Posts by Terry

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If I Were Still A JW I Would Think We Had To Be Living At The Time Of The End!

by minimus in

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with all the terrible things happening on this earth, i bet most witnesses feel that jehovah god has to step in..

Terry

I once compiled a chart of the latest STATISTICS of incidents of Earthquakes, crimes, etc.

Such phenomena are used by End Times

promoters to excite fear and promote their agenda.

I wanted to create a QUIZ.

What does a person think compared with reality?

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For example, if you ask a Jehovah's Witness to answer a question about the rate of kidnapping or homicides in America over the last decade

you can write down their guesstimate and compare it with the latest statistics.

In the first three tests, my JW sampling was off the charts (over a thousand per cent) wrong.

Bloody hell!

I wasn't surprised and yet I continue to be.

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A person living today receives information about the world at large on a daily basis.

HOW IS THAT INFORMATION FILTERED?

Certain kinds of filtering OMIT details and include others.

Duh!

JW's are likely too busy and too biased to go beyond the indoctrination they receive.

News programs use the standard: IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS.

Good people, kind deeds, good news is NOT reported commensurably.

The Watchtower and the Awake are like the dirty oil filter on a car. When a JW handles them, reads them, absorbs the

gunk--their minds grow dark, oily and repugnant.

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THE SIGNS of the time of the end are COMMONPLACE events all through history.

None can stand out--if you have a clear view of everything going on over the long stretch of time.

WWI compared to the 30 Years War is quite a different proposition from how Jehovah's Witnesses interpret

significance.

In JW-land, there is no Good, Better, Best in our world; only WORST.

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When I was growing up black people sat in the back of the bus, women couldn't get credit in their name, everybody

smoked in restaurants, elevators and movie theaters.

THING HAVE IMPROVED on a vast scale.

If you refuse to see that improvement it is confirmation bias installed by a sick ideology.

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Why JW marriage is a huge problem for the organization.

by kneehighmiah in

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the difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.

but i would say it's hard for brothers also.

i was talking to a jw last night.

Terry

THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM with marriage is not the pitiful choice of mates so much as it is the opportunity

to date, explore, figure out personal tastes, talk freely about wants and needs--in short: SELF-EXPRESSION as an INDIVIDUAL . . .

BEFORE committing to a life of marriage.

JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MARRIAGE IS AN ACT OF DESPERATION!

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The Watchtower Corporation's ORGANIZATION doesn't give a shit about ORGANIZING social opportunities, programs and facilities.

The Governing Body, deep down DESPISES people--especially its own.

The GB seeks to make everybody's life a living hell with a pasted smile.

I've talked to thousands of JW's and the inside of witness men's minds there is dysfunction.

Witness men are extremely, neurotically dysfunctional. They want/don't want sex.

(Did you just say, "Don't want sex?")

Yes--in the strict, joyless straitjacket style of the Kingdom Hall cult--men DON'T WANT that kind of sex, which is resentful sex.

The same bifurcation that strikes cognitive dissonant witnesses assaults their sexual gestalt.

WHY?

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The Governing Body, with it's endless list of rules, regulations, cautionary fear-mongering, and anti-feminist polices, has

made Jehovah's Witness men ambivalent about women in general and sexuality in women specifically.

THE LIMITS on what can and cannot be done pervades.

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BIG BROTHER is watching!

JW men are controlling, resentful and dissatisfied with life.

HOW CAN THERE BE ANY JOY in the bedroom?

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To top it all off, ELDERS PRY into every JW family's privacy and get all up into the "sick" details of intimacy.

Elders probe. They interrogate and seek to embarrass.

Moreover, you can be ratted out by your partner whose GUILT can come out of nowhere leading them to confess

to the Priestlike Elder all of your bedroom secrets!

THIS WEIGHS HEAVILY.

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Religion and Sex are bitter enemies.

Jehovah's Witnesses are particularly backward in this regard.

Wives are depressed, distressed and overburdened.

Men are underachieving pantywaist factotums working their ass off for very little reward.

THE YOUNG PEOPLE SEE ALL OF THIS and silently calculate their own prospects for the future!

That's the real problem.

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THE IMPONDERABLES TOPIC (Enter at your own risk)

by Terry in

i suggest taking this slowly .

.. consider the difference between taking a poll about an upcoming election and the actual vote itself on the day of the election.. the information gathered about what the vote will be is provisional.

the vote on the day of the election is actual and official.. it is the one that counts.. now, carefully ask yourself what the specific difference--if any--there is between the poll information and the election result as an identical knowledge of.

Terry

How the Watchtower transmits New Light:

18 GIFs That Prove Science Is The Coolest Subject Ever

It doesn't get brighter and brighter it just keep changing as it moves through time.

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Teaching Anthony Morris III names of common things.

by LogCon in

"...what it is is this spanx, this skin-tight stuff they wear.

now, are you sisters wearing this in the ministry?

i can't say that i've ever seen that.

Terry

kurtbethel: Dude apparently has a butt fetish.

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You know how it is--his head wants to remain close to home!

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I have a TASK for you to perform. Come on--it will be FUN!

by Terry in

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look up in the right-hand corner of this page.. find where it says welcome (name).. did you locate that?.

now click on your name and observe the new page loading takes you to a top blue bar with a menu.. it should read:.

active topics search members topics started .

Terry

Does anybody see any pattern?

I think an "active" response is like the weather. If a certain number of folks happen to be in just the right mood at the same

time there will be a chain-reaction (many micro-causes and micro effects) multiplying into a storm.

I've posted topics I worked a long time getting just right only to have no interest shown at all.

I think it is timing. At least I hope it isn't me--but--I won't rule that one out!

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GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT. Who invented the "FDS" as a prophetic identification of the GB? WHEN?

by Terry in

15 july 1906 issue of the watch tower russell stated maria russell was the first who in 1894 "called attention to matt.

24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at allegheny and in another meeting with the new york church.

i demurred that i had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although i could not deny the force of the argument....i urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. r3811).

Terry

KEYPOINT:

If you asked an Elder WHERE the proper understanding of Matthew 24 came from (re: GB/Organization) they COULD NOT

tell you it was from Pastor Russell's WIFE!

They DON'T know.

They would NOT believe you even if you read it out of the Watchtower magazine!

It is UNTHINKABLE!

I think our job is to publicize this one fact until they HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING.

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JW.org Kiosks whats up with these? Where did this idea come?

by Crazyguy in

has anyone seen these in their area.

they are kiosks, small buildings either inside an area of a larger building like a mall or outside by themselves maybe on a major street.

not sure whats all in them but from what i can gather there a bigger fancier version of the book shelf on wheels that is so popular now.

Terry

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GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT. Who invented the "FDS" as a prophetic identification of the GB? WHEN?

by Terry in

15 july 1906 issue of the watch tower russell stated maria russell was the first who in 1894 "called attention to matt.

24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at allegheny and in another meeting with the new york church.

i demurred that i had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although i could not deny the force of the argument....i urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. r3811).

Terry

w73 7/1 p. 402 Praise Jehovah with His People

Consider, too, the fact that Jehovah?s organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God?s holy spirit or active force. (Zech. 4:6) Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's Sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book.

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What is being said here?

Are they cutting themselves a special exemption from the warning in Revelation about, ". . .adding to" the words

in the Bible?

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GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT. Who invented the "FDS" as a prophetic identification of the GB? WHEN?

by Terry in

15 july 1906 issue of the watch tower russell stated maria russell was the first who in 1894 "called attention to matt.

24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at allegheny and in another meeting with the new york church.

i demurred that i had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although i could not deny the force of the argument....i urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. r3811).

Terry

The Governing Body, FDS, "that slave". . . claims AN INSIDE INTIMACY with Almighty God for ADDITIONAL (extra-Biblical) refinements of teaching!

For the JW's, the Bible is only a warm-up.

In the same manner as the Mormon Church uses their APOSTLES and Pearl of Great Price/ Doctrines and Covenants to FINE-TUNE daily life,

the Governing Body, FDS, "that slave" have taken the steering wheel on behalf of Christians everywhere.

THE ORGANIZATION is the MEDIATOR between Jehovah and the OTHER SHEEP--not Jesus Christ.

This is the justification for being Baptized into ORGANIZATION.

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JWs say, "They don't judge"

by skeeter1 in

what is up with jws?

lately, i've heard this line, "we don't judge .

but, doesn't everyone judge?

Terry

Can you say: JUDICIAL committee?