Vidiot

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  I think the Jw Religion is getting better. Not by choice.

  by pistolpete in

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  one of my jw family member had a big get together.

  he invited a lot of his jw friends.

  there was teenage kids, couples, singles.

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  Vidiot

  re. asp59's post...

  First I've ever heard of it.
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  Why it takes a long time to bring a religious cult down.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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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  Vidiot

  Take any numbers the Org puts out with a Gibraltar-sized grain of salt.
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  New Article - Birthdays, Why the Watchtower stance is wrong

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you 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 🤣 i wonder if this'll be part of the programming on jw studios' paid streaming service 😉.

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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 in

  1. social
  2. current

  nasa 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2017 - 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 saying…

  …they know it’s wrong, but believe it’s true…

  …at the same time.
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  "The End is Imminent" - Tony Morris, 2017

  by Smiles in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  2017 tony morris jw gb.

  "the end is imminent!".

  timestamp (06:00).

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  Vidiot

  ‘Course, going around jabbing folks in the eye with a stick and whining when you get a beatdown for it doesn’t make you “persecuted”.

  It just makes you an asshole.
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  "The End is Imminent" - Tony Morris, 2017

  by Smiles in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  2017 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 they’re backed into too tight a corner, I can totally see them trying something stoopid like provoking “Satan’s World” into “attacking” them in the misguided hope that God’ll drop the Big A and bail ‘em out.
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  TRICKY WORDS and why not to use them

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tricky 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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.