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  WTS reform - is it possible?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  in threads concerning islam i've consistently argued for reforming the religion.

  it unfortunately has pre-enlightenment doctrines and practices, or at least there exists pre-enlightenment interpretation of koranic scripture that support such doctrines and practices.

  in a lesser way, and on a lesser scale, the wts too is pre-enlightenment in a sense.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  In threads concerning Islam I've consistently argued for reforming the religion. It unfortunately has pre-Enlightenment doctrines and practices, or at least there exists pre-Enlightenment interpretation of Koranic scripture that support such doctrines and practices. In a lesser way, and on a lesser scale, the WTS too is pre-Enlightenment in a sense.

  The blood transfusion issue is the obvious one but there's also shunning, rejection of higher ed and cover up of paedophilia.

  It may be tempting to say 'down with the WTS' but if this isn't likely, could reform help to protect loved ones stuck in this cult?  

  I vaguely remember reading some time ago of posters on this forum who argued for WTS reform against others who were dead against the WTS.

  Are there any people who believe that such a reform is achievable, and if so, what are they doing about it?  

   
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  The WT's biggest deception?

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  it just dawned on me that one of if not the most deceptive thing that the wt convinces the members of is that the truth does not stand up to investigation.

  they teach that lies trump truth.

  the reality of course is something entirely different.

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  I agree with blondie's comment - the WTS has two types of deception: one to 'the world' and another to 'true worshippers'
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  New JW video, song and dance

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the current jws do not cease to amaze.

  here's their latest video on youtube and straight from bethel.. there is a lot of work involved in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwou6e5vwbo .

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  Erm, is this video for real?  

  I wonder what the older JW generation makes of this.

  I also wonder how much unhappiness, fear and disappointment this popcorn production masks.

  Besides, being unhappy is part of real life - you can't be happy all the time, as this vid suggests. 
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  Prince Charles, Cameron and Obama on their way to Saudi

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. current

  what do you think of royalty and premiers going to pay their respects at the death of saudi's king abdullah in light of the human rights abuses; public executions and people getting a hundred lashes for criticising islam?

  a hundred lashes!

  wouldn't that kill someone!

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  LoveUniHateExams

  @Xanthippe - as prologos and S&R say, it's 1000 lashes, 50 per week, for Raif Badawi. He also has to pay a fine and complete a 10-year prison sentence in addition to the lashes. All for 'criticising Islam'. If you criticise Islam in UK, you just get called 'Islamophobic' and 'racist'  

  As for Prince Charles, Cameron and Obama travelling to Saudi, it seems faintly ridiculous. Is Prince Charles still Head of the C of E? And he's travelling to a country where Christianity is banned?

  I think cofty has it right: unfortunately we have to deal with KSA and more good will be done behind closed doors than by public postering.

  
  
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  Preaching to Radical Muslims, "Tell them you Hate Apostates too!" Link from Freaky Funny Site, do you know them?

  by Trailer Park Pioneer in

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  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses don't have problems hating people, witness hatred is like grows and develops like good red wine.

  better wines get more fuller and deeper as time passes by and so does witness hatred towards anyone they tire of.

  i venture to say many of you have experienced or felt the hatred of followers of the watchtower organization.

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  Excellent parody of the WTS, using a similar style of writing.

  Like Phinehas, radical Muslims possess godly zeal - Numbers 25:8 the writer has a dig at the WTS and radical Islam. It doesn't get much better than that!

  I also thought it hilarious that JWs on the ministry were encouraged to explain to radical muslims that shunning is superior to stoning because shunning lasts longer and can be done to many sinners at once! 
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  Trashed WT's found in Dr.s' waiting room Friday. Do you trash literature you find?

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  took the magazines in the waiting room and dumped them in the trash.

  was a great feeling.

  to think many witnoids wont dare throw out the surplus magazines they have in stacks around the house is amazing.

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  I sometimes have a look around the 'faith room' at uni.

  There are often a pair of watchtower and awake magazines there.

  Sometimes, I take the magazines home, have a read to see what type of bullsh1t is contained therein, then trash them.

  It sure gives a good feeling to read them without rose-tinted WTS specs on, and critically analyse them.

  The feeling I get from trashing them comes a close second. 
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  I have no Real Friends!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  i have come to a startling and sad realisation!.

  i have no real friends!.

  i have always been extremely active in every aspect of the org, since childhood.

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  I agree with John Mann, stuckinarut, learn to love and respect yourself and then make new friends!

  There's a whole world out there, the good, the bad and the ugly. Most people fall into the first category.  
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  TO THE STUPID ATHEISTS:

  by atheist_R_stupid in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being that this is not "ex jws" and in fact, more driven by atheists talking a bunch of crap, im not even going to address you people like you know anything about jws because you dont.

  nor am i going to assume you know the bible because none of you do.. and yes, im speaking down at you all because you men have actually went out your way to make a site to speak down at an entire group of people.

  yet i bet you cant even handle a single uswer talking down at you, like you talk down about jws can you?.

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  Goodbye ARS - he was a bit of an ars, wasn't he
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  The Plurality of God in Old Testament

  by Clambake in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am not going to claim to be any kind of bible expert or a good writer or anything like that but do you ever notice how the wts has completely whitewashed this idea or anything relating to this..

  from the beginning of the bible in the beginning god said let us make man in our own image , to the term elohim which literally means gods , to the angel of the lord in the old testament which is identified to being with god and god himself.

  it is just kind of interesting when you read the book of john in the new testament and you start to read things like the word was with god and the word was god or no one has seen the father only the son it kind of makes sense without really fully understanding it.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Great! we get three for the price of one with this God  

  Helluva bargain ...
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  YAWEHLAND - Imagine a country where Jehovah's Witnesses are the majority

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in 2018, cyprus goes bankrupt (again).

  many of its inhabitants, lacking jobs and prospectives of a better future, emigrate to more prosperous countries.

  cyprus' society is on the brink of collapse.

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  How about "Watchtowistan" for a title? - Great!

  What shall the capital city be called? Bethel? New Jerusalem? New Eden?