Vidiot

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  August WT: DF'ing renamed "Removed." AKA: GB re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  so: the mystery has been clarified as to more "new light" / clarifications of decades old doctrine and procedure.

  august watchtower has finally been leaked.

  disfellowshipping?

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  WingCommander - “…really, this isn't exactly a course correction. It's a shell game…”

  And not even a particularly good one…

  …if they think any secular authority with half a brain is fooled, they’re naive.

  WingCommander - “…Barbara Anderson famously made the proclamation years ago that the Legal Dept are truly the ones at the helm of WatchTower HQ…”

  Know what’s really ironic?

  Having lawyers trying to “reform” a religion who’s present-day form was - for all intents and purposes - forged by a lawyer.

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  The “Good Provider”

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  2. friends

  anyone besides my mom ever use this term for describing their husband, especially one that was not a “spiritual lead” in the family?.

  this sounds like a term to use instead of the more truthful “i don’t really love him anymore, he is a disappointment to me, but as long as he brings in the money to pay the bills and puts food on the table for my children, i guess i will put up with it.”.

  thoughts?.

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  The need for a hierarchal authority structure and deference to said authority are so deeply hardwired into some folks that it’s all but impossible to get them out of it.
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  Watchtower August leak: details from reddit user

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from reddit.. a summary of changes: .

  we are all sinners, so we have to be reasonable how we punish sinners.

  if elders and congregation do not quickly help someone come to be reinstated they would be imitating satan the devil, not jehovah (yes that actually is what is said in the tagalog version in translation!

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  jonahstourguide - “…Obviously the lawyers are trying to remove toxic language that offended the Norwegian government…”

  My biggest takeaway was that they haven’t budged an inch on Fred Franz’s old End-Times narrative.

  We’d heard rumours they were overhauling it (as it was becoming increasingly implausible the further into the 21st Century we got), but it seems that’s not the case.
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  Watchtower August leak: details from reddit user

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from reddit.. a summary of changes: .

  we are all sinners, so we have to be reasonable how we punish sinners.

  if elders and congregation do not quickly help someone come to be reinstated they would be imitating satan the devil, not jehovah (yes that actually is what is said in the tagalog version in translation!

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  On a semi-related note…

  …according to this fellow, they’re pretty much doubling-down on everything else.
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  The "Baby Boomers" are starting to die off, and the effects

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was born in 1964, so, i was 10 when the buildup to 1975 was happening (and watched the subsequent failure of that).then, when i was a teenager, i got to see the fallour of the big apostacy events in the 1980s.during all of this, i was told by my parents and by people of my parents' peer group that "this old system won't last much longer, and won't the new system be great!

  "it is now 2024. i am going to be 60 years old in a few months.

  over half a century.my mom died two months after her 80th birthday last year, after suffering for years of chronic poor health (some of it brought on by a very sedentary lifestyle, but also plagued by emotional and mental issues and family drama which did not help overall.

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  I’ve come to suspect that Jaracz’s heavy-handed legacy is the Org’s real millstone, and the so-called “reforms” they’re trying to implement are like sticking more and more fingers into a dam’s holes.

  Eventually they’re gonna run out of fingers.

  I could be wrong.
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  Watchtower August leak: details from reddit user

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from reddit.. a summary of changes: .

  we are all sinners, so we have to be reasonable how we punish sinners.

  if elders and congregation do not quickly help someone come to be reinstated they would be imitating satan the devil, not jehovah (yes that actually is what is said in the tagalog version in translation!

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  One thing’s for certain…

  … they finally clued in (or, more likely, had to have it explained 🙄) that heavy-handed sentences make a DFed JW a lot less scared to take a look at “apostate” material on the net…

  …which means the longer they stay away, the less likely they are to come back.
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  Who is this Guy?

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the ra is underway and there is a common thread through the first day.

  they have a "presenter" who comes across as an educated historian handling early bible fragments and translations as if he knows what he's doing.

  the impression given is that he is an unassailable font of all knowledge, with his rich scottish accent he prints himself as across as professor gravitas.. i find this disturbing, we have no idea who he is or what if any his qualifications are to speak such with authority.

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  Fragrant - “…they tend to promote the most slimy people to the highest positions…”

  I don’t think it’s done on purpose.

  Its just that if/when you spend decades alienating intelligent, conscientious folks with flawed, ideology-driven decisions…

  …eventually, all you’ll be left with are monsters.
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  BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  "hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of euros match.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news.

  why don't german police just use guns?.

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  Vidiot

  Here’s another:

  
  

  Why… and how… would an embassy (regardless of where it was) kill a guy just for attacking a crossbow?

  😵‍💫
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  Who is this Guy?

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the ra is underway and there is a common thread through the first day.

  they have a "presenter" who comes across as an educated historian handling early bible fragments and translations as if he knows what he's doing.

  the impression given is that he is an unassailable font of all knowledge, with his rich scottish accent he prints himself as across as professor gravitas.. i find this disturbing, we have no idea who he is or what if any his qualifications are to speak such with authority.

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  Vidiot

  I’m amazed the guy could do all that and keep a straight face.
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  BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  "hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of euros match.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news.

  why don't german police just use guns?.

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  Vidiot

  Which reminds me…

  … is “misunderestimate” officially a word, yet?