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  Memories of Excessive Laughter

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jw's are not known for laughter.

  there are the rare exceptions.

  they are more known for their fear mongering and doomsday scenarios where "the dead shall come to be as manure on the surface of the ground from one end of the earth clear to the other".

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  Vidiot

  Ron W. - “…'he's too self contained. Us elders holding him back doesn't bother him, and we elders don't like that’…”

  “We’re holding him back because we’re pissed at him for not caring whether or not we’re holding him back!”

  🤔
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  PREPARE TO GET PELTED BY SYMBOLIC HAILSTONES

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/idhmflud3p4?si=9xc4svrhxslduwvz.

  so david schafer a member of the teaching commitee and a helper to the governing body has come out yesterday with a new video that goes through the king of the north, the hailstones message and other things in the wake of the possibility of a ww3 and especially now that tensions are escalating with russia so he is making quite a few end time arguments and i will be expanding on those one by one but today let's see what he has about the hailstones message of the end(video) so this is the paragraph in question, paragraph 14 from article 20 of the watchtower 2020 study edition: "sometime after the start of the great tribulation, “the kings of the entire inhabited earth” will form a coalition of nations.

  (rev.

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  Vidiot

  Damn, they gave themselves all the wiggle room, didn’t they? 😏
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses’ UN Prophecy Fails Again: Trump’s Win Proves Them Wrong

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/-kdbs3lcsx8?si=icfla8tzg0p_wdcz.

  the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses (gb) has done it again—another bold prophecy, another epic fail.

  during their 2024 annual meeting, they confidently announced that the nations of the world would soon hand over their power to the united nations.

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  Vidiot

  F’real.

  The guy spent his twilight years dressed in Herb Tarleck’s hand-me-downs, shuffling around Bethel, muttering to his shoes.
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  Norway didn't fall for it

  by Jalisco in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  la norvegia non è caduta nella trappola della torre di guardia di agosto.. https://files.accessjw.org/s/sdzfgcgk4bi48jb.

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  Vidiot

  re. TonusOH’s post…

  Yup.

  Norwegian JWs are still able to believe, practice, and live however the fuck they want (within the constraints of secular law)…

  …they simply may no longer do it on the taxpayers’ dime, anymore.

  Making this distinction clear is paramount, IMO.
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses’ UN Prophecy Fails Again: Trump’s Win Proves Them Wrong

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/-kdbs3lcsx8?si=icfla8tzg0p_wdcz.

  the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses (gb) has done it again—another bold prophecy, another epic fail.

  during their 2024 annual meeting, they confidently announced that the nations of the world would soon hand over their power to the united nations.

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  JW loyalists’ counter-argument is that God miraculously compels them to do it…

  …i.e. no mundane, real-world, ducks-in-a-row preparatory measures needed.
  
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  Is it just me, or is Watchtower lowering its standards?

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the past, we used to hear talks on:.

  avoiding sexual immorality and porn, as well as masturbation and other sexual practices.

  why evolution cannot possibly be true.

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  Vidiot

  Multiple elder visits… wrist-slaps for minors… 3-month probationary removal… everybody says hi anyways…

  …at this point, WTF is the point?
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  Did Tony Morris Get Sideways with His Bros.?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  interesting video connects the dots.

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  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff1ibybfe4&t=205s&pp=2ahnazacaq%3d%3d.

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  FFGhost - “…How bad off are they, financially?”

  This is almost the exact same question I asked when their charity-status was literally on the chopping block in Australia, and they blinked at the last minute and signed up for the ARC’s redress scheme to keep it…

  …and when I first clued in that their financial situation might not be as robust as we’d thought.
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  The case from Denmark - setttled in The European Court

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  beninu andersen.

  denmark.

  i am not aware of how many of you are familiar with the danish case of a jehovah's witness who was hospitalized after a tragic accident where he fell several floors from a scaffolding where he was working.. the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and was conscious (albeit somewhat confused) for the first three weeks.

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  @ NotFormer…

  Still gobsmacks me when I actually see it.

  It’s one thing to pick fights that aren’t winnable…

  …it’s a whole ‘nother thing to pick fights that make you look stupid.
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  The case from Denmark - setttled in The European Court

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  beninu andersen.

  denmark.

  i am not aware of how many of you are familiar with the danish case of a jehovah's witness who was hospitalized after a tragic accident where he fell several floors from a scaffolding where he was working.. the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and was conscious (albeit somewhat confused) for the first three weeks.

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  Jeezus, it seems like every fight they pick these days makes ‘em look worse.
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  Is it just me, or is Watchtower lowering its standards?

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the past, we used to hear talks on:.

  avoiding sexual immorality and porn, as well as masturbation and other sexual practices.

  why evolution cannot possibly be true.

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  DesirousOfChange - “…While it used to mean removal of any/all privileges, they had to adjust that policy or there would be no elders/MS still serving and definitely no young guys available for Bethel service…”

  While this aspect makes me chuckle, there’s a darker parallel.

  After the Dateline expose 20-odd years ago, they made a semi-public statement that that no known sex offenders could hold any positions of responsibility in JW congregations.

  What some might not know is that a few years later, they quietly (but very specifically) reversed that policy.

  I couldn’t get my head around it… YTF would they set themselves up for the kind of blowback that would inevitably come from that?

  Eventually, I figured it out…

  …coupled with fewer and fewer qualified males “reaching out”, there had to be so many offenders that the Org was running out of guys to keep things functioning.

  And that was a very disturbing conclusion.