I suspect that they'd simply go with the stance that would result in the least amount of legal divorces (regardless of individual personal consequences), because having a lower divorce rate than "Christendom"'s religions would make them look better to potential recruits.
Posts by Vidiot
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38Evidence of WT bad intent - How they handled changing the meaning of "porneia"
by AlainAlam insorry, long post :) i'm considering evidence that at least at some point, the gb/watchtower had bad intentions.
i would like to share the following: *** w74 11/15 p. 703 questions from readers ***do lewd practices on the part of a married person toward that one’s own mate constitute a scriptural basis for the offended mate to get a divorce?there are times when lewd practices within the marriage arrangement would provide a basis for a scriptural divorce.. based on this, some jw chose to divorce.
but then:*** w83 3/15 p. 30 honor godly marriage!
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is this real? Wife got an email from here group elder about daily check in's
by goingthruthemotions inso this elder is super brainwashed, as is his wife.
she actually made a comment that she wished antmo 3 was her dad and that he is so cool.
oh my god, i threw up in my mouth.
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Vidiot
the girl next door - "'...WTBTS know well that with the taste of freedom and the bliss that comes from not going to meetings/FS they're going to lose a bunch of publishers when all is said and done..."
Agreed.
I always get a chuckle out of this particular aspect of WT "authority"...
..."growth=God's blessing" has always been an integral component of the JW worldview, but I've long suspected that deep down, the Org actually wants to downsize the rank-and-file to a more streamlined and manageable size (like it's downsizing everything else).
The urge to keep as many members still in vs. the overarching need to prune out the "lukewarm" must feel uncomfortably conflicting.
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How to CYA (cover your ass) Watchtower style
by eyeuse2badub intoday’s watchtower article was the ultimate cya.
for friggin’ decades all we heard was that as armageddon gets nearer and nearer, the number of the ‘great crowd’ will increase and the number of the “little flock” will decrease!
in fact, it was one of the proofs that the end was near!.
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Vidiot
I've long wondered if the quiet-but-steady increase in recent partakers may actually be the result of woken-up still-ins who are doing it just to futz with that stats...
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Do you have any evidence that the GB had bad intent?
by AlainAlam indo you have any evidence that the gb had bad intent?
as opposed to blind faith/cognitive dissonance and honest mistakes.. i'm inclined to think they have the best of intentions and are just wrong (primarily because the bible is wrong), but i'm willing to consider the evidence otherwise..
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Vidiot
A good rule of thumb to remember...
...every decision... every decision...
...is made with the ultimate goal of reinforcing the fiction that the WTS is "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization"...
...because by their own ideology and reasoning, if a religion is not "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization", its very existence is illegitimate...
...i.e. "false".
Without that underlying premise, there is virtually no significant incentive to even BE a Jehovah's Witness.
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Medical Supplies - Please Help Me Understand the Rationale About States Bidding Against Each Other
by RubaDub ini really don't understand why states have to bid against each other for essential items such as medical supplies.
when you get into bidding wars, the consumers are the ones who lose.. put 50 people in an auction for a product and the one who wins is the manufacturer, not the ones purchasing.. my wife works for a multi-national corporation.
if she is importing or exporting goods, she doesn't determine what the costs will be; this is already determined through the corporate offices that negotiate worldwide movement of products.
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Vidiot
In a lot of ways, the US was a nation created by businessmen, for businessmen...
...it's practically become an integral component of the country's DNA at this point.
Is it really any wonder, that virtually everything is conducted in a businesslike fashion, up to and including "bidding" for resources?
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Unbelievable!
by The Fall Guy inyou gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.
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https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.
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Vidiot
As far as I'm concerned, "sticking to the script" is just one more example of their transition to a full-on e-religion with canned talks, cycling login passwords, and a mandatory monthly membership renewal.
Which just makes the exodus that much easier, IMO.
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Today’s nauseating WT
by Slidin Fast ini am sitting at home, trying not to barf as this wt paragraph by paragraph tries to character assassinate those who have the temerity to take the emblems.
the unwritten, unspoken subtext is that they, the gb, the now distinct and separate “slave” are above all this.
they, the gold standard are immune to this questioning.
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Vidiot
Slidin Fast - "...trying not to barf as this WT paragraph by paragraph tries to character assassinate those who have the temerity to take the emblems...."
Ten bucks says they're priming the rank-and-file for the moment the shitshow gets too much, and the GB (and select "helpers") quietly bugger off to the Caymans...
...one else gets "raptured" because all the other partakers have been not-so-subtly smeared as posers and liars.
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You heard it here first. U.S. District conventions CANCELLED!
by nowwhat? inprudent decision even if the pandemic is over you are going to have people that.
lost jobs can't afford to go.
not allowed any vacation time rest of year.
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Vidiot
JimmyYoung - "My feeling is they have so much bad press they know if they disobey they will get hammered."
Ditto.
Ten bucks says their lawyers have advised them that due to all the pedo-related shit going on, their tax-exempt status is too precarious to risk pissing off "Satan's World" any more than they already have.
Which, of course, begs the question...
...just how dependent on their tax-exemption IS the WTS?
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Do you have any evidence that the GB had bad intent?
by AlainAlam indo you have any evidence that the gb had bad intent?
as opposed to blind faith/cognitive dissonance and honest mistakes.. i'm inclined to think they have the best of intentions and are just wrong (primarily because the bible is wrong), but i'm willing to consider the evidence otherwise..
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Vidiot
They're not mustache-twirling supervillains...
...but they're definitely not squeaky-clean, either.
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The 8 G.B. members - just LIARS, or are they an EVIL SOURCE?
by The Fall Guy ini'm only quoting the org's force-fed "food at the proper time" which friends and family had to swallow!.
it-2 p. 1027 spiritism - "and in the christian greek scriptures the statement is made that those who practice spiritism “will not inherit god’s kingdom.” (gal.
5:20, 21; rev.
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Vidiot
They know it's wrong...
...but believe it's true...
...at the same time.