I think the crashing of airliners into buildings on 9/11 scared the Jehovah's Witless hierarchy and shook them in their collective boots which triggered the sell-off and uprooting toward a cult compound in the netherworld.
In the Old Days Beth Sarim served this purpose. The same instinct - just more sophisticated and permanent this time.
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by Terry inwhy was i surprised?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klix_bigtxc&t=1396s&ab_channel=geneticallymodifiedskeptic.
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Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower
by Terry incults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
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So many daily distractions in the world, the news, daily events, pandemic . . .
I can't imagine what it's like to be a JW (in good standing) right now.
I would imagine FEAR will keep them glued to the latest drool from the governing fools.
With all the exposure of failed Watchtower sacred pronouncements available in the last two decades - only FEAR could keep the older ones in place. The younger ones need little excuse to grab whatever life can be found and get DF'd into a hellish freedom.
Hellish you say?
Yes, when you are young and all your deep-seated values are JW Puritanism and close-minded judgmental-ism - what do you have to guide and sustain you? Contempt?
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Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower
by Terry incults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
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A TAWDRY history: WatchTower and Vaccines
by Terry indo jehovah's witnesses have a common sense approach to science and medicine?the history of the watchtower religion will shock you in this regard.read on!clayton j. woodworth, co-author of the infamous seventh volume of studies in the scriptures, "the finished mystery" (1917).
in 1919 he became editor of a magazine called "the golden age," which is now known as awake!.
woodworth was, to be as fair as possible, the king of all looney birds.. the golden age became a forum for the most extravagant claims about science.
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All the above comes under the heading of: FOOD AT THE PROPER TIME.
The "Faithful Slave" produces inedible and lethal 'food' and their predictions
about Armageddon have never nailed it 'properly'.
It adds up to a mechanism for disproof of all claims of divine authorship.
Crackpots sound like crackpots.
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Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower
by Terry incults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
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Announcement December 3, 2020 FOR CONGREGATIONS
by pixel inannouncement.
december 3, 2020. for congregations.
1. covid-19 vaccine information: several covid-19 vaccines may soon be approved and.
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An article well worth reading:
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A TAWDRY history: WatchTower and Vaccines
by Terry indo jehovah's witnesses have a common sense approach to science and medicine?the history of the watchtower religion will shock you in this regard.read on!clayton j. woodworth, co-author of the infamous seventh volume of studies in the scriptures, "the finished mystery" (1917).
in 1919 he became editor of a magazine called "the golden age," which is now known as awake!.
woodworth was, to be as fair as possible, the king of all looney birds.. the golden age became a forum for the most extravagant claims about science.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses have a common sense approach to Science and Medicine?
The history of the WatchTower religion will shock you in this regard.
Read on!
Clayton J. Woodworth, co-author of the infamous seventh volume of Studies in the Scriptures, "The Finished Mystery" (1917). In 1919 he became editor of a magazine called "The Golden Age," which is now known as Awake!Woodworth was, to be as fair as possible, the king of all looney birds.
The Golden Age became a forum for the most extravagant claims about science. And above all, Woodworth was a champion of his very special ideas about medicine and health. The Bible Students could enjoy a steady stream of health advice, each stranger than the next:
"There is no food that is right food for the morning meal. At breakfast is no time to break a fast. Keep up the daily fast until the noon hour... Drink plenty of water two hours after each meal; drink none just before eating; and a small quantity if any at meal time. Good buttermilk is a health drink at meal times and in between. Do not take a bath until two hours after eating a meal, nor closer than one hour before eating. Drink a full glass of water both before and after the bath." (Golden Age, Sept. 9, 1925, pp. 784-785)
"The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing" (Golden Age, Sept. 13, 1933, p. 777)
Doctors as agents of Satan
"We do well to bear in mind that among the drugs, serums, vaccines, surgical operations, etc., of the medical profession, there is nothing of value save an occasional surgical procedure. . . . Readers of The Golden Age know the unpleasant truth about the clergy; they should also know the truth about the medical profession, which sprang from the same demon worshipping shamans (doctor priests) as did the doctors of divinity." (Golden Age, Aug. 5, 1931 pp. 727-728)
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The magazine Golden Age (AWAKE!) took aim at vaccines and pulled the trigger! A mindless nincompoopery against
germs, disease, aluminum cookware and such brought Jehovah's Witnesses into a dangerous zone of vulnerability and put a burden of belief
on simple folk with not much education who believed such information was coming as a special warning from Jehovah.
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"Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows seeds of syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccinations is a crime, an outrage, and a delusion" (Golden Age, Jan. 5,1929, p. 502)
Yes, a vaccination was "a crime" and was sometimes likened to a rape (like JWs today say about blood transfusions). Moreover, like almost everything else it has been used as a "sign of the last days:"
"Vaccination never prevented anything and never will, and is the most barbarous practice. . . . We are in the last days; and the devil is slowly losing his hold, making a strenuous effort meanwhile to do all the damage he can, and to his credit can such evils be placed. . . . Use your rights as American citizens to forever abolish the devilish practice of vaccinations." (Golden Age, Oct. 12, 1921, p. 17)
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https://www.verywellfamily.com/religious-exemptions-to-vaccines-2633702- Jehovah's Witnesses: Although Jehovah's Witnesses had a past opposition to vaccines, in 1952 they stated that vaccination "does not appear to us to be in violation of the everlasting covenant made with Noah, as set down in Genesis 9:4, nor contrary to God's related commandment at Leviticus 17:10-14."
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Don't fail to read the following article
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https://www.vianolavie.org/2020/05/19/jehovahs-witnesses-bad-blood-with-covid-19-vaccines/ -
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Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower
by Terry incults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
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Thanks Drearyweather.
Much of "Jehovah’s Witnesses-Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom" is damage control by design.David A. Reed said it best:
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN THE DIVINE PURPOSE served as the apologist version of white-wash history
until Proclaimers became necessary.
Some hard truths are chopped up into bite size nuggets and spread apart in the book so that it could be claimed they had told the whole truth - the impact had been cushioned and diluted. Clever, those rascals!
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If you need your eyes washed after reading the above book, well - 2 years later the following book
was published which really turned the heat up on the JW fake history.
Jehovah's Witnesses--Their Monuments to False Prophecyby Dr. Edmond C. Gruss
Published by Witness Inc., 1997
Clayton, California 94517
ISBN 1-883858-57-7Specifically about Beth-Shan, Beth-Sarim, the Pyramid Bethel Family Plot
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Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower
by Terry incults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
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There should never have been any need at all for a New World Translation of the Scriptures.
It's like before / after Hitler swept into Poland.
The NWT was an incursion into foreign territory.
Fred Franz cast a spell over WatchTower leaders.
They listened like children and went away to make policy according to the oracle.
Most ghastly of all was the definitive SHOW DOWN of testable hypothesis in 1975.
The identifying phrase : "FOOD AT THE PROPER TIME" was debunked as applied to
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Unraveling threads which expose WatchTower
by Terry incults are famous for controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.in my experience from the beginning of my personal contact with jehovah's witnesses - i knew next to nothing at all.
i was in elementary school in the 6th grade, age 12. a school chum who was a jw befriended me and the indoctrination began straightaway!it took all of 6 years of studying and attending meetings before i agreed to be baptized on a date very easy to remember: it was november 23, 1963 - the day after president john f. kennedy was murdered a few miles away in dallas.
(during the convention i attended - not a single mention of assassination or kennedy or his family was spoken.
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The irony of my captivity by JW's was my futile resistance.
There was no Internet in 1959 and no Google Search or Wikipedia.
I had very little basic knowledge. My Grandmother instilled a sense of the numinous in my heart.
Yes, my "Maw-maw" had been a French girl reared in a convent by sociopath Nuns. (Her description, not mine.)
As a consequence . . .
My ammunition, as such, was only common sense against the Jehovah arsenal of perfected sales techniques.
I attended meetings and accompanied out door to door ONLY AS COMPANION to my JW best friend.
My social life became JW friends only.
My ETHOS became JW.
I would compare my decision to be baptized this way.
It is like dating and being a virgin. Little by little you go a bit farther and farther until ...
You either get married and make a commitment - or - you just use each other for your own pleasures.
This analogy is apt. I was a virgin when I got out of Federal prison and I married my best friend's sister.
I was a boiled frog.