Posts by hoser

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The "Ice Cream Video" - is it real?

by freddo in

jw
friends

the "don't buy ice cream give us the money video" that is the subject of other threads.. i am not very good with computer stuff - would someone tell me where it is to be found on jworg please?

i can't find it.. thanks..

hoser

It's merely showing that children can think about different ways they want to spend their money instead of spending it all on junk food.

then they should have shown her giving it to a food bank or a homeless person

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An excellent (and funny) example of Cognitive Bias

by Slave4_38y in

i saw this and immediately thought about how this relates to us.

once you've learned how to ride the ttatt-bicycle it's almost impossible to ride the "truth"-bicycle again.

https://youtu.be/mfzdabzbll0.

hoser

Once your pattern of thinking has changed it is almost impossible to go back.

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Boy, 7, taken away from his parents. Judge rules he has been damaged by his Jehovah's Witness mother's religious beliefs

by snugglebunny in

i guess that's what a cult upbringing does to a child:.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3092457/boy-7-taken-away-parents-judge-rules-damaged-jehovah-s-witness-mother-s-religious-beliefs.html.

hoser

The dubs will cry persecution over this one.

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RC 2015 Book "Jesus—The Way, the Truth, the Life"

by wifibandit in

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/jesus/.

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non jw download - all formats & audio.

hoser

What is the difference between this book and the greatest man who ever lived?

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not sure how wide spread this is, but from my social media land i saw 2 separate videos, from two halls in completely different towns featuring their kids having a demonstration on the service meeting (i am guessing last night as i didn't go).

these kids are really young!

maybe this was just a coincidence at first i thought it was the same video then realized theses people live hundreds of miles apart.

hoser

There was a video shown loosely based on scripture It was a pixaresque cartoon showing how Sophia was scared to preach to her classmate. It went into a bunch of made up stuff about how the Israelite girl was afraid to talk to naaman about how the prophet in Israel could cure him of his leprosy.

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New video telling the R&F to be generous

by Splash in

bro sanderson has a 7 minute video up on their streaming website called "be willing to open your hand".. in it he tells us not to be "tight fisted" or "stingy" and later "regardless of how much we have or how little we have, we'll find something within our power to be able to do".

we have the responsibility to imitate jehovah's generosity.. there's a bit about giving to one another when we see the need, which is nice, then he drops in how 20 years ago the canada branch committee asked the bethel family for donations to the disaster relief fund, and promptly raised over $10,000.

i think that's pretty good going for those under a vow of poverty.. "the generous person will prosper" he says, then illustrates this using a made up story.

hoser

Reading between the lines this is what he is saying.

If the bethelites can raise 10 grand on their small salary what's wrong with you ? You materialistic bastards.

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JW Library app with convention releases ?

by Elisa1966 in

they are talking on jwtalk about this, but no details.

has anyone access to jw library ?

just curious... :-)

hoser

And the letter also read that you should not even peek at the new releases before your assigned convention. You are very disobedient to Jehovah if you look. He will be sad.

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How to Resist Demon Attacks - Caution: Scary Stuff!

by snugglebunny in

wt.

12-15-66: investigating house and household objectsone under demon attack should calmly, not in hysteria, investigate his house and household articles.

in some few cases the house may be the cause of trouble and the best thing to do is move out.

hoser

Now I know why witnesses from the 60's were such fanatics.

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Attention JW lurkers: May JW TV broadcast demonstrates the GB's utter contempt for you (and all non-elite JWs)

by sir82 in

in may's "we will never solicit for money, but now we're going to solicit you for the next hour" broadcast, we kept hearing about all the "facts" that the gb would like for us to know.. hmm...what facts did they leave out?.

-- $millions have been spent in out-of-court settlements of child abuse cases.

-- $untold amounts are being spent on legal defense of wt policies related to child abuse.

hoser

I noticed that on the May broadcast Lett talks to the audience like they are a bunch of idiots. Imagine that. An idiot talking down to people he thinks are idiots. What a moron.

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A Burger and a Hook-up

by John Aquila in

so i went to get a burger just now, and a couple of elders from my former congregation caught me off guard.

they started giving me the we feel so sorry for you, you must be so lonely bit.

i kept telling them im doing great and im not lonely but its like they couldnt hear me talking.

hoser

But before I do, I'm going to play them to see how far they are willing to go. Consider it a social experiment.

I'd be willing to bet you could go all the way with at least one of them. But be prepared for a judicial committee because most likely their cult training would kick in after the fact and they'd confess to the elders.