, rather than the clockwise one steve had proposed.
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stuckinarut2
How did I miss this thread before?!
I love words like "antiquity" or "historicity ". The way they are articulated and pronounced is very cool.
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Another enlightening reason why I don't go to meetings
by joe134cd ini was informed by my jw father tonight that the reason i don't go to meetings is because "of a guilty conscious".
i just done an eye roll and walked away.
i just can't make this stuff up..
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stuckinarut2
Oh yep! I've heard all of those, including "he must be ashamed for some sin" and "he just wants to pursue worldly materialism "
For all who have had such things like that said, be reassured that EXACTLY the same sorts of comments are said by ones who leave other faiths such as Mormons, Fundamentalist Christians and Muslims etc....
It is standard "high control cult speak 101"
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JEHOVAH - The biggest racist in history!?
by stuckinarut2 inmany people like to boast about “jehovah being loving and impartial toward all”.
there are even scriptures that say words to that effect.. however, if we look at just his actual conduct and actions , and not accept the words supposedly written by his apologetic “bible writers”, the facts tell us something else!.
firstly, he chose one special nation and race of people.
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stuckinarut2
Jesse Jackson?? Huh? Am I missing something there 'loveunihateexams'.?
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July magazines: public face, private face
by neat blue dog inthe following quote from the july issue of awake is in turn a quote from a secular publication:.
“the more children seethat they are part of something larger than them-selves—a family, a school, a community—the morereadily they perform acts of kindness that benefiteveryone, not just themselves,” says the book par-enting without borders.. .
this is what will be offered out in the ministry, in an effort to portray jws as normal, but it couldn't be further from the truth as they deliberately try to remove themselves from local culture,including non-jw 'family, school and community'.. .
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stuckinarut2
Brilliant thread and observation! Thanks for those quotes too!