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  Who is benefiting from Watchtower Corporation financially

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who do you believe is financially benefiting from watchtower business dealings.

  i know about the gold apple watch, but that is only a small percentage of the billions that they have.

  so who do you think is keeping all of this money.

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  Half banana

  Fulano if you have the real facts on where the money goes do at least let us know.
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  The "faithful slave" urges confession in latest Watchtower!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower october 2017, page 11, par.

  17 - confess and abandon secret sins.

  some christians who have committed a serious sin try to cover it over in order to avoid embarrassing themselves or disappointing others.

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  Half banana

  Forget the niceties of doctrine, to the JW org doctrine is simply something to distract the minds of the Sheep with.

  I reckon they have thought, "Why is Jerhoover not blessing His People any more? (that is why have the contributions plummeted) Ah! it must be that the brothers must be secretly sinning, that's why the holy cult is going down the tubes". Fess up brothers, it's all your fault!
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  Is JW.org unbreakable

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i ask this question for good reason.

  let's face it, despite all the books, videos, forums, court cases, hearings, protests etc that have been exposing the society for many years.

  jw.org continues to roll on almost 'it seems' unscathed.. for example, just walk into any kingdom hall there is not so much as a whisper about anything that has been exposed outside of jw land.

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  Half banana

  A successful business cannot stand still, it has to constantly modernise. The org has “gone electric” with glossy TV studios, commercial PR input and a blue logo. It is trying to market its cult isolationism and doomsday message in a world increasingly devoted to free thought through education and the internet.

  The Watchtower’s forced change of approach has revealed neither the humanity of its executives nor any spiritual charisma. The TV cameras have erased any spiritual mystique or enlightenment from its governing body, which notion may have held sway right up to the end of the last century, instead it has exposed the fact that the men in charge are rather ordinary uncharismatic puppeteers controlling the show. And what a paranoid show it is! Never have they demonstrated any of their own Biblical prophetic utterances to come true and yet that was their sole claim for a divinely mandated existence. . .

  Their message in essence is: obey the instructions of the GB or you are mincemeat at Armageddon.

  It has never been possible to fool all of the people all of the time. Today it is only possible to fool the ignorant and those who have strong emotional reasons to want to be deceived.

  As the evidence arrives on this site; there is an increasing number of JWs who remain in the org awake to TTATT (the truth about the truth), to its politics of mind control and social manipulation. I suggest that the JW org will increase in those who are PIMO (physically in and mentally out) to the point when they become a majority and criticism of their hurtful religion becomes acceptable. The org is hemorrhaging numbers in the Western world and congregations becoming hollow shells of unbelievers; it will rapidly disintegrate as a tipping point is reached.

  So there are two significant aspects of the cult’s future: the JW property empire may continue as any other commercial concern would-- but at the heart of the cult; its premise that it alone has been identified by the Almighty as his exclusive appointee, is under critical scrutiny and rapidly increasing doubt.

  Without divine appointment they have no authority.
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  My Younger Brother Has Left The Witnesses!! :-D

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  absolutely thrilled to give you the news that my younger brother, a zealous full-time pioneer has left the witnesses!!.

  i haven't seen or spoke to him in a year.

  i'd lost all contact with him, no facebook, no mobile number, i didn't even know his address because he'd moved house.

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  Stupendous news for you PE and hope and encouragement to the rest of us here with family trapped in the JW cult.

  Let him know that your friends here are all with him. Keep us informed.
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  What is behind your choice of forum user name?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious how we all think.. what prompted or influenced your choice of username for this forum?.

  there are some really amazing names, and it would be great to hear the stories behind them.... mine was nothing fancy.

  i just felt "stuck in a rut too" along with so many others.

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  Half banana

  @ Wake, Stephen Letts has had to withdraw from giving any more talks at the summer conventions this year, he has severe sunburn on his tongue.
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  What is behind your choice of forum user name?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious how we all think.. what prompted or influenced your choice of username for this forum?.

  there are some really amazing names, and it would be great to hear the stories behind them.... mine was nothing fancy.

  i just felt "stuck in a rut too" along with so many others.

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  @Wake, I hope it has! but then evangelists are at least 90% vegetable to start with.
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  What is behind your choice of forum user name?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious how we all think.. what prompted or influenced your choice of username for this forum?.

  there are some really amazing names, and it would be great to hear the stories behind them.... mine was nothing fancy.

  i just felt "stuck in a rut too" along with so many others.

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  Half banana

  Bananas and humans are Eukaryotes that is multi celled life-forms. At the crudest level of popular science it is now said that we share 50% of our genes with bananas. But comparisons are virtually meaningless, bananas have more protein coding genes than humans do and quantity of gene sequences do not result in biological complexity. If you compare numbers of DNA sequences then the 50% figure is unlikely to be true but if we compare the basic biochemistry of cells of bananas with humans, it is found that we have similar requirements. Since herbaceous plants, such as banana, and Homo sapiens evolved from the same source and share functional cell maintenance and replication genes, we can say we are all half banana. I liked that thought.
  
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  How do you get over all the things that you missed? The stuff you can't get back

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  look my life is not bad but sometimes i just think about all the normal things i missed out on.

  and no i'm not talking about christmas and birthday parties.

  i'm talking about your first kiss happening in your twenties instead of your teens.

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  Half banana

  RT, I think your idea of free tuition probably will only apply to Scandinavian lands and then only in their own language. Germany Is probably going to re-introduce fees for non EU members and France does at least have cheap university fees but of course in French.
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  How do you get over all the things that you missed? The stuff you can't get back

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  look my life is not bad but sometimes i just think about all the normal things i missed out on.

  and no i'm not talking about christmas and birthday parties.

  i'm talking about your first kiss happening in your twenties instead of your teens.

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  Half banana

  I'm with you JW rogue, I missed out on early sexual experience and higher education. To some degree I did make up for both in my post witness life but the timings were not ideal. I devoured with relish a number of adult courses at universities but frankly it would have been so much more useful to have had the foundational bricks in place at the earliest opportunity. To extend the analogy; it is easier to lay the foundations of a building down at the start rather than the more tricky business of underpinning it later. I'm forced to look back and know that regrets of wasted time don't help the present.

  A couple of months ago I spoke with a leading British philosopher, a polymath, a living library with a phenomenal memory to boot. Whilst not imagining I would be at his level, had my parents directed me to expect success in the world and nurtured my earliest learning, I'm sure I could have enjoyed some worldly success--but I'm not complaining!

  As it was, I thought I knew better than my parents (who were not witnesses) and instead I was prepared to be taught by the brainless operatives of the brainless JW cult that higher education was undesirable, if not downright wrong. I stupidly believed them, it was therefore my fault.

  So we cannot change our past but if we have children, we can give them two things: unconditional love as the first requirement and an expectation of a happy, successful life based on a good education. Higher education can be a ticket out of the depressing social values delivered by both JWs and by poverty-- if it is done with positive goals in mind including financial independence and control over your own life.
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  Do you think the general public cares about former Jehovah's witnesses?

  by Christian Gutierrez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was wondering if you guys think if the general public cares about our stories or if they even care what the watchtower does to people??

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  Half banana

  I would imagine that the general public view former JWs to be as nutty as they think practicing JWs must be.