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  FEB 2016 broadcast

  by Grey Goose in

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  it might be the craziest one yet..

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  Old habits die hard - 30 secs into the clip -

  "this is not a Watch Tower cooking show"
  
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  FEB 2016 broadcast

  by Grey Goose in

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  it might be the craziest one yet..

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  It might be the craziest one yet.
  

  This is getting more surreal each month. (If I had not seen this doofus as a Video Star before, I would have definitely thought this to be a gag)
  

  I'll wait for the cliffnotes version. I cannot sit through an hour of that torture.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlj5ovXmj54
  
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  Raw Footage of Australian Royal Commision

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i see alot of youtube channels that have footage of the hearing, however i can not find the original footage?

  can anyone point me in the direction of where the original footage is?

  i am working on a project and do not want to strip footage from someones channel or steal someones work in terms of editing it or downloading it and uploading it with changes.

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  This might link to them all (on Youtube - I doubt that they were recorded for the public by ARC)

  http://www.omniadicta.net/jw.html
  
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  Finally posting and I'm FRUSTRATED!!!

  by stephanie61092 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  okay, i'm about to engage in a major word vomit.

  just giving you fair warning as your time may be better spent somewhere else.. so, i'm sitting on my lunch break, bawling my eyes out, and writing on this forum to people i don't know yet probably have a great deal in common with but at the same time, used to scare the daylights out of me.

  for years, i would come across this forum and 'lurk' awhile if you will, or see things on youtube.

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  berrygerry

  Hi:

  Waking up is hard.

  With family still in, it seems that there are no right choices.

  You will go through a process, maybe similar to here:

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/2bh9eq/almost_exjw_in_a_very_diffucult_situation_need/cj5hvb8

  For both you and your therapist.

  http://www.exitingthejwcult.com/p/if-you-are-going-to-see-mental-health.html

  Bonnie's book is a must-read for ALL ex-Dubs.

  http://www.amazon.com/EXiting-JW-Cult-Handbook-Witnesses/dp/1508477132
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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 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so 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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  It will also be revealed that the GB do not pee nor poop.

  http://www.pilotafrica.com/2011/12/20/kim-jong-il-doesnt-pee-or-poo-that-and-other-facts-you-didnt-know-about-north-koreas-beloved-leader/
  
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  I was ashamed

  by Happeanna in

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  2. friends

  i 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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  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, 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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  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, 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:

  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 -

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2004121?q=WHEN+religion+is+not+encouraging+strife+it+is+acting+as+a+drug&p=par

  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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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  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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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  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!