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  Leah Remini - Scientology Documentary

  by tresdecu in

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  i know some has been posted about leah remini and her split from scientology.

  i just wanted to add after finishing it last night, it is a must watch for questioning jws...every episode has familiar situations and parallels that will make jws really think (or squirm).

  watch it with someone you want to wake up!!!!

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  Nathan Natas

  ab.ortega asked, "is it available on Hulu?"

  I have no idea, why don't YOU LOOK?
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  Hyper Tech

  by IveBeenBitten in

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  this "world event" is a few years away but i'm in the field so i work everyday to prepare for it.. our technology is advancing at an exponential rate.

  shit will hit the fan because of it.. even as a jw i knew this was coming.

  in fact, i thought that's what the bible was talking about.

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  IveBeenBitten said, "I don't know what I'm getting at with this topic."

  I agree!
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  Trumps Inaugural Address - Comparisons

  by azor in

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  i thought i would start a new post about trumps inaugural address.

  has anyone here seen "the new pope"?

  jude law gave a stirring performance playing the pope.

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  I'm a fan of dumbasses, Azor, thus a BIG fan of YOU!

  Tell me again about how easily I fooled you.
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  Has WT actually drafted an End of Days tract?

  by schnell in

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  i heard in years past that there was such a tract planned for the great tribulation.

  my father at the time denied this, and reasoned that that would not be a loving thing for them to do, to essentially say, "told ya so!".

  last year, the bunker videos had brother brown mention "a message of judgment".. has such material been drafted or is this just another bluff?.

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  Schnell asked, "...Has such material been drafted or is this just another bluff?"

  I was associated with JWs in NYC between approximately 1957-1977 or so. The days of my "yoot."

  The Overseer of the Sunnyside congregation in Queens was Howard Zenke who worked the Service Desk in Bethel, if memory serves. The Middle Village congregation shared the Kingdom Hall with Sunnyside. The Overseer of Middle Village was Mike Smilnak, also a Bethelite. Both congregations had LOADS of Bethelites in various positions, and a handful of local, non-Bethelite family men who were elders and servants.

  Having been there through the "1975 build-up" I can ASSURE you that while this "message of judgement" was a common JW fantasy, there was never any actual draft of such a message. This is similar to the way JWs yearned for the "big house on the hill" but never actually moved into it because REALITY kept getting in the way -- the world refused to die.

  In my opinion, the "End of Blah-Blah-Blah" tracts don't count: NONE of those were "See, I told ya so!" messages.

  The "End of Blah-Blah-Blah" tracts were like an evolution of the assembly "resolutions" of the early to mid 20th century; insignificant to both the (non-existent) "spiritual" and secular worlds.
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  Regressive Left Meme

  by Bangalore in

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  "I'll bring hawaj for the coffee..."
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  Trumps Inaugural Address - Comparisons

  by azor in

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  i thought i would start a new post about trumps inaugural address.

  has anyone here seen "the new pope"?

  jude law gave a stirring performance playing the pope.

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  Oh, you really taught me a lesson, didn't you?
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  Trumps Inaugural Address - Comparisons

  by azor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i thought i would start a new post about trumps inaugural address.

  has anyone here seen "the new pope"?

  jude law gave a stirring performance playing the pope.

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  Nathan Natas

  Shhh... you'll wake 'im.
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  How do JW's determine a person is anointed?

  by thinker11 in

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  i've always wondered about this.

  when a person believes they made a spiritual connection with god and proclaims themselves as anointed, how do they determine whether this person is anointed or not.

  does a group of elders look at the person's spiritual resume and check off the person's pioneer stats, bible knowledge, attendance, work ethic, personality, etc and then believe in the person if they have a good track record?

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  ...as above, so below; as before, so beyond.
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  Promise Keepers

  by schnell in

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  "real men keep their promises.".

  i remember that bumper sticker from the 90s when i was a teenager in texas.

  i didn't know it was attached to a kind of cult.. this article is 14 years old, and may well have appeared on this site before, but i'd like to reference it anyway because i see parallels, of course.. whatever happened to the promise keepers?.

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  Schnell, I'm more than a few years older than you, so I have memories of the ancient times.

  I was aware that PK was some kind of Jesus-freak cult, and I find the report of their decline pleasant.
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  I really hate the word "ones".

  by schnell in

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  necessary as it is at times, i hate this word.

  for one thing, "ones" is a plural form of the number 1. that is dumb, and it's reason enough to avoid it where it isn't entirely necessary.. one could argue that it never is necessary, but it can still come up in colloquial dialogue when discussing objects.

  jw leaders use it to discuss people.. interestingly, jws even did this to jesus christ in their own translation of the bible, referring to him in ephesians 1:7 with "through the blood of that one" where another translation would say something like "through his blood".

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  Do you have the same reaction to the word "singularities," Schnell?