MungoBaobab

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  What makes a cult a "cult"?

  by XQsThaiPoes in

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  when does a high control group cross the line bettween being socially acceptable to being a "cult"?.

  why do the marines or dod or cia earn special pleading to exempt them from being a "cult" when they seem to have most of the signs of being a cult.

  is it simply the notion that theoretically they should be protecting our interest.

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  The only thing that makes a cult a cult is numbers.

  Minority denomination= Cult.

  Mainstream denomination= Religion.

  Rutherford was right, religion is a snare and a racket!
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  Jedi Mind Tricks

  by euripides in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok so now you're wondering what i might be thinking.

  well, its about the anointed, the spiritual jedi of the wt society.

  (someone a while back said star wars was sooo jw.

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  (Someone a while back said Star Wars was sooo JW.)

  Yeah whenever I see the Jedi Council on Coruscant I can't help but think of the Governing body in Brooklyn. Go figure.
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  Selling it at funerals too!

  by wizedup in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my husband has an outline for a funeral talk from when he was an elder.

  it instructs the speaker, "this talk should provide a fine witness concerning the truth, rather than unduly eulogizing the deceased.".

  how's that for licking the plate clean?.

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  At least most of the elders at the Witness funerals I've been to have had the decency to bend the rules on that one. Can you provide a full page scan?
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  How did you feel when you learned it was all a lie?

  by what_Truth? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  bit of background.

  i grew up as a jw i left the church when i was 14 because a ministerial servant who was conducting a one on one baptism study with me said that i couldn't ballance my dreams of being a professional singer with the so called "truth".

  i stopped the study and told my mom i no longer wanted to be a witness.

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  Someone said "validated." I felt validated in that all the little doubts I had for all those years were well-founded. But it was not a good feeling. Like when you finally figure out you're never going to be an astronaut or a ballerina.
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  Terror Expert says new attack coming-what do you think?

  by IronGland in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "all of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike ?

  something more horrible than anything we've seen before ?

  is all but inevitable," said yossef bodansky, former director of the u.s. congressional task force on terrorism and unconventional warfare, in an interview yesterday with the jerusalem post.

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  Re: Terror Expert says new attack coming-what do you think?

  [Allow for response, then read 2 Timothy 3:1] This magazine discusses the Bible's hope for the future. It also examines what life will be like once that future becomes a reality.
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  I found this interesting . . .

  by NewLight2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here is an obituary from my local paper.

  i have removed all personal info before posting.

  her loving husband thanks jehovah god that he had x .

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  To anyone who has anything negative to say:

  What kind of BS do you think your family is going to put on your obituary?
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  I keep finding more and more grey hairs in my beard. :S

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a few years ago i started my little "collection" in a small container in my bathroom.

  evertime i find a grey hair in my beard i pluck it out and put it in the container.

  so far the collection has been quite "modest".. now it looks like they grey hairs in my beard are starting to gang up on me.

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  Now Brother Elsewhere, if you look around the Hall you don't see any other men with beards, do you? In our area, most men don't wear a full beard. Doing so might cause one to stumble, and we don't want that, do we? No. Why, you could incur bloodguilt, and misss out on the paradise! That's not worth it for a beard, now is it? You'd do well to heed the words of the Bible "If one of your body members is causing you to stumble, cut it off." I look forward to your next comment at the Watchtower study.
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  JW Urban Legends...

  by ThisGuy04 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious if jw urban legends are the same all over the world...?

  i remember growing up in canada, there's two that really stand out in my mind.

  1) the smurfs walking out of the kh.

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  Some Witness youths defied the Watchtower's Bible's counsel and went to a KISS concert, which, everyone knows, of course, stands for Knights in Satan's Service. Well, the band, in full regalia, bursts onto the stage to the frenzied excitement (which is idolatry) of the croud.

  And none of the equipment works.

  So Gene Simmons says to the audience (I guess they must have quieted down quite a bit, since NONE OF THE EQUIPMENT IS WORKING), "There must be some Jehovah's Witnesses in the audience!"

  Busted.

  And so, the Witness youths have learned their lesson and leave the evil Satanic concert, and sure enough, the concert proceeds as planned. And of course the story is true, it comes straight "from platform" at the Janesville Assembly Hall!
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  Killing of JW Postal Worker

  by prophecor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading the thread about the jw postal worker killed, made me think long and hard about the truthfulness of what cipic was stating, that the society allows for ones to work in the post office but frowns upon driving a truck for a major company like coca-cola, because the possibility that one may have a route that goes to a military base for instance.

  or maybe to a strip club for that matter, i mean the possibilities are almost endless.

  what kind of guidelines do they use in such cases?

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  I knew an elder that worked on a military base. I agree with Carmel that all the talk bandied about which jobs are okay and which clients one can take are meant to keep Dubs second-guessing themselves. Remember, the rule is a JW plumber can accept a one time emergency service call at a church, but accepting a building contract is a different matter. Again, this didn't stop another elder I knew, whose boss was also a Witness.

  It all reminds me of 1984, where pornography was distibuted by the government because the masses incorrectly thought it was illegal and Big Brother wanted them to feel like they were getting away with something.
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  Who is the greatest sports anti-hero of all time?

  by ColdRedRain in

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  2. friends

  in the same vein of minimus' thread, who would be the greatest sport's antihero?

  you know, the nasty guy that always got the job done, who wasn't liked by the fans, but when the game was on the line, would show up and win?.

  i'll have to say charles barkley.

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  MungoBaobab

  Rodman.