Posts by Diogenesister

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Since Myself and our sons left the JW cult, My wife has been M.I.A has a mom and wife

by goingthruthemotions in

i would like to get some feed back from pomo's who's spouse is still pimi.

since myself and our son's left the jw cult.

my wife has been m.i.a has a mom and a wife.

Diogenesister

Presumably you no longer believe in god. Have you ever spoken to her about evolution? The history of the witnesses? The sort of man Rutherford was, that he left his JW wife and son for over 20 years and neither of them attended his funeral. About the scams...miracle wheat, Beth Sarim, the UN and Mexico Malawi scandals?

I know the usual policy is softly softly, the Socratic method....teach using questions. But I think in your case that ship is sailed. I’m sorry, so very sorry for your kids. I say hit her with everything there is. Every piece of evidence.....if she leaves sod her. She’s not worth it. If you find some one else above ALL else make sure she has the biggest heart. Nothing else matters because those boys need it. Go find them a mother.

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Should Schools Reopen?

by minimus in

jw
friends

a lot of parents say teachers should full time get back to work and their kids should be back in the classroom..

Diogenesister

Teachers in the UK should be vaccinated before returning to work. School kids drove the last massive spike in cases which nearly overwhelmed the NHS. I don’t know about Canada, or many places in the US, but I know that funeral directors in California can barely cope with all the bodies so it’s an absolute myth that there are no more deaths than an average “bad ‘flu year”.

A good teacher is worth their weight in gold. No....way, way more than that.

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Try To Be Less White

by minimus in

jw
friends

that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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this is ridiculous!.

Diogenesister

UK tv adverts--there has been a huge increase in the number of "black" persons featured recently.

I’ve noticed that. But they don’t realise, in doing so, they are being even more racist. Because whilst there’s an increase in black actors on t.v. In Britain it’s always meaningless advertising work, you don’t see an increase in black actors or actresses with really decent, meaty roles.

You rarely see a happy, comfortable black family in these ads. Your’ll usually see a black, overweight single mother or an interracial couple.

Execs think by doing this they’ll keep everyone happy, but they end up annoying everyone. Black people feel patronised and white people see the PC BS.

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God defeats whole armies, but couldn't defeat '' the men in Iron chariots''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

judges 1. .

new international version.

israel fights the remaining canaanites.

Diogenesister

Rules & Regs That’s my all time favourite OT (or is it OG) scripture 🤣 Do you happen to know what Watchtowers take on that scripture is, guys?

I reckon a lot of the OT is an exercise in trying to explain the apparent vagaries of war. When the fortunes of war were in their favour, the Israelites naturally assumed their God was pleased with them. When they fared badly, he was angry (Perhaps that is why our gods have become more benign the more successful we, as humans, have become).

Of course there was always, as luck would have it, a fella on hand to inform them gods opinion on the matter via messages only he could interpret!!

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“Do not gaze about!”

by slimboyfat in

so many changes in the 2013 nwt seem needless and spoil familiar phrases.

take isaiah 41:10 in the nwt classic rendering:.

do not be afraid, for i am with you.

Diogenesister

FFGhost I just wanted to “hear hear!” from all the way in the back.

It turns my stomach that they had the nerve to replace “love kindness” with “cherish loyalty”.

Watchtower is about as subtle as a brick😒

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Do You Support Trump Being Impeached Again?

by minimus in

jw
friends

it looks like it can happen again and i suspect if it does happen, the senate will not convict either because they can’t convict him since it’s after his presidency or simply because they don’t have sufficient votes..

Diogenesister

Just to say the fact they wish to impeach after his presidency is not relevant.

Its not a criminal trial...the point is to decide whether he will have the right to hold office again. The constitution makes no mention of the timing of an impeachment and subsequent trial This makes sense because it takes time to accrue evidence and an office holder could commit “treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanours” in his last few days in office, for example, thus escaping justice by simply resigning the day before the trial (or even during).

Once he has left office a president is also no ordinary citizen, either. He remains an ex-president, is addressed as a president and is entitled to the benefits, financial and otherwise, of that office for the rest of his life. This includes the right to certain security briefings etc. Then there is precedent. Congress has begun impeachment trials on officials who left office on three separate occasions. Just because these men were not presidents is irrelevant, since there is only one impeachment clause that every official is subject to.

whether the facts are such that Trump should be subject to impeachment is another matter but that President Trump has left office does not mean he is no longer subject to conviction.

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Jehovah Witness cult is Anti-christ.... proof seen in the use of BCE/CE instead of AD/BC

by goingthruthemotions in

so being around this cult, i always found it interesting that the rest of christianity use ad/bc and the non christians use bce/ce.

i never put two and two together.

but, it dawned on me that once again there is hidden proof that the witness cult is and anti-christ cult.

Diogenesister

The reason Christian scholars started to say Jesus was born in 4 C.E., (or BC), is because it would make a nonsense of his early life if they didn't. In particular the "slaughter of the innocents" and the flight to Egypt, because King Herod was dead by 1 C.E. when it would have taken place (or thereabouts).

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Watch out, here comes the Governing Body!

by neat blue dog in

a picture in this week's wt shows the annointed after being raised to heaven, when they start "smashing the nations".

creepy!!

i imagine am3 is out front, it seems like something he's eager for.

Diogenesister

Again With the Kenny Rogers clones??!!!

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The Bible speaks of the "Unforgivable Sin" ? What is it ?

by smiddy3 in

do any jehovah`s witnesses or ex jehovah`s witnesses even know what that sin is ?.

why is such a statement in the bible if its not identified what that sin is ?.

were the authors of the book just playing with peoples heads ?

Diogenesister

No body really knows....except it’s something you can do against the Holy Spirit.

If it’s so grievous a sin....why didn’t the Bible writers make it clearer exactly what it involves???🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: I do tend to think @truthBknown is probably the closest answer.

Of course the cynic in me thinks the writers purposely obfuscated, to make it any sin your priests/elder/superior deems it to be, at the time, if you get on the wrong side of them😒

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Do We Get A Clean Slate When We Die? (Watchtower View Examined)

by Sea Breeze in

the watchtower teaches that the opportunity to be born again and enjoy complete justification with god ended in 1935, having been limited to only 144k since pentecost.

so, it is very surprising that the watchtower embraces the death that is described in romans chapter 6, since this is the very death that is required to be born again…… which is denied to watchtower members!

romans chapter 6, verse 7 is about saying goodbye to the old personality, the “old man” in the king james version.

Diogenesister

Unbelievably, wt here contradicts "Jesus" who emphatically stated, that this generation (of wt's anointed of 1914) will n-o-t pass away until all these things have occurred,

If I know watchtower they’ll say “it means until all these types (anti types?🤣)of things have occurred, not literally all !!!

2 centenarians overlapping by 20 years: 2x100 = 200 - 40 = 160 years +1914 = 2074

one year to 1975 + 100. not just a proposal, a prophecy by wtbts. inc.

They’ll also say re: 2075 “we were right!! Just out 100 years....understandable” [shrugs shoulders]