i'm just curious to get people's views on this.. the bible students seem to start of as quite a liberal group under charles taze russell, albeit he had some whacky teachings going on.
obviously things began to change under rutherford.
but what decade did it become abundantly clear that the society was indeed high control religion or even labeled a cult?.
@LisaRose William Schnell became a Witness back in the 1920s and woke up in the 1950s, so that supports your point. Even back then, folks were realizing all is not right with Watchtower.
His book is 30 Years a Watchtower Slave. I've never read it, but I'd say it was one of the earlier books on awakening and exiting the cult.
only in the uk.. a woman who was worried her jehovah's witness husband was cheating set him up and then watched in horror as he was seduced after knocking on someone's door.
the honeytrap was laid for the suspicious wife with the help of youtubers to catch a cheater.
they arranged for an actress to wait at one of the houses on the husband's outreach round and try to seduce him.
I'm calling bullsh*t on this video from To Catch A Cheater. The supposed brother knocked on the temptress' door in jeans, a short-sleeved shirt and a backpack. This is not standard JW apparel. Plus, this is the first of Luis' videos that he's ever censored, and he provided a link to the uncensored clip that you need to pay for. Click bait. TCAC has always been my schadenfreude fix, but now I'm doubting the credibility of all the other clips :(.
it was the paragraph talking about people who don't want to be j.w's being executed, and it being an act of compassion from jehovah towards his witnesses..
This Jehovah guy sounds charming. Anyone got his number?
ok...so i am on a bit of a temper tantrum rant here...but if anyone has (endured) watched this month's broadcast, you will know what i mean!.
i have only watched 20 mins so far, and the hypocrisy is mind blowing.
they dare to go on about how thoroughly they research the material produced, so that errors are prevented etc.. for instance, the actually say how they ensure that a scientist is not misquoted, or that an "evolutionist" is not inaccurately quoted to make it seem like his comments are different to his intentions.
@punkofnice Meh, good riddance. Kept attracting lightning bolts and mentally unstable folk looking for shelter in a cult.
ok...so i am on a bit of a temper tantrum rant here...but if anyone has (endured) watched this month's broadcast, you will know what i mean!.
i have only watched 20 mins so far, and the hypocrisy is mind blowing.
they dare to go on about how thoroughly they research the material produced, so that errors are prevented etc.. for instance, the actually say how they ensure that a scientist is not misquoted, or that an "evolutionist" is not inaccurately quoted to make it seem like his comments are different to his intentions.
Me after the Broadcast:
i bring this up because like me i sure many of the men who was kids in the wt cult got their first taste of what a nude women looked like.
it was the adolescent male sex education for most of us.
one friend i had who's dad was a elder told me they always had playboys in his house because his dad subscribed to them.
I saw my first hardcore pornographic magazines when I was six or seven. You want to know how?
Field service.
Yep. I was busting to pee and was lead to a householder's dingy bathroom. There, I found a tattered collection of adult magazines next to the toilet. I remember staring at the women and praying so hard to Jehovah...
...that I would one day grow up to look as beautiful as these starlets.
a thought occurred to me today, that religion is just like a clever marketer or advertiser.
first , a "problem" is created, then the advertiser offers the "solution"!.
religion does the same!
@stuckinarut2 I agree. It's not right that organizations such as WT hold a charitable status when evidently, it's all business. Faith is a product, and it has its own market since not everyone requires this particular product. Hence, the organization SHOULD be taxed like all other secular businesses.
the guardian has a story about a recent discovery regarding the great pyramid of gizeh.
it begins this way:.
"archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious enclosure hidden deep inside the great pyramid of giza, the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
C.T. Russel's corpse just got a hard on.
let's play devils advocate here.. put yourself in the governing body's shoes.
they are well aware of all the issues they are facing.
they know their numbers (they 'do the math' as they say in the us).
Plant a little somethin'-somethin' in 2018's memorial emblems and announce the New Light that all members must partake.
ok, i apologise in advance if this seems irreverent to those who believe in god.. but, the bible says that god (jehovah) impregnated mary.
without her consent.
so that would seem to be rape...right?.
If Mary were living in the 21st century, the only plausible thing she'd get away with claiming is immaculate infection.
