i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.
) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.
what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?
@ ThomasMore…
Don't kid yourself.
These days, when they say “we don’t know”, it’s never actually a display of humility or an admission of ignorance …
…it’s to cover their asses after decades of extra-Biblical policies and ideas that turned out to be consistently, embarrassingly, and hilariously wrong.
Honestly, it seems like two-thirds of anything they say now is an attempt at damage control for shit they used to say then.
https://youtu.be/lov1gsxj4tg?si=ze-fdc8yswirahwx.
this is a mini report on usa that includes an update on ramapo as it was delivered during the british bethel inauguration few days ago....
I’ve never found the Service Reports anything to get excited about.
i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.
) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.
what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?
TonusOH - “…Don't they still believe that every animal will become an herbivore in the new system?”
These days, when an older idea they liked has clearly become untenable for whatever reasons, they say “we just don’t know”.
i get a few good laughs from the ex-jw facebook site: " ex jw humor will set you free".. i was laughing over dinner with 3rd gen over this post tonight: "question for the audience: i was driving around today and it hit me...there are big falsehoods (armageddon etc.
) that we were told, but also ridiculous falsehoods.
what is your favorite ridiculous falsehoods?
All of the Genesis-as-literal-history stuff that was either officially or unofficially promoted…
…almost all of which turned out to be cribbed from “worldy” creationists. 🙄
according to several spanish ex-jw youtube channels, this is a jw family... but i'm still trying to confirm... .
https://www.fox29.com/news/mom-daughter-found-stabbed-philadelphia-basement.
“…being destroyed at Armageddon if they remained out of the Org when it happened…”
I don’t remember if official WT doctrine ever stated this explicitly, but the second-hand rhetoric absolutely emphasized it… my parents raised me believing it.
What really gets me is when self-styled theologians craft or condone ideology like that and then actually seem surprised when shit like this inevitably goes down.
You wanna yell at them: “WTF did you think was gonna happen???”
it comes up from time to time: that the wt's "constant pleas for money" signifies their precarious financial state due to the pressure of the csa settlements.
is there any way of demonstrating that to be a fact?
i ask because i've always been under the impression that "constant pleas for money" is the default state of the organisation, possibly going back to rutherford's time.
The pinch is painfully obvious when you know to look for it.
https://youtu.be/jctod7viuq0?si=bcffiejweq8k-rwn.
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One of Evangelicalism’s dark alters, obviously.
😏
https://youtu.be/jctod7viuq0?si=bcffiejweq8k-rwn.
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Wicca/Paganism… Catholicism’s old hippy-chick next-door-neighbor-slash-frenemy (and former occasional late-night bootycall who called it quits after one too many drunken rants).
Sikhism… Hinduism’s ambitious younger brother.
Zoroastrianism… everybody’s late great-granddaddy who’s rarely talked about, but never disrespected.
https://youtu.be/jctod7viuq0?si=bcffiejweq8k-rwn.
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Whoops, I just thought of another one to sandwich in just after mainstream Protestantism…
…Evangelicalism… the WTS’s bipolar twin sister (i.e. perfectly agreeable as long as she stays on her meds).
EDIT: aaaaand Islamic terrorism… mainstream Islam’s miniature but admittedly dangerous clone.
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https://youtu.be/jctod7viuq0?si=bcffiejweq8k-rwn.
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Judaism? The WTS’s elderly and eccentric but surprisingly insightful grandfather.
Buddhism and Hinduism? Judaism’s old, laid-back college buddies.
Islam? Judaism’s outlier son from a previous marriage who’s a bit behind the rest of the class, but still stands a chance at catching up.
Scientology? Everyone’s crazy, paranoid, and mean-as-fuck neighbor from down the street.
