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  Epicurean Paradox

  by Tahoe in

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  Vidiot

  Oddly enough, I really enjoy Philip Pullman's Dust fiction for the very questions asked in this thread.
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  Victorian Govt on the move toward institutions that don't sign up to the Redress scheme.

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  hi all.. just spotted this news item in melbourne:.

  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-19/vic-govt-threatens-cut-off-orgs-dont-sign-up-to-redress-scheme/12161886.

  victoria to blacklist institutions that fail to sign up to national redress scheme for sexual abuseposted about 7 hours ago a black and white photo of girls in a boarding home.photo: the national redress scheme was a key recommendation of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

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  So, the what would be the (eventual) penalty for refusing join the redress thing? Loss of tax-exemption?

  (I skimmed)

  If so, good luck spinning that as "persecution".
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  EverApostate - "The Bible book of Revelation was written by a mentally disturbed person. Who else would write that beasts would come out of the sea, killer grasshoppers, blood filling the earth unto a horses height, Winged creatures in heaven, women being corrupted etc…"

  Patmos was used as an insane asylum, after all.
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  World release: Watchtower Property Tracker Project

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  2. scandals

  thank you everyone for helping make this happen.

  https://www.facebook.com/awakefromwatchtower/posts/3656514984423553?__tn__=k-r. https://youtu.be/0uarajnt_mo.

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  So it's pretty even-steven, then? For each court-loss-slash-settlement, there's a roughly corresponding property sale (or two) soon after?

  I realize that correlation does not necessarily equal causation...

  ...but I'm not a big believer in coincidence, either.
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  I particularly found that the further away from the end of the Cold War we got, the harder the stuff in that book was to swallow.
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  G.B of JW`s trusting in Jehovah ? or Trusting in Men When It Comes To A Crunch !

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. beliefs

  jehovah`s witnesses have taken it upon themselves that they have been chosen by god to be his witnesses in what they believe to be the last days ,the time of the end spoken of by the prophets of old.. they are on record as stating in their publications that it is their calling and duty to preach this message of announcing jehovah`s kingdom loud and clear publicly and from house to house even when under ban.. which they have done on many occasions in the past putting their trust in jehovah .. taking to heart acts ch.5 : 17- 32 which states in a nutshell ," we must obey god as ruler rather than men " .

  they are also on record that the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one satan the devil to mislead all mankind.. this includes all governments ,religious leaders ,economic, and social systems ,they have even stated that the united nations was a counterfeit kingdom in opposition to the kingdom of god for the benefit of mankind.. so what do we see today ?

  true , we have a pandemic with this covid-19 virus that is wreaking havoc in the worlds health systems causing death to many people on a scale not seen since the spanish flu pandemic a century ago.. now i`m just speaking from a jehovah`s witness mindset here,to put there money where their mouth is.

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  LongHairGal - "They have no choice but to comply with the secular authorities. If they did not, could you imagine the shitstorm that would come down on them??..They’d be accused of being harmful to the world around them and possibly spreading whatever..."

  Agreed.

  Ten bucks says that since they won't/can't budge on the pedo problem and the Rising Tide of related lawsuits, their lawyers have advised them that their tax exemption is in too precarious a position for them to risk jabbing "Satan's World" in the eye on this particular issue.

  Which, once again, begs the real question...

  ...just how dependent on its tax-exemption IS the Org?
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  Keeping everyone on the hook

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i’ve always noticed that the local jw leaders like to give as little notice as possible for local meetings and expect you to drop everything and rearrange your life to fit their agenda in.

  i’ve noticed this more during the pandemic.

  we are not given the codes and time of memorial until a couple hours before meeting.

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  Ten bucks says they're priming the rank-and-file to "go underground" after they've finally jabbed "Satan's World" in the eye one too many times, and the leadership inevitably raptures buggers off to Switzerland or something.

  
  
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  Latest Trick by You know Who!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  this is getting thrown about a lot to me from various jdumbs.. .

  also got the perfect answer as retort!

  beat that you jdumb morons!.

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  Everything is proof they're right.

  Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
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  Evidence of WT bad intent - How they handled changing the meaning of "porneia"

  by AlainAlam in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  sorry, 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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  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.
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  is this real? Wife got an email from here group elder about daily check in's

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so 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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  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.