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  The wt has now changed Jesus definition of neighboor

  by poopie in

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  the man asked jesus who is my neighbor jesus stated the one who acts mercifully toward other humans.

  not good enough for watchtower neighbor must fit in three catagories only according to yesterdays wt wow changed the words of the son of god.

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  Ya’ll are taking exception to instruction to ‘love one’s neighbor as oneself,’ you get that, right? Everyone at my Hall understood the three categories to mean ‘everyone.’
  

  Lana our precious pumpkin, we are taking exception to the plain fact that Jesus' own explanation of who constitutes a neighbour is not good enough for your magnificent New York 7. They take it upon themselves, as always, to ADD even to the concise words of Christ himself and complicate a simple illustration to squeeze a Watchtower paragraph or two out of it for a bunch of mindless drones to nod along to sagely, you get that, right?
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  New Light: Clap when it is given a Reinstatement ad

  by TheTruthBR in

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  a new letter was posted in jw.org to the elders who are under the brazilian branch:.

  january 25, 2016to all bodies of eldersref .

  : clap when given a readmission addear brothers:we would like to inform you about a recent adjustment.

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    lanalonger3 hours ago

    I for one appreciate it, it is so hard to not clap when someone is reinstated. It isn’t a huge deal but shows that the brothers are not inflexible.

    
    
  • Lana poppet, if you really need the approval of the mighty 7 Gibbering Buddies to let you know when you can do something as innocuous as place your palms together, honey, the Kingdumb Hall is the place for you indupitably. Perhaps you could pop back here when you find a couple of brain cells to rub together and formulate an original thought of your own.
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  Gems From the WT

  by Slidin Fast in

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  just noticed this gem of a definition in the current (no 1) wt.

  "lying.

  saying something false to someone who is entitled to know the truth.".

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  lanalonger2 hours ago

  So if murderous robbers were in your house, and you had hidden your young children, you would tell the truth about their location if asked?

  No Lana dear, we would of course in that situation LIE you dear, silly, cloth eared wee bint you. But we would not have to redefine our language to make ourselves holier than thou , we would simply LIE to the bad men. Have you grasped the point yet sweet pea?
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  Divergent (this is a must watch)

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  it's a 2014 movie and i'm only watching it now.

  it reminds me strongly of the life of jws and ex-jws..

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  Equilibrium - now THERE'S a film that resonates. ..all the themes of cultlife. But instead of reading a dumb book to try to kill all their natural desires and interests, they just take a daily injection. That injection = the bOrg's daily intrusion into the minutae of our lives, draining all the joy and feeling away.
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  ListlessWitness

  Converted

  Baptised 1994

  Escaped 2014

  20 years
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  Reflections

  by Frenchy in

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  im starting a new thread because its time i left the bergman discussion.

  i would like to address some comments made by ahhah, however, comments which have given me reason to look deep into myself.. even then, i wonder how objective a person could ever be after having had part of their life taken from them by a cult association.

  on the other hand, who else (other than an ex-jw) would ever care enough to work as tirelessly as he seems to have in attempting to document the potential harm of this religion (biased as it may be).

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  Well said truthseeker, the occasional texts from elders convince me that as a recent fader they are going after me as low hanging fruit...I just made dinner for my grandson and am looking forward to spending the day with him tomorrow; a small joy that FS for the cult would have put a stop to!

  Love the small stuff with the family. Over 20 years in the cult, forgot the meaning of the verb "chill"
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  My first post

  by thewalker in

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  hi, i just joined the board and wanted to present myself.. i'm active, in fact very active in congregation activities serving "where the need is great" in a foreign language congregation somewhere in western europe.

  as a young brother, i'm seen as an example as i'm doing all a good witness should do.. i had doubts years ago but i decided just to ignore them and move to another congregation to preach more.

  that worked for some years but i'm now at the exact same point.

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  ^^^ what maksutov said! + all others

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  "the Kingdom work is expanding at an accelerated pace"

  by Londo111 in

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  if recent intel is true, there is only a .23% increase worldwide in 2015. .

  notice what is increasing is not the average publisher count, according to the above watchtower quote to spin the bethel downsizing, but the work.

  "the little one will become a thousand and the small one a mighty nation.

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  It is OVERLAPPING expanding and the acceleration is invisible
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  BOE 2015-10-23 Re: Foreign-Language Field

  by wifibandit in

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  pdf via google

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  It really, really scares me that I sat there politely, signing, while a stranger hauled my grandson out presumably to chastise him. Why did I allow that? Some scary shit that right there.
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  BOE 2015-10-23 Re: Foreign-Language Field

  by wifibandit in

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  pdf via google

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  I had a hideous flashback while reading that. When I was still in, I took my grandson to visit a meeting with a deaf friend of mine and they asked me to interpret for the sign language group in the hall. Grandson was only a toddler. While I signed, he was messing around near me, crawling on the chairs and copying me signing, and a sister I had never met grabbed him and took him out of the hall. My powerlessness to prevent this abuse might have actually been one of the things which opened my eyes to the control this borganisation exerted on me. I just carried on signing and within a minute he was carried back in distraught, crying for me. This was all the more weird because up until that moment he had never really been bothered about being close to me, but he sat on my lap cowering for the rest of the meeting.

  I had forgotten about that until reading that letter.