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  Comparing JWs to Jews

  by CalebInFloroda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some have asked how my views and convictions have changed over the past 15 years or so after leaving the watchtower behind to return to my familys roots and embrace judaism.

  the best way to explain things is to allow both the religion of the watchtower and my life as a jew today to stand side-by-side for comparison.

  while i cant guarantee this will help prove to others that the jehovahs witnesses are truly a crazy religious group, i am sure it will prove to most that jews probably are, and are quite aware of it.

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  CalebInFloroda:
  Jehovah’s Witnesses are truly a crazy religious group, I am sure it will prove to most that Jews probably are, and are quite aware of it.

  Talking about crazy religions and rituals, what's an ultra-Orthodox Jewish fellow to do when he finds he's got 2,000 dead chickens due to heat exhaustion and can't be used ritually? Uhh, maybe sell them to a goy for deep frying and chicken soup!?!

  "Thousands of chickens designated for the pre-Yom Kippur kapparot ritual died in New York due to unseasonable heat. An estimated 2,000 chickens died in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on Wednesday, when temperatures climbed into the mid-90s, the New York Daily News reported."
  

  September 13, 2013)
  

  Photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man participating in a kapparot ritual, in which a chicken is swung over one's head in the belief that one transfers the sins from the past year into the chicken.
  
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  Anthony Morris III: "...we cannot control everything that an individual might say..."

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i noticed that anthony morris iii just said on the broadcast: "while we cannot control everything that an individual might say, it is clear that over the decades protecting children from abuse is a top priority for this organization.".

  that, in my opinion, is a direct response to the richard ashe "spiritual protection not physical protection" deposition.. here's a video putting the two statements side by side.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgevpuyn7gy.

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  "Baby Pros and Kiddie Porn", really? That sounds obscene and sick.

  It does, and maybe Leo Greenlees wrote it. It would seem he was somewhat of an expert in such things.
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  Do you have a JW hero?

  by Island Man in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i say jw hero i mean a jw who courageously did what was right despite the indoctrination and peer pressure to conform to cultishness.

  i have an unknown jw hero that i've never met but only heard of from an experience relayed to me about an incident at a jw funeral.. i was told that at a jw funeral internment, a non-jw put a wreath in the shape of a cross on the grave.

  shortly thereafter a jw elder came up and removed the wreath.

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  Ray Franz, Ed Dunlap, Rinehardt Lengtat, Chris Sanchez, Nestor Kuilan and their wives are all heroes in my book, even martyrs who suffered the abuses of a religious publishing house and real estate corporation that insists on placing themselves between God and men, and seeks to drain people out of their youth, their labor and their meager means of living.

  Anyone who suffers from the abuses of the WT religion is a hero in my mind.

  I won't share my personal view of the WT hierarchy since Russell down to the current GB7, but it ain't very pretty and I'd have to use words better not said in mixed company!
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  Splane and Morris Should Thank Raymond Franz, Their Organizational Father

  by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the whole elder body teaching and governing body teaching was based on research by a well known "apostate" raymond franz.

  franz wrote the aid book articles which gave rise to the changes made in the congregations and bethel.

  knorr was deposed by the johnny come lately new governing body members who in turn gave birth to those in charge today.

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  Considering how Knorr treated Ed Dunlap, and also his opinions about women, and giving the "don't touch your pee-pee at Bethel talk", I have very little respect for that WT President.
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  Anthony Morris III: "...we cannot control everything that an individual might say..."

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i noticed that anthony morris iii just said on the broadcast: "while we cannot control everything that an individual might say, it is clear that over the decades protecting children from abuse is a top priority for this organization.".

  that, in my opinion, is a direct response to the richard ashe "spiritual protection not physical protection" deposition.. here's a video putting the two statements side by side.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgevpuyn7gy.

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  I'm sure most publishers will just nod their heads in aggreement.

  Only the ones who've suffered and the enabler elders and CO's will know better.
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  JW 700 Club or more aptly 7GB Club broadcasting

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a comment by forum member 'sowhatnow' made me stop and think about how true it is the wt is becoming another tv evangelist religion.

  the similarities are uncanny!.

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  Is becoming? I think you mean "has become"!
  I posted the below 9 months ago:

  Very true! I'm glad you saw it right away, (it just took me a while I guess :-)
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  OMG! The July 2015 JW broadcast shows multiple clips of a JW carrying a gay pride umbrella!

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the closing segment of the program featuring jws in dominica, shows a jw carrying an umbrella emblazoned with the gay pride rainbow, multiple times.

  roflol.

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  Nooooo. That's not a rainbow umbrella! Is it? Oh, noooo, it is!

  
  

  
  
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  JW 700 Club or more aptly 7GB Club broadcasting

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a comment by forum member 'sowhatnow' made me stop and think about how true it is the wt is becoming another tv evangelist religion.

  the similarities are uncanny!.

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  The 700 Club has better sets.

  Agreed. But you've got to remember the WT did it as a rush job and on the cheap.

  
  
  
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  Laughing Lion??? Lastest study article

  by dugout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sh##@t not funny no more.

  comments please

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  That's clearly the Patronus charm in action. That man just saved himself from a Dementor! The writer is obviously a huge Harry Potter fan.

  Wow! You're right, but I think the WT version is way more dangerous than Harry Potter!

  
  
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  JW 700 Club or more aptly 7GB Club broadcasting

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a comment by forum member 'sowhatnow' made me stop and think about how true it is the wt is becoming another tv evangelist religion.

  the similarities are uncanny!.

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  Even the programming which includes anchorman type introductions, mini-talks, interviews, sad stories, triumph stories, and indoctrinating animated religious lessons for children.

  Oh and I almost forgot, begging for money!

  Seems like they've got it all copied and implemented.