the tricky thing about a mass mailing to all the kingdom halls is that mail is often not delivered to the kingdom hall but to a po box.
it is super easy to get all the addresses to hundreds of kingdom halls across the country and even have those addresses printed out for you as labels!
but when i did that before i got about a third of them back.
I once did a mass mailing to the apartment complex where I live where most of the tenants are or were JWs. It included an advertisement for the books Crisis of Conscience and The Gentile Times Reconsidered. It got the whole neighborhood (124 apartments) in an uproar.
That's why the Witnesses keep an eye on me 20 years later.
wow, i am kind of surprised the amount of attention this appalling video is getting from the media.
not surprised because it is appalling but that something that i grew up with was encapsulated in a cartoon and is exposing the witnesses publicly for mind control.. www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
myelaine: "I'm the one who is finding and pointing out the moral high ground and you're not."
I may have missed the post where you answered but I previously asked why such 'redemption' requires a premature death. I take it, that from your point of view, some of those people would turn 'evil' and thus offend God by becoming unredeemable.
A little bit of logic here. Can't some of those victims be unredeemed at that moment but redeemed in the future?
Never mind, I do not have the mind of 'God' and am thus guilty of presumptuousness.
wow, i am kind of surprised the amount of attention this appalling video is getting from the media.
not surprised because it is appalling but that something that i grew up with was encapsulated in a cartoon and is exposing the witnesses publicly for mind control.. www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.
WTBTS: "You can be sure he did not fall asleep again"
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Seriously now, all he had to do was to stay away from the window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
@ myelaine:
"I'd like to remind you of the fact that we are discussing actual people and they deserve to be discussed with dignity. I think it's vulgar the way you bring them into the conversation like some kind of offence to you that God has to answer for."
That statement could be considered ironic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
@ myelaine: "you're a deist..."
As I stated on one of my posts "I speak as an atheist." I just wanted to bring up to cofty that there's a variety of theisms.
From what I understand of some Deists simply believe that a god created the universe and then left it alone to evolve on its own. Such a god could be considered sort of a cosmic scientist who created this universe as an experiment to see the results but otherwise is absent as far as the affairs of men are concerned. Also, a Deist does not necessarily believe in immortality of the soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
@ myelain:
"being "able" to die of old age isn't a guarantee for a good life, or a righteous life. It's a fact that some wax worse and worse as time goes by."
So babies are killed so that they don't grow up to be major sinners?
yes, i'm not kidding!.
this gem was stated today in the talk!
(shortly before i walked out).
@ millie210: "But I hadnt seen it in print anywhere...is that just me?"
https://archive.org/stream/VindicationVolume3ByJudgeRutherford/1932-VINDICATION-3#page/n191/mode/2up
Second paragraph under "For busy people".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
@ myelaine:
"...He was able to redeem the situation for His benefit and the benefit of those killed...by delivering those killed...to Himself."
So god allows people to die so that they can be with him, right? Why can they not just live a natural, safe life and be redeemed after they die of old age?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
@ cofty: "This right here is why I hate theism with a passion."
I don't want to get into semantics but "Theism" is simply the belief in a god not necessarily the belief in the Biblical/Quranic god. A Deist, which is one form of Theism, believes in a creator god but not the biblical god. You might want to exclude them from your hatred even though you don't believe in their worldview.
I speak as an atheist.
