It will also be revealed that the GB do not pee nor poop.
berrygerry
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Prediction time: just has i told my wife a month ago, the 144000 is not a litteral number and the GB are the only anointed
by goingthruthemotions inso things have been calm so far...knock on wood!!!
but i was thinking today...a month ago in one of our arguments.
i told her the 144000 was not to considered a literal number.
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I was ashamed
by Happeanna ini was once a person who believed in god destroying 7 billion people so a few people could live in paradise.. when the penny finally dropped and i realised what as a jehovah's witnesses i was really praying for , it made me feel sick.
what is attractive about a person that prays for this world to end .
i was ashamed to have been a witness deeply ashamed .
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berrygerry
Why Armageddon Is an Act of Love by God
Oct 1999 KM for TMS Jan 24, 2000, Talk 3 (Lucky sister - probably assigned to a young girl)
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Thoughts on the Source of a WT Quote?
by berrygerry inso, i posted this thread:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5743929701957632/this-fair-description-jehovahs-witness-religion-encourages-strife-numbs-human-conscience-fills-brain.
on another forum, and as well posted it here primarily to ask a question.. an astute redditor went to the beginning of the 2004 article - .
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berrygerry
Thanks.
Checked those links - nada.
Only question left is that the original book in the links is 56 or 58 pages and the Amazon edition is 128 pages.
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Thoughts on the Source of a WT Quote?
by berrygerry inso, i posted this thread:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5743929701957632/this-fair-description-jehovahs-witness-religion-encourages-strife-numbs-human-conscience-fills-brain.
on another forum, and as well posted it here primarily to ask a question.. an astute redditor went to the beginning of the 2004 article - .
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berrygerry
So, I posted this thread:
on another forum, and as well posted it here primarily to ask a question.
An astute redditor went to the beginning of the 2004 article -
The WT quote there is:
“WHEN religion is not encouraging strife it is acting as a drug which numbs the human conscience and fills the human brain with escapist fantasies. . . . [It] causes human beings to be narrow, superstitious, full of hatred and fear.” The former Methodist missionary who wrote that added: “These charges are true. There is bad and good religion.”—Start Your Own Religion.
The redditor posted that that book was written by Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary did write a book of that title
http://www.amazon.com/Start-Your-Religion-Timothy-Leary/dp/1579510736
I do not feel like shelling out $20. to verify if that quote is in the book or not, and the local library does not have a copy.
The statement that religion "is acting as a drug which numbs the human conscience and fills the human brain with escapist fantasies," certainly sounds like it would have come from his book.
However, the statement: "The former Methodist missionary who wrote that" does seem confusing, although there is the typical WT ... in the quote, which could break up what the Methodist missionary said, and what Timothy Leary himself wrote.
Any thoughts?
Of all people, did WT actually use a quote from Timothy Leary?
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Is this a fair description? The Jehovah's Witness religion ‘encourages strife, numbs the human conscience, fills the brain with ...
by berrygerry inthe jehovah's witness religion encourages strife, numbs the human conscience, fills the brain with escapist fantasies, and causes people to be narrow-minded, superstitious, and full of hatred and fear!
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berrygerry
The reason that I asked is because of this quote from 2004 WT:
Yes, God himself is deeply offended by religion that ‘encourages strife, numbs the human conscience, fills the brain with escapist fantasies, and causes people to be narrow-minded, superstitious, and full of hatred and fear’!
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2004121?q=God+himself+is+deeply+offended+by+religion&p=par
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Is this a fair description? The Jehovah's Witness religion ‘encourages strife, numbs the human conscience, fills the brain with ...
by berrygerry inthe jehovah's witness religion encourages strife, numbs the human conscience, fills the brain with escapist fantasies, and causes people to be narrow-minded, superstitious, and full of hatred and fear!
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berrygerry
The Jehovah's Witness religion encourages strife, numbs the human conscience, fills the brain with escapist fantasies, and causes people to be narrow-minded, superstitious, and full of hatred and fear! -
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My Bethel Experience part 15 Health, Dismemberment, Death (natural and unnatural) murder.
by new boy inthis is the fun one......... .
health, dismemberment, death (natural and unnatural) murder and suicide..
the people at bethel were killing us spiritually.......and sometimes they killed us physically too..
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berrygerry
Like I say all the time it's a criminal organization.
A criminal organization disguised as a religion.
Truer words were never spoken.
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My Bethel Exoerience part 14 "The Courtship"
by new boy inmy strange bethel courtship started with me trying to meet mike stillman's sister, even though he worked in the ink room next to my elevator, we were not good friends, he was just a little to "country" for me........and on the self-righteous side too.
they say "there is nothing more dangerous in combat then a new guy with a map!
".........well, there was nothing more dangerous at bethel then a self-righteous new boy.. .
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berrygerry
Before he died she was nice enough to send him a watchtower subscription every year. She loved him that much.
Ahh, nothing like love in the WT world.
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JW's Funerals, Forget About The Person! Let's Preach.
by new boy ingod forbid you would talk about the dead person at his funeral.
so what do most people get after living 70-80 years?.
a 5-10 minutes eulogy.
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berrygerry
Funny timing.
Recently saw an obit for a former elder that had faded decades ago. He had requested no memorial service.
Noticed the same thing from another older Dub a few months back.
When someone requests no memorial service, it seems to be making a statement about their belief system.
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How do you feel about the expression "The Truth"?
by stuckinarut2 init's amazing how the expression "the truth" has become such an ingrained term used by witnesses.. "we have 'the truth'".
"is he 'in the truth'?".
most here have found out so many facts about the organisation, and felt the effects of being "gut-punched" as we realised these facts.. so how do you feel about the expression "the truth" now?.
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berrygerry
One of Rutherford's brilliant marketing moves.
(Together with "Serve Jehovah" = Serve Watch Tower, as well as: Advertise, Advertise, Advertise)
Rutherford belonged on Madison Avenue - he would have made even more (but without the fanfare and accolades accorded to him, Jo. Smith, and L. Ron Hubbard)