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Posts by Vidiot
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30Why it takes a long time to bring a religious cult down.
by pistolpete ini think the first thing to consider is that it takes a while for humans to wake up to the truth.
this is not just a jw thing.
around 1600 ad, galileo challenged the catholic church's long held view that the earth was the center of our universe.
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New Article - Birthdays, Why the Watchtower stance is wrong
by jwfacts ini have a new article at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/birthdays.php outlining why the watchtower stance against birthdays is wrong.
there have been a number of threads on jwn discussing this, and the article collates and summarises the points raised in these threads.
please feel free to point out any errors in grammar or logic.
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Vidiot
What dropoffyourkeylee said.
It's been a really effective way of socially isolating JWs from non-members.
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JW News - yup it's a thing
by neat blue dog inyou might have seen my post a little while ago about how they were throwing around a new term, "jw news" and inserting it in articles.
well now they went ahead and made a logo for it.. .
oh brother 𤣠i wonder if this'll be part of the programming on jw studios' paid streaming service đ.
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Vidiot
"This just in...
...the Faithful Slave would like to (lovingly) remind you that we are deep, deep, deeeep in the Time of the End (TM), to remember to Listen, Obey, and Be Blessed, and to ignore all those apostate-driven lies about pedophiles, declining attendance, or mass real estate liquidations.
Or else.
In other news, stay tuned for a behind-the-scenes look at JesusVision, the new and exciting limited series, debuting eventually, exclusively on JW Broadcasting."
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NASA hiring religious leaders on extraterrestrial life....
by mikeflood innasa hiring religious leaders just in case they found extraterrestrial life, at priceton university's center of theological inquiry.
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just of curiosity, if nasa find something, how do you think the borg is gonna spin it.
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Vidiot
A funny thing about ETs...
...American Evangelical ideology and cosmology (the JW variation included) doesn't really allow for the possibility of them.
I have, in fact, heard that it's one of the real reasons why UFO research has been so publicly stymied in the US for so long...
...numerous high-ranking military officials and politicians have subscribed to those belief systems and used their influence to avoid the issue, because it too deeply - and uncomfortably - challenged their belief systems.
Not to mention that politically, Evangelical Christians were too large a voting bloc to... well... alienate.
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BTW... even as a young guy, I'd grasped that if a full-on First Contact scenario actually took place, the WTS would not handle it at all well.
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New light and confessing to congregations.
by asp59 in2017 - wt: the gb is neither inspired or infallible and can err in doctrine and organisational matters... clearly gb have received biblical information about things that been done wrong.
not from god directly, but letters received at headquarters.
if important new light about biblical matters have come to the gb attention, why are they not telling the congregations about that information?
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Vidiot
Like I keep sayingâŚ
âŚthey know itâs wrong, but believe itâs trueâŚ
âŚat the same time.
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"The End is Imminent" - Tony Morris, 2017
by Smiles in2017 tony morris jw gb.
"the end is imminent!".
timestamp (06:00).
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Vidiot
âCourse, going around jabbing folks in the eye with a stick and whining when you get a beatdown for it doesnât make you âpersecutedâ.
It just makes you an asshole.
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"The End is Imminent" - Tony Morris, 2017
by Smiles in2017 tony morris jw gb.
"the end is imminent!".
timestamp (06:00).
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Vidiot
If the Rising Tide of pedo cases and potential loss of tax-exemption get so bad that they feel like theyâre backed into too tight a corner, I can totally see them trying something stoopid like provoking âSatanâs Worldâ into âattackingâ them in the misguided hope that Godâll drop the Big A and bail âem out.
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TRICKY WORDS and why not to use them
by Terry intricky words .
perfectly good words go unused in writing and speaking.
their meaning isn't clear and the eye is 'tricked' by similarity to other words or sounds.. .
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Vidiot
When I saw the thread title, I assumed it meant weasel-words...
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I have come to the conclusion that a lot of JWs don't care if the end is near.
by mickbobcat ini was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
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Vidiot
Not unlike how like the WT leadership knows it's wrong...
...but believes it's True...
...at the same time.
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Child pornography should NOT be automatically handled by a judicial committee
by pistolpete innew information added to the "shepherd the flock elder's book" .
they have updated their policy on viewing child pornography.. from a congregation standpoint it is not viewed as child sex abuse and is something that should not be automatically handled by a judicial committee.
it states that a person viewing child pornography should be strongly counseled.
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Vidiot
hoser - "When the authorities start throwing governing body members in jail they will cry persecution."
'Course they will.
Getting anyone but the small percentage of hardcore Lifers to really believe it is another thing, though.