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  Newest Anti-Apostate Tactics

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't quote any scriptures during the watchtower study that are not in the paragraph.. don't quote the governing body or anything from the broadcast ever.

  it might be true but it is not true truth if it is coming out of your mouth if you have been critical of the governing body.

  especially so if your criticism is valid and you have dared to support you view with scriptures, most especially the words of jesus christ.. anyone know of other new tactics?.

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  Vidiot

  ”Everything bad you hear about us is a lie! Even the stuff that’s actually true!”

  
  
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  In the USA, why so often is the vote for President just a vote against someone?

  by RubaDub in

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  2. friends

  in my lifetime, (i will include kennedy even though i was probably breast-feeding at the time), but it seems that there have been relatively few presidents that we vote "for.

  " my list would be kennedy, reagan, clinton and obama.

  i'm not talking about their politics here but who generally got voted for, instead of simply voting against.. any thoughts?.

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  Vidiot

  RubaDub - “In the USA, why so often is the vote for President just a vote against someone?”

  ‘Cause for some folks, it’s easier to hate someone than it is to like ‘em?
  
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  When did WT lose the spirit?

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at 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

  Smiles - “At what time would you say that the Watch Tower schema lost the spirit?”

  The moment they decided that they alone had it.
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  Quit Quietly now more than ever

  by gone for good in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 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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  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  court 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so, 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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i’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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well 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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  @ 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well 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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  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in 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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