All religions are Cults , some are just more Cultish than others .
The Bible refers to Christianity , the way , as a new sect , a Cult ,Acts 24:14 .
smiddy
Posts by smiddy
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15JW Vs. Mormon program
by pixel ini will like people on this forum and lurkers to see the big different between jws and other religion.
following you will see the program from the upcoming distric/regional 2016 convention.
look at the topics that are going to be discussed.
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Pshycos! - 2016 "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" Regional Convention Program
by thedepressedsoul inwow this is interesting!
i think how much emphasis this puts on "loyalty" shows their is an issue.
they're trying to plug the wholes as much and quickly as possible.
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Finkelstein,
Seriously that song was not for real was it ? However it did bring back memories of how bad some songs sounded in the 70`s and 80`s
How terrible for newbies to sit through that song.and many others like it.
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Why did Jesus have to suffer?? Something I never thought about.
by ttdtt insomething dawned on me last night.
jesus was suposed to be a corresponding sacrifice for adam right?.
a perfect life for a perfect life.
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A good OP ,and excellent comments regarding it.
What more can I say.
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Why did Jesus have to suffer?? Something I never thought about.
by ttdtt insomething dawned on me last night.
jesus was suposed to be a corresponding sacrifice for adam right?.
a perfect life for a perfect life.
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Welcome Malachi ,50 years in and now your out ? their must be a lot of stories there
Glad to have you here.
smiddy
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Most of us are responsible parents 363 days a year...
by The Rebel inbut what happened yesterday surprised me.
in the space of two hours, i had 3 groups of kids knocking on the door asking for sweets.
i assume the parents vaguely new me, but i assure you all the kids were strangers to me.
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I would hope the Adults would be in the street keeping an eye on the children as they went D2D , if that wasn`t the case then sure , it would be very irresponsible of the parents to allow this unsupervised .
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Welcome Luna , your first post was excellent ,hope to hear a lot more from you .
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Dystopia ,/ Default
[" crimes punishable by law " is a responsibility shouldered by each and every individual person ]
Apart from the mandatory law requiring persons to report Child Sexual Abuse , the onus is on any and every individual to report a crime especially against a child , failure to do so means that person is complicit in that crime.
All of those Elders handling the 1006 Child sexual abuse cases in Australia ,which equates to at least 3018 Elders , should face the strong arm of the Law and have the book thrown at them for failing to report just one case they were involved in.
And I say this quoting your own words above.
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Didn't go to memorial this year
by silent inmy wife and i had business to attend to out of town today and i had thought if we made it back home in time, we'd go to the memorial.
as it turned out, we didn't get home in time and we missed it, but we had a real good talk with each other on the way home.
we are largely successful faders and at the very least, i like to try and make the memorial.
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Silent
You have been on this board for seven years and you still feel this way ?
I`m sorry something just does not add up .
Maybe you are one of those people who have left the religion , but the religion has never left you .
You are swayed by emotions and feelings and not by facts , you need to exercise your brain to sift through the facts of J.W.teachings since their beginnings , otherwise I think you are mentally lazy , and will drift like a cork on the seas , swaying this way and that according to the waves.
Seriously , I don`t mean to be offensive , but you need to do some serious research.
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Sweet 16 - Happy Birthday to Us !
by Simon init's the forum's 16th birthday today!.
amazing that not only have we lasted so long but we're still thriving and growing.. thanks to all the people and often colorful characters who've contributed to the site over the years.
some are still here with us, some have since moved on, but all have touched each others lives in some way along our different journeys.. .
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Happy birthday to this site ,thanks to Simon , Ang., and all the other mods who make this site the success that it is .
The continual growth that is happening here is a testament to it`s worth.
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The JW org is a failed doomsday cult?
by Half banana inby its own mandate in the founding of the watchtower magazine in 1879, it was set up to proclaim the arrival of jc in the heavens according to the then currently failed adventist claim for jesus' return the year 1874.. russell's catalyst for all that came afterwards was his pet claim (in so many words) "aha but jc did in fact come... but came invisibly!
" he added without sound evidence that it took four years for jc to come to rule from the heavens after his arrival there and that then was said to be in 1878. .
within forty biblical years from the arrival date, russell promised, with hopes even higher than his bank account, that god’s kingdom with christ at the helm would rule the earth in the absence of all worldly opposition.
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I often wonder how many of those parents of "Youths Who Put God First" woke up to the fact that these poor misguided people , children and parents , actually didn`t put GOD first , they put the Organization of Jehovah`s Witnesses first and died needlessly .
And if that is not the ultimate abuse of children , then I don`t know what is.
That fact alone should prove JW.ORG. is a failed doomsday cult.
What is it about Governments that they are so scared/ reluctant to bring the crimes of religious organizations to justice.
Any surviving parents of these or any other children who died in similar circumstances should band together and take out a class action writ against the Jehovah`s Witnesses /WTB&TS and claim damages .
smiddy