One thing Jws got right is that all religion's are a snare and a racket which also includes themselves.
Fadeaway1962
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What does the Watchtower Society's History of Prophetic Speculation Prove?
by Vanderhoven7 inquestion: what does the watchtower society's history of prophetic speculation prove?.
how would you respond to this answer provided by paul coom... yesterday on quora?.
"our organization has never been a prophetic speculator.
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More bad press for the Borg, in Australia
by shepherdless inmore bad press for the borg in australia.
this is on the webpage of the national broadcaster:.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-13/austraila-talks-trust-religious-figures-dropping-covid-pandemic/100202940.
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Fadeaway1962
Thanks, let's hope it wakes some up so they can free themselves from this abusive and controlling cult.
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Party tunes
by jhine inas usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .
i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .
as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .
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Fadeaway1962
For some real cheese , after a few sherry's
The birding song by the Tweets .
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God vs ET`s ,why is one more probable than the other ?
by smiddy3 inbillions of people around the world beleive in a god of some sort or other who exerts some power or influence to some degree or other in lifes affairs .. i don`t think there would be anywhere near that figure that would entertain the possability of extra terrestial life elsewhere in the universe.. and i find that curious .. the ancients didn`t know that their were other humans on other continents on this planet until they ventured out and found them .. we live somewhere in the milky way galaxy with millions of suns and planets that orbit them.. our galaxy is only one of trillions if not zillions of galaxys in the known universe.. look at the diversity of life on just this one planet earth ,what possabilitys could exist elsewhere ?
on alien worastronomers can use the hubble space telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).
by examining a very tiny portion of the sky, counting up the number of visible galaxies in the universe in that specific region, and then multiplying that number to account for all the regions of the sky, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe.
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Fadeaway1962
Watched Human universe with brain Cox this morning (bbc2 UK)
"The gods are later than creation" a Hindu saying.
Why are we here ,laws of physics and how we basically won the lottery on earth with all these law's being in the right place at the right time and the right amount.
And that's there's no reason why the odds that numerous galaxy's in the universe have planets are as luckily as we are here on earth for life to evolve.
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DISFELLOWSHIPPING, How bad is it really?
by pistolpete ini found this experience on reddit today.
disfellowshipping never really bothered me.
i always thought it was just another way of getting rid of members that weren't welcome anymore.. but i've changed my mind.
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Fadeaway1962
Vidiot
A acquisition was made against him by a under age girl who's grandfather was the po and included himself on the judicial committee and the decision was already made before he attended the meeting and they were unwilling to listen to him and any evidence he was 40 miles away at the time the incident, he was fed up with it all and just walked out , so they disfellowshiped him and his controlling ex bethel boy father did nothing to help his son because it's from Jehovah.
The police report was after the JC and there was a concern regarding the girl not my nephew , only become aware of this recently, I've contacted my nephew and apologize to him for not being there for him , but he has decided that we are no longer his family .
My brother who is a elder also was made aware of this recently and just said mistakes are made .
So because of my going along with the disfellowshiping arrangement I have lost a nephew .
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DISFELLOWSHIPPING, How bad is it really?
by pistolpete ini found this experience on reddit today.
disfellowshipping never really bothered me.
i always thought it was just another way of getting rid of members that weren't welcome anymore.. but i've changed my mind.
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Fadeaway1962
My nephew was disfellowshiped more than 10 years ago for something he never did , the police looked into the allegation against him , their was no case against him (only found this out a few months ago)
My sister was diagnosed with secondary cancer just over two years ago and we managed to contact him to let him know (necessary family business) and he called and spoke to his father and he said that he was disfellowshiped and they can't speak to him until he returns to Jehovah.
Before she lost her fight against the cancer ,she made it aware to our mother that she wanted to know how he was doing and if she was a granny , so I called him but because of that phone call with his father he wanted nothing to do with them and wouldn't even use the word mother called her by her name.
While she was in the hospice hours before she passed her husband tried to find there only child on Facebook , but didn't even recognize him when looked up his name and was told by another family member that was him .
But it was too late at that time .
Is it really BAD absolutely.
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Has anyone still in or otherwise heard anything about JWs think we only have 12 months before Armageddon?
by blablabluh ini’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.
i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.
anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.
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Fadeaway1962
My sister was convinced after that video that the great tribulation had started , but got annoyed when I asked about the cry of peace and security and the fall of badylon the great. That will happen soon, but more than a year and nothing.
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Schizophreniform!
by Atlantis inschizophreniform.
like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder is a type of "psychosis" in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined.
it also affects how people think, act, express emotions, and relate to others.. .
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Fadeaway1962
That would also include all the religious beliefs from all the religions around the world.
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Have You Been “Gaslit”?
by minimus ingaslighting is a form of sustained manipulation that causes the victim to question or doubt their sanity, judgment and memories.
it’s a form of emotional abuse.
i think jehovah’s witnesses have been gaslit.
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Fadeaway1962
Yes , false accusations of flirting and affairs with work colleagues and sister's in the k/hall (she was having a romantic relationship with a work colleague) being overly sensitive and having mental health issues .
Now looking back it started almost as soon as we meet and escalated over time till I started to feel something wasn't right in the relationship and saw a poster that men can be victims of domestic abuse and then contacted a male helpline and they made me aware of gaslighting and then I made a plan to leave , took a few years because of my kids .
She was good at gaslighting as she also convinced the elders of my supposed mental health issues and that I ran off with another woman and took all the money .(which I never did)
Helped with my awakening as to the gaslighting at the meetings and on JW.org that you are never good enough , not doing enough ministry etc .
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Watchtower takes parody poster to court.
by Lost in the fog inanother youtube presenter falls foul of the wt society's legal team.
the watch tower copyright lawsuit targets creator of "dubtown" lego animations.
https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/watch-tower-copyright-lawsuit-targets-creator-of-dubtown-lego-animations-torrentfreak/.
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Fadeaway1962
If I remember correctly were there not caricatures making fun of Catholic priests etc in the early golden age Mags etc .
So it's okay for them to make fun or make exaggerations of other religions beliefs and practices.