OrphanCrow
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2018 BRANCH ORGANIZATION Manuel Says The members of the Governing Body do not regard themselves as the leaders of Jehovah's people.
by Fabian inthanks to atlantis, this statement is mentioned on chapter 1 paragraph 1 in the middle.
but i like how the statement says members but the sentence right before has the governing body dudes in a collective whole like voltron here is the paragraph in whole.
1. governing body: the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is made up of brothers who are anointed servants of jehovah god.
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OrphanCrow
12apostates: are there really people here who are still in, as in mentally in? I thought the society forbid fellowship with apostates.
I believe there are. Don't forget that each dislike counts as a 15 minute "witnessing".
Cognitive dissonance allows those who are "in" to excuse their lurking as giving a fine witness. Sites like these are like porn for them - it titillates them to visit here.
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OrphanCrow
The12Apsotates, don't worry about the downvotes. Some people have fat fingers and hit the wrong button sometimes. And about the re-joining...don't forget that there are posters on here that don't have to re-join - they haven't left yet.
*psst....I gave you a like - I thought your remark was funny :)
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When You Were A JW Did You Really Understand The Religion and What You Were Getting Into?
by minimus inmany witnesses in my opinion know nothing about the religion.
they don’t understand the history, the doctrines or the bible.
many people become jws because they were raised as witnesses so they take the plunge.
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OrphanCrow
Born in.
Didn't have a choice. Didn't know what choice even meant. Didn't sign up. It was done for me.
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2018 BRANCH ORGANIZATION Manuel Says The members of the Governing Body do not regard themselves as the leaders of Jehovah's people.
by Fabian inthanks to atlantis, this statement is mentioned on chapter 1 paragraph 1 in the middle.
but i like how the statement says members but the sentence right before has the governing body dudes in a collective whole like voltron here is the paragraph in whole.
1. governing body: the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is made up of brothers who are anointed servants of jehovah god.
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OrphanCrow
Steve: They just don't like calling themselves leaders because even they can see it has unfavourable connotations from a religious perspective (e.g., all their criticism of the religious leaders of the churches of Christendom).
... because they can see it has unfavorable connotations from a legal perspective
"We are not responsible! Leaders? Nope, not us"
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Anti vaccines
by blisterfeet ini personally feel that vaccinations are beneficial.
there has been a modern movement that vaccinations are more harmful than beneficial to which i disagree.
what is your stance as an ex jw on vaccinating your children?
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OrphanCrow
"ThinkerBelle:
Stonewall: my research I did over the years when I compared vaxxers to anti-vaxxers the anti-vaxxers were for the most part more healthy and were requiring less doctors visits for illnesses/diseases than their counterparts.
Um, Stonewall, I've had every vaccine as have my children and we are rarely ever sick and I don't have a doctor either because well, I've been healthy"
ThinkerBelle, you and your children are seeing the benefits that vaccines can offer that go beyond protection from just the disease being vaccinated against.
For example, the measles vaccine doesn't just protect against measles but it is also responsible for lowering the acquisition of, and death rates from, other infections.
Getting measles damages the immune system, resulting in greater susceptibility to other infections.
For scientific evidence of this, as opposed to the kind of myth making "research" that is heavily biased (Stonewall), this article explains it quite well:
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Hidden Spaces
by mann377 inwell my son (he's pimi) came to me the other day and asked if i could make a bookcase with hidden spaces built into it.
i asked him what for?
he said that they were encouraged to start thinking of and preparing for persecution and hide literature.
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OrphanCrow
My mother was a child during WW2 when the JWs were under ban in Canada. My grandparents would hide their literature in an old rotted out tree stump that was "back in the bush" on the farm.
It seems so silly to be doing the same thing today - why hide literature when everything is available online? Where will they hide their ipads and phones? And besides...JWs are so easy to pick out of a crowd. They are the ones wearing clothes that are hopelessly out of date.
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Celebrating China's Spring Festival (aka Chinese New Year).
by fulltimestudent inlate yesterday there was a phone call from an old friend who i had not seen for some 5 years.
let's go out to dinner to celebrate the spring festival.
i should explain that my friend had just arrived that morning from china, had slept for a few hours and then called me.
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OrphanCrow
Thanks for sharing FTS. That Wushu performance was spectacular. My daughter has a black belt in Wushu. It takes tremendous physical discipline.
Happy New Year!
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Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?
by iliketreasure injehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.
on par with the is and other terroristic groups.
it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.
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OrphanCrow
I just gotta say...for a "politically neutral" organization, the WT/org sure knows how to make their existence into a political one. And the response to their behavior doesn't promote religious conversations - it promotes political conversations.
And Corney...the pamphlet distribution is only a small part of the WT's behavior. I only mentioned it to show the WT's ignorance towards their members. Just like in the past, they will hang out the innocents to dry while the org reaps the rewards.
The org was taxed in Russia ( they claim that they paid tax on the Admin Center) and they, along with every other religion in Russia, was restricted on evangelizing. Which they ignored. Putting restrictions on the JWs just doesn't work. They ignore everything and anything that they want to and then cry foul when things don't go the way they want it to. And what the org wanted in Russia was real estate. They have lost that now.
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Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?
by iliketreasure injehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.
on par with the is and other terroristic groups.
it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.
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OrphanCrow
Steel: Freedom of speech isn't freedom to yell fire in a crowded theatre. The WTS is built on insulting, annoying and slandering every other Christian denomination and destroying lives and families in the process.
The org has been poking the bear for a long time now. Sometime back in the late 90s, leading up to the Moscow hearings in 2000 or so, the Russian JWs were directed to engage in a blitz distributing pamphlets that were highly critical of the Russian government.
They poke the bear, the bear swipes back, and they scream "persecution!"
*I can't find a link to the pamphlet that was distributed...it was the same old stuff..
"We are the special ones who God likes and all who oppose us are going to get killed"