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  If you're expecting a mass exodus anytime soon, FORGET ABOUT IT!

  by nowwhat? in

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  i have to make a token appearance at the k.h.

  once a month or so and this week went to a different hall.

  and believe me they are all still totally oblivious to all the negative news about the pedophiles and shunning that have come under scrutiny by the media and other governments.

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  "Let the facts speak for themselves."-Sparky1 a month ago

  "Sparky, facts never speak for themselves."-slimboyfat a month ago

  "The collapse deniers can continue for a while with their denials. But time and facts (bold mine) are not on their side."-slimboyfat 5 hours ago

  "The relevant facts (bold mine) are that religions decline and collapse all the time...and all the evidence indicates that JWs are set to follow." slimboyfat an hour ago

  It appears to me that slimboyfat thinks that facts cannot speak for themselves, unless of course they are interpreted by him in order to support his personal schema in regards to the demise of Jehovah's Witnesses. Perhaps his 'blind spots' help support his own confirmation bias?
  
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  Is porn really such a big problem in the wt?

  by purrpurr in

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  in the most recent circuit assembly there was a lot about porn and warning against porn.

  even warning against looking at swim wear adverts!

  so i was wondering, is porn really such an issue in the wt?.

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  "Why else do they hump their pillows?" - JRK

  

  Because they're living 'a dogs life' at Bethel?
  
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  Is porn really such a big problem in the wt?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the most recent circuit assembly there was a lot about porn and warning against porn.

  even warning against looking at swim wear adverts!

  so i was wondering, is porn really such an issue in the wt?.

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  "Completely harmless..........."-LUHE

  Unless of course, you have the same mindset as Tony Tight Pants!
  
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  WT study

  by inbetween09 in

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  2. bible

  it became rare, i thought, when considering last weekends study article.

  it became rare, that most of the message is actually quite ok. the gist was to avoid loving oneself, money and pleasures more than god.

  thats ok, if you're a believer.. this was my take until i saw the pictures, and discovered the real message behind the article.. as often, they use pictures to contrast bad and good behaviour (in their eyes at least).

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  'A picture is worth a 1,000 words' but to the Governing Body it could be 1,000 dollars!
  
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  Is porn really such a big problem in the wt?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the most recent circuit assembly there was a lot about porn and warning against porn.

  even warning against looking at swim wear adverts!

  so i was wondering, is porn really such an issue in the wt?.

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  I think it has always been an underlying issue. I left Watchtower Farms in the mid 70's but went back to visit some of my friends about a year later. One of them told me that a 'skin magazine' had been found in one of the men's bathrooms stuffed behind a toilet. The bathroom was on the floor that I lived on and which I used. An inquiry was launched and no one 'came clean' and it was determined that Sparky must have left it. So, I was scapegoated in absentia and the funny thing was that at that time I had NEVER purchased any pornography and shunned it.
  
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  Why are there more sisters than brothers at the Kingdom Hauls?

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i have always wondered why there are more females than males in all of the congregations that i have visited?

  some of these females are in their 70's so maybe their husbands have died and women just live longer.

  or could the reason be that years ago men were the breadwinners and women stayed home to raise the children thus they were home during the week when the jdubs came a knocking?

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  According to Pew Research, that seems to be the case across the board for most Judeo-Christian belief systems. As to why this is so, who knows? Some say biology, some say nurture, and some say social structure that the individual (male or female) are exposed to. Probably a combination of all three.
  
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  Automatic Donations Introduced Online

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
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  this was announced a couple of weeks ago on the clam.

  you can now donate to any congregation, the worldwide work, and assemblies online.

  further they have implemented recurring payments "because the hard part about donating is remembering to donate," they actually said that!

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  "If you can't beat 'em, you might as well join them"-New Motto of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
  
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  Self indulgent attention whore thread....

  by _Morpheus in

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  today is my birthday :) in happy to be able to say that guilt free!

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  Happy Birthday! Here is a fitting present for you....................you back sliding, worldly, devil worshiping, mentally diseased, morally depraved Apostate!
  
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  Clearly, undeniably, without doubt ... is there a term for introducing a thought in such a way.

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  watchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".

  for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.

  "jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.

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  WEASEL WORDS:

  "Weasel words are designed to give the appearance of truth whilst protecting the speaker from attack or legal redress. They are very common in advertising and marketing, where the goal is to attract people rather than ask them to think deeply about something." - Changing Minds.com
  
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  Rudofl Steiner

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  rudolf steiner 1861-1925, developed eurythmy a performance art.

  he wrote hundreds of books, a brilliant person in many fields from austria(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rudolf_steiner).. steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach.

  he based his epistemology on johann wolfgang goethe's world view, in which "thinking… is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear.

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  Rudolph Steiner was a 'white supremacist' of the highest order and believed that the German people were superior to other races. Jiddu Krishnamurti was the smartest one (in my opinion) that broke away from the original Theosophical movement and the influence of H.P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant.

  "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever , by any religion, by any sect........the moment you follow someone, you cease to follow Truth."- Jiddu Krishnamurti

  "Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience." - Jiddu Krishnamurti