Posts by maninthemiddle

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How to distract people from the REAL issues... (2016 convention videos)

by stuckinarut2 in

have we noticed how the videos that are being shown at the 2016 convention manipulatively try to misdirect from the real issues?.

the video showing the daughter "leaving the truth" and leaving (kicked out) home has been designed to show that her life falls apart because she "left the truth".. then the video series about the "persecution" paranoia speaks about a brother who is not being saved with them in the basement "because he let fear of man etc" affect him.

then the video all about sergei's life speaks about his old friend who "let information about the truth make him have doubts" and he is no longer "in the truth" with them...and made out like it is worse than murdering and eating a kitten!.

maninthemiddle

I have to disagree that the Sonia video does not show her life falling apart. It was only because her family wouldn't talk to her that she returned.

She also appears to have a very nice house, although no mention is made of what happened to Eric, a lot is left to the imagination, and we know what a JW would imagine about her husband missing after the hotel scene and with now two kids.

There was a somewhat recent WT article with a picture of a young woman, a baby crib in the background, a tattooed boyfriend apparently drunkenly passed out on the couch. This video had none of that. I would say that except for her family shunning her, her life looked rather good in the short scenes offered.

I do agree that it was shallow showing her leaving for sex and a boy and being "stubborn" about it. They put all blame on her when she is the victim.

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Major fail on last convention video

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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as noted on reddit,.

the last convention video,.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43eygztxl4plagiarized the sound from this album:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2udtlqwtjd4 .

maninthemiddle

It's probably not plagerized, they sell their music to distribution website that artists can buy rights to use it.

howeve it is strange that they need to go to a "worldly" source.

this whole series of videos have a lot of stock video in them.

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New Shunning Video - RC 2016

by wifibandit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20rww_-7ua.

maninthemiddle

I was talking with my wife last night after showing her this video. In the past I have always said that I hated the ORG but could forgive the individuals. After this year, this video and the other videos, I'm having a hard time saying that anymore. It's too much like war criminals to me. At some point you can't say I was just following rules, if you can't think for yourself around this horrible display the ORG is putting on, my sympathy for you is quickly dying.

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I'm getting disfellowshipped

by raven in

hi everyone, a bit of an update here on my continuing disaster of a situation.. (refer to my previous posts for the full story) my mom met with me yesterday for dinner, it was nice.. however, she brought up the fact that because i live with my boyfriend and how everything has gone down, i will be disfellowshipped.. i think the elders basically have enough proof of this.. due to the anonymous tipper (still have no clue who it was, i live in another town 100's of miles away from my old congregation territory), and my mom telling them.

i'm not sure when they will announce it, or if they will contact me prior.. at this point i feel so emotionally dead i don't care- on the other hand, i don't want to be disfellowshipped because i do not want to loose a relationship with my mom.

that is the whole reason i tried fading out.. .

maninthemiddle

The hardest thing i have yet to come to terms with regarding my DF is similar to what I fear for your situation.

The day before my DF my mother would talk to me, the day after she wouldn't. To clarify, she knew what was going on in my life.

I have a hard time forgiving her for that. It's simply fear of man (the org), not fear of god. In my case it was simply celebrating holidays, basically, apostasy, but waiting until the DF to cease contact.

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Can anybody explain this?

by neat blue dog in

i know i can't.

if it helps, i'm on a public school's wifi:.

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maninthemiddle

their IP address is 23.199.65.162.

Maybe you have some spyware on your computer?

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2016 Convention Video Trailers

by wifibandit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpr0je0g1e

maninthemiddle

They really love the Job story, like David, it's one of their favorite go-to for swapping the org for god.

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Question: HQ sold for $700 million, will this be announce on the JW site?

by goingthruthemotions in

so i can't stomach going to the jw site, much less spell the site completely.

but, here is my question....do you think they will announce on the site that they sold the brooklyn building for $700 million?

my bet is no!.

maninthemiddle

Have they ever announced any selling on their website, I've only seen it on public news sites.

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Disturbance during Memorial 2016.

by Ben131895 in

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two documented disturbances during memorial 2016. type 'memorial 2016' on youtube.

maninthemiddle

I agree with this being counter-productive. I believe just a few private conversations with those in attendance would be much more fruitful. If you are going to attend and pretend to be joe public, why not ask questions, use the Socratic method to make them think while not being disruptive.

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June 2016 WT (study edition) Bashing Higher Education....AGAIN!

by ToesUp in

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paragraph 14: .

"this means that we need to examine our heart constantly to see if it is being enticed by worldly entertainment, associations, and styles of dress and grooming.

or the love of the world might involve efforts to attain “great things,” such as through the pursuit of higher education.

maninthemiddle

reading the comment made by sir82, reminds me when I questioned the stance on education while still in it hurt my head, because so many things you can do with a education open up opportunities that could be used for the org. Teaching or engineering for example, you could get a job in just about any country you wanted. when I was younger the org was growing in Japan by leaps and bounds, if you taught english you could get a job very easy.

yet they choose to talk us out of school, then ask for people with degrees to come to bethel and work on the new computer system.

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JWs tamping on Japanese edition of Wikipedea

by nakanozzi in

according to jwstudy.com,some jw changed the date of jerusalem's fallfrom 597 to 607.and erased all the original writings and re-written the page of the wikipedia so that wikipedia matches the watchtower’s doctrine.chech this out.. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%e3%83%90%e3%83%93%e3%83%ad%e3%83%b3%e6%8d%95%e5%9b%9a.

maninthemiddle

You can report it and get a mod to reset the old page.