Posts by Diogenesister

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HELP!! Just Woken Up - Fanatical Mom wants to report me

by Scarlett_Martin in

i've just been introduced to this site by a pimo friend of mine.

this will be my first post on this website.

i need help, and he told me you guys are a very supportive community.. i'm a female in my mid twenties.

Diogenesister

Just to say if you still have faith Borean pickets have their own zoom meetings.

I agree you need to speak with your Dad and get his permission to stay. He is under no obligation to shun you as he isn't baptised. Maybe show him JWfacts and get him thinking. Tell him he needs to do his research before he gets baptised.

Tell him what kind of man Rutherford was. Would Jesus have chosen him to lead his one true org in 1919?

I recommend buying him Crises of Conscience and asking him to read it. I promise he will never get baptised once he's read that book.

If all else fails....@Cookiemaster sounds promising !!!

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wt organizationthimk (last week's study)

by waton in

for those who want to see how bad it really is, 2 thoughts: .

1) the article says "jehovah" gave gifts in men, but the bible in gal: 6 clearly mentions the one who ascended into heaven as the one, jesus, their reigning king, that does provides these " the captives.. of course when wt writers say jehovah they really mean the wt society.

and local elders, ms, really are wt appointees, now done by the co, a man with no assets.

Diogenesister

Yes Funky it's gifts unto men....in other words simply gifts to men.

More Watchtower twisting scriptures to control people, brag and glorify themselves.

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Prime Minister of Australia announces intention to revoke Jehovah’s Witnesses charity status

by jwleaks in

today, marking the second anniversary of the australian national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, the prime minister of australia has announce in federal parliament the intention to place sanctions against the jehovah’s witnesses in relation to child sexual abuse.. quote from prime minister:.

the royal commission [into institutional response to child sexual abuse], the [national] apology [to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse] and these yearly reports are about accountability: bringing the truth into the light ... we still have, reprehensibly, four institutions that have been named publicly and that have blatantly refused to join the redress scheme.

they are jehovah's witnesses ... it's not acceptable.

Diogenesister

400When it comes to money they will find a way around it. Move Aussie operations to NZ maybe and donations to the US. Who knows?

Yup. They'll find some way. They'll get JWs to donate directly to the US fund online or some such.

As to the reasons for not joining its nothing to do with finances.

It's the whole "interfaith" thing, for one. Not admitting publicly they have a problem and not wamting the faithful to know their donations are going to pay off paedophile cases.

But the absolute priority for Watchtower is to protect their reputation among rank and file Jehovah's Witnesses.

They must maintain the pretense that they are special and different to other religions, or bang goes their claim that they are Jehovahs organization.

Without that illusion they are, and have, nothing.

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New Song by Grant Davis - PIMO

by Anna Marina in

this is a brilliant new song by grant davis who did the trolley/whiskey song with kevin mcfree.. it is called physically in menatlly out.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fys108g25ju.

Diogenesister

Just found this! It's brilliant! I would have liked a "PiMO" chorus so we could all join in with loud and terrible singing voices at drunk and Emotional karioke sessions😜

PEEEEE-MO PEEEEEMO 🍺

trapped in a cult, riddled with doubt

PEEEEEMO-PEEEEEMO🍻

When you're physically in but mentally out!!

PEEEEEE-MO, PEEEEE-MO,🍺

You've woken up, you know it's not true,

PEEEEE-MO, PEEEEEEE-MO,🍻

You're not alone we're here waiting for you!!!

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I'm feeling cold

by Lost in the fog in

when i was a jw i would look to the bible or the wt society to answer all of my problems.. now as an older person i get cold in the wintertime and have trouble getting warm down to bad circulation.

i found an answer in the bible at 1 kings 1:2, but i don't think my pimi wife will let me apply this bible principle.

lol.

Diogenesister

😂😂😜Anything to do with a certain king David and a girl with the worst name in the history of giving names to pretty girls??!

I think you're thinking of the "manwhich" Bible principal 😂

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Belgium: Jehovah’s Witnesses to face trial for discrimination and incitement to hate

by AndersonsInfo in

jehovah’s witnesses to face trial for discrimination and incitement to hate.

https://www.thebulletin.be/jehovahs-witnesses-face-trial-discrimination-and-incitement-hate?fbclid=iwar3wroaxyiadw0lomgmway-jkwzgzqxtswsid1d2lxhjgtndnfvvclqboo0.

"while jehovah’s witnesses have been the target of civil court cases before, this is the first time an entire congregation has ever been charged with a crime.".

Diogenesister

Whatever happens, it’s all negative publicity for the cult, which will hopefully prevent anyone in Belgium from getting involved once they read about it in the papers/online etc

Most witnesses will bracket it as ‘persecution’, but if this sort of stuff keeps happening I’ve no doubt it will be the catalyst for others to wake up.

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Always Obey

by neat blue dog in

the life story in the latest wt has a running theme that keeps popping up: if the organization tells you to do something, you do it.

this culminates in the following anecdote:.

we were staying in abrother’s home right next to a kingdom hall.. .

Diogenesister

😂😂😂too busy to notice.....yeah right!!

My husband inducted me long ago into the ways of young men!! I said to him once that I was glad he wasn’t one of those men who Lear at women. His response : All men look at pretty women, you can’t help it. But you should never let anyone know you’re doing it as that’s just creepy lol🤣🤣 I guess he’s honest at least!

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Prime Minister of Australia announces intention to revoke Jehovah’s Witnesses charity status

by jwleaks in

today, marking the second anniversary of the australian national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, the prime minister of australia has announce in federal parliament the intention to place sanctions against the jehovah’s witnesses in relation to child sexual abuse.. quote from prime minister:.

the royal commission [into institutional response to child sexual abuse], the [national] apology [to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse] and these yearly reports are about accountability: bringing the truth into the light ... we still have, reprehensibly, four institutions that have been named publicly and that have blatantly refused to join the redress scheme.

they are jehovah's witnesses ... it's not acceptable.

Diogenesister

Funky Dear Prime Minister, Since you have seen fit to revoke our charitable status, please be notified that Jesus H. Christ is going to be coming Very Soon Now, and he has a flaming 800 pound hailstone with your name on it. Have a nice day! Sincerely, WTS of Australia

😂😂😂😭

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Prime Minister of Australia announces intention to revoke Jehovah’s Witnesses charity status

by jwleaks in

today, marking the second anniversary of the australian national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, the prime minister of australia has announce in federal parliament the intention to place sanctions against the jehovah’s witnesses in relation to child sexual abuse.. quote from prime minister:.

the royal commission [into institutional response to child sexual abuse], the [national] apology [to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse] and these yearly reports are about accountability: bringing the truth into the light ... we still have, reprehensibly, four institutions that have been named publicly and that have blatantly refused to join the redress scheme.

they are jehovah's witnesses ... it's not acceptable.

Diogenesister

that I know are supported by the opposition, that the Commonwealth will place on institutions who continue to refuse to join the scheme, including withdrawal of their charitable status for these offending organisations.

Go Oz!!!

When they say "Commonwealth" they don't mean the whole Commonwealth, do they? That would be brilliant! Or is "Commonwealth" a term for all states/Australia??

Either way, this is one form of "persecution" I can really get behind!

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Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

by neat blue dog in

he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

Diogenesister

so, it has the feel of myth-like story that Lösch has incorporated as central to his identity as a JW. It is brief moments like this one that convince me that most of the GB do actually believe that they head the true organisation of God.

I think you’re right SBF. It could be that this incident was what got Gerrit a slot on the GB. If he was part of the delegation, they probably thought he had ‘Jehovah’s blessing’ to be able to “gain his brothers” all 5000 in one fell swoop.

Of course nowadays they’d all be disfellowshipped without a second thought.