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  Watchtower Dishonesty aka Theocratic Warfare

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to collect as many instances of watchtower dishonesty and pretense as possible.

  here is one from a bulgarian as an example of what i'm looking for.. are jehovah's witnesses disfellowshipped for receiving blood in a hospital?.

  helge fauskanger writes: "if witnesses can’t convince the elders that they are utterly “repentant” for this vampiric lapse of theirs, they will be held to have disassociated themselves from the religion — even if they never said a word about wanting to leave it!

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  Vidiot

  Once again, for the newbies, lurkers, and trolls...

  ...if you have to cheat to defend your beliefs, your beliefs don't deserve to be defended.
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  WT May 2022: The Seven Headed Beast

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  https://youtu.be/wg9-pvxsoqm.

  this is my take on may 2022 watchtower on the seven headed beast and its connection to the 4 beasts of daniel 7. what do you think?.

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  Vidqun - "To explain Revelation, Daniel's input would be needed."

  My dad used to say the same thing.

  Makes me think of legacy sequels to classic movie franchises...

  ...good luck understanding them if you haven't seen the original.

  
  
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  Mark Sanderson

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since mark sanderson of the gb is never married, does he have his own room at warwick or have a roommate?

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  Smiles - "Two insiders have separately remarked that behind the HQ curtain Mark Sanderson is wresting greater internal dominance within the JW organisation, steering hard turns by well-crafted agenda... For reasons yet to be fully understood (beyond stamina factors) the senior brass have yielded Sanderson unusual latitude in some strategic areas of organisational command that are expected to further modify the religion's profile, and significantly impact lives of PIMI membership... Sanderson may appear jolly, but he is also cunning."

  Huh.

  Wouldn't have thought that by the look of 'im.
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  Isn’t JW’s teaching of “the abomination that causes desolation” wrong?

  by Abraham1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what “the abomination that causes desolation” mentioned in mathew 24:15 means could be understood only by close followers of jesus because it was part of his personal discussion with them.

  by stopping to greet those whom they consider as “their enemies” jws are identifying themselves as “pagans,” according to jesus.

  (mathew 5:43-48) thus they cannot correctly understand what the abomination that causes desolation” that would appear as part of signs of “last days.”.

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  RolRod - "The abomination is the Mass."

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

  😭😢😓😰😡.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.

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  BluesBrother - "...this sudden rush to reopen seems a complete U Turn..."

  Ten bucks says they've finally clued in just how easy the Zoom meetings make it for the rank-and-file to slack off.

  
  
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  "Midnight Mass" on Netflix

  by smiddy3 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i watched the 7 part series and finished today .what struck me about the show was how one could cherry pick scriptures to believe whatever you want to believe.. the use of scriptures to back up the beliefs was in my mind an eye opener.. ok so it was over the top and a horror supernatural series with a bit of blood and gore,and if your a bit squeamish about that sort of thing close your eyes till those parts are over .. but what i found fascinating ,intriguing,was how one of the main characters used scriptures to enforce her understanding of how they applied to the here and now of the series.. cherry picking of scriptures to believe what you want to believe,with a little help from a priest ,pastor ,organization.. i would recommend it ,as you can easily see how, their are now more than 40,000 different christian sects in the world including the mainstream ones who believe they only have the "truth".. i welcome your thoughts if you have seen it.. ps.

  obviously their are no jw`s on this island ..

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  Terrific show.

  My daughter (who's a major horror geek) and I have been Mike Flanagan fans for a while now.

  If anyone's interested in checking out some of his other stuff, there's The Haunting of Hill House (also on Netflix), and a movie called Oculus.
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  Blood Transfusions & Flood, Questions from Bible student only

  by Marbles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was never a jdubb, only a bible student.

  there are two main questions i have.

  let me preface that by saying that i do not believe the bible is true, or the word of god.

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  waton - "...they are led carefully into the trap of controlled thinking..."

  Not to mention that the Org does a first-rate job of making you feel like a complete moron if you don't come to the conclusion they want you to.

  waton - "It is a circular argument to try to will the truth onto a matter by the delusion of so many..."

  Insightful.

  If they believe it hard enough, it'll become real.

  Textbook magical thinking.
  
  
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  Any in-house word on Ukrainian Witnesses form HQ?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone heard any word on active witnesses inside the ukraine and what has been happening with them the last week or so?

  i checked the official org website but there was just the expected "fulfilling bible prophecy" stuff.

  perhaps someone here has bethel contacts who have leaked some info on what the gb is trying to do for these victims of putin's madness?.

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  inbetween - "For JW (not only them) its very simple: Anything positive = Gods blessing, anything negative = Satans attack..."

  "Everything is proof we're right!

  Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!!!"

  
  
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  No beards...even Jesus! Strange Watchower rule for brothers!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower 1954 p.511 "why do watchtower publications now show jesus with short hair and no beard?

  because he is shown that way in older representations of him that are older then the traditional effeminate looking pictures.".

  watchtower 1968 p.286 "bible evidence and a recent review shows that jesus did have a beard..." charles russell style of beard was popular at bethel...till rutherford took over.

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  Vidiot

  More often than not, a well-kept beard improves a man's appearance.

  And I have long suspected (even way back when I was still in) that the Org doesn't really want its members to be too pretty.
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  So why didn't Jehovah/ GB/ watchtower warn the brothers in Ukraine to get out before before the war started?

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. beliefs

  if that had occured wouldn't that have given us confidence and faith for when the big one comes?

  just sayin'.

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  nowwhat? - "So why didn't Jehovah/ GB/ watchtower warn the brothers in Ukraine to get out before before the war started?"

  
  

  As if they'd know in the first place.

  With their track record, the WTS couldn't accurately predict a fucking coin toss.