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  Why people chose a certain religion!

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  not sure if i posted this before but it's so damn interesting, i'll do it again!.

  by yoginder sikand.

  03 april, 2012

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  One viable answer would be because some people came knocking on your front door handing out literature.

  Mind you all the information on those pieces of literature were construed intentionally to attract people's attention and interest.
  
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  Overlapping Generation

  by pandorasbox1914 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the september 2015 broadcast had david splane explain matthew 24:34 “truly, i say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place”.

  his explanation of this scripture was by means of a chart to indicate an overlapping generation.. .

  no scripture was used to show the overlapping generation concept, and as a result it makes no sense.. to illustrate how crazy this concept is, look at the lyrics of the song my generation.. my generation.

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  Or in other words we make shit up so that we can retain are supporting positions within the organization (GB), which includes financial support.
  

  Listen, obey and do not question the higher authority, which is us because we have been specifically chosen by god over his earthly belongings.
  
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  Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

  they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

  he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

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  A considerable number showed an interest in the truth but were not

  willing to make a dedication to God.

  That statement comes off quite clearly of self appointed arrogance by the GB men who claim to be dedicated to god and his will and purpose.
  

  Asserting they alone and their organization (JWS) distinctively are the ones that are doing just that, yet if you look carefully at their expressed and created doctrines they are bibically false prophet charlatans dedicated to their own endeavors, not exactly what god laid out and instructed for his faithful dedicated followers.

  JWS are indoctrinated to be dedicated and avowed to these men "Discreetly" in their acts of apostasy and sin.
  
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  Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

  they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

  he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

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  Aren't all religions a ploy for power and control, with a little bit of money thrown into the mix ?
  
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  Lloyd Evans exploitation videos.

  by phoenixrising in

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  2. current

  i used to watch his videos on the monthly gb talks.

  he has went over the top a few times doing one video on why being liberal idiot is a good thing.

  he has made comments on the usa not knowing shit about what he was desperately trying to talk about.

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  The problem with Lloyd might be the fact that he is trying to make a living $$$ by being an outspoken anti JWS critic.
  
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  Aunt Jemima and Mrs.Buttersworth Need To Be Destroyed!

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  we have to get rid of these racist relics.

  i propose that we destroy all these bottles of syrups and burn every pancake box !

  we need to get rid of anything that reminds us of anything negative concerning slavery.. in boston they decapitated the head of christopher columbus and got rid of his statue.

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  I really dont get this statue defamation. ???
  

  History is history you cant erase what has happened in the past.

  Should the Italians remove all the statues of all the terrible deplorable Caesars which ruled at one time ?
  

  Actually I think its better for society to acknowledge and accept what has happened in the past so that we can reflect and remind are selves what we need to change and be aware of .
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Class Warfare (parallels to Karl Marx)

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  among jehovah’s witnesses, the elite consists of 144,00 kings and priests who have been specially selected (anointed) to rule in heaven (as transformed spirit beings) over the second group (great crowd) who remain human on a paradise earth.. .

  in marxist theory, the elite use wealth to obtain political power and control ideology consisting of shaping the worldview of the underclass.

  (their role in society.).

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  Utopia is impossible in this world of physical reality, waiting for this happen is a human folly of the worse kind, to embrace and promote this is to create problematic delusions to those who do..
  

  Its better to strive to make the living experience for all humans in the physical world to which we live.

  Embracing ancient mythological expressions is always going to oppression and retard human advancement .

  Why ?
  

  Because its composed in human ignorance
  
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  PURITANS - why we need them right now

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  puritans!.

  we need them to help us become more righteous.we need to feel the sting of their whiplash and suffer the tongues of flame, branding irons, and denouncement.why?gosh - we aren't as pure as they are, that's why!.

  8th century christian orthodox iconoclasts smashed statues used by catholic christian worshipers - to save them from idolatry.let us us cheer that intervention!

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  I dont think speaking out about over the top brutality by active police forces underlined upon racism is being overtly puritanical.
  

  Not violent protesting mind you and we should never support that, but peaceful protesting is part of what makes democracy work over other forms of political ideologies within a given society.
  
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  Noah’s flood

  by dothemath in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a few years ago at one of the conventions, there was a talk on gods remarkable creation.

  one of the slides showed a giant sequoia tree, approximately 5000 years old!.

  later another talk was about noah etc.

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  ...and that fact supports what ?
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  Things are too quiet at Warwick (Bethel)

  by RubaDub in

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  2. friends

  i guess it's the covid-19 thing.

  but very little news from a couple of people i know well there.

  they can't leave the "compound" or much of anything else.

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  Far as I know LHG there is no retirement fund for long time Bethel workers, so if they are removed they would probably look for hand outs from their families, that and hand outs from their local governments.

  The GB members and their wives on the other hand will always sit on and use the WTS's money for themselves that's for sure.
  

  Money is the life blood to this organization if you deeply look at it.