"The slave asks WILL THIS BE THE LAST MEMORIAL and answers: we don't know. Well if they don't know why do they ask????? attention those who have discernment..."
Future apostate here ^^^^^^^
it's absolutely amazing what exactly the same event can do to the jw community and the exjw community.. the difference is that the jw community does not think and has the expected response... we think and, of course, have the exact opposite response as the jw's.. take for example the march km with the "will this be the last?
here are some comments from a jw site:.
wow it comes like that in the km?
"The slave asks WILL THIS BE THE LAST MEMORIAL and answers: we don't know. Well if they don't know why do they ask????? attention those who have discernment..."
Future apostate here ^^^^^^^
my facebook was "lit up" today with all the out cries about the possibility of the organization's website being banned in russia.. as many of you recall this past august a court in russia banned the website and sought to make accessing the website in russia illegal.
well tomorrow the appeal by the org will be heard in court.
if the appeal is denied, jw.org will no longer be available in that part of the world, causing endless lamentations and cries of "persecution", only to bolster the idea that they are truly hated by the world because they are true christians.
Authoritarian High Control Groups: Sometimes it takes one to know one
as a born-in, i was eager to join the ministry school.
my cousins were also born-in but lived in different states.
there was keen competition to see who could do mature things, such as baptism (my mom said when i was 35) and ministry school.
Oh, it definitely helped me in public speaking. . . unfortunately I was f'd up in every other aspect of my life by all that junk!
i was always told that god did loads of stuff that was evidence of his existance.
ususally very brutal things too (b#st@rd).. jesus walked on water and raised the dead we are told.. it seems to me also that the older the story, the more exaggerated it is...y'know...talking snake......global flood.. there are those that claim god speaks to them now and they alone 'know' it.
(cuckoo!!!).
Tangible isn't in his budget.
Intangible is a lot cheaper to produce.
this went bad, i hit click before i could post my thoughts about the fear factor going through our crazy kingdom hall.
the title of this thread was aimed at asking why the governing body is becoming so afraid and demanding the elders and rank and file to put their trust in the dukes of the kingdom hall.
(pslams 146:3).. .
Wow DATADOG, that conversation is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. I would have never dreamed there would be so many "I'd do it" responses. Honestly thought they would be in the minority.
would love to hear comments on what is being said on the paragraph which states that if the wt demands you drink the kool aid, you should do it - even if you don't understand why!.
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look forward to any replies..
I agree with COFTY. This article sends chills up my spine
I talked about the article and Jonestown with my wife, and she really did "get it." I think it frightened her, too - not that JWs would carry out a mass suicide - but that the thinking pattern (actually the supression of any rational thinking) is what makes a Jonestown possible at all. . . and here it is in black-and-white in a study article.
16-20. we shall also have to raise up against him seven shepherds, yes, eight dukes of mankind.mic.
what is the most important thing that you can do now to prepare for any future attack on gods people?.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.. .
BTEB - a stellar review of one of the most bizarre WT "study" articles ever.
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will become whatever the wtbts needs them to become.. .. once upon a time they said this:.
1943 the watchtower, april 15, page 124.
Im pretending to poop in the bathroom so i dont have to make a funny face or scream....
DS211 - LOL! I've been there myself. . . .
would love to hear comments on what is being said on the paragraph which states that if the wt demands you drink the kool aid, you should do it - even if you don't understand why!.
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look forward to any replies..
Yeah, this one's a doozie. . . turn off, tune out, and OBEY.
just got a visit from two jw's and i mentioned the literature stands they have now.. i mentioned i walk past their stand they set up in my town every thursday on my way to work.
last week the stand was smaller and i asked why was it smaller.
no answer..... i then said you guys usually go door to door dont you?
That's a classic OUTLAW!