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  What are the Core Teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by cultBgone in

  1. watchtower
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  recently someone asked me to define what core teachings have such a hold on jdubs that they have trouble breaking free.

  trying to single out the driving force that keeps them in the borg, this is what popped into my head:.

  obviously there are lots and lots of wacky things the jdubs teach/believe/pretend to believe.

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  Honesty

  "What are the Core Teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses?"

  HERESIES and LIES
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  JW Parents – Safeguard your children

  by happy@last in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-documents-showing-7340603.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2816630/13-5m-award-jehovahs-witnesses-molest-case.html#ixzz3hn875cel.

  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-sex-abuse-scandal-4422943#ixzz3fwm1uttl.

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  Thank you!
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  VISIBILITY

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  breakfast of champions mentioned this on the elder appointment thread and it struck a chord with me.. is this term big in bethel?

  obviously nothing in my bible says a thing about being 'seen' in serve-us or in other jw activities, but a long time bethelite went off on a visibility tirade that i remember distinctly during special servants/elders meeting when i was in.

  i remember at the time thinking that the big j-dog in the heavens sees everything, so why the big fuss over the rank and file seeing us do stuff for the big j-dog?.

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  likeabird says:

  It's all about appearances.

  All show and no substance.

  You just nailed the religion for what it is.
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  JW Parents – Safeguard your children

  by happy@last in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-documents-showing-7340603.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2816630/13-5m-award-jehovahs-witnesses-molest-case.html#ixzz3hn875cel.

  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-sex-abuse-scandal-4422943#ixzz3fwm1uttl.

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  Honesty

  May I have your permission to post some of this information on another website?

  If so, do you mind if i attribute you as the sourec without mentioning JWD?

  Thank you.
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  I just had fun giving a talk!

  by OneEyedJoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, unfortunately, i'm still on the tms and had a talk tonight (in front of a co, no less) and the talk was on the subject of adultery.

  in the source material there's reference to "spiritual adultery" i.e.

  idolotry or when israel had alliances with pagan nations.

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  I'm under no illusion that I might have affected anyone present, but it was really fun to stand up there condemning 60 people while they all sat there nodding their heads in agreement.

  Most of them don't know about the Watchtower riding the back of the wild beast for 9 years, and if they did they would say that the faithful slave knows what it is doing.

  Clueless and asleep.
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  Working on a Sunday morning!

  by lurkernomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's coming up to 4 months since our last meeting.

  apart from three visits to the house in the first 4 weeks we've not heard a peep from anyone, except for two 'encouraging' cards from two older ladies in the local hall.. a couple self-righteous, not even exemplary witnesses, have taken it upon themselves to pre-emptively shun me on a couple occasions, which i found rather funny.. anyway my grandad needed some minor building work doing to the front of the house, which my brother and i happily agreed to do for him.

  his house is on a main road running up the hill to the kingdom hall.

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  Interesting conversation today with a very sick JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was talking to a jw friend of mine who is going for tests to see if she needs evasive surgery.

  she was describing to me the look on the surgeons face when she told him she won't except blood.

  i just felt sorry for her.

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  I started off with the vaccination policy quotes after a JW friend of mine insisited I get a flu shot. They weren't happy to see that. Moved onto organ transplant quotes and they were appalled. Somehow, they couldn't see the correlation between those misstatements and the potential for a doctrinal change in the blood policy.

  I was told, "Unlike those policies, the blood doctrine is scriptural."

  So were vaccinations and organ transplants.

  I have come to the conclusion that many Jehovah's Witnesses have a death wish.
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  Joined 11/29/2002

  by lisavegas420 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep, i joined 12 years ago today.

  just thought i'd do a drive by and a shout out.

  i'm still happy to be free.

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  Think about all the good people you have met and the good relationships you have made since leaving satan's cult.

  The cult members who have shunned and talked bad about you and your loved ones don't deserve you.
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  Awarded a Badge of Honour - I'm an 'Apostate'

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (i never was a jw).. just had a d2d (fs) visit.

  older guy (said he's been in since 1958 and is an elder) with a younger guy (20 or so).

  looking out at the street i obviously drew the short straw because further down the street was a pair of not unattractive younger women jws.

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  Honesty

  Congratulates Joe, you caused his cognitive dissonance to jump into hyperdrive.

  The last time I spoke with a Jehovah's Witness elder at my door (I live in a different 'territory' than when I was a jaydubya), I invited him back for another 'meaningful' discussion of the bible and Jehovah's Witnesses.

  That was 7 years ago and I haven't seen or heard from him since.

  I think it may have been because I opened my bible to Acts 15 and showed him why Paul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem.

  His lower lip dropped 3 inches when he read that some so called Christians from Jerusalem went to Antioch and stirred up trouble with the Christians in Antioch by telling them they couldn't be saved unless they had their penises cut.

  Then, he went apeshit crazy when I asked him about the Watchtower Society's 9 year affiliation with the United nations when they teach that it is the image of the wild beast referred to in Revelation chapters 9 & 13.
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  At This Point In Time Would You Ever Subject Yourself To A Judicial Committee?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i certainly wouldn't.

  and if the elders wanted to have a meeting with me, i would respectfully decline.

  if the elders wanted to deal with you, would you talk with them?.

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  Honesty

  Knowing what I know now...

  YES!

  I like to watch Jehovah's Witnesses squirm when their demon inspired doctrines are examined.