Lmao…. Only on an ex jw forum could saying “rolexs have nothing to do with their flawed theology” make someone an “apologist”
its not a rolex. They (gb) are frauds. Hang them for what they are, now what you want them to be.
i swear, you can't make this shit up!
for years and years growing up in this cult, i had to constantly hear from my parents, from the stage, in the literature, about "keeping your eye simple", not being "materialistic", not "having a showy display of one's wealth.
" of course, this never seemed to apply to the wealthy business owning elduhzzzz who ran and lorded it out over the congregations, but i digress.
Lmao…. Only on an ex jw forum could saying “rolexs have nothing to do with their flawed theology” make someone an “apologist”
its not a rolex. They (gb) are frauds. Hang them for what they are, now what you want them to be.
years ago rick fearon hosted on his six screens podcast a person identified as "johnny the bethelite" who talked about goings-on in watchtower headquarters.. johnny talked about the experiments with cart work.. johnny talked about pedophiles and child pornography in jw headquarters.. people claimed "johnny" was a fraud.
a fake.
cart work is everywhere.
Lmao i hadnt thought of old johnny in years!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 i recall him hiding in a closet on one broadcast, claiming to work on GB members computers 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 oh god, good good times….
i swear, you can't make this shit up!
for years and years growing up in this cult, i had to constantly hear from my parents, from the stage, in the literature, about "keeping your eye simple", not being "materialistic", not "having a showy display of one's wealth.
" of course, this never seemed to apply to the wealthy business owning elduhzzzz who ran and lorded it out over the congregations, but i digress.
Smh, and this why the ex jw community is forever foolish. Rolex or not, its irrelevant. It has nothing to do with their flawed theology.
Hang them for what really they do and say not what you imagine they did or said.
And its not a rolex to boot.
i swear, you can't make this shit up!
for years and years growing up in this cult, i had to constantly hear from my parents, from the stage, in the literature, about "keeping your eye simple", not being "materialistic", not "having a showy display of one's wealth.
" of course, this never seemed to apply to the wealthy business owning elduhzzzz who ran and lorded it out over the congregations, but i digress.
Come on man…. There is no view of the watch. Im an avid amateur horologist and reject both the assumption that its a rolex and the price cited. Secondary markets are the primary markets for rolex and older two tone subs can be had for 10k.
Stop with the dramatics and let their flawed theology speak for itself
i think i may be moving on shortly.
i officially joined this web-site 12 years ago as pimo about to exit the organisation.
i had spent about a year before that, as just a none commenting member.
“The goal of every warrior is to put down the sword”
another exposure!
it's not a destructive cult.........it's a destructive organization!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bilfhs6-pgw.
Its far to easy to say that if current members dont know its because they dont want to… its a high control group and they are discouraged from thinking about thing, kept busy in unpaid advertising and meeting attendance designed to reinforce their beliefs, and they have their own lives to live day to day.
The simple truth is, everyone believes things, objectively, that are not true and many more things that are subjectively questionable at best.
Dont be so quick to assume that are not issue that others are saying you are willfully blind to.
Id prefer to help the jw’s i know think as opposed to dismissing them as gullible, encourage them to be authentic and not dismiss them as automatons… but youf milage may vary
https://youtu.be/dnoww-4jfao?si=ehzmc5-gxqukgn7q.
with ww3 on the horizon the watchtower is bringing out their best hits on the issue of neutrality and the latest instalment on jw.org with stephen lett has the theme " why ancient israelites were allowed to go to war but as a christian you can't " or to paraphrase for a 2024 audience " why the modern state of israel is allowed all the nuclear weapons to defend their borders but you as a western european or north american you aren't supposed to compliant against open border policies and uncontrolled illegal migration" isn't that the exact same rhetoric or is it my imagination?
so one of stephen lett's go to arguments is that christians do not take up arms because we don't live in ancient times where israelites had a mandate to occupy the holy land where as we gentile christians we don't.
Ray, small correction to your post, WW3 has in fact started already, when the russia/ukrain thing kicked off. Its only now reaching full boil
two folks from the local kh visited the house yesterday looking for my wife who is an on again off again baptized jw.
wife was not available so they asked me to tell her about a special talk on marriage next week.
any outlines available for this ‘special talk’ or could this potentially be a local issue?.
Almost certainly the CO visit. All week in field serve us they pimp his sunday talk as a ‘special’ talk.
My humble advise is to blow it off, but whatever makes you happy. Its not new nor special.
wally, a youtuber from jw thoughts highlighted something that was said by kenneth cook jnr in the annual meeting.
he thinks it may be removed before they publish the agm.
i doubt we would see it in writing either.. part of kenneth's talk was about the changes regarding disfellowshipping and the clip from jw thoughts youtube shows him saying -.
“Why are we reading and making policy from one man's letter to another congregation from that long ago?”
and whats more, he himself (paul) changed his mind very quickly and wrote a second letter correcting himself. “This rebuke given by the majority is sufficient for such a man”
And other expressions, citing mercy and regret that led to repentance. Im admittedly no fan of bible doctrine but i am not bias in saying, taking the words of a self serving pharisee and establishing a decades long policy of social intimidation, family alienation, harassment and bullying is beyond the scope of any common usage and shows the truth of the phrase ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
The gb took the words they wanted, to mean what they wanted, do what they wanted. Thats the truth.
The stanford prison experiment has been played out in the org of Jw’s for over a century now and the conclusion is clear.
he will not pressure her to engage in sexual acts that make her feel uncomfortable, that are demeaning, or that bother her conscience..... the bible does not provide details as to what sexual practices between a husband and a wife should be considered clean or unclean.
a christian couple must make decisions that reflect their resolve to honor jehovah, to please each other, and to maintain a clean conscience.
generally speaking, a couple would not discuss with others this intimate aspect of their marriage..
The simple truth is, in every sexual partnership, one will have a higher sex drive. It is an absolute fact, as no ones hormones are identical to anothers and hormones drive most human behaviors. Including sex drive.
stop making this some ridiculous male/female thing, or patriarchy, or repressed women or impudent men or whatever reductive cliché of the week tickles you personally.
the core issue is that the wtbs has zero business in the bedroom making rules of any sort, legally or biblically.