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  What would be the Watchtower organizations response to "GB-Fact-checkers"

  by Esse quam videri in

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  much is being said during the usa election run-up and trump-clinton debates about checking the facts of statements made by each candidate.

  this is, of course, serious stuff as the direction of the countries future depends on just who is elected into office of the president of the united states of america.

  not president of the local 'glee club' or the 'southside knitting society' , but, the president of the united states of america.

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  Half banana

  Facts is a dirty word to the Watchtower. You can run a cult on facts.
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  How can there be an advantage in believing in something which has no basis in concrete evidence or fact? "Beliefs" are dangerous to our wellbeing!
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  Half banana

  Heathen, the whole edifice of religion is built on the sanctity of folk tales held up by the priestly ones to be inerrant truth.

  The time has gone when this notion is felt to be true, it has been put to bed by the majority who recognize it as childish superstition. Especially is this so in Europe but even Americans are waking up!

  You responded to my quoting Mark 9,1 by saying that "The belief is" such and such. To quote a "belief" is meaningless since beliefs are irrelevant. The only things worth investigation and study are for those things for which there is evidence and there is no evidence that anything in the Bible is other than the work of human scribes usually pursuing a dire nationalistic agenda in the OT and a paranoid Jewish /pagan fusion cult in the NT.
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  My Story

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my story: i am a 27 year old ex jw.

  former ms and regular pioneer at age 19. i was very active and had many "privileges" including district assembly and circuit assembly parts etc.

  as an example for young people.

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  Half banana

  Well done Herelgo for waking up and putting reason before faith.

  The only defence the cruel JW org has is to deny ex members their most basic human ties and emotional security; their own family............ Cult cult cult.

  ........but you're welcome here!
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  the new understanding

  by heathen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys , i know i was never a favorite here and haven't posted in awhile ... question .

  what do you think of the new understanding of , " this generation " they seem to go in circles on this one big time , once 1914 generation was almost gone they said they didn't know what it meant and now in the new publication the generation includes the second generation after 1914 .... i agree they don't know what they are talking about and this is just another control move .

  any comments ?.

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  Half banana

  Heathen, the whole thing was a massive hoax right from the start. Nobody recorded Jesus' words at the time he was supposed to have spoken them and nobody could have remembered Jesus' words forty years later to write them down. The variations in the gospels demonstrate the enormous differences.

  Just read Mark 9;1. Jesus got it completely wrong...why should anyone else start getting it right two thousand years later?

  The JW org is a pathetic money hoarding cult preying on the goodness of honest but gullible believers.

  Become a "knower" instead.
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  ls homosexuality really normal?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  l know animals do it but their animals.they dont live by a moral code.the thought of 2 men going for it is not normal.what are your thoughts?.

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  Yes Nic, it's morally wrong and abnormal to persist in posting grammatical and spelling errors, God will punish all offenders. As Jesus said "You must be perfect." They will not be found in God's Righteous New World.............

  If one is gay on the other hand, it must be perfectly normal to feel that way. Ancient religious values are not appropriate in the modern world.

  Forget the Bible; it divides people. The more enlightened way today is by pluralism, which means recognizing the full spectrum of human needs and behaviour.
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  What's The First "Worldly" Thing You Did When You Exited The Cult?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when you finally and officially exited the cult, whether it be by disfellowshipping, disassociating or fading - what was the first things you did that are considered "worldly"?.

  for me, it was like crash landing on another planet that looked like earth but was completely different to the earth i knew.

  i wanted to learn everything that i thought i already knew.. first things i did:.

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  The first defiant thing I did as soon as I left was to go on a university course on paleoanthropology.

  My marriage had been dead for years because of my religious scepticism but my children were still youngish so I remained with them. About a year or so later, stolen weekends away with a female JW "unbeliever" was akin to becoming restored back to humanity....sweet salvation!
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  Did your congregation rehearse service meeting parts?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just thinking back to some parts i conducted.

  when other publishers were involved in the part, its success often depended on how well rehearsed the participants were.

  timing, proper interplay of dialogue, dramatic impact, etc.. as the one giving the part or as one drafted to do a demo, did your elders require rehearsals?.

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  Half banana

  When I was a pioneer and "living the dream" (and I knew alanv ^ Hi Alan!) I was in a cong which actually tried to make the meetings interesting! By doing rehearsals and by having a continuity sentence or two to connect each speaker and his subject to the next one; it really improved the quality of the meeting. It created the appearance that the JW delusion was thriving.

  But hey to what end? To bamboozle pathetic individuals to waste their lives in a death/money cult and deprive yet more people of their liberty!
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  Three paths in life...

  by Fernando in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you agree:.

  there are three main paths in life?.

  secular, religious or spiritual?.

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  Half banana

  Just shows how his speech writers wanted it to be...you can more easily control people if you narrow down their choices.