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  Stop Funding Watchtower in Canada!

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is worth a look!.

  https://youtu.be/wxfczptd2n8?si=4jo-nuzmlvglbvkm.

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  Vidiot

  Why would the US follow Canada’s lead on something like this?
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  Is The GB Paranoid? And Should They Be?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the gb seems to have a bunker mentality, that they are special, and that the world is out to get them, so they tend to keep within their tightly controlled, protective environment.

  bottlegate proved that there is some danger outside of the rarified atmosphere of their echo chamber; you never know when a camera might be trained on you, or that someone might recognise you as being something more than plain old "joe citizen".

  further, tm3's new address was quickly found and distributed, and (as i understand it) someone drove to his gated community to tell the security guard that tm3's "ass is grass".

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  Vidiot

  re. Phizzy’s post…

  They know it’s wrong…
  

  …but believe it’s true…

  …at the same time.

  I honestly don’t think authoritarian leaders actually experience cognitive dissonance, and, in fact, are unable to understand people who do.
  
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  My grandmother called my mother

  by Anony Mous in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i’m just posting this as a warning to lurking jws.

  if you’re still on the fence, here is a story.. my grandmother, now in her 80s hasn’t talked to anyone in the family for over 20 years ever since my mother was the last one of her children that left ‘the truth’, she had sent my mother a card to never talk to her again.

  so here we are 21 years later, she gets a call out of the blue that she needed help, she hadn’t been able to get into her kitchen.

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  Vidiot

  I’ve only ever read about stories like this; I’ve never seen it firsthand (not that I’m doubting you guys).

  My over-90-year-old JW mom lives with us; has for years now (my inactivity doesn’t seem to be much of a big deal, these days; so is she, because she has bowel issues, sore everything, and is deaf as a fucking post 😵‍💫)…

  …we take care of her (honestly, my wife does a better job of it than I do, and Mom sings her praises to the rest of the family), and she - in her own way - takes care of us.
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  Thoughts on annual meeting “new light”

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i finally saw the annual meeting video part 2.. this is the one with the “new light” on who might survive armageddon, vs. those who do not.. in summary, for those of you fortunate enough not to have to sit through it, it’s something like this:.

  old light: once the “great tribulation” starts, that’s it for non-jws.

  the “door of the ark” is closed.

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  Vidiot

  Phizzy - “…‘Well then, would it not be better to take a gun with you on the D to D work, and shoot whoever opens the door dead?’…”

  Wasn’t there a severely disturbed JW woman who essentially did that to her enter family for that precise reason a few years back?
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  More victory for Ex-JWs in B.C. Canada

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-jehovahs-witness-privacy-battle-1.7079252.

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  Vidiot

  It’s the kind of strategic blunder full-on True Believers make all the time…

  …that any decisions made by “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization” are, by default, the right decisions… therefore, the prospect of said decisions coming back and bite them on the ass years later is inconceivable…

  …and since Armageddon is coming any day now to bail them out, it really doesn’t matter anyway.

  As a result, the katamari ball of mistakes keeps getting bigger and bigger over the decades, until this happens:

  
  

  “Shred the fucking files! SHRED THE FUCKING FILES!!!”
  
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  Thoughts on annual meeting “new light”

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i finally saw the annual meeting video part 2.. this is the one with the “new light” on who might survive armageddon, vs. those who do not.. in summary, for those of you fortunate enough not to have to sit through it, it’s something like this:.

  old light: once the “great tribulation” starts, that’s it for non-jws.

  the “door of the ark” is closed.

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  Vidiot

  Or am I overthinking it?
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  Thoughts on annual meeting “new light”

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i finally saw the annual meeting video part 2.. this is the one with the “new light” on who might survive armageddon, vs. those who do not.. in summary, for those of you fortunate enough not to have to sit through it, it’s something like this:.

  old light: once the “great tribulation” starts, that’s it for non-jws.

  the “door of the ark” is closed.

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  Vidiot

  Something just occurred to me..,

  …the GB actually initiated JWLite in a somewhat strategic manner.

  Think about it.

  They could have simply stated that non-JWs (whatever their status) could theoretically believe/repent and get saved after seeing proof that the WTS had been right all along (which even has legitimate Biblical precedents, I might add; frankly, I was a little surprised they didn’t use ‘em)…

  …but dropping the bomb like that would probably have angered and alienated way more loyalists who’d busted their humps their whole lives (and a handful, in fact, are pissed off, if the stories on Reddit are legit).

  Instead, they peppered it through with plenty of we-just-don’t-knows, disparaged the idea of hoping non-JW relatives died before the GT started, and capped it off with a very specific warning to not resent those last-minute savees (“regardless of who or what they are” was implied)…

  …which may have been deliberately (i.e. strategically) done that way as just a smidge of misdirection, to mitigate the doctrine change’s impact on the aforementioned hump-busting loyalists.

  “Softening the blow”, as it were.
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  JW Chrisians in name only-what do you think

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw claim they are the true religion and they mention the love they have among themselves as proof.

  i have been watching a youtube creator who had some thoughts on the subject, bringing out jw were not really christian, based upon their actions.

  he made a pretty good case.

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  Vidiot

  The Org prioritizes unity over love.

  The don't even try to hide it all that much.
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  More victory for Ex-JWs in B.C. Canada

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-jehovahs-witness-privacy-battle-1.7079252.

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  Vidiot

  The WT’s top three indicators of God’s favor…

  a) …ever-climbing membership growth…

  b) …dialed-up-to-eleven ministry, and…

  c) …constant success in the courts.

  A drop in one can be hand-waved away, even two….

  …but three?
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  JEHOVAH'S WITNESS IS TAKING SPAIN TO COURT OVER A BLOOD TRANSFUSION THAT SAVED HER LIFE

  by Tahoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this article is behind a paywall: .

  https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/01/10/jehovahs-witness-is-taking-spain-to-court-over-a-blood-transfusion-that-saved-her-life/ .

  tahoe .

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  Vidiot

  Maybe the secular authorities are letting it go to trial to specifically demonstrate how unhinged the policy actually is.

  😏