I mean what if a government decided to internally deport its Jehovah's witnesses and give them their own independent country. "Here, since you say we are of Satan, we're giving you a few square miles so lets see how much better a job your theocracy does, and this way you can't spread your religion." I'm surprised Russia didn't try that. I always thought that if I ruled a country I would make the Jehovah's Witnesses count the votes since they claim to be neutral.
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What if Jehovah's Kingdom really became a Kingdom?
by SonoftheTrinity ini mean what if a government decided to internally deport its jehovah's witnesses and give them their own independent country.
"here, since you say we are of satan, we're giving you a few square miles so lets see how much better a job your theocracy does, and this way you can't spread your religion.
" i'm surprised russia didn't try that.
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Is the Bible just as fake as the JW's
by BackSlider init seems that the more i research, the more i find that it's all just a big scam.
is there any evidence that even the bible isn't just another big religion/government scam?
would we listen to putin or obama if they told us they have verified new holy writings?
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What bothers me about the criticism of the Bible in which most people put all their faith in the entire Bible or disregard it completely based on their attitude toward organized religion, rather than reading every single book of the Bible on its own merits, and reading every apocryphal book on its own merits when you done with all of them, and then decide what you find to be truth, untruth, literature, history, and myth. The Bible shows me that God is so humble that he became a humble dirty Jewish hippie love child, comprimising his omnipotence, his omniscience, and his omnipresence. Jehovah's Witnesses don't look like humble dirty Jewish hippie love children to me, and the authority of the watchtower organization seems to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent in their dull morbund dub lives, like modern day pharisees. The rules of the Watchtower make the 613 laws of Moses look like a cakewalk so I understand why you are burned out with all religion. Being married to a dub sometimes makes me wonder if I have unknowingly started to become a deist just keep my sanity around her. I say my prayers in front of her in a liturgical language not because I am a lover of ritual, but so that I don't get mocked by her, instead quietly rejoicing the utterence of blessings from ancient times. It is a solemn act of post-patriarchal intellectual and spiritual passive aggression equal to her loud hollow organizational praise that happens around the same time at the dinner table. I wonder what God is thinking about it.
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women should go back to the kitchen
by never a jw ini found on another thread a quote from awake 1967 aug 22,page 27-28. it's from an article where the wt proves that women should acquiesce to their husbands.
within the article i found something that suggests more intellectual dishonesty from the wt writers.. that it is in the best interests of both.
sexes for man to take the lead is also supported.
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I think all us men belong barefoot and shirtless by the barbecue pit
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What is the exact meaning not posting in a language other than English in the Guidelines
by SonoftheTrinity inin other words, can i use a loanword.
or a parochial phrase of an english based dialect.
or a short motto from another language along with a translation without being in violation.
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In other words, can I use a loanword
or a parochial phrase of an English based dialect
or a short motto from another language along with a translation without being in violation
Or am I as restricted to the Theocratese subregister of Global Standard English as people who are in the Witchtower's Untruth?
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Cults and Convergent Evolution
by cognisonance ina thought popped in my mind on the way to work today.
most jws don't think they are in a cult (or an organization with many cult-like features).
this isn't really surprising considering most cults dont think they are, well, a cult.
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The fetishizing of the generation of 1914 has left a de facto gerentocracy. One single charismatic tyrant who kept replacing his lieutenants out of paranoia would present more wiggle room for eventual reform than the current power structure. Which leads to another interesting question. Which leads to another question...should children being raised in the Untruth be stealthily introduced by their worldy stepparents to the writings of Machiavelli and Musashi and at what tender age?
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Cults and Convergent Evolution
by cognisonance ina thought popped in my mind on the way to work today.
most jws don't think they are in a cult (or an organization with many cult-like features).
this isn't really surprising considering most cults dont think they are, well, a cult.
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Perhaps reading about how cults stopped being cults and became congregations that now support and encourage each other can also provide clues as to how this could happen for Jehovah's Witnesses. Some classic examples are the Reformed Latter-Day Saintsnow called the Community of Christ, and the Worldwide Church of God, now organized as Grace Communion International.
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The hardship of being a gay Jehovahs witness.
by truthwillsetyoufree inplease spare a moment to consider the difiiculties faced by gay jehovahs witnesses.
i was raised and baptised as a very serious jw.
every waking moment of my day was lived for jehovahs and his organization and for nothing else.
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The irony is that the moustaches but no beards rule makes the all the brothers in the congregation look like a bunch of gay donut-eating cops moonlighting as out-of-shape pornstars when viewed as a group.
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Online Higher Education
by SonoftheTrinity insince the faithful and discreet slave class now opposes higher education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', i wonder what their take is on online education.
let's remember that distance education was pioneered by fundamentalist saudi arabia and apartheid south africa for the very reasons that the jehovah's witnesses criticize higher education.
my wife is one of the faithful and i fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up.
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I think that telling people that your studies were online is NOT the best strategy in many cases, but since many colleges are hitting hard times, online programs can only get more popular. As for exclusively distance institutions, I would rather have a degree from the University of South Africa than the University of Phoenix, because it started out as the distance education division of Oxford, and because very few Americans know it is a 95% distance institution with students all over the world.
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STOP calling JW's a CULT--unless . . . they fit the checklist!
by Terry init is unkind, premature and even irresponsible to label people with whom we disagree using pejorative names.. for example, labeling a movement as a cult.. consider this example:.
sociologists d. bromley and a. shupe once described what they called the tnevnoc cult.
membership was open only to women, who were required to shave their heads, change their names, and wear specific clothing once they had entered the group.
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Being a member of the Rastafarian community, I would say that we are labelled as cultists by society at large more than Jehovah's Witnesses which is unfair, but at the same time interesting. Perceived antinomianism, which is the opposite of the situation with the Jehovah's Witnesses, can get a religion labelled as a cult too. The different Rastafarian Orders (Nyabinghi, Boboshanti, Twelve Tribes) which resemble Fraternal Lodges more than Churches, vary in doctrine so much that the only thing that keeps them under the same umbrella is a vague patriotic and cultural unity. We are a cult because we love to start house and storefront churches that throw all night rent parties where everyone is invited and not all our square neighbors appreciate our Jerichoesque exuberance. Having values which are at odds with the rest of society doesn't make a religion a cult. Authoritarianism, where absolute power corrupts absolutely, is.
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Online Higher Education
by SonoftheTrinity insince the faithful and discreet slave class now opposes higher education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', i wonder what their take is on online education.
let's remember that distance education was pioneered by fundamentalist saudi arabia and apartheid south africa for the very reasons that the jehovah's witnesses criticize higher education.
my wife is one of the faithful and i fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up.
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Since the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class now opposes Higher Education because it allegedly brings with it 'bad association', I wonder what their take is on Online Education. Let's remember that distance education was pioneered by Fundamentalist Saudi Arabia and Apartheid South Africa for the very reasons that the Jehovah's Witnesses criticize higher education. My wife is one of the faithful and I fear for our kids future, that they will see no point in keeping their grades up. She already approves of technical education, especially since our boys have both shown an interest in auto mechanics. I've thought about giving them a 6 week learning vacation when they graduate high school at the Barnett School of Bicycle Repair might get them an assembly job where they don't have to deal with annoying people as much as a service job when they graduate. Plus at least for 6 weeks they will know what it is to be young wild and free. Lord knows by the time they graduate high school they will realize how annoying the JW world is for a young black man and that annoying people in your professional life will only bring more stress. Perhaps if they can meet someone within the Organization with the same professional interests they can be study buddies in online university. I have taken online courses and that is the main drawback, that it is too easy to give in to pressure to do things other than study, so a study buddy in the same program of online education is essential. Through online education we can save money, avoid so-called 'bad associations' and the Elders are none the wiser. At least Apartheid and Wahhabism were good for something.