Posts by ThomasCovenant

"judge" rutherford defined or classified all religion as "a snare and a racket" in his books "religion" and "enemies".. after rutherford's death in 1942, his protege, watchtower vice president, and aclu darling, hayden c. covington, in the early 1950's, for reasons of legal expedience and supremacist aspirations, suddenly converted the watchtower into a religion.. this was done alongside one of the most audacious, spurious and longstanding swindles of the us legal system.

this involved twisting philippians 1:7 and misrepresenting the watchtower's true nature, objectives and activities.. .

this meant that it became necessary for the watchtower to suddenly reclassify and redefine religion (w51 1/15 p. 43 new legal booklet well named; w51 8/15 p. 511 questions from readers; yb75 p. 161 part 2 "for gladys bolton...").. two new watchtower classifications were suddenly created: "true religion" and "false religion".. now "true religion" meant "true beliefs" whilst "belief" in ever changing watchtower doctrine was equated with the one "faith" of scripture.. all this while the watchtower increasingly and maliciously truncated, obfuscated and hid the liberating full "good news" (or unabridged gospel) of scripture, which it lyingly claimed (in court) that it was actually "defending and legally establishing".. how would you have defined religion before learning ttatt?.

ThomasCovenant

Wishful thinking.

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Atlanta Int Convention 2014:The Big Party. Does this look like WT believes Armageddon is coming "soon"?

by AndDontCallMeShirley in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=potrr2qxhue.

.. if armageddon is "imminent", why is wt focused on sight-seeing, entertainment, travel, etc.

instead of preaching and saving people??.

ThomasCovenant

As portrayed in the video the witness religion of today is not the one that I was a part of seven years ago.

Unfortunately whilst watching it I cannot help but have the emotion of hatred.

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" .... but they are prepared to die for it"

by Phizzy in

this topic is prompted by a phrase used by darth rutherford in his excellent life story.

he said that jw's sit there nodding their heads at what is said from the platform, and, i paraphrase, :.

"they do not know why they believe as they do, but they are prepared to die for those beliefs".. i feel strongly that jw's in this position, and it is only a very few who can explain and attempt to justify their beliefs, are the same as radicalised muslims.. these islamists, mainly young men, can spout slogans, and can sometimes even explain what their beliefs are in a half-arsed way, but thay cannot explain, in words that actually make rational sense, why they believe as they do.. jehovah's witnesses are, in the main, exactly the same.

ThomasCovenant

Having read Darth Rutherford's post the same phrase stood out for me too.

I would add that not only do they not know why they believe, but also what they believe.

And still willing to die for beliefs they don't even know.

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Interview with an Apostate:Out4good3

by out4good3 in

tell us a little about yourself and your family.. middle aged male in united states married 3 score and some to a staunch jw.

empty nesters.

wife belongs to a family of jws going back 3 generations.

ThomasCovenant

Thanks for posting

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A point which virtually every JW will miss in this week's book study

by sir82 in

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from this week's book study, the "draw close to jehovah" book, chapter 5:.

biologists have identified well over a million species of living things on earth; yet, opinions vary as to whether there may be as many as 10 million, 30 million, or more.. .

wow!

ThomasCovenant

And this all happened after 2370BC.

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First post in years

by voodoo lady in

when i was last here, my mother had recently been diagnosed with cancer.

there were potential issues regarding transfusion, none of which eventuated.

she undertook a course of chemo which worked quickly and effectively, with minimal side-effects.

ThomasCovenant

Thanks for posting.

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I would like to apologize.

by ThomasCovenant in

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'i would like to apologize'.

'i need to apologize'.

'i must apologize'.

ThomasCovenant

I'd like to.

But I'm not going to.

Often I've heard people say , many times in the public eye,

'I would like to apologize'

'I need to apologize'

'I must apologize'

'I should apologize'

'I would like to offer my apologies'

But don't actually say it, 'Im sorry' or 'I apologize'

I've done it myself.

Recently I overheard a conversation where one person said,

'I would like to apologize' and I thought,

'Go on then!'

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My conversation with my mother in law.

by StephaneLaliberte in

my wife and i recently took the decision to fade out progressively and we are now in the stage where we no longer assist to our meetings.

in this process, we have told the truth to our respective parents but have not forced ourselves upon them; meaning that: we will talk about it when you want to.

as a result, my mother in-law already had some conversations with my wife on why we no longer went, but never brought up the subject with me, at least, up until yesterday.. she was telling us that a good deal of people miss us at the meeting and i answered that i missed them also.

ThomasCovenant

''cheered by people who, in the end, are clapping simply because the brother ended his sentence on a high note.''