Posts by _Morpheus

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Shoud individuals be held responsible for their INACTION?

by nicolaou in

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if you see someone about to be struck by a car or otherwise step into harms way but choose not to call out a warning or act in some way to prevent disaster, are you responsible for any harm caused?.

what defence, if any, can be offered for choosing inaction?

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_Morpheus

So i have a question.. i saw the op’s laters post regarding the situation that prompted the topic. Is it common in london for all trees to be inspected on some sort of schedule? It seems ridiculous to my american sensibilities to expect trees to be inspected and deemed “safe” somehow. How did the tree fall? Was the girl climbing on it? A big gust of wind? Was someone cutting it down? So many details missing here...

If this were a random accident, the tree fell and this poor little girl was hit then the owner bears legal responsiblity (under american law) but morally its a far more detailed discussion about where the tree was, was it obviously dead etc etc,... but if the only claim of moral responsiblity is that it had been more than year since some sort of tree inspection had been done...? Seems very bizarre to me.

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Will #metoo have an affect on forcing changing attitudes at Watchtower?

by jwfacts in

despite decades of the feminist movement, watchtower's attitude of woman being inferior has changed little, with pauline sexism justified as inspired, on the basis that women are lesser emotionally, intellectually and physically.

jehovah's witnesses seem to accept this with little resistance.

is there anything about the #metoo movement that may wake followers up?

_Morpheus

The farther you get away fron the cult it becomes more and more difficult to remember whats its like.

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What Will The Future Hold For Jehovah's Witnesses

by VW.org in

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as descibed by the title here is a link to reddit of a what i believe is a powerful post with heaps of information.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7ovq5o/watchtowers_decline_what_will_the_future_hold_for/?utm_source=reddit-android.

_Morpheus

@diog- rotlflmao😂😂 slims name jumped to my mind as well 😂😂

for easy reference, here are a list of recent threads chronicling slims ever changing views on wt collapse... or not.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5101378106032128/cutback-prediction

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5707386331332608/current-financial-crisis-watchtower-historical-context-part-1

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5995484801925120/watchtower-telling-truth-about-branch-closures

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6278706236489728/watchtower-organisation-all-over-bar-shouting

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6316808367767552/reasons-concluding-that-watchtower-serious-financial-trouble

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5134538567057408/books-dying-out-this-reason-wt-turning-tablets

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6045600026984448/perfect-storm-2018?page=2#!#5203787779145728

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5379395402334208/watchtower-does-have-resources

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6477638404145152/greek-bethel-up-sale-video-77-kifisias-avenue-marousi-athens

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5160617687121920/watchtower-starting-crumble

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4683990469443584/whats-destroying-watchtower

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4794894645198848/monthly-broadcast-change

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Will #metoo have an affect on forcing changing attitudes at Watchtower?

by jwfacts in

despite decades of the feminist movement, watchtower's attitude of woman being inferior has changed little, with pauline sexism justified as inspired, on the basis that women are lesser emotionally, intellectually and physically.

jehovah's witnesses seem to accept this with little resistance.

is there anything about the #metoo movement that may wake followers up?

_Morpheus

“meetoo” isnt a movement, let alone one that would cause any change within the cult.

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Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

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of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

_Morpheus

Because one left handed son of bitch will ruin EVERY get well card they touch! Round em all up and shoot them all.

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Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

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of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

_Morpheus

No. Nobody does. According to their bronze age desert god such things are forbdiden. You can also change. Their so called holy book says “that is what some of you were”. So, no, nobody knows any homosexual jw’s, strickly speaking.

Now in practicality are there homosexual jw’s? Of course. Jw’s are a cross section of whatever culture they live amongst. Why anyone think there are NOT homosexual jw’s? Or left handed jw’s? Or jw’s with peanut allergies?

Or did you mean practicing or openly homosexual jw’s? If that was your question see point one.

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Flat earth vs round earth

by Jrjw in

my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

what are people's thoughts on this?.

_Morpheus

Rotflmao those ‘explanations’ are the most preposterous load of monkey dung ever flung by a primate 😂😂😂😂😂

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The International Space Station passing Overhead At 10:22 pm ESDST Lakes entrance Victoria Australia.

by smiddy3 in

it`s always a buzz to see this with the naked eye and know that their are human beings orbiting the earth a couple of hundred miles up every 90 minutes or so .. the wife and i were just sitting out on our porch/patio waiting for the cool change to arrive when i noticed this "star" moving across the sky in a se/nw (?

) direction { i hope that`s right }.

anyhow i thought some others on here may be interested in tracking the iss from time to time.. by the way the cool change hasn`t arrived here yet it`s still quite warm though not as hot as it was today at 41 deg c.

_Morpheus

Rotflmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Chester Bennington dead (Linkin Park)

by Daniel1555 in

so sad.... 😟.

_Morpheus

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0CqVbhs7Q

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Women must not instruct men, even by singing a theocratic song.

by Ultimate Axiom in

i did a quick search and this doesn’t appear to have been commented on here, but if it has been, i apologise in advance for starting an unnecessary thread.. regarding a change to a song title, the study article on page 7 paragraph 17 of november 2017 watchtower explained, “the change of the title “guard your heart” to “we guard our hearts” was most considerate.

in the audience at our meetings, assemblies, and conventions are many new ones, interested ones, young ones, and sisters who by singing the words would be put in the awkward position of telling others what to do.

so the title and the lyrics were modified.”.

_Morpheus

I think we are missing something a bit more significant. I submit that the wording change wasnt about some imaginary possibility that a woman may accidentally “teach” a man through a song... dont get me wrong, the org is really that stupid and petty, but i think its a bit deeper.

This is all about self indoctrination. With this newest song book all the wordings were changed to personal pronouns instead of collective references. Go back and look at the brown book and then at the newest crappy song book. The changes are startling, at least they were when i was still in. I realized how personal they had made the songs and how weird it felt to sing the words when i didnt agree. The brown book, even when i was awake, never made me feel that way... it was all in the wording.