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  Jehovah's Witnesses' "disfellowshipping" examined in Psychiatric Journal. "How Religious Shunning Ruins Lives".

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  if it is illegal for minors to get married, enter into contracts, drink, and smoke, why is it legal for them to enter into lifelong religious contracts they can not break without family shunning and community ostracism????

  how religious shunning ruins lives.

  a form of institutionalized estrangement, shunning hurts health of the excluded.. updated march 27, 2024 |psychology today magazine.

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  One small step closer to the Org losing its tax-exemption in yet another part of the world.
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  Apostate lies are NOW fulfilling BIBLE PROPHECY 😅

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the new study article 28 watchtower that has just been published on jw.org is about apostate lies and introduces new concepts in their effort to compat apostasy in the congregations.

  so despite the loosening of their recent disfellowshipping rules their fight against apostates is still raging hard.

  according to the foreword of this article, they will concentrate on :.

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  ThomasMore - “I once heard some heavies at the Bible House say that listing the ‘lies’ of apostates would be to propagate them. I disagreed since it only made publishers curious as to what these ‘apostate lies’ were…”

  This.

  Clearly, none of ‘em have heard of the Barbara Streisand Effect.

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  New light: the GB are infallible

  by AEnEm in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  amazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.

  the gb "never lie or deceive us.

  we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.

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  GB Helper Gary Breaux - “…It's of note that liars will often shroud or cover the lie in truth...”

  Well…

  …he’d know.
  
  
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  Apostate lies are NOW fulfilling BIBLE PROPHECY 😅

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the new study article 28 watchtower that has just been published on jw.org is about apostate lies and introduces new concepts in their effort to compat apostasy in the congregations.

  so despite the loosening of their recent disfellowshipping rules their fight against apostates is still raging hard.

  according to the foreword of this article, they will concentrate on :.

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  Didn’t you know?

  Everything apostates say is, by default, a lie. Even the stuff that’s true.

  That being said, the Org has no interest in having the R&F “defend” themselves against anything XJWs say…

  …they haven’t in a long time.
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  Prediction: no more changes for a long while

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve noticed a pattern where things don’t go the way i expect them to go and/or whenever i realise there is a trend and, i mentally adjust for the idea that the trend will continue, the trend stops in its tracks.

  so on that basis, and given many people, including myself, and active jws, have been asking ‘what changes will the governing body make next?’ perhaps the (disappointing) answer is: ‘nothing much for a while to come’.

  maybe they’ve made the changes they want for now, and will wait a while and see how it’s received.

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  ThomasMore - “…an unimpeachable source confided that they were spending a lot more than they could control…”

  Precisely the kind of strategic blunder made by someone who’s convinced of their own exclusive divine favor…

  ...i.e. you start thinking you’re invincible and destined to prevail, no matter what.
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  New light: the GB are infallible

  by AEnEm in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  amazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.

  the gb "never lie or deceive us.

  we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.

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  Scully - “…That, my friends, is the look of a man who is simultaneously (and involuntarily) hiking his balls up into his body while holding back an entire colon's worth of diarrhea.”

  With the sheer deluge of GB-veneration he was spewing, I’d have thought it was a spontaneous and involuntary orgasm.
  

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  Apostate lies are NOW fulfilling BIBLE PROPHECY 😅

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the new study article 28 watchtower that has just been published on jw.org is about apostate lies and introduces new concepts in their effort to compat apostasy in the congregations.

  so despite the loosening of their recent disfellowshipping rules their fight against apostates is still raging hard.

  according to the foreword of this article, they will concentrate on :.

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  Wow.

  I’ve always wanted to be a part of prophecy fulfillment.

  How exciting.
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  Was it Designed?

  by Jeffro in

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  2. beliefs

  the jw website is currently featuring a piece: the shell of the diabolical ironclad beetle​—was it designed?

  it is part of their regular tedious 'was it designed?

  ' series that purports that very very specific animal species must have been specifically designed because of some seemingly amazing feature.. but they seem completely unaware that this directly contradicts their notion that only very broad 'kinds' were required on the mythical 'ark'.

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  Diogenesister - “…Watchtower has always believed in microevolution…”

  I don’t recall them ever saying that.

  If they ever officially accepted it, they’d keep it on the way-down-low…

  …it’d be a red pill they wouldn’t like swallowing.

  
  
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  Governing Body Of Jehovah's Witnesses Releases New Christmas Song About Jesus' Birth . . . Really???

  by Golden4Altar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses have long condemned any celebration of the christmas holiday supposedly commemorating jesus' birth, as being a pagan celebration of christendom.

  they have even disfellowshipped many from the organization for celebrating it, in any form or fashion.

  every jehovah's witness world wide knows this.

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  nowwhat? - “…I hate repetitive posts!”

  Me, too!

  I hate repetitive posts!
  
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  Do JWs Really Say This?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i stumbled, via a google search, upon a part of jw space that is usually heavily defended against outsiders like my good self.

  in a discussion, someone started their post with "i (started doing x)... when the slave began to suggest doing so"*.

  do pimis really talk that way?

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  Yup.

  Doubling down over and over again in the face of evidence they were wrong, because course-correction would threaten the all-or-nothing premise they’d spent decades reinforcing…

  …and decades later, you can’t help but end up with a group of guys who can’t even handle being wrong, and will go to any length to avoid having to acknowledge it even to themselves.