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  Fall of Giants---Ken Follet

  by ldrnomo in

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  one of the most freeing things i've been able to do since fading from the watchtower's tendril like grasp is, "read what i want to" i particularly enjoy historial novels because they entertain and inform all at the same time.

  i'm just finishing the first of a trilogy "fall of giants" and there was a paragraph that made me think of the great influence of propaganda machines (probably because i was so influenced by the watchtower) i am hugely aware of it's power to lead people all over the place like the waves of the sea i suppose.. here is the paragraph:.

  maud knew the proprietor of the mail, lord northcliffe.

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  A great picture for proving that JWs aren't weird and cultish...

  by cedars in

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  it's a shame this is only in the study edition, so the general public can't see how normal and down-to-earth the witnesses are in how they perceive themselves.... .

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  Hah! It just dawned on me...

  All those muscular angels aren't there to "protect" the JWs; they're there to make sure the Rank&File get their hours in and don't listen to any "apostates" they might run into while in "service"!!!
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  Merry Pantsmas Everyone!

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  okay, i posted this in a thread that got locked and buried.

  since then i've been really busy and have overdosed on christmas music in the past week.

  so, i'm resurrecting this "holy day" holiday that most people will unknowingly be celebrating tomorrow.

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  Merry merry PANTSMAS!!

  
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  A great picture for proving that JWs aren't weird and cultish...

  by cedars in

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  it's a shame this is only in the study edition, so the general public can't see how normal and down-to-earth the witnesses are in how they perceive themselves.... .

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  cedars.

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  Hee hee!!

  Okay, that was kinda funny...
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  Interesting Jesus cults

  by Christ Alone in

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  larsinger and his posts got me to thinking about others that believe/believed that they are/were jesus.

  i started looking up a ton of info and stumbled across some pretty interesting cults.

  i just wanted to create a thread to talk about or post videos, links, or articles about modern day cults that you have found interesting.

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  "...It's like me hating Santa Clause and calling him an disgustingly obese freak, and being full of anger towards him. " CA, page #3

  Well, the dude could stand to lay off of the Christmas cookies...

  
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  A great picture for proving that JWs aren't weird and cultish...

  by cedars in

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  it's a shame this is only in the study edition, so the general public can't see how normal and down-to-earth the witnesses are in how they perceive themselves.... .

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  "God's angels were on a coffee break last weekend when that tour bus smashed into an overhang at Miami Airport." Caleb's Airplane

  And when those Filipino JWs boated into that Muslim extremist area and were beheaded...
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  For the GB, it's all about attention!

  by NoRegrets in

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  so this is probably not a big revelation for anyone, but a little for myself.

  or at least a sum up of why the jws still cling to many of their beliefs and practices are to gain them notoriety and attention.

  so many of the non-witness friends i have now remember the jw kids they grew up with only because they weren't allowed to celebrate the holidays.

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  Bumping this excellent thread again...
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  Milan Italy – Public Demonstration against ostracism practiced by the Watchtower.

  by Nick! in

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  milan italy public demonstration against ostracism practiced by the watchtower.. .

  two years after rome, yesterday december 1st, day by day, we were about 100 of us demonstrating on a public square in the center of milan, italy.. .

  at about 10-11 a.m. many of us were already on the spot, installing our gazebo on the public square where we were granted authorization by the police and starting the distribution of about 4000 tracts to passersby in the surrounding squares, boulevards and streets exposing the watchtower for its teachings and instructions on discriminating those who decide to use their rights to walk away from this religious movement without to have to incur the ostracism imposed by the leadership.

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  Thanks, Roberto alias Nick!!

  I'll look those up...
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  News Follow-up on 2002 Beheading and Kidnap of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  by Balaamsass in

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  witnesses fail to identify abu sayyaf suspectsphilippine daily inquirer.

  4:41 am | tuesday, december 4th, 2012 <span class="postauthor">posted by <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/author/besguerra" title="posts by besguerra" rel="author">besguerra</a></span>0665start share this /metas suspected abu sayyaf terrorists wrongly arrested for the 2002 abduction of several jehovahs witnesses in patikul, sulu, may be released before the end of the month.. twenty-one accused claiming innocence were presented at a hearing on the reinvestigation of the kidnap-for-ransom case conducted by the department of justice on monday, but eight of them were pointed to by two witnessesone of them a former hostageas being members of the terror group.. it was the third reinvestigation of the aug. 20, 2002, abduction of four women and two men who were members of the religious group in patikul.. the two men were beheaded by the abu sayyaf while the women were rescued by police and the military.. at the start of the hearing, senior assistant state prosecutor peter ong said it was the prosecutors themselves who pushed for the reinvestigation.. we noticed, for instance, two persons being arrested under one name and we noticed an injustice there, said ong, adding that the pasig rtc ordered them to conduct the reinvestigation in 60 days.. all 21 abu sayyaf members who were handcuffed were made to line up for identification in batches to face two of the three witnesses who were brought in, their faces concealed.. of the 21, the eight who were pointed to by two witnesses denied the accusation.. one of the eight, julhassan a. jaani ybanez, was identified by the female witness as the one who beheaded her husband.. but ybanez denied this, saying he was an imam (muslim leader) and an assistant of col. akho san juan, the military chaplain of the western mindanao command.

  he said he was arrested in 2006. christine o. avendano.

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  "...The rank and file witnesses are seen as nothing more than expendable foot soldiers sent to the front lines." LongHairGal

  "But you know, they'll always be "resurrected"..."

  That's the blase' response of the Watchtower Society...
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  Our holiday light show for Christmas

  by troubled mind in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkz0tcxzhfm&list=ul.

  my husband made a little special holiday cheer in our front yard .

  enjoy ,i know our witness neighbors do .

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  Lovely, Blondie!!