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  "You will never grow old in this present system of things" -- some campaign tools

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i am approaching 76 years old.

  i can clearly recall that awake!

  statement and similar during the pre-1975 hype -- "staying alive in '75", et al.

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  Half banana

  Fat freek, you are highlighting the statement which utterly condemns the JW organisation’s predictions as completely useless and never to be trusted. Never have the JW org or Watchtower or Jehovah’s Witnesses or even CT Russell got anything right! It is a total waste of time to ever believe anything they say. Anything!

  The almost criminal aspect is that the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses must know full well they are useless... but keep on telling their flock to listen to them, the reason being that the governing body are the only beneficiaries of this dire cult!

  They have WASTED THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE...............What hurt! what deprivation! What deception! They have duped them into spending their time, money and effort in the useless preaching of their interpretation of the Bible. They have happily culled the capital wealth of their members families. They are money grubbing sociopaths. They should be convicted of deception and abuse.

  Religious cults need regulating and limiting with financial penalties for their misdeeds by government intervention.

  Thank you Fat freek for reminding us of this.......... Are you listening GB?
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  Planning ahead for the desires of the flesh.

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just booked some cinema tickets for later today and also ordered a book i want to take on holiday.

  from nowhere that scripture they were always quoting at us came to me, something about don't be planning ahead for the desires of the flesh.

  you always had to be planning spiritual, theocratic stuff, entertainment and pleasure were a bit dodgy, better not tell anyone.

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  Half banana

  You wicked faithless sister...
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  Are the Jehovah's Witnesses really false prophets, perhaps being mentally manipulated by the Watchtower Corporation ? ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a lot of public scrutiny going on these days about the jw religion particularly on the inter - net.

  one of the posed questions which gets debated and discussed quite often, are the jws false prophets instigated to preach a tainted commercialized gospel under the direction of the executive leaders of the watchtower corporation ?

  these focused men who are responsible for creating the core doctrines of this organization.

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  Half banana

  Yes of course JWs are tried and tested, repeat offending false prophets!

  If it all went pear-shaped for the JW org (and the sooner the better!) for those who have had the Watchtower 'lobotomy' performed on them, the demise of the organisation will not alter their belief system so much.

  Even without a large network of meeting places and spiritual enforcers in the form of circuit overseers, the cult mentality will remain internalized and they will no doubt pay the JWTV company to console themselves that thereby they are doing good deeds in life.

  It is conceivable that the end of the JW organisation will be a late night televangelist spot whose audience will be a declining number of aged desperadoes once infected with the Watchtower delusion.
  
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  The End of False Religion Is Near! HAHAHA

  by tootired2care in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  memories!

  i remember a few years back being involved in the campaign work, and having the distinctly awkward experience of having to hand the householders this piece of sh1t tract "the end of false religion is near!"..

  i recall the discomfort i had trying to get into a conversation about this nonsense.

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  Half banana

  @ Orphan crow, bearing in mind that now the preaching work is all about the role of the governing body so by extension they are unwittingly doing it to elevate the profile of the leadership, imagining that their preaching will save themselves.
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  The End of False Religion Is Near! HAHAHA

  by tootired2care in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  memories!

  i remember a few years back being involved in the campaign work, and having the distinctly awkward experience of having to hand the householders this piece of sh1t tract "the end of false religion is near!"..

  i recall the discomfort i had trying to get into a conversation about this nonsense.

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  Half banana

  Yes Outsider, you've got the hang of it!

  Jesus got the time of the end wrong, it was meant to come in his day. "Imminent" therefore means at least two thousand years...

  But actually it's just the banter of religious showmen, the world is not coming to an end.

  For all the bad news in the media ---where the only saleable news is bad news---the world in most fields of human experience is getting a whole lot better. Less murder, less war, less famine, better health and medicine and a longer life span to enjoy it all.

  Jehovah is a pathetic outmoded god concept and only benefits the Borg leadership. But I do agree that false religion will end, all who take the Bible and holy books literally............ and that includes Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  The Sadness of the Poet

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i feel a sadness so deep that friends wonder why my art and my blinds remain undrawn.. gone is the muse who promised me solacewhile guys played ball and climbed tall trees.. a blank canvas before me says, "here's your life, where has it gone?".

  is it too late to become what imight have become .

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  Glad to see you quoting poetry CC. I empathise with the sentiments. What could have been achieved...but in poetry there is pleasure in making words mirror the feelings.

  Poetry gets very little airing here but I did manage a GM Hopkins quote the other day.

  My friends and I meet at my house on each full moon to read and discuss poetry... and tonight is the full moon! We will be considering two American females; Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. Deep joy...

  Are you making any comparisons with Branwell Bronte btw?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Propaganda & Hypocrisy Video

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i didn't make this video it just showed up in my utube web page, god i love utube.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyv5lg1uh0o.

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  Half banana

  Excellent video Brokeback, it is well researched and presented. We need more of these exposés.
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  Blood card

  by Inabunker in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  hi new to forum and first post!

  i have been reading posts on and off for years.

  still fighting my "doubts" and struggling internally, my family is active and the wife knows nothing of my late night website reads here.

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  Inabunker welcome to the site. It's not an easy task to get out of the JW cocoon, so many restraining threads of connection have to be cut through to become free.

  With the blood matter, the GB have developed a cunning plan to mark those who are gullible enough to give their lives to the organisation. If you are prepared to literally sacrifice yourself or your children in obedience to them; you are counted as being "in". Hence the demand for documentation, to put it in writing. Such extreme loyalty in a cult is a capital resource.

  In the JW cult, the paramount doctrine is total rank and file obedience to the leadership because on this, their survival, their power and their prestige depends. God's spirit has nothing to do with anything! The JW org now is all about the leadership...it's nauseating isn't it?

  I do hope you can reveal TTATT (the truth about the truth) to your wife in a way which does not alienate her. Wishing you all the best in your escape.
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  My Lawyers Letter To The Elders

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for those of you that asked, below is a copy of my solicitors letter to the elders in my old congregation.

  he sent a similar one directly to bethel and a medical directive to my daughters gp to go on her medical records that i have already given permission for her to have a blood transfusion should she need one:.

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  Half banana

  Just well done PE! JWs have a hard job recognizing which authority they come under and you have shown them which one it is.

  Perhaps more importantly you have shown your daughter's mother where you stand on the important things in your daughter's life.
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  “The Jesus-followers’ first 200 years”

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the archaeologist digs and then sifts through remnants from the past, assembling the discoveries into patterns so that stories of the past may be brought back to life.. with almost 850 direct quotations from 50 books, my study sifts remnants from the first 200 years of christianity and sorts them into patterns that may help others to assemble a vessel that can hold ideas, or to form a skeleton where muscle and flesh, heart and mind, may be applied.

  a comprehensive contents listing is provided at the rear of this study.. my study, “the jesus-followers’ first 200 years” is available at:.

  http://www.jwstudies.com/the_jesus-followers__first_200_years.pdf .

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  Half banana

  Well done Doug for getting it all down on paper. I agree with your feelings which you mentioned before completion that writing is a route to learning, or words to that effect. Since it is an area I am also very interested in I will read it with great interest.

  The biggest bugbear in looking at historical text is "assumptions" isn't it?