colossians 2:16.
"ironically enough, i never even knew about this bible verse until i had grown up and was pomo of the watchtower cult.
read it, then read it again.
I feel that the default position of the rusted on JW would be "What does 'the Slave' say about this*?" In this I can agree with the previous two posters and their observations.
*I started a thread about this sort of language that I had seen on a vetted JW chat site a couple of years back. Too lazy ATM to try and dig it back up 🙄
when a person looks at the sheer volume of watchtower lies, denial of salvation, free labor, false prophecies, misrepresentations, gas-lighting and falsehoods about everything and anything, it makes me wonder if it's one big test to see how gullible people can be.
there was as social experiment in the 1960's that tested how far people were willing to administer an increasing dose of electric shock if directed to do so by an authority figure.
shockingly, people were willing to give lethal doses to their neighbors.
In a way it was Rutherford's social experiment. He was always seeing how far he could push people before they resisted, be they WT adherents or government. With government he pushed the freedom of religion envelope too far i.e he FAFOed. He got to spend some time in prison and his health suffered from then on.
As to people, he squeezed the Bible students to the point where everyone who would resist had gone. The Bethel culture was made up of company men who would follow any order.
What was that diary/memoir of a new boy? The bit where a guy jumped off a building and the guy in charge didn't care, just was grateful that the "bastard" hadn't done it on the street side. I imagine people like that were perfectly capable of administering the lethal level if ordered.
https://filmdaily.co/indie-film/from-survival-to-cinema-how-robin-a-townsend-turned-trauma-into-power-through-film/ .
robin a. townsend is not just a filmmaker.
he is a force of reclamation.
Is this a new release? If so, it's interesting that WT announces that they have changed the word, just in time for this movie.
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
ElderBerry: "if he stayed a JW even if he was agnostic then he would have let a text book life. Relatively happy family clean and together. Good friends and social life. Real friends that will be there for him"
So he can still be a hypocrite; just a more socially acceptable hypocrite? Still peddling that JW Lite nonsense, Elderberry? As I've said before: Get out of Babylon if you can.
thought this young couple gave a very clear description of their, and possibly your/our, experiences from within the kh:https://youtu.be/vo2ekifftze?si=bg8rloubqdaew8py.
hotb .
Everyone is different. Whatever age you wake up at is the right age. 👍👌🤝
Kudos to all who leave!
he looks completely different and he doesn’t do that raised eyebrows and funny mouth that he used to.
and something is going on with his hair.
is it a combover or a wig or is that even him?
The potential is enormous! Imagine Stephen Lett or some other GB member delivering a Kenneth Copeland or Joel Osteen sermon, in the appropriate voice. Or even better, giving a talk on YouTube, in his own voice, as to why the Jehovah's Witness religion sucks. Fun times, fun times! 😀
colossians 2:16.
"ironically enough, i never even knew about this bible verse until i had grown up and was pomo of the watchtower cult.
read it, then read it again.
The human written sci-fi stories are fun to listen to and are rarely much more than ten minutes long. The AI ones are always thirty or more minutes long and incredibly repetitive. A while back they always featured an Admiral or Ambassador Chen, a Colonel Rodriguez and a token English name like Jackson. The alien general usually had the same name as well. 🙄
I prefer Agro Squirrel's narration. He at least tries to find non-AI stuff.
AQ probably spends more time tidying up the results than the other AI dependent generators of content.
colossians 2:16.
"ironically enough, i never even knew about this bible verse until i had grown up and was pomo of the watchtower cult.
read it, then read it again.
I like posts of a few paragraphs or so, not pages and pages that could have been distilled into those few paragraphs that I like to read (and try to restrict myself to; not always successful there! 🙄) AI generation could well explain the sheer volume of content.
Speaking of which, to go off on a tangent, does anyone read/listen to those AI generated stories on YouTube that purport to be taken from Reddit? My rule of thumb for identifying them: they are ridiculously long; usually forty minutes where the story could have been told in five to ten minutes. My favourite identifier is: "Something inside me snapped! I didn't yell; I didn't cry".
Waiting for something to snap inside our favourite verbose poster, then we'll have him, dead to rights! 🙄
in the light of the lifting of sanctions on glass clinking and recent threads on chess and dvds of lord of the rings, was there anything you did for fun, as a hobby or for recreational purposes that you felt might be "taken the wrong way" if it came to the attention of the elders or sister busybody?.
In the light of the lifting of sanctions on glass clinking and recent threads on chess and DVDs of Lord of the Rings, was there anything you did for fun, as a hobby or for recreational purposes that you felt might be "taken the wrong way" if it came to the attention of the elders or Sister Busybody?
when did the jws make the rule that you couldn’t clink glasses together and raise glasses of wine?.
and why the change to being a conscience matter now?.
Beth Sarim: "Hard to see it.
"I just think of all the birthdays through-out the average congregation.
"Each birthday takes away focus & worship of the GB., organization.
"Too much focus is directed away from the Borg."
That's why Rutherford banned them in the first place.
Reinstating them means huge amounts of planning, resources and labour will be diverted away from "DA werldwide werk". And don't forget, birthdays mean gatherings, and gatherings mean opportunities to sin. Elders who love sitting on JCs probably would rub their hands with glee at the idea. Those elders who are already overworked and unpaid for that work might groan at the thought.
