Posts by Vidiot

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A jury acquits Jehovah’s Witness in PA.

by was a new boy in

trial of lancaster city jehovah’s witness member accused of molestation begins.

jose antonio serrano.

lancaster county prison.

Ten reasons Jehovah’s Witnesses have the true religion (plus a bonus one)

by slimboyfat in

thinking back when i was a true believer these are probably the top ten reasons why i believed jws are the true religion.

1. they show love among themselves by not going to war.

not killing your fellow believers in any circumstances, including war, would seem to be a very basic requirement for true christianity.

Vidiot

Looking back, for me it was realizing that evolution was a fact of nature…

…and that the Org used misdirection, obfuscation, and semantics to argue against it, solely for ideological reasons.

If you have to cheat to defend your beliefs, what’s that say about your beliefs?

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How did JWs arrive at a clearer understanding of what the Bible teaches than other Christian denominations?

by slimboyfat in

for jws who believe that jehovah had a hand in reviving the truth in the nineteenth century this is enough explanation for how jws managed to achieve a closer approximation to early christian beliefs and practices than other groups.

but is there an explanation for this phenomenon that doesn’t rely on supernatural intervention?

new testament scholar james dunn explains the difficulty of interpreting the biblical texts in this way:.

Vidiot

slimboyfat - “…On the other hand, mainstream scholarly opinion agrees with JWs that the Trinity is not taught in the Bible, and many scholars agree that Jesus was viewed as an angel, God’s first creation, separate and distinct from God by the early Christians. That doesn’t prove JWs are correct but it is worth pointing out that senior scholars do support them on these issues.”

Even a busted clock is right twice a day.

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The World Today

by peacefulpete in

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friends

i've been meaning to share some recent experiences that defy the usual tropes about the 'world gone to hell' or 'people now days".. as some of you may remember i was seriously ill for a while and had to close my business and shop.

now, as it seems i have beaten it, i put up a sign again advertising that in a limited way i'm back.. what amazes me is how many times over the past 2 years customers and even competition have written and called to express their concern and best wishes.

just last week i had a personal visit of someone who i thought of as a rival, come in and shake my hand sincerely happy to see me up and around.

Vidiot

🥀 Stay strong, buddy.

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What makes a cult (in the pejorative sense)?

by Vanderhoven7 in

michael moore writes:.

a cult is an organization that enslaves minds and destroys families using cult mind control.

cult mind control involves orchestrated deception, social pressure, psychological abuse, and repetitive indoctrination (brainwashing) centering around an unchallengeable ideology enforced in a totalitarian way in a closed socially-separatist community setting.

Vidiot

Religion is supposed to make you feel better.

Cults make you feel worse.

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October Elder's Letter Delayed- Big Announcement at Annual Meeting

by Newly Enlightened in

https://youtu.be/93h5zpbil6k?si=ffatfxjuxmj_na9i.

Vidiot

“Listen, obey, swallow these mysterious, unidentified capsules, and await further instructions…”

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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

by careful in

... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

Vidiot

The Revelation Climax book was a fucking fever dream…

…there’s no way they could ever come up with something comparable nowadays.

Hell, most of their current content feels like it was written by software.

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WATCHTOWER WINS IN FRANCE AGAINST 🇫🇷 MIVILUDES

by raymond frantz in

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friends

https://youtu.be/lkflr6sgyfm?si=j4gopnyfpy3wxnxs.

in what can only be described as a win for truth, justice, and religious freedom (depending on who you ask ofcourse), the paris administrative court has come to the defense of jehovah’s witnesses.

on june 14, 2024, the court ruled that miviludes, france’s government agency for monitoring cult-like behavior, had committed the heinous crime of defamation against jehovah’s witnesses.france unlike most other countries has an agency that monitors destructive cults and gets who is in their list: jehovah’s witnesses, i wonder why that is.

Vidiot

Crap news…

…but first-rate sarcasm.

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

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in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

Vidiot

Coming soon to JWBroadcasting:

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EXPLOSIVE NEW LEAKED VIDEO OF C.O. CHASTISING ELDERS

by raymond frantz in

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friends

https://youtu.be/np05twylal8?si=wjcdevvpxmlwxb2p.

shame is an ancient form of control.

shame is the mechanism used to control behaviour.

Vidiot

Journeyman - “…Changes in behaviour seem to be driven much more by fear of man (shame of others in the congregation finding out, of losing 'privileges', etc) than really improving one's moral character…”

As far as authoritarian leaders are concerned, no one really has any “moral character”.