The one thing there gonna have to do is be more liberal about their stand on blood, sex, holiday celebrations, etc. As time goes on their beliefs are gonna become more bizzare to the average person.
Joliette
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What the Watchtower needs to do to survive.
by jwfacts indrop its teaching on paradise earth.. the primary issue facing the watchtower results from it's teaching that members will never die, but live forever on this earth in paradise.
this teaching is cause of most of the doctrinal failures, and will be its eventual demise.. the promise of never dying is one of the foremost motivations for people that join the religion, and the message of living forever in paradise is compelling.
however, it is also the watchtower's achilles heel, as it forces false predictions of the nearness of the end.
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Disfellowshipped!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas inlibertad!
though my story is a bit more complicated than that.
i live in argentina.
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Joliette
I'm sorry about you being disfellowshipped. Or as we african-american witnesses say in the United States: Dissed.
Things will get better.
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6/15 WT - WT Society can Run it's Business - but JW's Can't Have their Own
by flipper inin the typical do as we say , not as we do type mentality - the wt society puts forth in this current wt study article ( jw's only wt ) - that it's not " advisable " or " reasonable " for jehovah's witnesses to seek entering their own business ventures , or further themselves by getting a college education, or even have a career - due to the imminent coming of the alleged " end of the system " or alleged " paradise " .
the guilt and control used here is ridiculous.
in the article titled , " why put jehovah's service first ?
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Joliette
Articles like these are extremely harmful to the rank and file JW's.
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6/15 WT - WT Society can Run it's Business - but JW's Can't Have their Own
by flipper inin the typical do as we say , not as we do type mentality - the wt society puts forth in this current wt study article ( jw's only wt ) - that it's not " advisable " or " reasonable " for jehovah's witnesses to seek entering their own business ventures , or further themselves by getting a college education, or even have a career - due to the imminent coming of the alleged " end of the system " or alleged " paradise " .
the guilt and control used here is ridiculous.
in the article titled , " why put jehovah's service first ?
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Joliette
So hyprocritical. I swear the kool aid watchtowers keep getting more and more worse with every year that passes. Its sad that brainwashed people keep reading this smuck!
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The world ends on May 27, 2012....
by pseudoxristos inor so says ronald weinland;.
may 27, 2012april 29, 2012. as readers of this site know, may 27, 2012, is the time that i have stated as being the date jesus christ will return as king of kings over all government on this earth.
for such an event to come to pass, the trumpets of revelation must all sound, the united states and dollar collapse, the ten nations of europe arise to fulfill the final revival of the holy roman empire, and russia with china must unite against europe in wwiii.. .... http://www.ronaldweinland.com/.
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Joliette
Not this biblical fuckery again!
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The 70 year old virgin! So tragic!
by serenitynow! indid anyone hear about this story?
this lady is 70, and has not done it yet.
now she thinks it's time, but she doesn't believe in premarital marriage.
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Joliette
For some reason I can't link the story on here. Could someone please do it for me?
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An article on shunning that really started the wheels turning
by sd-7 init was the september 1, 2006 watchtower, page 17, "when a loved one leaves jehovah".
it was this quote i found upsetting:.
it has become harder and harder to sit at christian meetings and see parents laughing and talking with their children, says louise.
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Joliette
***Bookmarking for later***
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Funniest vid Exposing WTS so far...:D
by mind blown inbetween being funny, sound effects, editing and info., my fave thus far.
i just wish they would have included the miricle wheat and dummy money laundering wts companies that were also exposed.... still pretty neat... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dnpocd529g.
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Joliette
Is that man and woman on the Witnesses of Jehovah video still living? I like how they show the watchtower bulidings in the beginning.
I like the part where she starts crying when she says her daughter couldnt celebrate her birthday. So 80's and so over the top.
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Jehovah's Witnesses - Faith In Action Part 2 - thoughts?
by Captain Obvious inmost of us remember the thread last month about the video that was supposed to be watched in prep for discussion at the meeting.
well at the end of this month, there is a discussion on part 2. .
part 1 had at least that one big glaring lie, about what the bible students were expecting in 1914. it then went on in the usual fashion, blaming the students themselves for having made up their own expectations.... .
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Joliette
Both Faith in Action 1 and 2 look beautiful to any active and believing JW's but to us, its a bunch of watered down reactments and a lot of omitting, double standards, and ramblings of faithful and discreet members who are there last leg literally (think Ted Jaracz and John Barr). It bascially gives a fairy tale account of their history. They leave a lot out, giving the public the illusion of a flawless and faultless organization.
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A Brief History of Racism in Watchtower Publications
by cedars ini've just completed a lengthy article on the history of racism in the society's publications.
many people (including myself, until recently) aren't aware that the society's early publications were brimming with racist rhetoric, and this only calmed down as the public mood towards racism changed, most notably with the civil rights movement in the 50s/60s.. a few "headliners" from the article are:.
russell segregated blacks from whites for viewings of the photodramarussell believed that the skin of a black man would turn white during the millennial kingdomunder russell, the society's publications portrayed the black races as "degraded" and the white race as "superior"rutherford viewed the blacks as a "race of servants", and spoke of "sobering the southern negro" in an article against prohibitionunder rutherford, the golden age slammed uncle tom's cabin (a work that helped end slavery) as being "the work of satan"; the same article branded spaniards a "backwards race"rutherford accused "jewish business men" of "oppressing the peoples of many nations"in 1929 the golden age (acknowledged by the society as essentially the same magazine as the modern awake!
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Joliette
@ Alfred, I saw that. I always wondered why they put that in there.
@ Cedars, My parents are black (african american) Jehovah's Witnesses and most black JW's wouldnt even care about what you just posted. There is so much proof that the watchtower has a racist history, but its sad that most witnesses of color would take it with a grain of salt. SMH.