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  What Are Your Favorite WT Quotes/Teachings? Most Ridiculous or Hilarious Ones.

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  when you look back over the 130 year history of wt, what is the most bizzare/ridiculous/hilarious/absurd teaching or quotes that you have found?.

  one of the ones i find hilarious is during the beth-sarim affair, rutherford announced that the world was laughing and mocking them because they don't believe the resurrection is going to come to pass when they said it was.

  rutherford went on to say in effect "we will show them when people start coming back from the graves"... lol.

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  Yes Jam, I think that's still the official position, that before the flood most of the water was just floating around in the atmosphere, so the moisture was enough for plants, there were no rains. It was one of the reasons why the people in Noah's time didn't accept that a flood is coming, because they never saw water falling from the sky.

  Edit: I was wrong, I found an article in w98 1/15 that says we don't know if there was rain before. I remember for sure I heard a public talk after '98 saying there was no rain. The speaker probably wasn't up to date with new light - no wonder, it changes more often than my underpants (and they stink worse too).
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  Would Witnesses REALLY drink the "Kool-aid" if the faithful slave told them to? Yes or no?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. experiences

  a "spiritual leader" tells his followers the must put on rebok running shoes and "drink the cool-aid" to join a ufo in the tail of a comet and "go to a better world" so, afew dozen young people do just that to get "beamed up" to the mothership.

  heavens gate cult 1990's.. my mother says "she is faithful to the organisation till her death" which makes me wonder if they ordered a mass suicide like the reverend jim jones did to escape a "great tribulation"....how many witnesses would really drink the cool-aid?...

  without a gun pointed at their head of course!.

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  If presented gradually it is entirely possible many would drink it. I know for sure my wife would, if it's presented to her in an acceptable way. She already told me if the WTS asks her to move somewhere she wouldn't hesitate to go without questioning the reason why - these are her exact words. This was Jim Jones' first step. If she would do that, the drinking of poison is not very far either.

  Fortunately the GB likes their position as demi-gods too much to kill off their servants, so I don't see this as a real possibility.
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  Do they still have to go from door to door and fill out field service report

  by eileenpage in

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  2. beliefs

  my husband, daughter and myself walked away from jws 20 years ago so we have lost touch with latest teachings.

  my husbands family are still jws.

  one of my daughter's cousin aged 26years and just married is phoning our daughter up trying to get her back inot the wt society.

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  teel

  Welcome Eileen

  That is simply a huge lie as it is. None of those are true. JWs are required to go FS just like they always were. They say it's "voluntary" of course, but you know of your past it's not - it's the same now too. If you don't go, you're not a good JW, and "spiritual" friends will start to evaporate, friendships revoked, etc.

  They can only play music that is deemed by the elders as acceptable. This is widely differing from congregation to congregation, but generally much of the "worldly" music is deemed as unacceptable across the board. Idolising pop groups is not only unacceptable, but I believe most elders would view it as disfellowship worthy.

  Don't forget they like to twist words to suit their purpose. They say nothing is compulsory, because you can choose not to do it. But as long as there are punishments for doing or not doing something, that is called compulsory. Don't let them trick you with their smooth words.

  Basically nothing of importance has changed. As yknot put it so eloquently "Same pig, new shade of lipstick!"
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  CO visit comments: Facebook & new "generation" teaching

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  just a couple more gems from the recent co visit:.

  in his meeting with elders / ms, he was warning of the "dangers" of the internet.

  following is a more or less accurate quotation:.

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  Why the big worry over anything? Because they need self appointed standards upon which to judge people. You're on FB? You have bad spirituality. You dare read anything non-GB approved? You're appostate.
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  CO visit comments: Facebook & new "generation" teaching

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just a couple more gems from the recent co visit:.

  in his meeting with elders / ms, he was warning of the "dangers" of the internet.

  following is a more or less accurate quotation:.

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  They are sneakier than usual with this generation teaching, introducing it in an unrelated article barely explaining it. This CO experience confirms it, he was talking about the doctrine as not so new light. Conscious active JWs would do well to bring up the topic as much as possible.

  "Brother, have you seen loving provision the FDS provided us? I understand now that Jesus must have been talking about a group of people that overlaps another group of people. Isn't it wonderful that we alone have this knowledge? Who else in Satan's world could figure out what Jesus actually meant when he said 'generation'?"
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  How to get a post that shows up on google search?

  by chicken little in

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  i need a little help, i want to write an article and have it show up on google, how do you do that?.

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  As far as I know to be in the top for Google search, you have to have lots of links from other sites with similar keywords.
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  Which Governing Body lie stands out the most to you?

  by dissed in

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  they are zombies you know.

  they are not thinking for themselves.

  they let the governing body think for them.

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  the elders told me that their dumbass decisions were Jesus Christ's decisions because they are the stars in his right hand according to Revelation and that I have a problem with pride for questioning them.

  This had me laughing out loud. You have a problem with pride by questioning that they are the stars in Jesus' hand! I am chosen by God to deliver His will! Anyone not agreeing does it because they are too pride to accept me. It's incredible how some actually buy that stuff too.
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  What I hate most about missing the meetings...

  by gutted in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ...is when people ask why i wasn't there.

  usually i tell them, that i was sick, or not feeling well, which for the most part is true.

  what is irritating is when someone presses it, especially someone you are closer with in the congregation.

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  We do that subtly with "we missed you". This is designed to elicit an explaination. It really means "where were you"?

  ... all the while to a not so astute observer it would seem they really care, and show love.
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  Watchtower & Awake covers. Some of my satire attempts...

  by Aussie Oz in

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  Heaven: if they do write about these, I might consider going back Especially if this WT was real:

  

  Keep them coming!
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  concerns over magazine cover satire and copyright law

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i enjoy making the watchtower covers as i see others do as well,.

  are we at risk of potential legal action for breaching copyright laws?.

  should we change the titles a bit to be safe?.

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  teel

  I'm no lawyer, but afaik parts of copyrighted materials can be used for satire under the Fair Use law.