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apostatethunder
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Just noticed something about my membership here
by JeffT ini've been a member of this board three years longer than i was a jehovah's witness (eighteen vs fifteen).
i'm sure i've put in more hours here than i did in field service, it was more fun as well.
anybody else with similar numbers?.
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Should some people actually be Witnesses?
by Apognophos init seems to me like certain people actually benefit from joining the religion.
primarily i'm thinking of ones with drug problems who are only able to quit because they are working towards baptism.
another example would be those who are always getting in fights or who have a big ego, and who learn to be pacifistic and humble as a witness.
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apostatethunder
Some people deserve to be Jehovah´s Witnesses, evil people that need to be punished for a crime for example.
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You too, invent your "new light"
by coalize ini had this idea of topic when john aquila made me laugh in one of his post when he said : new light!the governing body has the right to have sex with all the new virgins that get baptized before they get married.. and then i've decided to open this topic to ask this (stupid but funny) question : if you was in the gb, what's the "new light you will want to fight for?
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apostatethunder
New light! DO NOT READ ANY MATERIAL POSTED IN JEHOVAHS-WITNESS.COM !
We repeat! DO NOT READ ANY MATERIAL POSTED IN JEHOVAHS-WITNESS.COM !
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Master piece!
by coalize inwhat we can read in the wt 10/15/2015... they have really no shame!.
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apostatethunder
They are making it increasingly difficult for anyone with a minimun thinking ability to be part of their cult. Now they just want certified zombies.
They are preparing their sheep to go on once the organization is inevitably exposed as a fraud.
Even if they managed to convince and enslave one person for any amount of time with their lies and manipulation is far too much, but they did it to millions and continue doing it with total impunity.
Note: USA government proudly promotes freedom of religion.
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Single Sisters
by BashfulAshG inam i the only one who has single, desperate sisters in the congregation?
they tend to be holier-than-thou, frumpty, but in private talk about getting married.
but they don't understand why no brother will look at them.
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apostatethunder
This is a mysoginistic cult but as the men running it also have women in their families, these "privileged" sisters play a very important role shaping the culture of the organization.
Many sisters have an attitude like the passanger in the movie Airplane when she says to another: "We are going to die, but at least I am married."
Marrying only in the Lord actually gives men like Billy Pilgrim a chance.
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Jehovah's witnesses owe much to the catolic church
by TheWonderofYou injehovahs witness owe the bible to the catolic church,the church was the authority that put the bible together, and jehovahs witnesses owe the name jehovah a catolic monk.
jehovash witnesses owe the catolic church the sowing of the field where they are now preaching.. otherwise after leaving the jw i got a much better understanding of christianity and the cc..
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apostatethunder
The Catholic Church is the origin of Western Civilization. Before the Catholic Church poligamy, slavery, animal and even human sacrifices were actually legal. Leaving all that behind was a huge step for humanity.
Catholic and Ortodox Churches went their separate ways in the 9th Century but they did't go to war against each other, and what is more they both built great civilizations.
For some reason that was not the case with the bloody Reform and their criminal Inquisition that killed thousands of innocent women accross Europe accused of witchcraft. After that it went to conquer the world in pirate ships, stealing, murdering, plundering, etc everything of value they encountered. Of course History needed to be ammended accordingly as deep down nobody likes to be seen as a pirate or worse an APE, hence the culture of LIES and SCAMMING that is so prevalent today.
If the Reform was about doctrine they could have exposed their arguments reasonably and do as the Ortodox Church did, but that was obviously not the case.
Coincidentally Communism destroyed the culture and peoples in countries influenced by the Ortodox Church starting with the Armenian genocide in 1915.
In any case the damage of living in a post-Comunism, post Ice War is already done and it is going to be very difficult to undo it.
Disturbingly the new Pope is somebody all historical enemies of the Catholic Church seem to like, except probably the WT that doesn't need to fake they are normal.
So it seems the enemies of the Catholic Church, whoever they are, have won and that is why we are now living in this very evolved society.
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What Would Happen if the Watchtower Loses Their TAX EXEMPT STATUS?
by John Aquila inwould it really affect them?
how would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable.
any materials they buy would be taxable.
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apostatethunder
Charity: Provision of help or relieve to the poor. Without the WT the poor wouldn't be helped to meekly accept their poverty with the hope of a paradise earth on the horizon, and that would probably create angry crowds of poor window cleaners accross the continents which wouldn't benefit anyone.
Foreseeing the consequences it is very unlikely the Government will take that road, so the WT will have to be considered a charity wether we like it or not.
Also that could expose its financers and that could only add further confussion to an already complicated situation.
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Do you ever feel strangely drawn towards Conspiracy Theories?
by JW_Rogue inafter mentally awakening to the idea that jws don't have the truth i strangely found myself delving into all encompassing conspiracy theories.
not that i believed them but something about them seemed quite fascinating.
i was especially drawn to the idea of a new world order/one world government.
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apostatethunder
I have to say that after leaving the WT I firmly believe everything the Government says, specially if it is the Government of the USA, which is the country where this cult and other similar ones built their comfortable nests.
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Can you help me grasp Jehovah's Witnesses as (Emotionally and Mentally Violent) vs Physically Violent of all Religions?
by JWCart incan i upload a audio tape of how evil jws are, you won't believe how wicked they are!
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apostatethunder
They isolate, bully and manipulate people to conformity, penalizing any sign of independent thinking or rather a welll adjusted adult personality.
They do not need sophisticated technology to spy on the lives of others; they've managed to create a climate supported by a net of dedicated pioneers sticking their nose and gossipping about other´s personal affairs.
In my opinion this corporation and others like it, are a big experiment about creating a naive, credulous and infantile society to serve the long term purposes of very grandiose people with a lot of money and mental issues.
That also seems to be the case of the people behind the Government of the US, that has always protected if not promoted these types of cults as other forms of mass manipulation.
Their publications are full of subliminal imagery by the way, like most of the media.
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10 Reasons you should never have a religion
by Batman89 ina great article i stumbled across this morning http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/10-reasons-you-should-never-have-a-religion/.
while consciously pursuing your spiritual development is commendable, joining an established religion such as christianity, islam, or hinduism is one of the worst ways to go about it.
in this article ill share 10 reasons why you must eventually abandon the baggage of organized religion if you wish to pursue conscious living in earnest.. since christianity is currently the worlds most popular religion, ill slant this article towards christianitys ubiquitous failings.
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apostatethunder
All societies have their own traditions and rituals, even secular ones.
There is a difference between a religion that educates, dignifies and empowers individuals, families and communities and a philosophy that manipulates, enslaves and degrades human beings sometimes in the name of freedom.
Our culture is the result of how we understand history, and religion plays a big role in both our history and our self-awareness, (or lack of).
Sociopaths take advantage of other people's poverty, economic but also intellectual or cultural, that is why they tend to promote it and that is why it is easy to recognize them.
