Posts by Diogenesister

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Leah Remini Scientology series might tackle Jehovah's Witnesses in season 3

by jp1692 in

i've seen comments by some on leah's expose on scientology: aftermath.

she actually won an emmy for this show.

rumor is that she might take on jehovah's witnesses in season 3. .

Diogenesister

So, if she's charitable enough to do a segment about Jehovah's Witnesses, I certainly hope there will be courageous, well-spoken ex-Witnesses appearing on the show who are SHOWING their faces and are not seated in the darkness hiding their face with voice obscured like they are running from the mob!

Some will be interviewed on screen...no doubt. There are enough of us.

But....having obscured faces and voices interviewed will demonstrate to the public that it IS a captive org and that their many trapped awake jws whose families have been weaponized and used against them, so they fear to show their faces.

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Lords Witnesses - JW splinter group - latest predictions

by dozy in

amongst the many jw splinter groups , the "lords witnesses" are amongst the more interesting / amusing / depressing ( delete as applicable ).

the de-facto leader , gordon ritchie , was quite a well known jw in the uk in the past.

there was an amusing article in the times about him a few years ago ( https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh-its-name-is-gordon-g3qxf8w5fn9 ) firewall / free to subscribe.

Diogenesister

LOL Stan

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Re:The Lords Witnesses

This is what happens when an intelligent guy is prevented from accessing further education.

His active mind comes up with this drivel.

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JW Stumper Questions - List You Best Here

by pale.emperor in

hi guys.

sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.

just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.

Diogenesister

I'd say,

Why is it in so many passages of the NT, when Jesus speaks he prefaces his words with:

"Truly I say to you" or " Truly I tell you"

So why is it when Jesus is on the stake talking to the criminal beside him he says,according to you:

"Truly I say to you TODAY (comma)you will be with me in paradise".

Why after so times using the expression 'truly I say to you' he suddenly adds the 'today'. Doesn't it seem more likely the comma comes BEFORE the today?

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Waking up to TTATT: Blessing or Curse?

by Jules Saturn in

if you take the red pill, you'll have knowledge, you'll be awakened, aware of reality, you'll have freedom.. if you take the blue pill, you stay in your bubble, wearing rose colored glasses, and feel security in an illusion.. taking the red pill isn't something that's easy to do.

to accept that everything around you is an illusion built up on lies or half truths.

but hey, it might feel good to be aware and break free from this illusion.

Diogenesister

TTATT The RED pill was needed especially because of my Kids, They are young and I HAD to get them out of the cult before their lives were ruined, at any cost.

And the cost is high.

I had to highlight this.

Ttatt you are a beautiful, brave and good person.

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1st it was happy at bethel now it also appears in the KH

by joe134cd in

https://youtu.be/lfddxzipzga.

Diogenesister

Marie 33 that video broke my heart. The opera singer who gave up her career . The 87 year old who had ( prolly his last) chance to sing in a choir. So many talented musicians who won't get to perform again, as they should, in this one life.:'( :'( :'( :'(

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Waking up to TTATT: Blessing or Curse?

by Jules Saturn in

if you take the red pill, you'll have knowledge, you'll be awakened, aware of reality, you'll have freedom.. if you take the blue pill, you stay in your bubble, wearing rose colored glasses, and feel security in an illusion.. taking the red pill isn't something that's easy to do.

to accept that everything around you is an illusion built up on lies or half truths.

but hey, it might feel good to be aware and break free from this illusion.

Diogenesister

Always reality...always.

But....I have a confession.

I am a secret watcher of JW broadcast videos, and not just any old stuff.

I love to watch the most emotional ones about the resurrection. The one of sergie playing violin in the field after death, of Jesus waking the dead girl-child, of the dead son reunited with his father in the 2016 convention video. Of the paradise video....The old couple as they stare at a cameo picture of a long dead daughter.

And I bawl like a baby.

I bawl for my grandparents whom I will never see young and vigorous. I bawl for the millions of dead children who never even made it to 5. Who were sent up the chimney, or to work in the "dark satanic mills" and whose bodies were thrown into a paupers grave.

I cry for a lost dream that my modern, science loving skeptic cannot countenance .....A world ruled by an egotistical dictator.....but whom we tolerate to have our dead loved ones back.

And the lives that our sense of justice demands from our cruel world... the unloved, unwashed, uncared for, unmourned masses in their unmarked graves.

I can't help it, it's my dirty athiest secret.

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New Light - God chose the Bible students as his org long BEFORE the official inspection in 1919

by doubtfull1799 in

was watching this recently done new history of the society - here it is on youtube if you missed it when it first came out:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv82k1z7n_4&feature=youtu.be.

lots of contradictory and nutty comments - for instance stating one minute that 1914 proved such a faith strengthening event because it fulfilled all their predictions, how encouraged they were, and then a few minutes later claiming the opposite - that many were disappointed and shocked because their expectations were not met!.

Diogenesister

What does everyone think of how the video presents Rutherford and how he was "appointed" as president "by the brothers".

Can anyone explain his shenanigans as I've never quite understood exactly what he did that was devious, in order to gain control of WTBTS.

Also, what part did Russell wife Maria play in his writing ? I understood she was on the original board of directors.

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"exjws" and money making Ponzi schemes.

by Thisismein1972 in

ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.

you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.

you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.

Diogenesister

Ex-jw Oscars would be called the Korahs.

LMAO you kill me girl!!😅😅😆

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"exjws" and money making Ponzi schemes.

by Thisismein1972 in

ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.

you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.

you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.

Diogenesister

BTW: Starting next week: The complete JWD archives in just 3,356 printed weekly volumes, just $9 each. "I'm so activist - give me your moneeeeeey !!!"

I'm really not the type to suck hole but seriously, after Ray Franz and JW.facts' Paul Grundy I would say that Simon - by running JWD - has done more to educate the world about Watchtower and help support exjw's than anyone else.

If we gave out exjw Oscars or MBE's Simon would be dubbed a Commander of the Apostate Empire.

or The American version might be the:

Apostate Republican ServicE

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"exjws" and money making Ponzi schemes.

by Thisismein1972 in

ok i want to pose a question to those who care to discuss this.. imagine a scenario.

you hear of a exjw writing a book, however, before writing this book this exjw is requesting money to publish said book.

you go along with it and help to get this book out to the public as you think that it will be beneficial.

Diogenesister

As it could be considered " activism"( boy they love that word don't they?) Contributing For a first book, given the time it's requires and that it's adding to the pressure on the cult, OK.

But I wouldn't contribute to a second as now you are just his employer without the perks of being one. I don't know other authors who are paid by random strangers, not their publisher, to write their books....go on booktours all over the world like some celebrity after selling 2000 books.

I doubt people who have written far more worthy and seminal books have had the same level of support.

He, and you, have done their bit for society, now it's just furthering his career.