Hmm. Must be them deeemunz.
Posts by SAHS
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14Hey you guys...is someone at Bethel having a laugh?
by wizzstick inhas anyone else noticed the below?.
the mountain on the front cover of 'god kingdom rules' segues beautifully into the mountain on the front cover of 'crisis of conscience' (with a bit of cropping):.
coincidence?.
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AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN
by steve2 inhere's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.
as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.
it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.
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“neverendingjourney”: “I keep looking for signs that suggest the WT will go all-in on the real estate business. Encourage their members to donate their labor to construct buildings, use the buildings for a while, sell them for profit . . . , build new buildings, rinse and repeat.”
Instead of Quakers, you could more like call them “flippers” – flip that building, flip that factory, flip that doctrine, . . . .
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This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated."
by kneehighmiah inthis is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated, general martin e. dempsey, u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said on thursday.. .
he sounds like he's talking about jws.
but he's actually referring to isis.
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SAHS
JWs, like Warren Jeffs’ fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Scientologists, David Koresh’s Branch Dividians, Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple, Marshall Applewhite’s Heaven’s Gate, . . . ISIS, . . . are all fanatical and extremist, to be quite sure. It’s really just a matter of degree.
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“Balaamsass2”: “And use it to tell a little TTAT.”
Absolutely! I mean, they asked for it, right? I say, Let ’em have it – from both barrels!
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JW.ORG logo at Kingdom Hall
by Gorbatchov inyesterday i drove to mcdonalds and noticed that the nearby kingdom hall had the new blue jw.org logo.. the rebranding has started here in holland.. g.. .
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SAHS
Although I’m still physically stuck in it right now, as soon as I completely finish my fade (when I’m financially able to make a run for it out on my own), then, at that time, whenever or if ever I get asked about why I left the WT and when I might return, I will let them have it! (Nicely, of course.) I will give them a basic synopsis of what I have discovered to be the real truth about the “truth” regarding the WT organization and its inconsistencies and man-made falsehoods. I won’t yell or be abusive to anyone, but I also won’t spare any punches in providing them with some choice and poignant information either. Yes, sir, I will tell them exactly why I will never return to that disingenuous religio-corporate organizational outfit.
Believe me, I cherish that day!
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You ever notice how personalities change when CO comes around?
by dugout inisn't it sickning when normaly people in the cong don't even speak to you.
but when the co visits comes they want to shake your hand and even (cringe) hug you?
then as soon as he leaves back to normal.
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“losingit”: “I remember hearing that too while I was studying but the truth revealed itself after I got baptized.”
Once people actually take that Watchtower plunge, then they begin to learn the real “truth,” with all its petty idiosyncrasies and dogmatic ridiculousness – which obviously really does come to the fore during the CO’s visit. And of course more and more people end up learning the real truth about the “truth,” but unfortunately for many it’s then too late – they’re already stuck, and their family is held hostage.
Yes, indeed, truth – the real truth – reveals itself after you get baptized into that “spirit-directed [corporate] organization.” Too bad everyone doesn’t get the opportunity to check out all the hidden facts of that “truth,” including the real hierarchical, pope-like structure which basically mirrors that of the Roman Catholic Church, before they take that plunge!
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Did not Attend Mid-Week Meeting but Felt Good - Strange Feeling?
by ProfCNJ inhi folks.
the usual feeling for me - when i missed mid-week meetings - is to feel guilty, sad or depressed.
it normally involved negative feelings.
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SAHS
I’ve experienced a lot of that cognitive dissonance where I knew TTATT but had a bit of a general compulsion to maintain that feeling of “accomplishment” in keeping up with the “theocratic” reading and studying – feeling like a “good little boy,” even though that feeling is actually just disingenuous and hollow. The compulsion to please our close family members can get rather ingrained in us born-ins.
But now the dissonance is dissipating as I continue my “apostate” investigations on this site, as well as attend a monthly “apostate” Saturday luncheon here in the Toronto area. I know the WTS would say that I’m ‘partaking of the table of demons as well as the table of Jehovah,’ but I’m not really “partaking” of the “table of Jehovah” (a.k.a. Watchtower), as I’ve already left it in my heart over a decade ago, and I really need to keep connected with that “table of demons” (a.k.a. here) because it’s really my lifeline to a rational perspective outside of the little JW forest and to plain objective common sense.
So, yes I ultimately feel good about missing tomorrow’s “theocratic” activities, as I get much more of a sense of true self by actually meeting up with fellow “apostates” over some chicken wings. To me that’s more of “the real life” than that phony, hollow “life” of religio-corporate servitude. And the only thing that is physically holding me back from completing my escape from the Tower is financial independence. (I’m currently still actually living with my folks at 48 years of age – somewhat long story, but that’s the reality for me now.) I’ll just have to take things one day at a time and try to be careful and patient with saving enough money to get out on my own and actually complete my fade.
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How the organization's bad advice messes up young people
by kneehighmiah inso recently a governing body helper gave a part on the convention.
he said young ones who are saying and not financially ready should knock it off.
what conflicting advice.
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There always has to be some carrot on a stick in front of the donkey sheep, whether it’s marriage, sex, financial security, the end of the world, or something. That is just the way the WTS works. Keep people continually striving for something on the end of that stick.
When you think of it, a submissive donkey sheep walking in a circle with a carrot dangling in front of it is a perfect picture of submission. And, of course, isn’t that the way these religions cults work – mindless control?
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You ever notice how personalities change when CO comes around?
by dugout inisn't it sickning when normaly people in the cong don't even speak to you.
but when the co visits comes they want to shake your hand and even (cringe) hug you?
then as soon as he leaves back to normal.
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“dugout”: “Isn't it sickning when normaly people in the cong don't even speak to you. But when the CO visits comes they want to shake your hand and even (cringe) hug you? Then as soon as he leaves back to normal.”
By this everyone will know that JWs are Jesus’ disciples, if they have love for one another . . . . when the big cheese CO is looking, that is!