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  Awake 1976 - Should a Pocket Calculator Be in Your Pocket?

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.

  somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.

  anyone remember it?.

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  LongHairGal - “…Now, they can hardly keep people in the religion as members are fed up and leaving in droves. Oh, well…”

  When you spend decades alienating thoughtful, conscientious folks…

  …all you’re gonna end up left with are assholes.
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  Trump assassination attempt??

  by Diogenesister in

  1. social
  2. current

  it happened at a rally in pennsylvania, apparently.

  he seems ok i've seen a photo of him bleeding from his ear.

  this is absolutely nutso....if it's too it doesn't surprise me the way they constantly describe him as "far right" and that his supporters are "maga republicans".

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  Rivergang - “Never underestimate the role that good old-fashioned bungling and incompetence can play in such events as this one.”

  9-11 comes to mind.
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  Remember the sex talks?

  by KerryKing in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember sitting through public talks where the speaker spent the hour discussing in great detail anal sex, masturbation (of yourself and others), sex during menstruation and so on.

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  i was a child, looking back now, i realise that they systematically stripped away our childhood innocence, we knew and heard things no 'worldly' child would have heard.. the child abuse and grooming happened to every single one of us, the feelings of guilt and shame was in all of us even if we didn't actually do anything bad, the mental images caused by these filthy men hung around in our innocent minds till there was no room for that innocence.. it has taken me 44 years to realise that what was done to us, even those of us not physically abused, is a crime.. do they still have talks like that nowadays i wonder?

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  Tonus - “…the USA is far more prudish that most other countries…”

  Puritans in public, perverts in private.

  Sexual repression fosters sexual deviancy. Anyone who hasn’t figured that out by now probably never will.
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  Not going to say a word

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0p-5x2g4w.

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  Still doesn’t top the deafsturbation video.

  😏
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  The Rapture

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was pioneering, i don't remember ever addressing the rapture question.

  does anyone know how a jw would respond to this verse?

  for the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of god.

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  In practice, it’s the same basic concept (albeit reserved for a select few)…

  …they just didn’t/wouldn’t call it that, for the same reason they label virtually everything else different from “Christendom”

  Contrarian for the sake of contrarianism. 🙄
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  Interesting that the other cult-cousins are going thru nearly identical hemmoraging of members.....

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i still read on reddit.

  (though no longer post) occasionally, i'll venture over to the ex-seventh day adventist (sda) sub and catch up a bit.

  it's been a long time.

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  WingCommander - “…WT HQ is bleeding to death financially…”

  Ironic, since transfusions have been such an issue with them for so long.

  😏
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  New instructions on not using sisters to manage KH computer ?

  by fifth.column in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since covid in france, especially in the countryside with lack of brothers, it was quite common that some sisters were using the computer at the back of the kingdom hall to manage zoom session.. i heard a rumor that new instructions, maybe a july letter, stated that this was reserved for male only, even unbaptised publishers, but no sister if there is at least a male available.

  that would be a steps back and disappointment for these sisters.

  last week i heard at my mom’s house how they were happy that this service was available for them, a proof that the org was moving forward.

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  Authoritarian regimes are all about subservience.

  Someone’s gotta be on the lowest rung of the ladder…

  …otherwise, what’s the point?
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  Members of congregation know it’s not true

  by Mikejw in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we have lonely old folks and even some not so old.. they know the gb are not who they claim to be.. but they stay in the congregation because they are lonely.

  i wonder what percentage of jws this is the case, i would guess a lot.

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  @ LongHairGal…

  Whoops, my bad.
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  Has The "Evil Slave" Died Out?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  those of us who have deep roots into watchtower remember the shadowy whispers about "the evil slave" when we were kids.. for those that need to get up to speed: .

  the internal crisis came to its full with the occurrence of an outstanding bible-predicted event, namely, the coming of jehovah’s “messenger,” christ jesus, to jehovah’s temple for judgment in the spring of 1918, to separate the “faithful and discreet slave” class from the “evil slave” group.

  (mal.

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  KerryKing - “…They might have left it a bit late for that, all the recent changes are their own…”

  Exactly my point.

  Pin the label on him, and if they’re put to the question, spin the current “reforms” as a course-correction away from the mess he left.

  Wouldn’t even be a lie, really.

  (not that I think they’d actually do it)
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  unbaptized boy having priority over women

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking about the male children ( even unbaptized ) being placed ahead of the sisters.

  ; and i thought the jw were raising a bunch of misogynist.

  would these kids not feel more important than their mothers let alone other women.

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  Vidiot

  Whoops, almost forgot… smart, too.