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  Bible from God but not Adam not Literal?

  by brokethechain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hear some people believe that the bible is from god but because of science and archeology know that there was no global flood and that the first humans go much further back than 6,000 years.

  how do you (they) reconcile the geneologies (in number/matthew/luke)?.

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  How "spriritual" (cultish) was your congregation?

  by brokethechain in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  scaling the level of cult control within the jw organization on a scale of 1-10, i would say bethel life is probably a 10.. i ended up in a downtown big city congregation, and it had a high influx of uber zealous young people from other parts of the country.

  and, as controlling as the wt publications are, some elders managed to find ways to add more rules.

  a very controlling p.o.

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  Did you feel guilty for not pioneering?

  by brokethechain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i started pioneering the month i finished high school, and never stopped until i awakened, 17 years later.

  it seems like the entire time, there was so much emphasis on pioneering.

  every field service meeting seemed to have a part that communicated the message that jehovah would zap us at the big a. or people would die because of us if we didn't have extenuating circumstances (i always translated as bad health or kids, but even then, there were always "examples" of the mom with 5 kids that was pioneering).

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  Is "full-time service" a cult within a cult?

  by brokethechain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the bite model, mind control groups keep their members busy, tell them they are special, have special lingo, etc.. doesn't that make "full-time ministers" into a deeper level of mind control?

  it's a "special privilege" to be among those "ranks", there are extra meetings "anual pioneer meeting", "pioneer school", and a whole other level of guilt/indocrination/control for keeping pioneers/bethelites busy.

  as "examples", they shouldn't socialize too much, they shouldn't miss field service groups, they should start their time early, they should study all the publications, etc.

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  Kettle calling the pot black?

  by brokethechain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  june 22, 2000 awake on propaganda.

  "by clever and persevering use of propaganda even heaven can be represented as hell to the people, and conversely the most wretched life as paradise.

  " adolf hitler, mein kampf.".

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  Fundamentalist Apostates

  by brokethechain in

  1. social
  2. humour

  landover baptist church parody i thought was pretty funny.. http://landoverbaptist.org/.

  http://www.landoverbaptist.net/.

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  MSNBC Article: Jehovah's Witnesses ordered to pay more than $20 million

  by brokethechain in

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  2. scandals
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