Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  No more printing of WT and Awake in my country.. Shit just got real

  by cognitivedizzy in

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  guys .

  a letter was just read in out kh stating that all printing of wt and awake is ceased for the coming year and we will just place tracts on fs, countries which were cared by our branch will be cared by other countries...along with this they read the new fs form and stuff about reporting links of videos wtf..lol.

  i can't tell which country perhaps that will give away a lot, any one with a similar information.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Evidently, Kali can kick Jehovah's ass.
  
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  Humans are not wired to want the truth

  by rebel8 in

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  that's what i suspect.. perhaps some of us retrained our brains to not surrender to a natural urge to believe the simplest, most drama-laden spins on facts.. examples (at least i think this is the truth!):.

  the clock.

  the son of muslim activists makes a device that, on purpose, looks like a bomb.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Perhaps people need to feel special, smarter than the rest. Rather than doing actual study and research (which is work) they grab hold of anything they hear that gives the appearance of having "inside knowledge" that others don't know or accept.

  The beginning of indoctrination in the JW cult involves "study" of "inside knowledge" about the bible and a collection of troovz that other people don't know or accept. Rather than doing actual study and research, they get spoon fed a collection of lies that gives them a feeling of being special, smarter, and having an imaginary relationship with a Bronze Age desert god.

  Certainly, there are plenty of religions, conspiracy theories, etc. that claim to be "the truth". So it's not that people deliberately choose lies. They want answers to hard questions and can't deal with there not being an easy answer. I think they want to pick "the truth" that is easy for them to stomach and gives them a feeling of being especially smart.

  What causes autism? Well, we need an easy answer. Blaming it on witches would be too 18th century, so they'll go with blaming it on vaccines. Doesn't that sound a lot more scientific and 21st century? ... well, except for the fact that real scientific research proves that vaccines don't cause autism.
  
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  Review of the November 15 study article - "Stand Firm in the Faith"

  by Divergent in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this study article poses questions that we should ask ourselves.

  don't have time to analyze the whole thing, so will start from paragraph 8:.

  8 do gods promises seem less real to me now than they once did?

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  Do God’s promises seem less real to me now than they once did? For instance, God has promised to destroy the present system of things.

  For instance, Jehovah is a large-scale terrorist. It's not just that those promises seem less real, it's that those promises are barbaric and disgustingly evil. What kind of a promise is that? A promise to murder billions of innocent people? Sick.
  
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  Pot calling the kettle black? Their "own mouth has testified against them"

  by cha ching in

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  2. scandals

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201511/organized-religion-dying/.

  pot calling the kettle black?

  no one can do it better than the wt!.

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  AWAKE! NOVEMBER 2015

  Is Religion Dying Out?

  "Why the Exodus?

  I guess they haven't heard of Islam. Why does Watchtower Corp ignore the entire Muslim world as if they don't exist?
  
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  Blondie's Highlights from 11-15-2015 WT (FAITH)

  by blondie in

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  blondies highlights from the 11-15-2015 wt study (september 15, 2015)(faith).

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Rather than looking at the example of Peter's faith, wouldn't it be appropriate to look at the example of the faith of Islamic extremists?

  Both JWs and terrorists pray for the deaths of billions of innocent victims, focus on their supposed reward in paradise, and put faith in invisible promises instead of look at reality. While the terrorists are ready to bloody their own hands and blow themselves up, the JWs stand by litteratrash trolleys, knock on doors at inconvenient times, leave scraps of tracts that blow into the gutter, and boast a website that gets buried under an avalanche of anti-JW websites.

  Shouldn't WT be going head-to-head in the Middle East and make great efforts to convert the devoutly faith-strong Muslim world to become JWs?
  
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  Too Funny Prank

  by berrygerry in

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  from a redditor - would have died to have been there.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3sukbu/our_congregation_happens_to_have_a_networked/.

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  Hahahaha!
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  Watch: Comedian Lewis Black Reads 18 Year Old's Awesome Resignation Letter To The Mormon Church

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/watch_comedian_lewis_black_reads_18_year_old_s_resignation_letter_to_the_mormon_church(warning!

  language!

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  Such a beautiful rant!
  
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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Another 21 "last days" have passed since this thread started. So that would be 3 "last weeks" and almost 1 "last month" that have passed.

  I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that 21 days puts that in the "false prophecy" category.
  
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  83,000 theocratic facilites?

  by average joe in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a bethelite was telling me that there are 83,000 theocratic facilities world wide.

  he compared that to 35,000 mcdonalds and 21,000 starbucks roughly to show the size of the theocratic organization.

  i am not sure where the 83,000 comes from what would he be counting?

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  He compared that to 35,000 mcdonalds and 21,000 starbucks roughly to show the size of the theocratic organization.

  Yet, McDonald's and Starbucks don't need to send agents door-to-door or have litteratrash trolleys blocking the flow of traffic to try to drum up new business.
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  Why are projects being shut down? Nu-light speculation....

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. beliefs

  i went to the meeting last night.

  to keep the peace for now, i guess.

  anyway...... during the bible highlights, a newly appointed ms explained why construction is being curtailed in some areas.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  The explanation was to be found in 1 Chronicles where David went through all the work of preparing materials for the temple, but was then informed that he would not be the one to build it.

  It would be reasonable to conclude then that the current GB 2.0 is the Greater David and will be followed by the next GB 3.0 which will be the Greater Solomon. This Greater Solomon GB will build cities and palaces, marry the daughter of Pharaoh and 700 other wives. This GB will also have 300 concubines for when things get slow with the wives, because Jehovah made him extra wise on figuring out these things. But then these wives will draw the Greater Solomon GB's heart away from Jehovah so that they begin worshiping other gods.