Captain Obvious

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  Social media strategy to expose JW molestation issues

  by JimmyPage in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are a lot of jws who will never hear about the molestation issues the wt has because all their friends on social media are fellow cult members.. what i'm going to attempt is to create a profile for an alter ego.

  it will have a profile pic and banner that says "jw.org" or some other pro-jw nonsense.. then i will attempt to befriend a jw.

  when one bites and accepts me the others will fall like dominoes and also accept my friendship.. at first i will post pro-jw things that will get me "likes", subscribers, and promotions in their news feed.. then i will lower the boom by posting the recent news video from the texas molestation story.

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  Captain Obvious

  Girl next door:

  please tell me more! Half a dozen have woken up because of you?!
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  Ever since I learned TTATT, I stopped contacting a sister who I wanted to date

  by Yondaime in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was head over heels for this girl, but when i realized i was in a self destructive cult i realized tieing the knot with her would screw up my future.

  this makes me think of the highschool sweethearts i turned down that were worldly.

  now she gives me dirty looks whenever our eyes meet a the hall or at gatherings.

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  Captain Obvious

  Well said Pete. She'll tell others that you played her or hurt her.

  You're better off
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  if tomorrow dozens of jws learned of ttatt

  by sowhatnow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and they left the congregations, would you then feel open to be thier friends?.

  many on here have the same complaint, that in the jw congregations, there were clickes, no one had time for each other,.

  people judged, there was a lack of association, freindship , true concern and love were lacking.

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  Captain Obvious

  Dozens learn TTATT every day!

  If many in my area woke up and actually did something about it and I actually wanted to be their friends, sure. It would be SO much easier to do together! Plus it would shake up the local congs causing more to leave. Some will see it as a sign there's a problem, most will see it as "cleansing gods congregation"
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  Changed: Head coverings for sisters, w15 2/15 QFR

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does a female kingdom publisher need to wear a head covering if she conducts a bible study in the presence of a male publisher?.

  in a questions from readers item published in the watchtower of july 15, 2002, it was stated that a sister should cover her head if she conducts a bible study in the presence of a male publisher, whether he is baptized or not.

  further consideration of the matter suggests that a modification to this direction is appropriate.. if the male publisher who accompanies the sister while she conducts an established bible study is baptized, the sister would certainly want to wear a head covering.

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  Strain out the gnat, gulp down the camel
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  new neighbors

  by Theredeemer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, my wife and i purchased a house about a month ago and recently we met our new neighbors.

  they are an older couple.

  they are very nice and even brought us cookies.. in conversation they brought up that they were mormons and mentioned how much they loved it.

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  Use the opportunity to get into a huge religious debate, hardly dinner conversation. After all, they invited you over under false pretenses and then brought up religion at the dinner table. Get on about how the bible is a sham, and the Mormon faith is truly for morons.

  Get all schooled up on Mormons, real facts. Watch them squirm as you shed light on their silly beliefs and pick them apart piece by piece.

  OR you could take your wife out to a nice dinner and movie instead. I'd love to go in your place, just to have the opportunity you have.
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  God is not genocidal

  by mistified in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so at the meeting a few weeks ago the speaker was having a talk about inactive people and then he went on about how people think the god of the old testament was cruel and genocidal.

  he then said that god and did not commit genocide because everything he did was for a reason.

  i was shocked at how stupid that saying was.

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  Well... In big J's defense, he wasn't very good at genocide.

  How many times did he kill all the Canaanites/amalekites/etc?

  If he killed them all the first time, he wouldn't need to hit them with another genocide... if any of those things really happened they weren't recorded very well
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  Bill Nye the Science Guy talking evolution on Alan Colmes tomorrow

  by wannabefree in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  does anybody listen to the alan colmes radio program?.

  http://radio.foxnews.com/category/talk/alan-colmes-talk-radio/.

  tomorrow bill nye will be a guest.. it is a call-in program.

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  Captain Obvious

  Bill Nye is likely on the show to plug his new book.

  Which I just finished, by the way. Excellent. Downloaded the audiobook version which he reads himself, with all his personality. Probaby the easiest to listen to book about evolution I've found.
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  My Marking Talk

  by jws in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  back to august of 1988. my brother and i were the ones being marked.

  at the time, my father had clued us in that it was coming and had gotten a recording of it.

  are we not also obliged to act on wrongs being committed by a family member or members?

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  Captain Obvious

  Barf. I can't even stand to read it past a few paragraphs.

  MIND CONTROL
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  This should be an interesting book to read

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have not yet read this book, but it should be interesting:.

  "the better angels of our nature: why violence has declined", steven pinker.. the publicity blurb states:.

  "believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence.

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  Captain Obvious

  Well worth your time! Pinker lays out fact after fact in a way that hardly gets boring or too repetitive.

  I really opened my eyes, having been brought up a JW. Every ex-Jw should give it a look, or at very least watch the video.
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  ANOTHER CHURCH THAT EVOLVED INTO A CULT

  by NAVYTOWN in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are various stories in the news today about the head pastor, mark driscoll, of the mars hill megachurch in seattle resigning after much extended controversy.

  from what i read, his church was in many ways similar to the jws.

  shunning.

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  Captain Obvious

  You've got it backwards.

  Cults evolve into churches/religions.

  Like how jesus' little cult evolved into a religion.