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  What SHOULD have woken you up ?

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for myself, there is an embarrassingly long list of things that really should really have woken me up, fully.

  it was a long process for me, as a mind controlled born in, things i simply did not agree with, or knew were downright wrong, that built and built, and, eventually i woke up, after 58 bloody years in !.

  but just mainly for fun, what should have woken you up ?.

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  Vidiot

  I always wondered - even back when I was still in - if the WT leadership was quietly panicking when the Berlin Wall came down...
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  JW.org coronavirus response - The Four Horsemen

  by Badfish in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you guys seen jw.org today?

  the main article is entitled “the four horsemen of revelation.”.

  looks like the pale rider has arrived..... .

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  Vidiot

  These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to not imagine the Org leadership making bigger and more "momentous" blunders...

  ...either fully convinced in the automatic rightness of their decisions, no matter what, or...

  ...just figuring that in the unlikely event that they actually (finally) fuck up too hard one too many times and land themselves in real hot water, God will simply grant them victory by miraculously snatching it out of the jaws of certain defeat.

  Seriously.
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  "We're In The Last Days Of The Last Days!"... So Say's Old Rubberface

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have you seen this on jworg?.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.

  2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.

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  waton - "maybe at the Wednesday session they voted to pick him to give this spiel, in case, like always, it will turn out wrong, they can blame it on the wacko performance."

  Honestly, I seriously think that on some level, they do realize just how fucking weird he looks, and put him on JWTV on purpose for that very purpose, for the same reason they keep doubling down on all the more offensive aspects of WT ideology...

  ...it can't help but further alienate the fakers, faders, and fence-sitters, essentially "encouraging" them to leave.

  Theoretically, those "troublemakers" would then no longer be an (internal) problem, the minority that stays will be that much more stringent and loyalist, and the leadership can save face by spinning it all as a fulfillment of the "love of the greater number cooling off" prophecy, thusly reinforcing said loyalists' convictions that they really are in the "Last Days of the Last Days".
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  "We're In The Last Days Of The Last Days!"... So Say's Old Rubberface

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have you seen this on jworg?.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.

  2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.

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  Vidiot

  Letto the Clown, back in action.
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  IICSA hearings on religious organizations begin 16 March

  by Corney in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (iicsa) is holding a public hearing in the child protection in religious organisations and settings investigation for the next two weeks.

  the provisional timetable for the first week was released today: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/17795/view/2020-03-12-cpiros-public-hearing-week-one-timetable.pdf .

  five witnesses will testify on the jw issue next thursday, 19 march:.

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  Vidiot

  "...After careful consideration of whether it is possible or appropriate to continue with this public hearing in light of this update, the Inquiry concluded it had no alternative but to postpone in order to protect the health of everyone involved..."

  Ten bucks says the WT leadership is telling themselves that the pandemic is actually God stepping in to protect the Org from "persecution".
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  Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

  some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

  the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

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  Vidiot

  @ carla...

  Just confirms what I've long suspected... that deep down, at a fundamental level, the WT leadership don't really want XJWs to come back.

  The act of "reaching out" to inactives or DFs is - rof all intents and purposes - lip service...

  ...ten bucks says the efforts are more to determine if inactives or DFs have been exposed to "apostate" information and/or come to suspect that the WTS isn't actually "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization".

  I guarantee you they don't want anyone like that anywhere near loyal rank-and-filers.
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  Message on JW.org about Covid-19

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  special talk by lett.

  very serious ( for him)droning voice.

  wife fell asleep.

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  JoenB75 - "It is funny someone in charge can not see how odd he comes across."

  When you're convinced you speak for God, have the ear of 8 million people, and surround yourself solely with individuals who are never allowed to disagree with you...

  ...you view everyone else as "odd".

  As far as the ones in charge are concerned, they're the "normal" ones.
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  Message on JW.org about Covid-19

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  special talk by lett.

  very serious ( for him)droning voice.

  wife fell asleep.

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  Vidiot

  Spanky McTightypants - "We've been waiting for this."

  Waiting?

  Maybe.

  Hoping?

  Even more so, I suspect.

  Of course, I can't quite recall where the fuck a "superflu" fit into old Freddy Franz' End-Times script, but whatever.
  
  
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  Kingdom Hall for sale

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this kelowna kingdom hall can be yours for just under $3 million.

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  https://infotel.ca/newsitem/this-kelowna-church-can-be-yours-for-just-under-3-million/it71323.

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  alanv - "...Another 28 had or will have major renovations..."

  Ten bucks says most of the refurbished ones get listed before too long.

  alanv - "...He did not say how many were sold in Canada."

  That would definitely be more useful information, and the fact that he didn't mention it suggests, to me, that the number sold exceeds the number built or face-lifted.
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  Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

  some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

  the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

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  Vidiot

  How many of you wanna bet that this is a some kind of half-assed attempt to suss out potential "apostates"?