Yes I was at bethel the same time as him. Read his blog very smart person for sure. However his writing seemed to stop in Feb. 2019. Does anyone here know what happened to him?
Posts by 1234
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12Former Bethelite from Service Department blogs about his experiences
by krismalone inthis blog is worth mentioning again under a different title to attract more viewers.. former bethelite john bechtel who served 10 yrs at wt headquarters including the secretive and powerful service department, writes about his experiences and what woke him up.. https://www.johnbechtelblog.com/tag/jehovahs-witnesses/.
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Cults and Their Charismatic Leaders Part 1
by 1234 inpeople know of many cult leaders’ and their charismatic personalities, with their fringe beliefs and lust for power and how they have inspired hundreds to follow their unconventional philosophies — with often-tragic results.
charles manson, david koresh, jim jones, bhagwan shree rajneesh and others have gained international notoriety for exposing the dark side of humanity.. however what about the cults that went main stream.
i guess we could throw in jesus and even adolf hitler.
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True more are leaving then are being born so their numbers are going down.
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Cults and Their Charismatic Leaders Part 1
by 1234 inpeople know of many cult leaders’ and their charismatic personalities, with their fringe beliefs and lust for power and how they have inspired hundreds to follow their unconventional philosophies — with often-tragic results.
charles manson, david koresh, jim jones, bhagwan shree rajneesh and others have gained international notoriety for exposing the dark side of humanity.. however what about the cults that went main stream.
i guess we could throw in jesus and even adolf hitler.
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Well, Vidiot since there is about eight and half million of them....I guess a few of them are having sex.
Did you create any Jehovah's Witnesses by having sex?
I made 2 of them.
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Former Bethelite from Service Department blogs about his experiences
by krismalone inthis blog is worth mentioning again under a different title to attract more viewers.. former bethelite john bechtel who served 10 yrs at wt headquarters including the secretive and powerful service department, writes about his experiences and what woke him up.. https://www.johnbechtelblog.com/tag/jehovahs-witnesses/.
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1234
John Bechtel was he from the Missouri area?
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Cults and Their Charismatic Leaders Part 1
by 1234 inpeople know of many cult leaders’ and their charismatic personalities, with their fringe beliefs and lust for power and how they have inspired hundreds to follow their unconventional philosophies — with often-tragic results.
charles manson, david koresh, jim jones, bhagwan shree rajneesh and others have gained international notoriety for exposing the dark side of humanity.. however what about the cults that went main stream.
i guess we could throw in jesus and even adolf hitler.
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People know of many cult leaders’ and their charismatic personalities, with their fringe beliefs and lust for power and how they have inspired hundreds to follow their unconventional philosophies — with often-tragic results. Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and others have gained international notoriety for exposing the dark side of humanity.
However what about the cults that went main stream. I guess we could throw in Jesus and even Adolf Hitler.
Jesus of course preach love, were has Adolf preached hate. So of course Hitler was far more dangerous. On the other hand how many millions of people have died in the name of Christ and his suppose followers?
Bottom line is there are a lot of organizations on the planet today that are not thought of as cults. Yet if we went back hundreds of years and looked at their history, we would find that one person who started it all. This is especially true among religions.
Martin Luther, Joseph Smith, Charles Russel etc. etc.
The man is gone but his idea/religion is still here. That one charismatic person that started it all.
Now these organizations boast millions of follows.
How do these religions continue to grow?
There are only 2 ways you can become a cult member. You join it, or you are born into it.
The good news is, very few people are joining cults today. However the bad news is, because cult members are having lots of sex with each other, many cults still growing at an alarming rate of speed.
The good new is the Jehovah's Witnesses are not one of them.
Why? Three reasons.
1. Virtually no one is joining this 1800's religion by way of the "door to door" or by their "incidental witnessing" program.
2. Yes, lots of Jehovah's Witnesses are having sex with each other and babies are being born. Though there was a time this was discouraged because of the nearest of Armageddon. The vast majority of their young people are not staying in their organization.
3. There are no more charismatic personalities, like they had in the first hundred years of their history (1875-1977). No more Russells, Rutherfords, or Knorrs. Instead of one dynamic person to stir the masses up, the have eight uninspiring, milk toast leaders.
As the older ones die off trying to pass the baton of an antiquated religion to the next generation....we can only visualize a world hundreds of years from now, free from religious cults.
Keith Casarona
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"The Project" posted a video about the National Redress Scheme and JWs
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=612947649624670.
the project posted a video to playlist feature stories.. .
l10 tthrsponsmorsldlged · .
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Hey....They don't mind be a member of the United Nations.....but something about supporting victims of child abuse forget about it!
Crazy pills anyone?
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Are You Starting To Feel Bad About Being A Racist??
by minimus inyou probably didn’t even realize you were a racist until you were enlightened by the “woke” group.
so do you feel the need to make amends and do the right thing??
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You just love to stir the shit around.
I don't think you are a racist. However I do think you are an attention hound.
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The Secret of Life
by Terry inmy elementary school teacher, miss allen, gathered us in a circle just outside the classroom under overspreading limbs of a pecan tree.
as she spoke, we all listened intently - the expression on her face seemed to say, "this is very important.".
"sometimes life doesn't go so well and we feel afraid.
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It's a shame that teachers are paid so little, many of them have more of an impact on kids than their own parents.
Yes, maybe life is a lot more simpler then we think.
I too believe our lives are "like a dream." I talk about this in my first novel "The persistent illusion"
PS By the way Terry good job once again.
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Expectation vs Reality
by joey jojo in.
just wanted to put this out there for any lurkers.. as someone that grew up during the 70s and 80s, we were promised that we would be in the first picture long ago.
if you are still on the fence, please let this sink in for a while..
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Or as the sign said in the bar.
"Free beer tomorrow!"
Expectation...free beer
Reality
There is only today and there is no free beer today.
For the Jehovah's Witness that the only place true happiness can ever be is.... tomorrow.
P.S. I was never to get out of high school either, I graduated in 1967
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Did they use to applaud after reinstatement after being Disfellowshipped, but then it stopped?
by ThomasCovenant ini don't remember disfellowshippings happening very often and announcements about being re instated but i think i remember that we used to clap hands if someone came back after being disfellowshipped.
but then i think clapping wasn't allowed.
am i correct in my recollections?.
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The real reason the clapping stopped was that even though say, the person was a child molester but liked in the kingdom hall the victims might feel kinda bad if now this guy was back in action....we don't want to upset anyone now do we.