I like the way this is a nicely balanced and fair article, it doesn't come over like a screaming Tabloid one would, and is therefore more likely to get the attention of believing JW's, and make them more uncomfortable with sticking to their beliefs, and their Organisation, neither of which they are able to defend.
Posts by Phizzy
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7More bad press for the Borg, in Australia
by shepherdless inmore bad press for the borg in australia.
this is on the webpage of the national broadcaster:.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-13/austraila-talks-trust-religious-figures-dropping-covid-pandemic/100202940.
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What Is Truth?
by minimus injust because you believe something as truth, it doesn’t make it truth.
religious leaders may be admired and believed but they could be dead wrong.
politicians can spout out “facts” that support their truth yet once further evidence comes through these facts are questionable.
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Phizzy
Simon's succinct Definition of " Truth" is excellent : " Truth survives the fire of intense scrutiny and critique and is both logically and factually accurate."
We have to add the caveat that "truth" is not Absolute, it is just possible that new Facts may emerge which modify, or very occasionally even overturn, what we previously thought of as "truth".
This is more so in our own time, because of the speed with which modern Science is making new discoveries.
But, if we really have subjected our "Truth" to the " fire of intense scrutiny" and that scrutiny has been carried out by Experts in the field which we are questioning, then we can be sure, if our "truth" survives this, that it will suffice at the present.
To not do this is to leave ourselves wide open to being manipulated, controlled and totally suckered by false claims, if our Education on things comes only from the MSM, and random people on the Internet, we are likely to be as ignorant and enslaved as we were as JW's by some different, but equally insidious nonsense.
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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!
by pistolpete inso you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.
and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.
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Phizzy
Zeal can soon disappear, when the pointless reality of "Witnessing" by the methods they now use seeps through in the consciousness of a JW.
Covid has brought people face to face with the reality that they must not waste their lives.
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Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?
by JWTom insomeone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
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Phizzy
A memory just came back to me, of myself as a young person offering the Mags at the Doors, and hiding the Watchtower UNDER the Awake because I knew some people said " NO THANK YOU !" as soon as they saw the name "Watchtower" ! The "Awake" title was not so well known, and disliked, I reasoned.
The necessity for such deceit must have added to the growing Cognitive Dissonance that I had. I was always ashamed that my family were JW's, and hid the fact that I was (nominally) too, from anyone that I could.
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Do You Still Easily Believe Everything?
by minimus into be a witness you had to accept whatever spiritual food was being dished out.
even if it didn’t make any sense, we were expected to believe.
now that we are out of the cult, do you find yourself a person who doesn’t just accept the status quo?
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Phizzy
" That however takes a couple of hours and who has time? "
I agree, it can be time consuming, often a time-saver is a trusted Fact Checking Site, ( some are not so good, none are infallible!), but sometimes, where it is a life and death matter, as the case of that fraud Mikovitz was, then the time is worth it surely ?
With her balderdash it only took a couple of clicks to find out she was not qualified in the necessary fields to make the judgements she claimed to be able to do, and that what she said was Scientifically wrong. But as I said above, sometimes it does involve a degree of time and effort where someone has gone to a great deal of effort themselves to make it seem as though their claims are genuine.
The more you do it, you do, without doubt, develop a good Bullshit Detector, but, some will continue to be lazy, and continue to be fooled and led by the nose.
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Further thoughts on the thread dealing with wandering Jews pooping outside the camp
by Doug Mason ini think the excellent thread on the wandering jews having to defecate outside the camp could have explored further implications, such as animal faeces, and also the fact that when women are in a group they cycle (menstruate) together.
imagine what the place was like with their attitude towards a menstruating woman, or with the disposal of the "rags".how did they dispose of all the placentas, etc.
?where are the skeletons of the millions of people and animals?
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Phizzy
Thanks Doug, though I have long been aware that there is no Archaeological proof of the "Wanderings" , which there would be had they occurred, I have never before thought about how preposterous is the whole concept of the Story is.
I do think that the Hebrew/Jewish people who first encountered these fantastical stories took them with a pinch of salt from the start ! at least, I hope they did !
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Most of you KNOW it that we witnesses have the Truth from the Bible
by TruthMatters init just that the gb has a problem mixing biblical fact with goofy opinions.. but at least is isn't like the churces!.
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Phizzy
I am a bit sad that Truthmatters turned out to be a useless Troll and a total TWAT, back in the old days when I first found this place, we used to get JW's with some real intelligence, and expertise, and genuine belief come on here and try their HONEST best to defend their faith and beliefs.
We haven't had anyone of that calibre for many years. It was gratifying that these honest folk would quite often acknowledge the help they received on here, and that they had left the Org. realising what it was and what it was not.
It is my firm belief that No One of the calibre of those honest folk is left in the Org !
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DISFELLOWSHIPPING, How bad is it really?
by pistolpete ini found this experience on reddit today.
disfellowshipping never really bothered me.
i always thought it was just another way of getting rid of members that weren't welcome anymore.. but i've changed my mind.
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Phizzy
Disfellowshipping is an Evil and Unscriptural device used by a High Control, Mind Control Cult, to keep people trapped within, and continuing to donate.
I cannot stress enough, because of the deaths , heartache, pain and life changing effects it has had, that Disfellowshipping is nothing less than PURE EVIL !!
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Misquotes, Lies and deception in Watchtower Publications
by jwfacts ini have just finished an article misquotes, deception and lies and would like your comments, proof reading, and any other examples that you think are important to add.
most of these already appear on jwfacts.com within specific articles, but it is more powerful seeing them included together.
there have also been a number of requests over the years for such a collection.
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Phizzy
All of this was such an Eye-opener to me when I first left, thank you JW Facts , Paul Grundy ! What stuck in my mind was a phrase that someone used about this issue " If you have The Truth, you do not have to Lie about it " !!!
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Governing Body; Villians or just Deluded?
by pistolpete inare you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.
thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.
the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.
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Phizzy
" Like I keep saying...
...they know it's wrong... but believe it's true... at the same time"
I agree thoroughly Vid. They have all come up through the Ranks, and had no opportunity to possibly actually wake up. But, in my many years in the Org. I touched upon the higher Echelons from time to time, and became aware that all those who were " up there" had to some degree become aware of the fact that some of it at least was bullshit, but at the same time they were aware that it was necessary to keep up the façade, the false front, so that the Rank and File JW's did not start to realise there WAS an element of Bullshit.
Cognitive Dissonance 101. So, you are right, they realise that much of it is wrong, but believe it is in the interests of believers to continue to pretend. They actually think they are serving the " God of Truth " with this scam. Again, Cognitive dissonance 101.