Posts by neat blue dog

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Our own "Russia" style letter writing campaign to request our private data!?!? Please share

by stuckinarut2 in

we all know of the tactic employed by the society to flood the russian govt with the mass letter writing campaign.

no doubt, one of their aims was to send a clear message of the governing body's views to the russian authorities.. what can't we all do the same to the governing body?.

with the advent of ever tightening data privacy laws occurring in many countries around the world, we now have a valid and legitimate reason to write the society!

Review: 2018 "Be Courageous!" convention

by neat blue dog in

friday and saturday were for the most part pretty light, not too culty or doctinal, could easily suck in the unsuspecting.

there were a couple of hypocritical lines that i took note of however.

at one point the speaker said, "if your boss fires everyone who disagrees with him but promotes everyone who agrees with him, you might be tempted to agree with him just to keep your job.

I think you know what I mean by bloodless hospital: A hospital that has equipment and staff that specializes in bloodless surgery and has frequent Witness clientele. As for the $150,000 I made a mistake: They already spent all their money going to the US and other places, and Phelicity's last wish was to go home, but that would require a very expressive med flight. That's what the $150,000 GoFundMe was for.

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Review: 2018 "Be Courageous!" convention

by neat blue dog in

friday and saturday were for the most part pretty light, not too culty or doctinal, could easily suck in the unsuspecting.

there were a couple of hypocritical lines that i took note of however.

at one point the speaker said, "if your boss fires everyone who disagrees with him but promotes everyone who agrees with him, you might be tempted to agree with him just to keep your job.

neat blue dog

Magnum:

Yes, emotion is all they have left! I look around and see so many people who have lost someone, many from suicide, even more from old age, and they NEED to believe it. Somehow it'll all be different THIS time around, for THEM. As someone told me after the last session ended, 'The end is soooo close!' (I know, they say that after every event.) Back in the day it'd be all about pseudo logic/education, at least the illusion of scholarliness, (even though it was always bunk), but now, even the 'deep' talks like the ones on Sunday morning just rattle off the prophetic interpretations but don't even attempt to offer proof. (Reminds me of the hillarious show Psych when Jules says "He's prophetic" and Shawn looks offended and replies "You're prophetic!" thinking it means pathetic . . . But I'm digressing 😅)

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Review: 2018 "Be Courageous!" convention

by neat blue dog in

friday and saturday were for the most part pretty light, not too culty or doctinal, could easily suck in the unsuspecting.

there were a couple of hypocritical lines that i took note of however.

at one point the speaker said, "if your boss fires everyone who disagrees with him but promotes everyone who agrees with him, you might be tempted to agree with him just to keep your job.

neat blue dog

Friday and Saturday were for the most part pretty light, not too culty or doctinal, could easily suck in the unsuspecting. There were a couple of hypocritical lines that I took note of however. At one point the speaker said, "If your boss fires everyone who disagrees with him but promotes everyone who agrees with him, you might be tempted to agree with him just to keep your job. That's what it was like under king Ahab, who killed anyone who told the truth." I'm sure the hypocrisy is obvious in this one, with how they brand any dissenting beliefs as apostasy, forcing many to be PIMO. Another thing that was said, along similar lines, was, "Read the Bible daily so that you can prove to yourself that the faithful slave is in harmony with the Bible." Well I did exactly that, and that's how I came to be convinced that JWs are full of it. Of course they don't leave an option for any other outcome. If you 'study' the Bible you WILL agree with the GB . . . If you know what's good for you. Another annoying trend in a number of the videos was the portrayal of "worldly" people as seeking confrontation, of shoving their beliefs down your throat and mocking you if you disagree. I know there are some people like that, including JWs, but by and large such a stereotype is ridiculous. Most people are respectful of others beliefs, even if it upsets them, and prefer to avoid confrontation. On Sunday, things were stepped up. The whole morning symposium was about Us Vs. Them scenarios and all the obscure doomsday prophecies that somehow all apply to Jehovah's Witnesses, great tribulation, attacks, speculation etc. In one of the videos they even brought up the quote from that now infamous WT about obeying everything even if it doesn't make sense. The speaker later emphasized this, saying, "Brothers and Sisters: If in the future, you receive instructions that don't make sense from a human standpoint, follow them." They also showed an update on Phelicity, the little girl who had appeared on JW Broadcasting and said that she had died soon after. (JW Survey revealed that she had a GoFundMe campaign to get her to a bloodless hospital in the US for $150,000.) The movie about Jonah was well made. The pacing dragged in the second half, but overall it was a high quality production with decent effects and periodic humor, and I enjoyed it. During the last talk, the speaker said that at another convention when he said 'we've reached the end of the convention' a young one in the audience shouted 'hooray!' before his mother covered his mouth with her hand. Then he remarked, "Out of the mouth of babes". The day concluded with the video that many of us have seen already, about the small group of JWs being closed in on by the men with guns just as Jesus steps in and obliterates them with his bow and arrow. Among the JWs were the boy from this year's video that was disturbed by the apocalyptic painting in a WT publication, the Oriental real estate agent with the nose job from last year's sitcom, the family that had one tragedy after another from the movie from year before last, as well as some from other videos. It was accompanied by a new song called "Give Me Courage", and with the slick, powerful editing you can see how this would whip up any Witness into a cultish frenzy of emotion, even those on the fence. Up until I went, I was under the impression that this was the first year with no real new releases, (the two dramas don't count, everybody already knows about them). I had even looked at the new releases section and that's all that I saw. Well, this morning I see they added the MP3 version of the new song to Sunday's releases.

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Streisand Effect

by neat blue dog in

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/streisand-effect?full=1.

sounds like something that is right up wt's alley, any examples come to mind?.

neat blue dog

scratchme1010:

I'm gonna be positive and assume you always like playing devil's advocate lol

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Streisand Effect

by neat blue dog in

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/streisand-effect?full=1.

sounds like something that is right up wt's alley, any examples come to mind?.

neat blue dog

http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/dear-watchtower-thank-you-for-your-tight-pants-copyright-complaint

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Streisand Effect

by neat blue dog in

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/streisand-effect?full=1.

sounds like something that is right up wt's alley, any examples come to mind?.

neat blue dog

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/streisand-effect?full=1

Sounds like something that is right up WT's alley, any examples come to mind?

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Medical prohibitions leading to documented loss

by Vanderhoven7 in

other than general cases involving blood prohibitions...are you aware of instances of jws or exjws who have suffered health issues as a result of obedience to wts medical dictates?.

i'm thinking specifically of those who were denied vaccinations or organ transplants and i would also include those who were denied hemophelac preparations from 1975 - 1978.. any known or documented examples would be appreciated..

neat blue dog

W/T allows vaccinations in this day and age, right

Yeah they allow them now . . . STILL, many JWs are of the personality type that is emotion driven and often go for conspiracy theories/'natural' cures, etc. That's what led them to be JWs in the first place. So I know a number of them that gravitate towards viewing vaccinations as government conspiracy/causing autism etc. and won't have their kids inoculated.

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Medical prohibitions leading to documented loss

by Vanderhoven7 in

other than general cases involving blood prohibitions...are you aware of instances of jws or exjws who have suffered health issues as a result of obedience to wts medical dictates?.

i'm thinking specifically of those who were denied vaccinations or organ transplants and i would also include those who were denied hemophelac preparations from 1975 - 1978.. any known or documented examples would be appreciated..

neat blue dog

hoser:

That has nothing to do with the question, which is a very valid one, and one that may become quite relevant if JWs are ever to be taken to account before the governments for human rights abuses. And BTW, most people don't smoke, and most people aren't JWs.

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blood

by zeb in

over heard other day.

if you take blood you are taking in some ones elses dna.?.

i eat meat and vegetables drink milk so what about the dna in them...

neat blue dog

DNA? What about all the white blood cells in milk?