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  Just A Thought Regarding The Bunker Video

  by pale.emperor in

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  as ridiculous as the bunker video was, a few things popped into my consciousness as i was riding the train today.

  firstly, why did they go to all the expense and effort to not only create a bunker, but to furnish it like a living room complete with coffee table, armchair, shelves etc?

  i mean, a bunker should be a bunker... boxes of tinned food, tools, medical supplies, emergency gear etc.

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  Doomsday cult paranoia.
  10:20 - "Where would I be if I did not have faith?" - maybe somewhere on the fresh air?
  11:40 - "And your faith has led you here..." - to the basement trap.
  And the bad@ss faces at the end - priceless...
  
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  My jaw dropping OMG moment at the end of the convention

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  yes folks.

  over the past few days i can honestly say the convention was relatively quite good.

  most of the talks, videos, symposiums were in line with scripture if you have faith in the bible.

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  Recent articles about homosexuality:
  
  Awake! October 8. 2003
  Awake! December 2010

  WT library links:

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102003726

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102010448
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  My jaw dropping OMG moment at the end of the convention

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yes folks.

  over the past few days i can honestly say the convention was relatively quite good.

  most of the talks, videos, symposiums were in line with scripture if you have faith in the bible.

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  UnshackleTheChains

  : Am still in disbelief!
  

  Same here... i had "wtf" expression when speaker explained that "the generation" must be the ones who "saw with their own eyes and clearly understood what happened in 1914". WTF??? Since when they "clearly understood" what happened in 1914? Literaly nothing happened what they expected! They needed lumpy Rutherford to explain "what really happened in 1914" years later!
  
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  Stupid Illustration

  by FedUpJW in

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  2. beliefs

  so as i sit here listening to the sunday morning bs session the elder on the stage yapped about religion and that there can only be one religion leading to god.

  he used the illustration of a bicycle wheel.

  it has many spokes and they all lead to the center.

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  The problem with illustrations is that you can confirm anything no matter how stupid it is, if you just pick the right illustration. How that works? You have problem for which you seek a solution. And you don't solving the original problem, oh no, you simply pick completely diferent "problem" with known solution - that solution which fits your needs. After that, procedure is trivial, you just need to find or make up "connections" between original problem and the illustration, and map "the solution" from illustration to original problem, and voila, you solved the problem! Of course, that works only in JW fairy world...
  
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  1975 - JWs in other countries, not just the U.S. also knew about the prediction

  by deegee in

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  i have been wondering, if the 1975 prediction was just a rumour started by the rank & file as the wt claims, then how did jws in other countries, a part from the u.s., also come to know about the prediction?.

  i started studying with the jws during the 80s when i was a child.

  while attending one of my first meetings during that time, a brother commented during the wt study that armageddon did not come in 1975 because it was not known how many years after adam, eve was created.. at the time, i hadn't a clue what the guy was talking about.

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  Because 1975. was announced in "The Watchtower" magazines in all languages available in that time, that was the official teaching, not just a rumor.
  
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  No brain, No Life -- says JW Professor Rajesh Kalaria

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so continuing my review of the current bull shit my family in this cult are subjected to i found this article about professor rajesh kalaria, a jw since 1973 and a scientist who has studied the human brain for 40 years (hmm... so he converted into this cult very early in his career it seems).anyway i also found this jw broadcasting piece about him where he says:.

  “and brain is what we are; what i am, what you are.

  no brain, no life.

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  no brain, no life -- described the most of the JW i know...

  btw, wasn't official WT teaching from 1970ies that the heart is the center of man's thoughts and the kidneys are the center of man's personality?
  
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  Commuter Bethelites: Now At Warwick!

  by HiddlesWife in

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  i just recently read the thread on this subject started by blueblades entitled "commuter bethelites" approximately 15 years ago.

  although the program had ended in brooklyn, wallkill, etc., in around 2002, i noticed that the borg has commuters (sisters, particularly) holding this privilege of service at warwick!.

  in a few previous postings which i told about my going on a recent bus trip to there, there were many single sisters used in that capacity as tour guides, cleaning the visitors' lobby and even directing traffic (two sisters had walkie-talkies, communicating to no doubt a central office, informing bus operators when to go and when to stop, when to let off their passengers, etc.).

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  Last few years sisters have "privilege" to serve at Regional Conventions as hostesses, welcoming at entrance, watching contribution boxes, managing info-desks, distributing convention programs and literature, and so, mainly atractive and good-looking young pieces... I asked how's that started, and CO said to me, we brothers are worth for nothing, no one wants to put on the disposal, and sisters does that much better anyway...
  
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  Monica Richardson - "[Evolution] was something I never doubted; it was taught as a scientific fact."

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i found another piece in the no 4.

  2017 awake attacking evolution.

  wow two attacks in the same article!anyway richardson is a physician the jws are cherry picking to support the idea even intelligent people can think evolution is nonsense.

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  @Half banana: RC catechism is a space shuttle compared to WT bicycle study, but yes, still crap.
  
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  What happened in 1995?

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. bible

  i was born in 1984 so was only 9yo in 1995. i read on various posts on here and on other websites about false expectations about 1975 and 1995. i'm aware of the 1975 failure but what was said in 1995?.

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  What a beautiful day for service!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  i heard this expression very often and even said it often myself.

  now that i am out, i realize this isn't always the case.

  there were many times i was going out in service saturday morning and couldn't wait for 12:00 to come along so that we could go swimming, bicycling, play basket ball, go to the beach... .

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  Thanks for your kind words. Preaching is his life, that's him. He know lot of things we talking here, he was elder for decades, he has his ups and downs, but he don't care much about WT ("it's just a piece of paper") or GB ("these are just an imperfect people"). All he know: there is The God, there is His Word Bible, and there is The Message to preach. Nothing else matters.