Posts by slimboyfat

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Ancestery.com— I Got My Results! Very Surprised

by minimus in

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friends

so i got my results in on sunday and my bloodline is mostly from great britain and italy and greece!

not what i expected at all but it does explain my love of italian and greek foods.😎.

Morphs law

by _Morpheus in

regarding morphs laws and its simple expression: its a direct parallel to godwins law on internet debates.

goodwins law states:.

as an online discussion grows longer, the greater the probability of a comparison involving hitler approaches.

slimboyfat

This same suggestion was made some years ago, except I think the suggested name for the new law was slimboyfat’s law.

But Morph’s okay with me.

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1980s Brochure/magazine on demon possession?

by caves in

does anyone else remember a brochure/ magazine from the early 80s with stories of demon possessed individuals and spiritism ?

i dont think i saw it around very long.

it had a story about some lady having her head snapped around by a demon.

slimboyfat

I took out a loan to pay for an exorcism. If I don’t pay it back I get repossessed.

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1980s Brochure/magazine on demon possession?

by caves in

does anyone else remember a brochure/ magazine from the early 80s with stories of demon possessed individuals and spiritism ?

i dont think i saw it around very long.

it had a story about some lady having her head snapped around by a demon.

slimboyfat

Spirits of the Dead - Can they help you or harm you? Do they really exist?

PDF with revised cover here:

https://faithleaks.org/wiki/documents/d/dc/Sp-E_spirits_dead_2006.pdf

Original cover here:

https://picclick.co.uk/Watch-Tower-Spirits-of-the-Dead-Can-113018908594.html

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Branch Co-ordinators letter re the Australian Royal Commission

by stuckinarut2 in

this letter was posted on the aust and nz facebook group this week.. it is self explanatory!

wow.... it seems to be their attempt at controlling the situation after the arc fallout.. .

So this letter is genuine? I am surprised they would write in such a cavalier way, especially when they realise most things are leaked. Maybe Terry O’Brien was confident that this particular letter would not leak. But why? He is the short JW elder who kept annoying official by saying “sorry I am going to have to repeat myself here”, before repeatedly claiming that shunning is essentially voluntary/self-imposed, wasn’t he?

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Branch Co-ordinators letter re the Australian Royal Commission

by stuckinarut2 in

this letter was posted on the aust and nz facebook group this week.. it is self explanatory!

wow.... it seems to be their attempt at controlling the situation after the arc fallout.. .

slimboyfat

I would come down on the side of saying this is a fake. Just because it reads so bizarrely and like an opponent of JWs would “want” them to speak. But who can say for sure?

It’s very concerning that convincing forgeries can be so easily produced these days. How are we ever to know what’s real. Not just WT leaks, but all media and news on all subjects. It’s very worrying when you really think about It.

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London Protest 2018

by josephus in

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friends

well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.

we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..

slimboyfat

For everyone that you might 'save' you will have strenghtend the resolve of hundreds of others as it will just confirm how bad apostates are.

I don’t agree. I think some JWs will look at the protesters and agree with much of what they say. For some it might even give them courage to stop supporting Watchtower: to know there are others who have left over matters of principle.

For other JWs it might be the prompt that sends them online to search for information about the issues.

People keep comparing these protests to the old “apostates” we used to see outside the conventions. But the old “apostates” I remember seeing were actually Christians with slogans such as “the Father and I are one”, and “you are saved by faith not works of righteousness”. These were people trying to convert JWs to other strict varieties of Christianity.

I think there is a world of difference between those old style apostates and these protestors who object to policies on abuse and the practice of shunning.

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why the watchtower is so short of money

by pepperheart in

the watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.

slimboyfat

Incidentally it could be argued that changes in the US tax system are largely responsible for both the rise and fall of the Watchtower organisation.

There was a significant government reduction in the cost of sending periodicals in the post in the US in 1879, the year the Watch Tower magazine began production. This change turned religious pamphleteering a viable profitable business and Russell took full advantage of the opportunity it afforded.

Similarly the threat of tax imposed on their literature in the US in 1990 prompted the Watchtower organisation to effectively abandon their publishing as a profitable enterprise, and subsequently to near enough abandon print publishing altogether.

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wizard of Oz JW style

by Kevin McFree in

a one year special episode for watchtower to enjoy watching this week ;).

https://youtu.be/1fx3vrkvaci.

slimboyfat

This is excellent, very well done.

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why the watchtower is so short of money

by pepperheart in

the watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.

slimboyfat

Exactly so, and well put OTWO.

Watchtower has been using its members as salesmen for decades and meanwhile boasting that they take no collections or tithes at the KH. It’s hard to turn around the culture of 100 plus years that says, give us your time rather than your money.

Now their publishing empire has collapsed and they need money desperately, Watchtower’s problem is that they have created a membership that has neither the inclination nor the actual means to contribute large amounts to the organisation.