Posts by Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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Arguably the best debunker on YouTube

by Terry in

this fellow's channel is called watchtower examination.. he is clear, reasonable, thoughtful--but best of all--his teaching method with visuals is perfection!.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcep7v1i1o.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Much better than anything to be found on JW.org

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Here we go again. The next hate letter from our 2nd Son.

by Still Totally ADD in

jw
friends

yes it happen again with our youngest son.

this last monday we got a letter from him telling us how unloving we are because we are no longer jw.

cult and not had kids.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Don't you just feel the holiday cheer from Watchtowerland?

Such a bounty of misery and disappointment in the lives of the sheeple, but they can't face the fact that it's WT and the GB that are making their lives horrible. So instead, they have to find someone to blame, like family members who have woken up and left.

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Advice Needed...Again

by wallievase in

jw
friends

current update- the wife and i are separated.

i dont go to the meetings or in service but im not df, or da.

she is not budging.. problem- my wife has made it clear that she doesnt want me back unless i do all the witness stuff, i have even offered to attend meetings but not participate in commenting or go in service and this is not good enough.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Bottom line is, despite the fact that WT claims to not break up families and they tell women to be obedient (remember Selma who was expected to take a beating from her unbelieving husband), the cult mentality is to abandon and persecute someone that questions or leaves.

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does the wt always carefully phrase sentences so as to never take blame?

by sowhatnow in

im recalling a time when i sat and circled words in a watchtower article, indicating strongly the fact that it is in fact the writters opinion.. however just the suggestion in the sentence these words are ignored.. for example.

it is our understanding.

we believe this to be the case.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Everything in the WT litteratrash is carefully worded. It's in the talks where elders, COs, DOs, and the GB have really put the lies out there. And that's why they don't want "the friends" to record the talks.

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The Faithful Slave - An Obvious Question I Haven't Heard Asked

by berrygerry in

since the big 7 have appropriated this "blessed" title for themselves, and disavowed the existence of this slave prior to 1919, an obvious question comes up.. was it not the apostate maria russell that proffered that ctr was "the slave," and was the coiner of the term "the faithful slave"?.

if the slave did not come into existence until 1919, then how was it possible that prior to 1919 that anyone knew that it existed, or would have been able to foretell that it would come into existence?.

was maria a prophetic apostate?.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

"If the slave did not come into existence until 1919, then how was it possible that prior to 1919 that anyone knew that it existed, or would have been able to foretell that it would come into existence?"

These were "running ahead" of Hojovah's celestial chariot. Kind of like the millions of Christians that expected armageddon in earlier centuries. How foolish of them to recognize that such Bible prophecies couldn't be fulfilled until after CT Russell used pyramid inches to analyze the Great Pyramid of Giza and establish 1914 as the year of armageddon... later postponed.

"Was Maria a prophetic apostate?"

Unless you have a quote where she talks about gays designing tight pants, she wasn't a prophet.

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Guess who...

by sooner7nc in

jw
friends

...just passed his last nursing final and is now a graduate nurse?.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Congrats!

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"The Friends"

by FeelingFree in

i have only come across this term very recently on jwn and in an "apostate" video i watched yesterday.

never have i heard anyone refer to jw's as "the friends" here in the uk.

is it just used in america?.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Very commonly used in my area.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Application for Trolley Preaching Rejected by Village of Glen Ellyn, Illinois

by jwleaks in

glen ellyn won't allow jehovah's witnesses brochure rack on sidewalk.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glen-ellyn/ct-jehovah-witness-brochures-tl-20141209-story.html.

the glen ellyn village board (usa) on monday night voted 4-2 to reject a request by a kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses north of glen ellyn to place a portable brochure rack on a public sidewalk in downtown glen ellyn for evangelistic purposes.. glen ellyn currently bars commercial signage and the placement of any kind of structure whether temporary or permanent on its public sidewalks without village board approval.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

"requires submittal of the standard Certificate of Liability Insurance in advance of the placement of the brochure rack"

LOL. They have to buy insurance for the little trolley of despair? Proof of a 19th century religion in a 21st century world. It's like the troll under the bridge that now has to have proof of insurance or the IRS will fine him.

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