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  Do JWs buy old JW books to destroy?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have never heard of this but i doubt its never been done.

  i sell some older jw books on etsy and have always been a bit afraid that some jws are buying them to destroy.

  if you have heard of this let me know.

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  skin

  I'd say most Jobos will collect for their 'spiritual' library.
  

  Those were big in the 90s, early 2000s. We used to brag about library size, kind of a sign of how spiritual we were. Not anymore. All needed literature is available for download from the HQ website. Everything else is now old light. It didn't help when the branch had a letter read out about 6 years ago asking for all old publications to be returned to them. I was put under a lot of pressure from my JW family to dump my old literature.
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  Just saw the segment on the 4 corners documentary involving Erwin Zaklin

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  two observations here.

  (1) i just saw a segment on the 4 corners documentary involving erwin zalkin.

  the u.s lawyer involved in the law suites against watchtower.

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  skin

  When people are told not to do something they usually do it just out of curiosity`s sake .
  

  Individually they might sneak a look, but as a group or family, the fear control would take over and everyone around them would hear about how Satan is using this documentary to promote lies.
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  Enduring watchtower study

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my studying consists of skimming the article.

  this one starts with 2017 don't give up convention.

  at the time i changed it to i give up.

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  skin

  Most inane comment: "If armageddon came 100 years ago we wouldnt be here"
  

  Almost the same words were answered at our WT study. Except change the 100 years to " back in Jesus's day".
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  Sep. 2021 Broadcast: more money

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the latest jw broadcast, anthony morris the turd gives a talk about donations.

  to camouflage this, he starts and ends the talk by saying that isn't actually what he's doing.

  first he starts with the usual disclaimer, 'wt has never begged for money like christendom and we never will', you know the drill.

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  skin

  That needy widow that gave all she had would be happy that she didn't have these people looking over her shoulder .
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  Are you still a JW?

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  which one do you prefer?

  zoom meetings or at the kingdom hall?

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  skin

  Prefer Zoom. But off camera.
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  Those members who passed away

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who of those passed away jwd/jwn members, do we think of??.

  oompah and the lady from australia, are there more??.

  g..

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  Where's Blondie gone?
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  How on earth can WT lawyers continue to believe WT has God’s backing, when they see all the deception play out in Court.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a post on reddit from mark and kimmy o’ donnell, from the crusaders documentary,.

  ask us anything.. mr. o'donnell gives his assessment of why wt lawyers continue to defend the child sex abuse cases that the organization continues to fight, even though they see firsthand the deception, the lies, the withholding of facts and dirty tactics used in court.

  by an organization that claims to be god's earthly representative, and the only one to hold the truth.

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  skin

  As one GB member said at their recent convention, they are at war.
  

  Yes, he was making it very fearful to JWs not to listen to any negative reports from apostates, media and other liars,.

  "Remember, these are all ways that Satan uses. Remain faithful, and don't entertain this rotten food from the trash can. Which is what you are feeding on if you listen to these lies in the media, you may start to believe them"...Stephen lett.
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  Attention Lurkers- the Paradise Resort Bus

  by stuckinamovement in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  imagine boarding a bus with your family for a long anticipated vacation.

  the destination is a place that is promised to be beautiful warm and sunny.

  as you are boarding the bus you are given a ticket stub with several paragraph's of fine print.

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  skin

  Thanks for bringing this back, great read, and so true. I am one of those still stuck on the bus, I read the fine print on the bus ticket years ago, but the bus driver won't stop to open the door to let me safely hop off.
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  WT Using Symbolic Interpretation to Twist Scriptures

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone know of examples where the watchtower used symbolic interpretation to twist the plain meaning of scripture?the only one that comes to my mind right now is in rev.

  "then i heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of israel".. .

  here, the wt would have us believe that the number of those sealed are literally 144k; but supposedly "israel" symbolically represents anointed jw's.

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  skin

  This is one that comes to mind, when it comes to shunning wrong doers who have been spoken to by the elders. This verse is used.

  Matt 18:17

  “If he does not listen to them, speak to the congregation. If he does not listen even to the congregation, let him be to you just as a man of the nations and as a tax collector”.

  Watchtower tell us that the "man of the nations and the tax collector” here are symbolic for disfellowshipped ones. But nowhere does the Bible support the idea that we shun people of the nations or tax collectors, even Jesus associated a lot with these people.
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  I think Splane is the Cult Leader. And I think there are more apostates working on the inside than we can imagine.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so in the latest leaked video, splane goes on this crazy delusional rant about how faithful witnesses should never research their faith.. he criticizes the worldly court system and says they are not fair toward witnesses and the organization.

  he says the court system is rigged and witnesses who get convicted, (implied child sex abusers) are innocent.

  he is literally trying to justify child molesters and elders who cover them, as good people in "god's eyes" even though "human authorities" may judge them and put them in jail.

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  skin

  Here is a the link to the video in question. Fast forward to the 1hr-03min mark to see the start of his talk. So much control using fear going on here.

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/2021Convention/pub-co-r21_8_VIDEO