Posts by Dismissing servant

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Governing Body Hates Higher Education Because It Destroys Their Delusion

by frankiespeakin in

12 years ago

in an effort to keep their delusion alive it is only natural for them hate something that lifts the vails of their delusion and lay it barren.

their hate is transfered to the faithful rank and file and manifested in their forbidding it to the young who will surely see the ignorance of their delusion.

narcissistic delusions of divine appointment are resisted at the expense of the young.. they hate higher education to the same extent they hate psychiatry because both tread on their delusion and identify it in clear terms..

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Dismissing servant 12 years ago

Now it's a long time since I left, but I remember that even in university towns there were very few JW's with higher education. I remember one who got PhD, and there was also a dentist.

A lot of the JW's were cleaners, but they seemed to avoid working at the university even as cleaners! Maybe the atmospere at the university was dangerous?!

This was in the 1980's. Nowdays the JW's in Sweden are losing very many of the young ones. I should guess that some 70-80% of the young ones leave the organisation.

I remember that in the 1980's there used to be some 800-1000 people baptized every year in Sweden. Last year it was only 312.

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Governing Body Hates Higher Education Because It Destroys Their Delusion

by frankiespeakin in

12 years ago

in an effort to keep their delusion alive it is only natural for them hate something that lifts the vails of their delusion and lay it barren.

their hate is transfered to the faithful rank and file and manifested in their forbidding it to the young who will surely see the ignorance of their delusion.

narcissistic delusions of divine appointment are resisted at the expense of the young.. they hate higher education to the same extent they hate psychiatry because both tread on their delusion and identify it in clear terms..

12 years ago

Dismissing servant 12 years ago

I am not so sure that the guys in the GB are deluted. Thay might as well be doing damage control.

If they are deluted, they would not be aware of their delusion.

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My View and Bobby Dylan's View of AntiWatchtower Special Groups

by Band on the Run in

jw
friends

12 years ago

my computer crashed so i am not fully informed of the recent antiwatchtower organization.

i must vent, however.

perhaps i am the only one on the face of the earth (or the entire universe) but i found cedar's opening announcement insulting.

12 years ago

Dismissing servant 12 years ago

" Loose organizations with peers have many advantages. Agility is important. A massive blow as in David and Goliath is not likely. Skirmishes and reframing issues can win a sustained war. Don't follow leaders, to quote Dylan. If everyone here is concious of the WT in their routine lives and engages in small actions based on their gut feelings, the WT faces a formidable foe."

Yes, I agree!
The most important we can do on the web is to reach lurkers. This have to be done in a careful way. Don't scare them away.

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Distrust and paranoia among faders

by cedars in

jw
friends

12 years ago

hi guys.

i'm interested in knowing whether any other faders out there ever find themselves feeling a little paranoid about establishing contact with other faders or former jws, just in case the unthinkable happens and things turn sour.. personally, i'm now fairly comfortable with the idea that i will be disfellowshipped or disassociated within the next year or so.

i see it as inevitable, and an essential transition in order to do what i want to do with my life.

12 years ago

Dismissing servant 12 years ago

Lost:......I think we got the point!

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Problems with the "Bogus AWAA Fan Page"..

by OUTLAW in

12 years ago

good afternoon jwn... .

i`ve spent the morning and part of my afternoon... getting to the bottom of... why names were added to the awaa fan page... it`s a dangerous thing to happen in our world... faders can be outed,we can lose,family,friends... the results can be an absolute disaster... .

aawa "did not" create the facebook awaa fan page.

12 years ago

Dismissing servant 12 years ago

""Cedars' refusal to budge on this very simple matter, along with all the dishonesty we've seen, has completely impaired his credibility and any trust we can have in this group."

I think it was just that dishonesty that made people furious.

But now things have gone a lot further.

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