Posts by carla

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Why do Anti-Jws refuse to answer questions- and ignore our answers?

by DoubtingThomas in

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denial..

carla

If anyone (non jw ) doubts the veracity of a jw and general obnoxiousness you can always count on one like this one to make your point for you. I find it quite amusing when sending a Christian to a thread like this one to show them just how a jw truly acts. Though usually they can't believe the person is really a jw.

I ask jw's if they think they are making a case for their god or Jesus when they act like this and they go on to blame others for their behavior. Much like the abuser, "I wouldn't have to beat you if you just listened, believed and behaved like I wanted you to".

To some degree I can understand the jw thought about bringing reproach upon jah for the behavior in the cong, this one surely doesn't make one say, "wow, this guy is truly an enlightened holy guy! I want to join him so I can be just as much of a obnoxious ass as him".

At one time jw's used to be able to have actual discussions with people, sadly they know so little about jw doctrine, the Bible and history they don't know what to believe until their Lords in NY tell them what to believe.

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Can you be a JW who does not have the GB as their leader?

by DoubtingThomas in

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i am.. they are just fellow brothers, old and getting senile.... but enlightened, despite all the whining.....

carla

Doubting Tom, you are a good example of a jw. You are rude and condescending.

By the way you needn't YELL at people here. Capitalizing as you do is the equivalent of yelling in case you didn't know.

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Terminal Lucidity & the Nature of Consciousness

by Sea Breeze in

no, this isn't about suddenly becoming aware of how much you hate airports.

it is about people with profound brain impairments like mental retardation, alzheimer's, stroke and dementia (often in a coma) suddenly becoming normal and lucid shortly before passing away.

this is important because the wt teaches that consciousness is a function of the physical brain.

carla

As for consciousness the jw's are clueless and further more if you talk about such things with one they are highly suspicious and think anything they can't understand may be 'evil' somehow. Not only are they clueless but even researching it would be out of the question.

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Terminal Lucidity & the Nature of Consciousness

by Sea Breeze in

no, this isn't about suddenly becoming aware of how much you hate airports.

it is about people with profound brain impairments like mental retardation, alzheimer's, stroke and dementia (often in a coma) suddenly becoming normal and lucid shortly before passing away.

this is important because the wt teaches that consciousness is a function of the physical brain.

carla

BluesBrother, aren't the seventh day Adventist kissing cousins of the jw's? they both came out of the Millerite great disappointment?

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the new elected elite

by waton in

the honorable mr reyes, manitoba minister, man o man, lets his wife, a nurse, shovel out the driveway after her 12 hour shift at the hospital, so she can park her car.

sir.

where did you learn such behaviour?

carla

Didn't make news in US yet, here you go-https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jon-reyes-manitoba-tweet-shovel-1.6308969

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SETTING LIMITS ON HOW TO LOVE by the the Guardians of Our Doctrines (G. O. D)

by Longlivetherenegades in

a balanced view of jesus’ role.

like those in christendom, the early bible students mistakenly allowed their love for jesus to overshadow their relationship with jehovah.

beginning in 1919, however, they came to see that jehovah and their relationship with him should be the focus of their worship.

carla

asp59, I don't think jw's do or know of 'agape love', at least from my research. I don't usually like to use wiki but it was fast and top listing-

Agape

In Christianity, agape is unconditional love, "the highest form of love, charity" and "the love of God for man and of man for God". This is in contrast to philia, brotherly love, or philautia, self-love, as it embraces a universal, unconditional love that transcends and persists regardless of circumstance.Wikipedia

It has been my experience that jw's can't quite wrap their head around 'agape' at all. There would always be a 'but.... what if the person is xyz or does this or that'? they truly have no concept of unconditional love and even go so far as to put a stop to natural affection of a parent and child, siblings and so on (shunning for disbelief even without any sort of so called 'sin').

As jhine noted everyone is your neighbor regardless of belief, skin color, etc.... I know my jw is helpful to people but it is how he grew up (not as a jw) his whole family is that way and it is one thing that has stuck so to speak. Naturally he conveniently forgets this and thinks it is because he is now a jw. But I remember him when....

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2021 Annual Meeting: just more self-exaltation

by neat blue dog in

the annual meeting from last fall had a live audience again this time and a recording of it makes up the january monthly program.

jesus said "everyone who exalts himself will be humbled", and the gb as usual waste no time in exalting themselves over the course of the annual meeting.

during splaine's talk, he says i guess what he thinks is a profound part of the talk outline, and then says "i'll repeat that", and reads it again.

carla

oh, nevermind, I see that is still in full effect. carry on...

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2021 Annual Meeting: just more self-exaltation

by neat blue dog in

the annual meeting from last fall had a live audience again this time and a recording of it makes up the january monthly program.

jesus said "everyone who exalts himself will be humbled", and the gb as usual waste no time in exalting themselves over the course of the annual meeting.

during splaine's talk, he says i guess what he thinks is a profound part of the talk outline, and then says "i'll repeat that", and reads it again.

carla

I thought they backed off a bit on Michael being Jesus thing? am I misremembering? or maybe some flipflops on it? or maybe my jw had gotten me confused on it? he doesn't always seem to get the memo (back when we discussed such things)

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Another example of how Watchtower are rewriting their own history.

by skin in

from today's daily wt text.. friday, december 31 2021.let your kingdom come.

let your will take place, as in heaven, also on earth.—matt.

6:10. christendom generally does not teach the scriptural truth that one day obedient humans will live forever on earth.

carla

How do jw's get around Rev 21?- Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away

I have forgotten, I suppose it is just 'symbolic' for them? I have yet to find a scripture where jw's will help the Almighty God clean up the earth of our dead burnt up hotdog carcasses -cause everybody knows God needs help with this sort of thing.

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JW News - yup it's a thing

by neat blue dog in

you might have seen my post a little while ago about how they were throwing around a new term, "jw news" and inserting it in articles.

well now they went ahead and made a logo for it.. .

oh brother 🤣 i wonder if this'll be part of the programming on jw studios' paid streaming service 😉.

carla

Road to Nowhere said, "I am amazed how many dubs really do not watch news."- This really surprises me as my jw is nearly obsessed with news. All the better to justify his belief that things are just getting worse and worse.... Oddly we know Christian folks who barely watch news and feel that God is in control no matter what happens and they merrily go on their way in life without having the bad news of the day dictating their moods with black clouds surrounding them 24/7.

The jw looks for gloom and doom around every corner affecting their general outlook on life while the aforementioned Christians looks for stories of light and love. They see stories of and participate in stories of helping others when possible and see the world in an entirely different light than the average jw. And yes, I hear some odd conversation in my world. While my jw is trying to spread his gloom of the world the Christians will tell their stories and it is like I am living in some weird science fiction movie sometimes. The two opposing opinions seem to be on separate planes of existence or something.