Smiles - “At what time would you say that the Watch Tower schema lost the spirit?”
The moment they decided that they alone had it.
Posts by Vidiot
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58When did WT lose the spirit?
by Smiles inat what time would you say that the watch tower schema lost the spirit?.
like the ancient nation of israel which struggled maintaining divine blessing due to a long series of grave errors that eventually culminated in definitive loss... how and when did watch tower lose the spirit?.
can we pinpoint a time or event?.
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Vidiot
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Quit Quietly now more than ever
by gone for good inthe amazing exoneration of info sekta in swiss court has finally reinforced the proper way to exit an abusive cult.. never write a letter of disassociation.
- no need to invoke shepherding or judicial action from elders.
make a written, dated statement of your free-will choice to have abandoned the jw religion - secure this document with a friend -a trusted friend (not the jw kind).
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Vidiot
So...
...are faders finding doing so easier...
...or harder?
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Court confirms:--Severe Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses is Justified!
by Atlantis incourt confirms: severe criticism of jehovah's witnesses is justified!.
https://docdro.id/axa555i.
petra!.
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Vidiot
Odd that the Org would try to sue for “defamation”...
...when all the things listed were 100% factual.
You’d almost think they didn’t want these things widely known, or something.
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Congregation Judicial Hearing Centres (Kangaroo Courts)
by Slidin Fast inso, now it's official.
the only use for kingdom halls in england is for judicial committee hearings.
meetings?
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Vidiot
While I do believe that the Corona crisis has helped facilitate some of the Org’s longer-term plans....
...I still can’t shake the feeling that such a dramatic reordering of The Way Things Are Done has still really thrown them off-kilter. 😅
Utra-conservative groups don’t handle drastic change well at all. -
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How Did You Discover This Site?
by minimus ini’ve been here a long time.
i saw this site jwd/jwn.
i thought it was very lively and interesting.
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Vidiot
Various searches related to theoretical WT decline.
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Rolf Furuli Disfellowshipped Last Week
by Sea Breeze inwell known norway elder and watchtower doctrine apologist, (rolf furuli) was disfellowshipped a few days ago for the crime of expressing opinions contrary to some watchtower dictates.. like wt leadership in the past, they have no problem eating their own..
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Vidiot
@ slimboyfat...
1914 is too integral a component in their chronology, ideology, and eschatology to be dropped. They simply can’t, it’s a sacred cow... go back far enough and everything hinges on it*.
The overlapping generation thing should be all the proof you need, ‘cause there’s just no fucking way they’d come up with something that weird unless they absolutely had to.
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*Remember, Fred Franz left no protege, and Ted Jaracz purged out all the creative and outside-the-box thinkers, so there’s no one left with enough narrative creativity to properly overhaul the script... they’re stuck with it.
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Rolf Furuli Disfellowshipped Last Week
by Sea Breeze inwell known norway elder and watchtower doctrine apologist, (rolf furuli) was disfellowshipped a few days ago for the crime of expressing opinions contrary to some watchtower dictates.. like wt leadership in the past, they have no problem eating their own..
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Vidiot
Beth Sarim - “...I do believe the GB have painted themselves into a corner with the 2013 July understanding of the 'faithful slave'...”
Let’s be honest.
These days, all they do is paint themselves into corners.
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Some notes on early Christianity - its evolution and "sacred text"
by Half banana inin the scope of this site, it’s not possible to go too deeply into historical research in a single post but we can give the flavour of things formerly hidden from us when we were jws.. like most things, christianity evolved.. it has unseen roots but many visible branches, 40,000 is the often quoted number!
there never was a moment when it arrived fully formed in the middle of the first century.
its roots in folk mysteries were deliberately concealed by fourth and fifth century christian leaders.
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Vidiot
Ironic that natural selection would give rise to a species which becomes so specifically adapted to its environment that the denial of natural selection’s existence becomes a vital component to its continued survival in said environment.😏
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Watchtower Greek where the mumbo meets the jumbo
by Terry intake a look at this photo of a now long extinct publication!ain't she a beauty?.
around 1976 i got the wild idea i'd like to learn greek.
gosh - just look at the gorgeous purple book up there!
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Vidiot
You guys wanna hear something funny?
For a long time as a kid, I was under the mistaken impression that the originals of the Bible books actually existed in museums or libraries somewhere, that the WT folks had access to them and created the NWT from them, and that the scholars of “false religion” had dishonestly mistranslated their versions on purpose to avoid worshipping Jehovah or going door-to-door.
Seriously.
Imagine my disappointment when my elder father admitted to me that this wasn’t quite the case, and that obedient JWs simply had faith that the NWT was more correct.
On a related note, I suspect that, on some level, certain JWs have an intrinsic need to trust some kind of authority figure.
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"The Project" posted a video about the National Redress Scheme and JWs
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=612947649624670.
the project posted a video to playlist feature stories.. .
l10 tthrsponsmorsldlged · .
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Vidiot
Maybe the Org is reluctant to sign up because they’re scared they’ll get tapped dry.
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