"Show me one publication were it says we should lie to our studies as a delaying technique?"
When I had questions about the blood issue, early on in my study with the witnesses, I was asked to wait until we came to that subject in the truth book, it would all make sense by then. That was many months latter, after I was softened up, after I did more trusting and less thinking, after my girlfriend was well hooked and knew I would loose a lot by backing out, after I had a lot invested. No it’s not written that I know of, but it sure as hell was practiced on me!
As far as lying, the Watchtower has publications written that promote deception and outright lying. The publication use to prepare for child custody cases, actively promotes deceiving the court to believe that the children have NORMAL goals and aspirations, Not Kingdom related goals that others would find weird.
Becoming a Journalist for example is suggested as a life goal to deceptively tell the court. You don’t become a journalist without a college degree, and everyone knows the societies stand on college. You are sworn to the truth, and the entire truth. This is deception in its most heinous form, using a child to deceive and press their own twisted agenda.
How about the society declaring that you only needed to “tell the truth to those that were deserving of it” . EVERYONE deserves the truth!
How about the lie I was told in my congregation, right from the platform. I was told that literature would now be distributed on a purely donation basis, no set price.
I was told the reason for the change was a “simplification” to make it easier, and also to show how we were so different then other religions who were motivated by profit making.
BUT THAT WAS A LIE!
The real reason for the change was that they (the Watchtower Society) got into bed with Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, worked with them, spent some of my donated money on lawyers to help Swaggart Ministers to fight a tax levy on the sales of religious publications, because they knew they could be next. Swaggart and the Watchtower Society lost the case. That is when the change to donations was made, and that is the reason! Here is the link: http://www.geocities.com/paulblizard/jimmy.html
Yes the Watchtower Lies!
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Teaching lies.
by Anti-Christ inwhen a person no longer cares about the past, they will accept the present without question.
the witnesses we talked with are always interchanging the gb/faithful and discreet slave for example, even if you point out the origins of each.
doesn't matter.
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by thebigdebate incost of hotel room for circuit assembly - $49 (watchtower rate).
cost of new suit for district convention - $350.
cost of new minivan for field service - $25,695.
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Cost of not contributing to a 401k (with employer matching funds) for many years because we would never grow old in this system, $350k-$425k
Cost of turning down high paying jobs because they were defense and/or government related, at least $500k.
Cost of being screwed by an elder, having to payoff his loan after he literally moved and stopped making payments on the loan I obtained for him to help him out of a jam, about $10k.
Cost of not taking the advice of the elders to quit my NASA dream job and instead deciding to properly support my family, later going on to have an unbelievable working career (and no I’m not that smart, I was just greatly blest) playing a major role in the security of the Hubble Space Telescope, the US Marshals Witness Protection Program, protection of DEA and ATF agents working under cover, and now at 54 years of age, I am being trusted with the awesome and humbling responsibility of designing the next generation computer / network security system for the FAA’s air traffic control system. PRICELESS!!!
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So, it happened. Packed my things and left
by aligot ripounsous insome may remember, i wrote on an other thread that elders forbade me to give comments at the wt meeting, as i weaken the brothers' faith.
i wasn't satisfied with this outcome and, 10 days ago i sat with my wife on the front part of the kh (like in many khs, attendants pack on the back seats), in the middle of the row, right in front of the wt elder, and raised my hand insistently.
i was of course openly ignored but i didn't care, all that i wanted was verybody to see how they deal with independent members.
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You the Man!
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I just thought of another really stupid thing I was told. Recovering from a miscarriage, my wife and I were corrected when we expressed our hope in seeing our lost child in the resurrection. We were told by two elders, "no Sara will not be resurrected, she never took her first breath, so in God’s eyes she was never a living soul”. L
Bastards!
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Drwtsn32,
Re-read what I said, sorry it was meant to be humorous. I too understand what theory is. My feeble attempt at humor was based on knowing that (most) people regard a theory as less then a fact, contrasted with it’s usage in science as the explanation of the fact. Hence evolution, as you indicated, is indeed BOTH THEORY AND FACT, just like gravity.
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No matter how you slice it, it’s just a theory!
Like Gravitational Theory, Electrical Theory, Music Theory.
the FREEMAN theory
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Archeologists Unearth Remains of Defunct Christian Sect
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Which 5 Books Would You Recommend?
by leavingwt inwhich 5 books would you recommend?.
there is a wealth of information, just waiting to be shared with persons who have an open mind and a desire to know the truth about the watchtower society.
please list five books (more or less) that you would recommend to new ones.. i hope to discover something new from your lists.
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I recommend only one book; a dictionary. All other books ever written can be found within; you just need to string the words together properly to read it. ;-)
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That I had to make a choice between regular meeting attendance, and properly providing for my wife and children, meeting attendance somehow being more important. This was the turning point; I remember the day exactly:
July 4 th 1987; MY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
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The likely suspect in the case of viruses is Satan. How do we know this, because the watchtower society gives us insight into such matters. Here is some wisdom from the Golden Age:
*Some people regard the common house-fly as comparatively harmless; but in point of fact it is one of the greatest disease carriers known.... One thing that tends to prove that the fly was originally created by the devil is that it loves every evil thing and hates every good thing. The odors that are most unpleasant to man,... are all pleasing to the fly....
THE mosquito has a bad record. He it is that carries the germs of malaria, yellow fever, [and other diseases].... If you have a disease of any of the above varieties, the mosquito loves to come and bite you and poison you,.... Then he goes off and bites some luckless chap and injects the germs of your disease into him. And if that does not show the disposition of the devil, will you please point out something that does?...
The Japanese beetle is said to be, at this time, our country's worst pest.... Perhaps the devil made this one, too; it looks like his work...
Probably the Lord made some of the useful insects. No doubt the devil made some of the others. The Lord is the better architect...
It’s not hard to extrapolate that the same devil that made the disease carriers also made the diseases themselves.
*C.J. Woodworth, "Forms of Insect Life," The Golden Age, Dec. 19, 1923, pp. 163, 164, 167, 168.
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(Satan’s little helper)