Fernando
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Someone somewhere forgot to Trade Mark "The Truth" and "TTATT"
by Fernando injust a moment ago i came across a (smaller) cult with quite a few similarities to the watchtower.. jw = cooneyites, two-by-twos, "the truth" (and more).
wbts = christian conventions (and more).
ct russell = william irvine.
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Someone somewhere forgot to Trade Mark "The Truth" and "TTATT"
by Fernando injust a moment ago i came across a (smaller) cult with quite a few similarities to the watchtower.. jw = cooneyites, two-by-twos, "the truth" (and more).
wbts = christian conventions (and more).
ct russell = william irvine.
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Fernando
From Marie Judd's Story: "I had always questioned the belief that only people in 'the Truth' are saved. I have some lovely friends outside who have never laid any burden on me, and I had a hard time believing they were not saved."
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Someone somewhere forgot to Trade Mark "The Truth" and "TTATT"
by Fernando injust a moment ago i came across a (smaller) cult with quite a few similarities to the watchtower.. jw = cooneyites, two-by-twos, "the truth" (and more).
wbts = christian conventions (and more).
ct russell = william irvine.
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Fernando
Do you think we could use this to help a loved one?:
"Dear loved one, I am thinking of joining the 'Two by Twos'. Do you know anything about them?"
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Someone somewhere forgot to Trade Mark "The Truth" and "TTATT"
by Fernando injust a moment ago i came across a (smaller) cult with quite a few similarities to the watchtower.. jw = cooneyites, two-by-twos, "the truth" (and more).
wbts = christian conventions (and more).
ct russell = william irvine.
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Fernando
Just a moment ago I came across a (smaller) cult with quite a few similarities to the Watchtower.
JW = Cooneyites, Two-by-Twos, "The Truth" (and more)
WBTS = Christian Conventions (and more)
CT Russell = William Irvine
TTATT = TTT (Telling The Truth, about "The Truth")
JWN = http://thelibertyconnection.info
JWfacts = www.tellingthetruth.info
What are your thoughts (on similarities etc)?
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KM Oct 2014 - Homosexuality (week of Oct 13th)
by Splash init would be interesting to have some present (stonewall?
) at these meetings to witness and record talk number three on the tms.. talk 3 - "what the bible says about homosexuality" (reasoning book p.368-369).
the reasoning book tells us in part:.
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Fernando
For anyone interested in an alternative scriptural perspective (detailed): http://biblehouseofgrace.com/same%20sex%20relationships.html
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I still love Kingdom Melodies.
by POs Son inok, at the risk of getting flamed, i have been out for over 20 years, and still love kingdom melodies.
i remember them for the good times, the conventions and assemblies, hearing the orchestral versions, imagining the orchestra playing.
some pieces were really nice.
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Fernando
It is sad, but necessary, to chuck out the honey because of the arsenic in it.
JW - but see the honey!
exJW - what about the arsenic?
JW - but see the honey!
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SHOCKING elder's talk: "..when we are baptized we abdicate all responsibility to think for ourselves.."
by yadda yadda 2 ini found this recorded elder's talk (presumably genuine) quite disturbing in how he states that in order to maintain unity, jw's have given up thinking for themselves and passed over their thinking ability to the governing body.. "when you're baptized, your thinking is not your own anymore...your thinking is done for you...we carry out to the letter everything the society tells us to do..." .
his concluding statement "stop thinking for yourselves!".
there's the usual reference to the korah and those who challenged moses, but "you in the congregation are safe as long as you don't speak out against the elders and jehovah's organisation...".
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Fernando
As a caricature, this video seems to have succeeded by eliciting a strong response from a Borg defender on YouTube, by daring to verbalise the hidden message of the GB (Sanhedrin): "our followers are the 'thinkingest' people on earth because they let us think for them".
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SHOCKING elder's talk: "..when we are baptized we abdicate all responsibility to think for ourselves.."
by yadda yadda 2 ini found this recorded elder's talk (presumably genuine) quite disturbing in how he states that in order to maintain unity, jw's have given up thinking for themselves and passed over their thinking ability to the governing body.. "when you're baptized, your thinking is not your own anymore...your thinking is done for you...we carry out to the letter everything the society tells us to do..." .
his concluding statement "stop thinking for yourselves!".
there's the usual reference to the korah and those who challenged moses, but "you in the congregation are safe as long as you don't speak out against the elders and jehovah's organisation...".
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*** g82 9/22 p. 18 Should I Be Afraid of What Others Think? ***
Many young persons let others do their thinking for them. Rather than deciding for themselves the best course, they follow the crowd.*** g82 9/22 p. 18 Should I Be Afraid of What Others Think? ***
But when your peers see that you will do your own thinking and stand up for right principles, expect some problems. Why?
“The man [or, woman] of thinking abilities is hated.” (Proverbs 14:17) A young person who exercises his thinking faculties and refuses to conform to improper peer pressure is often disliked and ridiculed.*** w56 6/15 p. 360 Getting and Giving the Thoughts of God ***
We usually believe what we want to believe, and one thing we like to believe is that we do our own thinking. Hence it is not too hard for clever propagandists to make us think their thoughts are ours. They plant the thought and nourish it, but do it so subtly that we think it is our own. -
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Please do not send your Elders to my house!
by Pinku inthis was the last sentence my dad wrote to gb in his letter explaining why he is disassociating from jws.
it seems gb did not send copy of the letter to the body of elders!
sometime later two elders visited him to encourage him to rethink his decision.
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Having taught against deathbed repentance (a change of heart) they could not avail themselves of it.
Fear of death, at the level described, is a scriptural confirmation of their captive state, in which they misled others too (Matt 23:15):
(Hebrews 2:15) . . .[that] he might emancipate all those who for fear of death were subject to slavery all through their lives.
(Matthew 23:15) . . .“Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one YOU make him a subject for Ge·hen′na twice as much so as yourselves.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Rank-and-File Are the Elite Witnesses Pension Plan!
by BucketShopBill init's all about money these days in all the kingdom halls and changing title from the congregation over to the watchtower organization so the governing body and all their trusty aids can have a nice retirement.
who is going to provide for all the jws heading towards retirement age over the next five to ten years, men and women in bad health who must work because the watchtower through their salesmen (cos, dos) promised we all would be in god's paradise and "worrying about material things shows a lack of faith".. .
the governing body is showing they are worried about money because all they are talking about is "sign the secret envelope and obey the promise you made to donate each month!
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Fernando
The OP title reads like it belongs on a giant (uncle Sam style) poster, or on a billboard, on the road to a major convention.