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  ...crazy religious organizations

  by lastmanstanding in

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  why they need to get rid of organized religion.

  these people are batshit crazy.. https://apple.news/axf71irnns4w2kc-vtvv6zw.

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  lastmanstanding

  Why they need to get rid of organized religion. These people are batshit crazy.

  https://apple.news/AXf71IRnNS4W2KC-VTvV6Zw
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  I just watched the final video from this years convention. OMG!!!

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am shaking all over right now.

  i think it's worse that the bunker video.. i used to think there was no way that these people would actually "drink the cool aid" if you get my drift, but seeing this video i am now not sure it could never happen.. having a wife who i love dearly trapped in this cult is really freaking me out right now...

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  In the bunker video, there was no salvation, it was left open-ended and there was little room for salvation. No Jesus swooping into the bunker to save the Dubs. That was disturbing to JWs.

  But a ”new & improved” version this year has a happy ending, a swooping Jesus with an arrow.

  I think swooping Jesus is going to need many arrows and there was a big crowd of machine gun toting dubhaters to kill. And who is going to clean up that mess of arrow pierced corpses.

  And what was the bright light for, are the dubs going to heaven?
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  Receiving so much hate recently....

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, as you all know, my wife (unstuck) and i are not df or da.. we just stopped attending several years back after my "apostate" online activity was found by a nosey employee of ours while she was working in our office (long story if anyone wants to know - it would have to be another thread).

  we never met with any elders - no congregation judicial activity occurred (as we would never consent to do so anyway).

  so our policy has been to be the same kind, loving, normal people we have always been.

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  lastmanstanding

  If I was in that situation, and one day I will be, then I will simply ask them...

  “please treat me as Jesus directly said you should, at Matthew 18:15-17”

  ”I have a man of the nations living next to me on my right, and a tax collector on my left. When you preached in my neighborhood, you went to their homes and talked to them, very politely, and you listened to their view.”

  ”You did not do what Jesus said that you must.”

  “You were to come to me to tell me personally what my fault was. You did not do what Jesus said, to bring two witnesses so that they could hear the charge and my response. You did not do what Jesus said, to express all matters to the congregation.”

  ”Instead you conducted yourself as the Phrasees did, keeping secrets, judging the Christ in a star chamber, hiding your actions.”

  ”It is not I, but you that “have fallen away, it is impossible to revive them again to repentance, because they nail the Son of God to the stake again for themselves and expose him to public shame. Hey. 6:6
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  Bunker video - 2018 remix

  by Fay Dehr in

  1. social
  2. humour

  if this happened, and they went into the bunker....only to be rescued by "satan's forces"....what would be going through their minds?https://youtu.be/wn9_oil_qqy.

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  lastmanstanding

  When I get the opportunity, I ask Witnesses how they think the video ends.

  Mostly they don’t know the video as they slept through it.

  But so far, anyone who does recall it refuses to say what they think. The reason is quite simple. They don’t want to believe that everyone gets gunned down like dogs. But neither would they speculate how everyone gets saved as the video leaves no room for salvation.

  ... it’s like when Jesus asked the Pharisees, “the baptism of John, is it from God or from men?”

  Neither answer is acceptable.
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  Two May 19th articles about Lauren Stuart who killed her husband & two children-left a video & suicide note blaming sexual abuse & exclusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.

  revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.

  lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .

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  Well, she faithfully held to Watchtower doctrine till the end. Good for her.

  “The first shall be last, and the last shall be first” Mt. 20:16

  The Watchtower doctrine explains this scripture y saying the most recent to die will be resurrected first. So, she has ensured that her family is going to be resurrected at the same time so that they can be happy together in “the New System “

  I’m not sure about what she was thinking with regard to the poor mutt. Dogs don’t get a resurrection in Watchtower theology. Perhaps she thought that it might take time for the authorities to find the bodies and she was concerned that the dog would get hungry... and start to eat her husbands face.
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  All of Chile's 34 bishops RESIGN over a sex abuse and cover-up scandal after crisis meeting with the Pope

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5744503/chilean-bishops-offer-resignation-pope-abuse-scandal-statement.html.

  all of chile's 34 bishops resign over a sex abuse and cover-up scandal after crisis meeting with the pope.

  may 18, 2018. pope francis has accused chile's bishops of destroying evidence of sex crimes .

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  lastmanstanding

  Whoo Haaaaw

  Niw If we can just see something similar for WTS

  ”All Eight Members Of The Governing Body Of Jehovah’s Witnesses Resign After Being Caught With Young Male Prostitutes”
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  Official statement: "Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Scripturally Based Position on Child Protection"

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm not sure if this was mentioned yet, but at this week's meeting they announced (or will announce for those who haven't had theirs yet) the availability of a new official statement on child abuse that can be downloaded in the legal section of jwdotorg.

  (funny it's in the legal section, it just shows their mentality and how this is really damage control.

  ) here's the link:.

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  lastmanstanding

  Excellent thread. Good points and nice breakdown one eye.

  Its glaringly obvious to the seasoned JW pimo that there is wide flexibility built into this new legalistic wording from the tower. It’s says one thing (barely) and yet another thing is true.

  Business as usual in JW town.

  I would ask an elder, “If I see my neighbor grope a child in a sexual manner, should I call you?” The elder will gasp and say “NO” and “call Police!”, not wanting any involvement.

  But if I add that my neighbor, it just so happens, is a “brother”... suddenly the tone will change. “Yes”, he will say, “you must call me immediately so that we can call the branch”.

  So what changed? We all know, don’t we....

  The Watchtower is a hypocrite. What happened to the hypocrites in 70ce will happen to these hypocrites today.
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  12 june 2018 what to say

  by LostAdam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi eveyone, my sis told me something like where will i be after that day.

  i couldnt realize at first what she meant, but i found this on net donald-trump-kim-jong-un-meeting-singapore-june-12/.

  i found her reaction so pathetic, but i think she is really sorry for me leaving.. so how to do you reply to jw family or generally when news about world peace comes out?.

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  Nobody picked it out, but I “wrote angry” and when I do that, I make mistakes. Like posting about Ephesians when it’s actually 1 Thessalonians. I was very angry at Watchtower. I’m like that a lot these days.

  My bad.

  But you have to give me a break, I just had a “major” procedure. Ouch...

  The points are completely valid though. 1 Thess. 5:3 is NOT a prophecy, but an anti-prophecy.
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  12 june 2018 what to say

  by LostAdam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi eveyone, my sis told me something like where will i be after that day.

  i couldnt realize at first what she meant, but i found this on net donald-trump-kim-jong-un-meeting-singapore-june-12/.

  i found her reaction so pathetic, but i think she is really sorry for me leaving.. so how to do you reply to jw family or generally when news about world peace comes out?.

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  lastmanstanding

  Peace & Security

  
  

  It is an unfortunate fact that the leadership of the Watchtower Kingdom have misled their followers for what seems an eternity, and there is no exception when it comes to what they have taught on this topic.

  
  

  Watchtower relies on two things to complete their conquest. One, JWs don’t read. Two, JWs are highly superstitious.

  
  

  If any JW would but for a minute take a hard look at what was written to the Ephesians in full, the Watchtower’s superstitious bologna would crumble.

  
  

  What are JWs taught ..that they will know right off when they see it, this P&S announcement... or rather that they will read about it in the Watchtower, or other GB newsletter of the day, where the GB will proclaim “this is it!!!”

  
  

  JWs will look for something to be “written to” them. However, what was the counsel given to the Ephesians?

  
  

  Let’s have a look at the message given to the Ephesians. We will use the NWT.

  
  

  
  

  Ephesians 5
  1 Now as for the times and the seasons, brothers, you need nothing to be written to you.

  
  

  Have any JWs pondered that verse? Christians were told back then that nothing would be written to them. And why? Let’s read the next verse.

  
  

  2 For you yourselves know very well that Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night.

  
  

  What thief, coming in the night to rob, sends a written notice? Of course nothing will be written because nothing can be written as the “day” in question is coming without any notice whatsoever.

  
  

  So, what does verse 3 really say?

  
  

  
  

  3 Whenever it is that they are saying, “Peace and security!” then sudden destruction is to be instantly on them, just like birth pains on a pregnant woman, and they will by no means escape.

  
  

  The Christian Congregation at Ephesus was being told to STOP TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.

  
  

  They were obviously looking to the political entities for some indication as to when the “day” would come.

  
  

  But Paul made a point. You cannot tell anything about anything from what the politics of the world is saying, for WHENEVER, ANYTIME and EVERY TIME they say “peace and security”, anything but is the result.

  
  

  This precedent has been true throughout history and is as true today as in the past.

  
  

  Look at the roaring twenties. It’s all good, they said, peace and security for everyone.

  And BHAM!

  
  

  Look at the titanic. “Not even God could sink this ship”. SLAM!

  
  

  I am sure the readers here can fill the page with examples. It’s too easy.

  
  

  Paul was right, WHENEVER they say one thing, the opposite is the case.

  
  

  So, the very warning against looking to the world for a tell tale sign, Watchtower turned into yet another false prophecy to use as a lever in manipulating the superstitious masses under their control.

  
  

  Well, what about the counsel to keep awake? Does this surely not demonstrate that JWs are right in their feeble minded ideas? Let’s examine.

  
  

  4 But you, brothers, you are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you as it would thieves,

  
  

  Does this verse say that the “day” would not “overtake” or surprise Christians? NO! It clearly says that they would not be overtaken in the same way or manner as “thieves”.

  
  

  BIG DIFFERENCE

  
  

  Let me illustrate. You are on the job with Bob the slacker. Now, Bob didn’t pay attention when you were all told that the boss was going to show up to the job site out of the blue. So, Bob did his usual thing. He laid back thinking he could calculate the Boss’s arrival.

  
  

  So, the Boss man shows up, like a thief in the night. Are you, the Christian worker surprised? You surely are, because you knew he was coming, but suddenly here he is in real-time and you had no idea that he would arrive when he did. SURPRISE!!

  
  

  What about Bob the slacker. Not so good for Bob. He was caught sleeping on the job. Bob is screwed.

  
  

  So, the Boss caught you working? Bad thing? No, certainly not. The Boss’s arrival “did not overtake you as it” did Slacker Bob. It overtook you while doing exactly what you were supposed to be doing. You are somewhat shocked, but happy.

  
  

  Bob got tossed.

  
  

  So the counsel was...

  
  

  5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We belong neither to night nor to darkness. 6 So, then, let us not sleep on as the rest do, but let us stay awake and keep our senses.

  
  

  Don’t be sleeping like Slacker Bob. Stay awake, be found doing what you are supposed to be doing. And stop looking at the world leaders for some sign.
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  Active witnesses? Please help?

  by Ahava in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi,i'm lost and a little sad.

  i actually like the jw faith.

  some might call this faith cold, strict, dogmatic but they're just trying to follow rules and give back to god.

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  Are the 8 boobs who run the tower being used by the Almighty God?

  That’s the question the op wants answered.

  Here’s another question that will certainly shed light on a answer.

  Would men who are being used by Almighty God so thoroughly betray all the sheep under their care by secretly affiliating with an institution that they had prior condemned and vilified for a century, as they did when they sent two “brothers” across town (NYC) to the office of the UN DPI to table “AWAKE” magazines that were printed for the specific purpose of advertising the UN and its principles???????

  One more question.

  Would God directed men persecute sheep who discover their rot?