Posts by Diogenesister

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Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

by minimus in

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good pick?

bad pick?

helpful to president biden?

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On top of that, the EU has ask Biden to cut X and stop Elon from helping Trump because he is a threat to the World and the Eu has also threaten Elon with imprisonment.

That is very ironic since Europe has been swinging hard to the right in the last 10 years.

I honestly don't know why my family ....all of them, every last one, even my grandmothers did their bit by building mosquito engines - bothered fighting the damn Nazis just for govt to give away our country. Now we're allowing the authoritarian left take away our freeness of speech it's the final straw. The irony is they were all labour voters but they'd be horrified at all this!

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Atlantis- Devastating News

by Newly Enlightened in

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https://youtu.be/k2hwesvuddq?si=7g6pvmqvcfh-cke4.

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I can only concur with everything that has been said already. Atlantis' terrible illness will leave a huge hole among us exjws.

We all called him "Grandpa", too. Like everyone's favorite grandpa he was always there for others. Always available to help in any way he could with that sense of humility, warmth and fun that we all knew, loved and will miss so dearly.

My heartfelt thanks to you our dear Atlantis xxx

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Cedar Point Ohio 🙄🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

by xaminewt in

i started doubting the organization when i was 15. i spent the next 12 years doing in-depth research involving numerous emails with bible scholars and scientists.

i finally left the organisation 3 years ago.

technically i was never actually a jw as i was never baptised, so i’m not being shunned.

Diogenesister

What I'd like to know is did anybody actually believe that Cedar Point nonsense?😂 And the "Seven prophetic Trump's"?!(Not that Trump I mean the ones signifying Watchtower's early conventions?). Thinking back...not using your present awake brain, but your JW brain...did you read that stuff and actually think "ah that makes total sense"?!🤔😂

I remember being gob-smacked when I read the 7 blasts of Revelation were apparently 6 US & 1 British convention date🥴 (I assumed it was some gobbledegook the old folks brought with them from their Babylon-ish prior religions).

Yet it still didn't twig that If they got THAT wrong, maybe they had everything else wrong, too.🤦🏻‍♀️

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Members of congregation know it’s not true

by Mikejw in

we have lonely old folks and even some not so old.. they know the gb are not who they claim to be.. but they stay in the congregation because they are lonely.

i wonder what percentage of jws this is the case, i would guess a lot.

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Anonymous My grandmother has finally relented after I’ve been out over 12 years and sought contact after 20 years not talking to my mother but she is now severely demented.

Who? Mum or Grandma has dementia? I ask because I have an interest in the health differences between the generations, ie despite medical advances it seems the older generations are/were much healthier.

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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN THE BRITISH PRESS. "THE JEHOVAHS WITNESS CON" 8/3/2024

by Balaamsass2 in

new story on google news search today 8/3 for "jehovah".

dorsett eye: "the jehovahs witness con".

jehovah witnesses are hypocrites and false prophets who are conning themselves".

Diogenesister

Sounds like ChatGPT

It does. But you can't argue with it's conclusions.

I love the "capitalist cult" moniker. Follow the money, as we always say....

Good for them, every time someone here clicks on them, they will be rewarded with a higher ranking.

Indeed. Clicked the link :)

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"A Jehovah's Witness"

by NotFormer in

a very certain distinctive of jws is how they refer to themselves.

"one of jehovah's witnesses".

it's one of those coded jargon thingies.

Diogenesister

Noone ever says 'a Jehovah's Witness', it just does not sound right.

Ha Ha to you it doesn't .... that's the whole point OP is making! No one else would ask "are you one of jehovah's witnesses" unless they were a jehovahs witness! Normal people say "are you A jehovah's witness?"

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Ages of each user here?

by ukpimo in

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i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.

Diogenesister

im so sorry about your son, 3rd Gen. I cant imagine what you went through.

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entertaining and spot on video ...must have been written by one time elders who knew the process.

by enoughisenough in

they are naming it differently now, but we know the leopard isn't changing it's spots.

so this video presents judicial meetings like they are the mob and the background music fit nicely with the narrative.

enjohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9vtnvzlvew.

Diogenesister

The very worst thing about this series of videos is how they bullied him into throwing the worldly girl he got pregnant under the bus and that he should leave her and the baby. Its sickening.

During their 6 month reinstatement reveiw they never once ask about the mother and child and whether hes going to do the right thing by them!!

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WT needs your kids uneducated: CO training video is Master Class in F.O.G. This is jaw-droppingly stupid. Beyond moronic, it's sub-moronic.

by WingCommander in

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co training video: link to ex-jw reddit thread discussion.

today is the first time i was made aware of this actual elder body video.

it's training for how a co should handle elder's whose children decide to pursue further education.

Diogenesister

journeyman vBy so strongly discouraging further and higher education, the GB are shooting themselves in the foot in terms of trying to maintain a future for the organisation. This will continue to drive young (and not-so-young but intellectually hungry) people away, and also disillusion more MS and elders who want to see their children develop themselvesBy so strongly discouraging further and higher education, the GB are shooting themselves in the foot in terms of trying to maintain a future for the organisation. This will continue to drive young (and not-so-young but intellectually hungry) people away, and also disillusion more MS and elders who want to see their children develop themselves

Yes and particularly in this period of economic downturn with the cost of living crises and all, its going to be apparent to parents that their kids wont be able to earn a living and support themselves without some level of education or skillset.

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WT needs your kids uneducated: CO training video is Master Class in F.O.G. This is jaw-droppingly stupid. Beyond moronic, it's sub-moronic.

by WingCommander in

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co training video: link to ex-jw reddit thread discussion.

today is the first time i was made aware of this actual elder body video.

it's training for how a co should handle elder's whose children decide to pursue further education.

Diogenesister

Aside from religious cults I have honestly never seen kids as brainwashed as modern uni students. This isnt the university of my Gen X generation (in the UK women of the baby boomer generation didnt go to UNI unless they were from the real upper middle class elite, something not true of the US ive noticed, historically Education has been far more egalitarian in the US), Oh and i dont believe any political party DONT want their population educated, thats a bit ridiculous.