For having so much hope in paradise, witnesses are some of the most health obsessed people on earth. Or America at least. They buy in and promote all sorts of pyramid scheme health ideas. My faded friend and I comisreate over our parents being involved in this crap our whole lives. Some one had found some miracle cure all. It's the weak minded cult brain that allows to buy into this nonsense so quickly. I am invovled in the medical field and western medicine is a mess in many way. True western medicine and eastern have benefits. What doesn't is multi level marketing quackery. I move to a new state and was playing basket ball with some Bros. Right off the bat one was telling me about some miracle tea he sells and how it cured cancer or some shit. Bottom line is I can testify that many witnesses get involved in this quackery. Their distrust for Satan's system makes them put faith in the worst part. People making a buck off brain dead suckers
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Richard White, machette attacker in New Orleans airport a JW dies. Another medicine denier.
by Wasanelder Once inrichard white was mentally unstable.
apparently he went off the rails and attacked the tsa at the n. orleans airport.
they shot him to stop him chasing down people trying to hack them with his machete.
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Those darned apostates
by berrygerry injuly 15, 1992 wt.
"apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead.
our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is.".
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I mentioned something along these lines with my wife the other day. That we make never ending concessions for @$$hole elders, GB, and so on in this Org because they are after all imperfect men... but you know what, if you are not a witness, if you are on the fringe or fading, if you are disfellowshipped or anything other there are no f%$#ing concessions for you.
They are suppose to be on par with god's decisions, when they make "mistakes" then we give them a pardon. It's a paradox witnesses cult minds are not able to think out of.
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Wife fully awake.
by cappytan ini learned this past week that my wife is now awake.
i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".
she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.
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Dont accidentally join isis!
Do and adware cleanse
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Mind control.
by New day inin a recent thread someone mentioned that the wtbts uses mind control techniques.
do you think this is a conscious ploy?
if it is it would mean that the leaders of my religion (i am still an active jw) set out consciously to control people.
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watch this. I don't believe most are concious to it. But unaware. Products of an existing system. Like disfellowshipping. Most jw would never consider it emotional manipulation outright but also not hesitate using it for just that.
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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction
by freemindfade in8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .
18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.
20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.
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Finnish authoritories inquires on DF policies of JWs
by InquiryMan inuntil now, only senior members of the jehovahs witnesses committee have had access to the congregation's secret book of rules.. the disciplinary activities of the jehovah's witnesses committee have been criticised for violating human rights.. http://yle.fi/uutiset/jehovahs_witnesses_to_hand_over_top_secret_manual/7244267.
link from the major finnish tv broadcaster.
according to anna-maja henriksson, finland's minister of justice, the purpose of the handover is to examine the book and determine whether its rules and regulations run counter to finnish law.. henriksson and interior minister paivi rasanen met on thursday with the leadership of the jehovah's witnesses in helsinki.
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Interesting. Witnesses are great though at practicing things that aren't policy but just loaded language or not even spoken of. Dress and grooming = no beards. I think this is awesome. I just wonder if they will remove it from the book but still be practiced full force at congregation level as it always have. Thanks for the post. Interesting stuff. -
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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction
by freemindfade in8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .
18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.
20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.
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Garden gnome was an illustration to show the sensativity of possibly possessing an idol. Like maybe when I was younger if I wanted to put a poster of a basketball player on my wall. Some jw's would say bad bad bad. Idol worship. When I didn't bow to it. Or really worship. Respecting someone's talent and wanting to emulate their jump shot us not idolatry. But the point is lost. If some did want to bow down to a garden gnomome I sat go for it! Because there is know guy in the sky worrying about it. Do I think idols are silly? Yep! Do I think having one deserves Goss wrath? Nope. And the fact that one minute he is killing people for worshipping him through a golden calf then commanding then to do it through a golden box with angels on it. You be the judge
And yes wife is still in. Using her as an example of what you everyday witness would think.
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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction
by freemindfade in8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .
18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.
20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.
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There is more evidence to support evolution than christ. Volumes! as in your genetic code. And as most religious people you say "turning to atheism". No one turns to atheism, or looks to atheism for answers! It doesn't work that way, but you are so brainwashed by religion its the only way you can understand it.
Atheism is religion like abstinence is a sexual position. Does that help to understand?
No one is turning to it, or looking to it to answer all their questions. Its just a coming to terms with things that are facts and things that are not, that is all! Religion is the answer to the question nobody asked.
If christ knocks on my door tomorrow, and I am 100% sure its him, we can have a chat. Until then he is about as real to me as batman. Context doesn't matter, the NWT and most bibles have had the various languages and story telling massaged into a semi cohesive manner that still contradicts itself. The truth is the over the centuries "the bible" was made up of much larger libraries of books, its been created dude to suit political and national agendas all along.
Talk to me about context of the book of the dead that belonged to the Egyptians, because the oh so wonderful 10 commandments were in it first. Or many of the proverbs also came from Egypt, or how the book of Esther is actually the retelling of a pagan story. Or how most the NT was probably written by paul and others, supposedly 100 years after Jesus was gone. This could go on for days, how about how many different versions there were of the book of Daniel? There were a few, they chose the one I think with the least amount of fantastic stories in it.
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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction
by freemindfade in8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .
18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.
20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.
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Crazyguy. Great points. I think it was Josiah. And I believe some critics have suggested the whole ot was made up at that time for political reasons.