Posts by breakfast of champions

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"Are you a progressive thinker"

by Pistoff in

this was the theme of a talk at this week's 2nd weekly meeting with the co.. .

if you are a progressive thinker, so went the reasoning, you will accept all of the adjustments coming from the 'faithful and discreet slave'.. .

this so hurt my head when wife told me about it; really?.

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This "talk" should be renamed "Have You Disabled Your Critical Thinking Skills?"

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i'm thinking of scaning a letter to the boe and useing the letter head to make some fake letters and sending them to alot of congros.. it would read something like this.. "dear brothers we are writing to inform you about all the child abuse casers the wts is now in court about and the ones we have quietly settled outside the courts".

ill name them all and give them links to the courts.. .

anyother idears??.

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Childish prank. . . BUT . . . . . .

As a kind of thought experiment. . . .

Yeah, imagine if you just picked out a bunch of congregations close together, a circuit's worth. Send out a letter with the official letterhead with content along the lines of "As of August 1, Saturdays are now considered Family Recreation Day, whereby all families will arrange for wholesome activities such as: going to the beach; seeing an exhibit at a museum; participating in sports/physical activities. With warm Christian love, Your Brothers. . . . "

I could just imagine the reaction!

Even after they learned it to be false, you would never get another publisher out in field circus on a saturday ever again!

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To understand cults we need to start understanding ourselves

by paranoia agent in

there are books out there that talk about why it is so difficult to convince someone that they are wrong.

hassan and singer specifically address destructive cults.

hassan refers to cult members under mind control and singer under thought reform.

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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain

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Interview video with former JW elder and 'mole'

by RayPublisher in

a great interview with native new yorker and longtime contributor to this board isaac carmignani (truthsetsonefree) is below:.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8gxvudwgu.

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Great interview

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Theocratic Ministry School Review Answer Sheet of August - PDF -

by WatchTower87 in

theocratic ministry school review answer sheet of augustto give to the school overseer.

(lol).

theocratic ministry school review answer sheet covering assignments for weeks of july 7 through august 25, 2014.. .

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I thank you on behalf of my wife.

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Are JEhovah's Witnesses reaching out to the Gay community ?

by Watchtower-Free in

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apostate & ex-jehovalarious meme collection.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/jwmeme/.

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I have come to believe that one reason for the Governing Body's unrelenting homophobia is that some of them are gay men themselves and are filled with self-loathing and self-hatred

I wouldn't doubt this for a moment.

Even though I'm not gay, I was always considered the "gay-friendly" brother who sisters would bring to their "gay calls". This was probably because I worked for a gay couple who a few of "the friends" knew of while I aux pioneered out of high school. I really didn't see them any differently than any other couple, and never really got what all the fuss was about. They were just normal.

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What to say to the Sheparding Call

by Jon Preston in

ok i need some quick advice.

the elders have contacted my wife about a sheparding call, not me (is that weird?).

anyways she directed them to text or call me.

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"Thank you but I would prefer not to."

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If you had the audience of the GB, what is your #1 question you would ask them?

by Darth Fader The Sequel in

there are a million of them and mine is by no means the most important question to ask them if i only had one shot at it.

but, i have always wondered what kind of bs excuse they would give as an answer to this question: "brother goober bum, given that there are both male and female partakers here on earth who claim to be of the 'anointed' and plan on being of the 144,000 ruling with christ in heaven for eternity........ why are the female 'anointed' treated as submissive, second class citizens and why is their opinion on doctrinal matters, matters of teaching and reproving, anything at all.... why are they not recognized while here on earth even though you claim that jesus has selected them to become angels to rule with him?

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Do you really believe everything you teach?

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Are You A Patriotic Person Since Leaving The Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i'm into politics but i still don't consider myself patriotic..

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No, not at all.

Too close to the we're-the-only-ones-who-are-right-and-the-rest-of-you-all-suck mentality I was raised in. Been there, done that.

If anything, I'm now a more humanistic person, and if I were to have any "cause" it would be humanism and not patriotism.

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whether the Jewish or SDA Saturday, or Sunday, the Pope has a point

by nonjwspouse in

i keep liking what i hear from this pontiff.

he lamentes not keeping a day of no work to spend with the family.. .

campobasso, italy (ap) pope francis has lamented the abandoning of the traditionally christian practice of not working on sundays, saying it has a negative impact on families and friendships....... at one point, the pope, speaking off the cuff, encouraged parents to spend more time with children.

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Waste time with your children!

I've no problem with that! Excellent advice.