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  FWD: let's get JW's propaganda out of Disneyland

  by jacobm in

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  2. friends

  not sure if this has already been submitted, but we need exjws to mobilize on this.. from: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5kzyfn/lets_get_jws_propaganda_out_of_disneyland/.

  posted by: sweetpotatopeachtree .

  i submitted the following on the disneyland facebook page (link below) on december 19th after seeing jws peddling their cult propaganda at downtown disney in anaheim, ca.

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  GLTirebiter

  Just tell them about Sparlock, the Warrior Wizard. Disney's corporate policy may tolerate recruiters, but competitors are another story!
  
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  5 Ways to Improve Your Online Security

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. family

  let's face it, we're all connected now.

  we take it for granted that we access our bank accounts from our laptops or phones.

  it's so convenient.

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  i do no online banking. very secure method

  That means there is waste paper that can be used to create an online account for you, that you would not know about. Be sure to cross-cut shred EVERYTHING with the account number and other identifying information. Dumpster diving is a time-honored tactic of spies, thieves, and snoops. Even in the internet age, some folks are still doing literal dirty work to get their hands on your data.
  
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  5 Ways to Improve Your Online Security

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. family

  let's face it, we're all connected now.

  we take it for granted that we access our bank accounts from our laptops or phones.

  it's so convenient.

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  GLTirebiter

  The advice used to be not to write down your password and also to change them regularly. This kind of forced people into using weak passwords. It's better to have a crazy complex password and have it printed out and kept somewhere safe. The risk of being compromised electronically is way higher than someone finding a piece of paper stuffed in a draw in your house.

  Yes, that's why companies who enforce every 30 days password changes often are compromised by attackers trying variations of "20.deC16" (unless December2016 gets past the password checker software, which means the checker is so pathetically weak that it's a security flaw in its own right). Just be sure to hide the paper well, so the Cubicle Cops don't find it and write you up for a violation. Though if you work for the military-industrial complex or a "three letter agency", you better follow their rules, no matter how silly they seem, or else!
  
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  1975 statements

  by A Believer in

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  2. experiences

  from jw org.

  “six thousand years of human existence”.

  in 1969 the watchtower magazine in czech began publishing a series of articles based on the book life everlasting—in freedom of the sons of god.

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  GLTirebiter

  The audio quality is not great, but this recording documents Watchtower president Fred Franz at the Los Angeles convention, stating the specific date and time: sundown, September 5th, 1975 (Erev Rosh Hashana).

  Franz 1975 talk
  
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  The Great Crowd!

  by A Believer in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  notice the 144000 can be counted and they all come from israel.. 9 after this i saw, and look!

  a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues,*+ standing before the throne and before the lamb, dressed in white robes;+ and there were palm branches in their hands.+ .

  this great crowd, no man was able to number, and they come from every nation!

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  GLTirebiter

  If you take the numbers 144,000 and 12,000 literally, then you must also take the other words from Revelation 7 and14 literally:

  • 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel [7:4-8] (the enumeration includes both halves of the tribe of Joseph--Ephraim and Manasseh--but excludes the tribe of Dan)
    
  • Who were not defiled with women; they were virgins [14:4]
  • On whose lips was no deceit has been found [14:5]

  So, those Anointed Witnesses of Jehovah must be male Jewish virgins who have never told a lie. It is evident that many space remain open!
  
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  Does The Multiverse Really Exist? (Shrinking Jehovah To Insignificance)

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5sr2z-pvm.

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  the making maker must at that zero point in time have been bigger than the embryonic multiverse, but by how much?

  That assumes a materialist point of view, that the creator would be of the same substances (matter, energy, space, time) as the things created. When you accept that speaking of God in anthropomorphic terms as a metaphor catering the limitations of human understanding, you can recognize a creator who does not occupy space and time, the creator who made the space-time continuum, i.e. is the ultimate cause of its existence.
  
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  Why Jehovah's Witnesses are WRONG about Christmas

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as you know (and are probably tired of hearing me repeat), i’m jewish.

  yes, i was a jehovah’s witness when i was a teenager and into my 20s, but returned to my roots and now celebrate chanukah when the holiday season comes around each year.. so why am i writing about christmas?

  well, that’s because i thought i would share something about how jehovah’s witnesses teach against christmas.

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  It is one their many loyalty tests. If you aren't willing to give up Christmas, Easter, birthdays, state holidays, blood transfusions, Saturday mornings, etc. then you are not truly committed to the Watchtower Society. All their arguments against these things are largely a smoke screen for the real question: whether or not you are on their side.
  
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  Mandatory Reporting Laws in Canada - Child Abuse

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the issue of whether or not the elders have a duty to report is clear cut in canada.

  this will make it impossible for the wts to wriggle out of the wrongs that have been exposed in quebec recently.

  the elders in those situations have received their instructions from the wts lawyers and they have been advised wrongly.. for several years (can't remember when this was made law...years back), it has been mandatory for everyone in canada to report suspected cases of child abuse, which, naturally, include the sexual abuse of minors.

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  DoC said:

  That is what every State in the USA needs to do as well.
  

  Most US states and territories do require reporting, per the Department of Health and Human Services (links to PDF summary of state laws). Laws vary from state to state; some allow a "clergy privilege", most limiting that specifically to a "confessional" privilege (meaning that anything learned outside of a one-to-one, confidential session is not privileged and must be reported), and some deny confidentiality privileges for spouses or medical professionals, as well as clergy (don't mess with Texas, they are strict!).
  
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  How do you feel about the expression "The Truth"?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's amazing how the expression "the truth" has become such an ingrained term used by witnesses.. "we have 'the truth'".

  "is he 'in the truth'?".

  most here have found out so many facts about the organisation, and felt the effects of being "gut-punched" as we realised these facts.. so how do you feel about the expression "the truth" now?.

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  How do you feel about the expression "The Truth"?

  That it is as reliable as anything said by a politician during an election year. In other words, a big, steaming heap of fresh organic fertilizer!
  
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  Why did Jehovah's Witnesses release the Byington and New Jerusalem Bibles in the early 70s , and forget about them in the 80s?

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  andover townsman, andover, ma.

  july 26, 2012. dalton column: lawsuit concerns one of town's most interesting yet forgotten.

  bill dalton.

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  GLTirebiter

  Some interesting things I see in ScenicViewer's image:

  - It identifies the New American Bible (NAB) as a Catholic edition, but not the Jerusalem Bible which is most certainly a Catholic edition.

  - The (original, 1966) Jerusalem Bible is a "dynamic equivalence" translation, using a very lyrical, literary style to convey its message beyond the mere words themselves. That seems to be an odd selection given the extremely literal, prosaic interpretations used by the Watchtower Society.

  - As of 1985, the New Jerusalem Bible was in print. So the book listed may have been that revised version, though they list the older title. It still translated the tetragram as Yahweh, which remained until a later revision in 2007 used Lord (as it was to be read during Mass and other services.)
  

  - It's curious that they would offer any 73 book (Catholic) editions. The seven deuterocanonical books contain passages not at all consistent with Watchtower doctrines.