Great letter. I missed this original post. I wonder if the family ever responded?
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Our Letter to Our Family
by What Now? inour families have cut off contact with us for the last several months.
they found out that we were celebrating holidays with our non-witness family.
our families were our last tie to the organization, as our former friends stopped associating with us about 3 years ago.
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The last video in the 2016 convention...
by problemaddict 2 in...is an epic triumph is emotional manipulation.
bringing together all of the stories they told thus far and placing them int he "new world" complete with the little boy who was killed in a car accident coming back from the dead.. i have a good friend who is stuck in with family and plays the role.
he said everyone was crying, and the people next to him rated the videos by how many tissues they needed to dry their eyes.
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Well the music is from a secular source. See crows post.
I showed it to my wife. We have faded, but her concern is her family gets the heat turned up on them and the guilt makes them start to question their behavior. Its a legit concern. My buddy said everyone was crying. This is San Diego. Large open air convention.
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The last video in the 2016 convention...
by problemaddict 2 in...is an epic triumph is emotional manipulation.
bringing together all of the stories they told thus far and placing them int he "new world" complete with the little boy who was killed in a car accident coming back from the dead.. i have a good friend who is stuck in with family and plays the role.
he said everyone was crying, and the people next to him rated the videos by how many tissues they needed to dry their eyes.
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...is an epic triumph is emotional manipulation. Bringing together all of the stories they told thus far and placing them int he "new world" complete with the little boy who was killed in a car accident coming back from the dead.
I have a good friend who is stuck in with family and plays the role. He said everyone was crying, and the people next to him rated the videos by how many tissues they needed to dry their eyes. "That last one was a 5 tissue!", his neighbor stated.
Ugh.
What struck me the most, is 3 things.
1) This was not shot on a green screen. They used actual places, IN THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN NOW, to shoot this. Want to eat fruit, build a home, sit on the beach......why wait!? Do those things with your loved ones NOW. Everything they showed, they showed in current real time. this longing for something that does not exist, is what is really amazing to me.
2) Its what was not present. The billions of dead people. The places needed to make their clothing, horse bridles, and violins. The complete chaos. I must say, the JW version of the end of the world is pretty damn tranquil. Like Hindu cows, with nothing to fear apparently.
3) It is just me or were their amorphous outfits at the end reminiscent of the people that the Morlocks would eat in the old Time Machine movie. Anyone? Are the GB just Morlock puppets getting ready to use the faithful as food? I find this as plausible as anything else taught at the convention.
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All 2016 Convention videos in English and all Talk outlines for download
by Watchtower-Free inall convention videos in english and all talk outlines for download.
http://avoidjw.org/2016-regional-convention/
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Every time I take a few minutes and look at an outline, or another video.....my jaw hits the floor. I simply have no words for how brazen they are being. I simply cannot imagine any person that attended because of an invite, looking and thinking this is normal.
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Does the governing body know what they are doing?
by Gefangene inwhat do you guys think?.
are they only some uber religious zealots or do they pursue hidden agendas beyond religiosity?.
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I personally believe that the GB are true believers. Like most big corporate machines, the reigns easily get away from them, but they think what they are doing is right and just. All of them are cult members too.
I think recent poor choices in these videos make this even more apparent.
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All 2016 Convention videos in English and all Talk outlines for download
by Watchtower-Free inall convention videos in english and all talk outlines for download.
http://avoidjw.org/2016-regional-convention/
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Holy crap!!!
I just can't even place this stuff. Facepalms don't seem to do it. A lot of head rubbing and brow furrowing seems right. But man.......this is next level garbage.
It strikes me that this would be so obviously off putting to any "guests". This has to prove the handing out of the invitations is just busy work.
This is simply insanity.
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Study Article for 29th May 2016 "Jehovah's Guidance"
by BluesBrother inif this is up already and i missed it , - apologies..... today's study article ,from march study wt , is entitled " jehovah guides his people in the way of life"....theme is is.
30.21 " and your own ears will hear a word behind you saying, “this is the way.
walk in it,” in case you should go to the right or in case you should go to the left".
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I find it interesting when you confront JW's with what seems like a very clear teaching such as Jehovah killing all non-JW's, or the GB's direction being treated on par with the word of God......that they go through mental gymnastics to avoid having to cop to this.
I can't figure out if they don't want to admit it, or are simply engaging in self deception.
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JW Video Armageddon to occur before 2040
by Listener insorry i thought it was a new morning worship video but it is 6 months old and has already been discussed on here.. it is presented by gb helper k flodin and about this generation.
the delusion and hypocrisy runs deep.. he reminds the cult members not to speculate because they aren't supposed to know the day or the hour.
then he proceeds to speculate that armageddon will occur before 2040.. https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201511_3_video.
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Well......using his actual words, he is actually not endorsing what "some people have speculated" as it coming in the 2040 time (assumeing someone 40 years old annointed in 1990, lived to be 80). He specifically says Jesus wasn't communicating some sort of formula.
He then goes on to double talk saying that nowhere is it said the overlapping generation members need to be "old and decrepit" when the end comes. This insinuates instead it will be sooner.
Always important to be able to speak doubletalk when considering these broadcasts.
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O......M......G
My mouth is literally open sitting here trying to place this. Its ballsy. Really ballsy. I can't imagine anyone not a JW seeing this, and being ok with it. Its way off the reservation. It tells me those in charge are not evil, just true believers to the point of delusion.
The points that will be "gleaned" from this are the following.
- If you have a child disfellowshipped, if they are not a minor they should not be in your home.
- The person disfellowshipped wrongs others because of their hurt feelings. You left Jehovah, now I have to shun you, and its your fault.
- Humiliation is fine
- Disfellowshipping is merciful......before you would just be killed.
- Even the most basic contact, will make them thing they don't have to come back....adn the DF'd person knows this. (don't even answer their phone calls).
How in a free society, can this be something ADVOCATED PUBLICLY, without consequence.
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Newspaper article on Conventions—why so glowing?
by Londo111 inevery year in dozens of cities where conventions are being held, newspapers typically write an article about the event.
there are exceptions, but usually it is like the articles above.
i would love to see more newspaper articles that did some actual objective reporting, rather than puff pieces.
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You are hard to get a beat on DY. I don't think discussing why there are always the fluff pieces that exist, is not accentuating the positive.
Yes, JW's are well dressed (recent memos explain how that is being controlled), clean shaven (by decree), and they are attending. I personally look forward to the wonderful talk "show loyalty by shunning unrepentant wrongdoers". How lovely!
I think the main thing here, is just what is the motivation of the newspapers to run these things.
I personally think there is simply a media outreach arm. these are local papers/news outlets, and they always need new local goings ons to report.