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2/15 WT - WTS Controls by Fear, Confusion, Separating Friends & Family
by flipper inonce again in a wt study article entitled " imitate jesus' example of watchfulness " the wt society tries to control jw members through fear mongering, confusing them by inconsistent and contradictory wording, and emphasizing devotion to wt society " sacred service " over devotion to family and friends.. we all know the wt society has always said that " nobody knows the day and hour " of the alleged armageddon - yet out of the same mouth the wt society claims to know the " day " of the end close enough to have duped people with 1975 and put fear into jw's that the " end " is " imminent" .
notice these quotes from paragraph 4 in this article.
it states, " in brief, jesus wants us to remain watchful because of what we know and what we do not know.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-01-2012 WT Study (OWN UNDERSTANDING)
by blondie indo not lean upon your.
own understanding.
a young.
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What is this obsession with pornogrqaphy? Most sociologists regards it as innocuous fantasizing. Why is it such a problem among people who devote so much of their conscious existence wrapped up in meeting attendance, Bible study and the public ministry?
I also love the advice in paragraphs 13 which exhorts the reader to "ask, ask ask" God (Bethel? the elders?) every single time he/she faces a recurrent challenge... who does one ask? The elders? I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard an elder bemoan the childish inability of the friends to base their decisions on clear-cut "Bible principles" rather than run to them for guidance.
By the way: just how does/did God communicate his answers to David, Hezekiah, Hannah, etc. anyway?
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March 15, 2012 WT: These times are more critical than when we last called them critical, honest!!
by MrMonroe injust sad.
"the christian ministry has always been urgent, but now it is more critical than ever.
" (page 18).. what follows is more of the same disgusting tripe: the same scare tactics (nuclear weapons, terrorists, climate change, hurricanes, wars) that made me join in 1985 when the world was on the brink of nuclear armageddon.
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"Such a war would leave few if any survivors."_.... you mean, kinda like .. Armageddon? _
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Watchtower 15/3/12 "Do Not Look At The Things Behind"
by BluesBrother inthere have been a couple of threads about this issue.
if this has been covered, then i am sorry, but:.
the article warns against looking back with fondness for the "good old days" don't they always do that with the "critical times we live in?
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" Do you fantasize about what could have happened had you not made those sacrifices?" Yeah, sure ... over my second double Scotch at the local gin mill!
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Question about unbaptized publishers
by camicia inmy daughter has been an unbaptized publisher for several months and has decided this religion is not for her.
i tried to tell her before she got involved that it isn't but she had to learn this on her own.
she doesn't want to be an unbaptized publisher anymore, but hasn't committed any sin to be removed.
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... what a nightmare all of this has become (sigh)....
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Zen's Rant on Ayn Rand - intelligent responses appreciated
by Dogpatch incheck out http://youtu.be/_rtl0g851ic.
this is also at the freeminds channel at:.
http://www.youtube.com/user/freeminds?feature=guide.
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One man's opinion: I reserved judgment on her as a human being; but IMHO, her "masterpiece" Atlas Shrugged is one of the most overwrought, overwritten and overrated novels ever. It seldom -- if ever -- rises above the level of a Saturday-Matinee-at the-movies serial.
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Larsinger, you may prefer to apply a broader meaning to "seismoi" than generally acknowledged. Without prejudice to the correctness of this broader meaning, the main point is the WT does not; in all of its commentary on the purported sign, the Society consistently limits its application strictly to earthquakes, and in so doing misrepresents the findings of the seismological experts cited above.
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2011 Watchtower publisher statistics with analysis
by jwfacts inthe 2012 yearbook has released the publisher statistics for the 2011 service year.
a scan of the report can be found at http://www.jwfacts.com/images/2011-publisher-report.pdf and i have started updating the graphs at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php.
as expected, it is following on from similar trends to the last 15 years.
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" The 5.4% increase in Bible Studies is pretty big. I would be interested in a graph showing the increase in reported Bible Studies in recent years."
It would seem that at least part of this may be attributable to the startup of "Family Worship Night," for which parents can count the studies with their children.
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WT: "A sport is objectionable if too many people like it"
by cedars inif i may, i would like to offer another glimpse into the strange minds of the writers of the more recent watchtower study editions, this time on the topic of sport.. no doubt like many of you, i enjoy playing sport because (apart from anything else) regular exercise stops me from becoming fat and unhealthy.
during my time as an active witness, i often had the opportunity to play sports with other brothers, although i became increasingly frustrated that this was not (in my case) organised on a more regular basis by those in my congregation; rather, games of my particular sport were organised less and less frequently until they became virtually non-existant.. things have improved considerably since i became inactive and was improperly shunned by those 'brothers' i used to play sport with, because i have begun playing my particular sport with so-called "worldly" people in my local community.
apart from allowing me to get back into some semblance of shape (thereby keeping mrs cedars happy) i am also able to keep in touch with my neighbours and be more sociable with those who live near me.
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"Does anybody on here know how to play the flute?" I guess it's okay to play the flute, but certainly NOT in a school band!
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Family Waste the Evening Night--the Third Anniversary
by WTWizard insome of you might remember that last separate book study.
back in early january 2009, they had the last one.
after that, it was added to the theocraptic misery "school(??
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I'd venture to say that the vast majority of dubbies simply ignored the "suggestion." That certainly is the case in these parts.