@ The Fall Guy...
Pshh.
Like the Org gives a shit about persecuted Muslims.
jw.org is on collision course with russia.
the may wt study edition is full of prophesy related to the time of the end and what we have read so much in isaiah and jeremia bookstudy publications.. they found their enemy again.
jw.org needs enemy's to exist.
@ The Fall Guy...
Pshh.
Like the Org gives a shit about persecuted Muslims.
hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.
a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.
so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.
Expect to DFed for “brazen conduct”.
with the most recent investigative news report show entitled "the witnesses" i noticed a number of posters whose family members are pimi refer to such shows as "apostate lies.
" even the governing body (possibly loesch) made such a statement (possibly on jw broadcasting).
i was thinking of how to reply to such a statement.. first, ask "who is the apostate?
Technically, Stephen Lett called them “apostate-driven lies”...
...so, even if the information is actually true, loyal JWs are expected to disbelieve it because of its alleged origin.
Which is, of course, stupid.
within the very documentary is a reason i think that jw's for the most part will not wake up even if they watch this program.
the one lady actually saw as her family sat behind the abuser in court supporting him despite the established fact that he had abused their very own child.. this shows how deep the indoctrination is.
i am not saying that some won't wake up, but the majority will carry on, not even because they think these things are lies but because they will look past that at all costs to side with jehovah.
A pale, whispery shadow of its former self...
...that I like to call the Branch Jehovians.
i was thinking about this at work the other day, and realized the one positive thing i can truly credit the jws with: .
i have no fear of public speaking.
i was a shy kid, fat, clumsy, with crooked glasses and worse teeth, who wore hand-me-downs in one of the wealthiest counties in all of america, who sat still while classmates got up to salute the flag or recite the pledge of allegiance.
Thoroughly inoculated against any other form of religious expression...
...and as such, feel zero urge to burden myself that way.
when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?
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"Messy compromises with reality"... that's good, I like that.
I recently read a very appropriate quote (in a work of fiction, no less), that's stuck in my head like almost nothing else...
…"ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy".
disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.
this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.
i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.
Don’t kid yourself.
There’s nothing “new” about the so-called “prosperity gospel”.
It’s been around for decades.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.
zing.
Seriously though...
...I think at this point, the Org no longer gives a hairy blue fuck about the “public eye”.
Discrediting XJWs in the eyes of the loyal rank-and-file, though?
Top priority.
And I suspect the vitriol and rhetoric is only gonna sound increasingly shrill (not to mention batshit crazy) in the near future.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7jloq/breaking_watchtower_issues_dmca_takedown_to/.
zing.
Wrong.
Next up...
...Scientology is gonna sue the WTS...
...for stealing their playbook.
disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.
this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.
i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.
@ Victor...
Ah, okay, so you weren’t actually being critical per se... it was more of an observational conclusion?