Posts by Vidiot
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12Are We Now Living in a POST-Science world (at least politically?)
by Terry inif your sex is only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality, .
your race can be only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality.. .
is this repudiation of science?
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How many TRUE BELIEVERS do you think are left in the Organization?
by pistolpete ini have a few jw relatives who are true believers.
by this i mean, they believe with all their heart that 1914 was the beginning of the last days, that this is the last generation, that we are in the very last of the last hour of this system of things, and that you should obey the governing body even if it does not make sense.
all of them are in their 60s and up into their 90s there is nothing you can say or show them to convince them or even cause a small doubt that the wt is not god organization.
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Vidiot
IMO, the number of "True Believers" is academic, since - as has been demonstrated here - its definition is so fluid.
"Loyalists" might be a better focus.
And this should be a little easier, simply because all you have to do is make a guess based on your own congregation (assuming you're still in one).
If you know approximately how many people are in your Hall, and you have a pretty good idea how many full-on loyalists are in your Hall, it's pretty basic math.
Then, simply view a JW congregation as the Org in microcosm.
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Appeal REJECTED!!!!! (Canada - December 2020)
by lssjr intranslation - these two appeal files relate to the same judgment of the superior court, district of montreal rendered 27 february 2019 and rectified on 11 march 2019, which first rejects the request for a declinatory exception made by the appellant (wtpa) and which grants the request for authorization of a class action against the latter and against the other appellant (wtc), in addition to granting the status of representative to the respondent for the group described below:.
all persons who are or have been jehovah's witnesses and who allege to have been sexually assaulted in quebec, while they are minors, by a person occupying the role of elder (the subgroup of sexual assault by the elders).
all persons who are or have been jehovah's witnesses and who allege that they were sexually assaulted in quebec, when they were underage, by a jehovah's witness (the subgroup of sexual assault by jehovah's witnesses).
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Vidiot
Aaaaand the WT's loss of tax-exemption up here in the Great White North just inched a little closer (IMO, we've always had more in common with Australia than we do with the USA, anyway.)
And if the Watchtower opted NOT to appeal to the Canadian SC, you gotta know that it's 'cause their lawyers advised them that their chances of success weren't worth the risk (they'd be pretty piss-poor lawyers if they didn't, after all).
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U.K. Nurse Vaccinated With Covid Shot Has Covid Weeks After Getting Vac!
by minimus insomeone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
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Vidiot
Minimus - "...and afterwards you don’t come down with a slight case of the measles, mumps and so forth."
See my post literally two entries above this one.
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It Looks Like Impeachment Is Dead On Arrival In The Senate
by minimus inmost republican senators believe, as i do that you can’t impeach and convict a president unless he is in office.
with the opposing sides thinking, perhaps obama, bush clinton and carter could have their records reviewed and face the political punishment of impeachment and conviction after their presidency ended too?.
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Vidiot
Gosh, Wiz, don't hold back...
...tell us how you really feel.
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U.K. Nurse Vaccinated With Covid Shot Has Covid Weeks After Getting Vac!
by minimus insomeone i know from england is a nurse.
she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.
she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.
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Vidiot
People sometimes get a mild case of an illness specifically from a vaccine shot.
As I understand it, it can be part of the actual immunization process... you have to have a pathogen present in your bloodstream for your immune system to create antibodies to it, after all.
It happened to me with my measles vaccination when I was a kid.
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Anyone notice how when some of us older ones were in the cult.......
by mickbobcat inwhen i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?
i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.
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Vidiot
Another significant cause of the dialed-down nature of the publications is that original WT Oracle Fred Franz kicked the bucket without leaving any kind of successor... in no small part because - as a True Believer (like the rest of the WT leadership) - he fully bought into everything he was writing*.
As admittedly skilled at word-smithing as he was, it never even would have occurred to him to take on any kind of protege, because the End was always the day after tomorrow.
Couple that with Ted Jaracz using 9-11 fear to purge virtually all the moderates and liberals from WTHQ, and there are virtually no creative-types and outside-the-box thinkers left... the very people with the vital innovative and narrative chops needed to perform any kind effective theological overhaul for the 21st Century.
As a result, the Org is stuck with a decades-old Cold-War-centric eschatology, a bare-bones-educated and -staffed writing pool, and fuck-all imagination.
Not a recipe for literary robustness.
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*Like I've said before, a really easy habit to fall into when you're convinced God whispers in your ear and you're surrounded solely with people who are never allowed to disagree with you.
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Steve Hassan - politics as a cult
by Anna Marina insee this video at 2:58. sanity4sweden explains that 'cult expert' steve hassan was on cnn giving advice on how to deprogram trump supporters.. https://www.bitchute.com/video/3plguubdsjs/.
so this must be political correctness on steroids.. i have occasionally heard the name steve hassan mentioned in relation to the watchtower.
but even watchtower helps people to escape cults.
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Vidiot
perdurabo - "I feel we are in a Milgram experiment right now."
Okay, but who's running it?
The Illuminati?
The Reptilians?
The militant branch of the Salvation Army?
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No inetrest in Watchtower & Awake?
by Ardian inthe watchtower and awake have been listed as the most popular magazines.the figures are astonishing.
i am not sure whether it is based on reality or not.. source: https://tingtopten.com/2020/01/top-10-most-popular-magazines-in-the-world/.
i have seen the link on many social media networks.
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Vidiot
My advice?
Take every report of WT success (of any kind) with a Gibraltor-sized grain of salt... we already know the Org fudges the truth past any of Stretch Armstrong's freakiest Rule 34 fantasies, after all.
"Growth/success = God's blessing" has become so deeply baked into the Org's ideological DNA that at this point, they can't report anything but...
...no matter how much it's complete horseshit
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A Troubling Culture: JW Group Think vs. Individual Critical Thinking
by MicaSmith ini had no idea that the resistance, governance, and duplicity i am experiencing as a jehovah witness is actually part of a bigger behavioral issue that permeates the entire jehovah witness culture.. i was troubled by the fact that many persons who have been crushed by the unfair practices of jw leadership described themselves as former members of the jw cult, and, or, apostates.
the latter bothered me to a greater degree because i felt the word apostate has been overused by jw's leadership and members.
anyone who disagrees with anything the governing body does or says is assigned the label an apostate.
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Vidiot
We can thank the Hare Krishnas for society's current (and difficult-to-shed) perception of a "cult".
The truth is, though, the vast majority don't go around wearing robes, chanting, and shaving their heads.
