Posts by Diogenesister

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Ron DeSantis signs Bill which bans trans girls in girls' sports

by LoveUniHateExams in

well done, ron desantis.. biological males should not be participating in female sports.. everyone but lunatic activists knows it's common sense, and the right thing to do.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2alku-rhw.

Diogenesister

Are they forcing kids to be vaccinated in the USA? I'm a nurse but there's no way I'd allow my 15 year olds to be vaccinated without far more data in areas like fertility etc

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What’s Your Opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris?

by minimus in

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i think she has the happiest laugh i’ve ever heard!.

Diogenesister

Near the beginning in Northern Ireland he's talking about November the 5th, Bonfire night Guy Fawkes 😂happens all over Britain. We all celebrate the brutal murder of a Catholic terrorist who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. We then make a stuffed replica of a human being and then set it alight😂

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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

by pistolpete in

so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

Diogenesister

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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

by pistolpete in

so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

Diogenesister

And Bethel will begin lifting the lockdown soon.

Just because those selfish old S.O.B. have had their two jabs...all's ok, business as usual.

If this virus had only affected kids, babies and young people there would have been no Bethel lockdown and meetings and the D2D ministry would have continued for everyone as usual, irregardless of risk !!!😠😠😠

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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

by pistolpete in

so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

Diogenesister

Yah...and the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 was just a test as well! :) :) :)

Yup! And if this was a test, what in heck was the Black Death in the fourteenth century??! (Oh hang on, we cured that one, too) :) :) :)

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Why did Lloyd Evans say in one of his latest video

by mickbobcat in

so i was watching an evans video he just put out where he was interviewing a man about how the cult treated his daughter who was rapped as a criminal.

the man said his wife's first experience with an apostate site was here.

i could tell by the look on his face he did not like that site and then could not help himself and said that he could not recommend going to this site.

Diogenesister

saw a quote along these lines the other day, about how groups formed to object to a 'thing' end up becoming dependent on and part of the ecosystem of the 'thing', but can't remember the exact context. Wish I'd saved a reference as I thought at the time it was quite profound and likely useful.

Well there's quite a lot of gay men and women currently saying that because Stonewall et al has essentially achieved their objective, which was equal rights for gays under the law, at least in the western world, they are now driving this whole trans bandwagon.That they basically were so effective they've done themselves out of a job.

That the trans thing is a fantastic new revenue stream for them.bThis is the problem with paid activism, there's always the suspicion it's not in their interests for the issue they campaign for to disappear

Similarly what would Lloyd do if watchtower packed up and finished? Unless he was able to transfer over into mainstream journalism it would be difficult.

I think that comment by Lloyd was enormously uncharitable, particularly given the incredible part JWdotnet has played in his and others awakening over the years. It also made his guest very uncomfortable since he obviously felt this site had really helped his family

Another thing that grates my gears is that exJW Reddit has a list of the most useful resources for JWs, and not only does it not mention this site but it claims EXJWreddit itself is THE most abundant source of information on all things watchtower which is patently and laughably untrue!! This site has an enormous amount of extremely well researched information...by far the most. It even listed JWsurvey and similar places when they had just started out and had very little that wasn't available everywhere else! It's this that makes me think there was some kind of Reddit takeover by Cedars mates when they saw how big it was getting. I was there when they only had a couple thousand subscribers and the moderators suddenly changed at about 18,000 subs. I think they are incredibly controlling now. I'd like to start a new one but I don't know how to moderate.

People like the blue envelope channel come here for info to make their idiosyncratic and informative videos, because you can't find this kind of ,"long toothed"😂 watchtower wisdom anywhere else now.

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GOTCHA!

by JTrottigy in

so i noticed one of the members here came to my jwtalk website, where i am an important administrator, and tried to join my site.. i check in here every so often and i was able to deduce that person was an apostate fraud, likely bent on polluting my site.

i denied their request to join.. ha!

gotcha!

Diogenesister

He surfaced in Florida and is considered a JW in good standing again. He just totally abandoned his family and it seems he is remarried to another JW.

I guess he's just following the 'good' example of the man Jesus chose to lead his earthly organization back in 1919.....Judge Rutherford ! Only this JW "Reginald Perrin"had the decency to marry his new sweetheart...unlike the judge who merely kept his mistress"on the side" in secret!

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Degree of Effectiveness of JW Letter Writing Form of Witnessing

by Disillusioned JW in

a newspaper article quotes a jw as saying "every (letter) i put in the mailbox, i feel, 'ah, this could reach somebody.

'" the article also quotes her as saying "we are accomplishing even more now than we were door-to-door because this way everybody in the house gets a chance to pick up that letter and respond to it.

it just feels good.

Diogenesister

*Blues B. The purpose of it is not primarily to make disciples, it is to count time. If it were to really reach people they would have people use their computers and home printers to churn out letters by the dozen and have them all sent.*

NB I actually fell for the letter as I opened it! I mean for a minute I was all happy to receive a kind letter from a "new" neighbour!(he wrote he'd recently moved to the neighbourhood. Is that standard??)

* Yes and I know this because I recently received THREE copies of EXACTLY THE SAME letter, handwritten mind you, addressed to "neighbour" at my address.

Why not just print out copies since the wording is exactly the same? The person had obviously lost track of which addresses they had already written to because they arrived one after the other!! Anyway it's definitely about killing time so as to report more hours, not about getting that message out asap.

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Governing Body; Villians or just Deluded?

by pistolpete in

are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.

thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.

the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.

Diogenesister

Also, the two things can be true at once.

Humans are great at compartmentalizing.

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Governing Body; Villians or just Deluded?

by pistolpete in

are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.

thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.

the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.

Diogenesister

PeteJWs are on the heroin of self-righteousness, they believe they alone are "God's chosen" and everyone else will be destroyed in columns of fire and ash so they alone can "inherit the earth".

Exactly this. Power is also the ultimate thrill for hierarchical apes. Alpha males at the top of the tree😂and all the little monkeys below!

I do find it incredible that people don't see the overlapping generation rubbish as a desperate attempt to patch up a sinking ship.

Although when I hear about people like Cook, who only suddenly became 'anointed' when he was called to bethel as a helper, soooo cynical. So I've no doubt for some of them it's just a career.