Posts by Splash

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When Your Adolescent Questions Your Faith

by Funchback in

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20120201/adolescent-questions-faith/.

this article doesn't touch on the topic of what a parent shoud do if their teenager has made an educated decision to stop attending meetings.

but, hey...what else do you expect from the watchtower coporation?.

Splash

Myth: Parents who are Jehovah’s Witnesses force their children to follow their faith.
Fact: Witness parents strive to inculcate love for God in their offspring, just as the Bible commands them to. Nevertheless, they realize that when a child becomes an adult, he or she will make a personal choice with regard to worship.

This is a puff piece for them to reference whenever they find themselves in difficulty because a child has been kicked out the home or forced to get baptised at 10 and now regrets it etc.

This 'go-to' article will prove that the error was with the parents, not the organisations instructions.

On the plus side, this is now ammunition young ones can use whenever they feel pressured to go to meetings and are being faced with that exact "while you're under my roof" scenario.

Hopefully this has just stripped JW parents of their biggest controlling argument.

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Spiritual Welfare

by wheelwithinwheel in

jw
friends

this year’s “don’t give up” convention encourages theocratic welfare.

brother pioneer is doing a lot of carting and having trouble making ends meet.

his landlord doesn’t get it and decides to evict him and his wife.. .

"Brothers, have you noticed someone in your congregation who is putting Jehovah first but suffering financial difficulties under Satan's system? Do you have the means to help that brother? Remember, Jehovah is not quick to forget your acts of loving kindness to one another."

"Maybe there's no-one in your congregation who needs such help. In that case, wouldn't it show loyalty to Jehovah to help his organisation by means of your unrighteous riches, so that there may be an equalizing among you?"

"Jehovah loves such acts of kindness."

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A JW explains Blood Fractions

by OrphanCrow in

i was looking around from some information on the wt's stance concerning the use of stem cells, and i came across this article on a defending jehovah's witnesses blog.. rather than informing the reader all that much about stem cells, the author diverts the conversation into a discussion of "blood fractions" (*note: the term "blood fractions" appears to be another one of those wt bloodspeak terms coined by the wt.

"blood components" or "blood products" are the terms used more frequently by the medical world.

"fractions" implies tiny amounts).

Splash

It really doesn't matter what justifications or so-called logic is applied to this teaching, the GB could turn around tomorrow, say it was all wrong, give new 'scriptural' reasons and everyone would have to believe and obey those instead.

It's a blind faith.

This was interesting too:

since the Scriptures are silent regarding such fractions the Witnesses leave this up to one's personal choice

The scriptures are silent regarding the four components of blood, but Witnesses have no freedom of choice whether to accept these or not.

WT logic is anything but logical.

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compensation for the abused.

by zeb in

'jehovah's witness (1 per cent) did not attend but will be involved in round two of negotiations — one-on-one meetings with the minister's department.

on the abuse compensation scheme reported on the abc.

so they will go into the ministers office with their slickest new lawyers and hope to bullshit the minsters staff.

Splash

From the report: "the Commonwealth is setting up a scheme with payments not exceeding $150,000."

So for the 1,732 victims listed in the ARC's JW file x $150,000 AUS = $260 million AUS, max WT payout. Likely much less.

Sounds like a good use of 'dedicated funds'.

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The resurrection, an analysis

by Splash in

(john 5:28, 29) "the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice  and come out".

what would this mean?take a look at this 7 min video to see:what if every human ever born came back to life today?.

Splash

(John 5:28, 29) "the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice  and come out"

What would this mean?
Take a look at this 7 min video to see:

What If Every Human Ever Born Came Back to Life Today?

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1975 Research (sorry, even more!)

by Splash in

here's a document from the time, which exposed 1975 as it was unfolding.. i've also attached a document which is an unstructured collection of 1975 observations, reasoning on the wt teachings and comments, and looking at how they republished certain books with changes to hide their 1975 teachings etc.. if anyone fancies sorting through these they might find a new angle not previously considered.. however the bottom line is that there is a ton of evidence that wt were pedaling 1975 to the masses for years.how they try to turn around today to pretend otherwise is nothing short of hypocritical cowardice..

Splash

Here's a document from the time, which exposed 1975 as it was unfolding.

I've also attached a document which is an unstructured collection of 1975 observations, reasoning on the WT teachings and comments, and looking at how they republished certain books with changes to hide their 1975 teachings etc.

If anyone fancies sorting through these they might find a new angle not previously considered.

However the bottom line is that there is a ton of evidence that WT were pedaling 1975 to the masses for years.
How they try to turn around today to pretend otherwise is nothing short of hypocritical cowardice.

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Convention audio clips mentioning 1975

by Splash in

this is very topical so i thought i'd share a compilation document of 10 audio clips.. these are mostly from before 1975, taken from convention recordings at the time, stressing the importance of 1975 and getting the crowd excited in anticipation.. entire talks are embedded but it's been typed out what was said and the time point it occurs.. this document is 220mb, so be warned.. i hope you're not triggered by the drawn out assembly speech style because this is full of it.. if anyone ever tries to tell you that there was no mention of 1975, hopefully this will give you some evidence.. if anyone with the ability could turn this into a short, shareable video, that would be much more useable and shareable than this (no disrespect to the creator).. click here for the recordings.

it will be gone in one month..

Splash

wifibandit I have extracted most of the mp3's. Files 3,8 & 10 didn't work for me.

Files 3, 8 and 10 are mp4, not mp3.

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Humourous reactions to beards worn at the kingdom Hall

by UnshackleTheChains in

is this the reaction you get when you walk into a kingdom hall sporting your new beard 🙄.

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Splash

@Unshackle

Seems the pharisaic rules and egos are more important than Jesus command to make disciples. What did he say about stumbling one of his little ones?

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Major changes to convention security beginning in 2017

by Edison Trent in

short info on interesting changes to the major conventions this year: there will be a new security concept that will be implemented at all regional conventions in 2017.. similar to other major events (e.g.

festivals, concerts), there will be admittance controls in stadiums.. - at each entrance, there will be a massive presence of attendants that look at each visitor.. - there will be pocket checks at the entrance.. - suspicious persons are no longer left on the convention grounds.. - suppliers to the stadium will be intensively inspected by attendants.. - there will be a special sign for attendants that must enter the stadium before 7.30 am.

all others (even all attendants) can only enter after 7.30 am..

Splash

In the UK the front line and entrance attendants are required to be SIA certified this year.

Does this include the 85 year old men who sit in the kingdom hall foyer as an attendant?

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Humourous reactions to beards worn at the kingdom Hall

by UnshackleTheChains in

is this the reaction you get when you walk into a kingdom hall sporting your new beard 🙄.

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Splash

@Cold Steel

This happened at my hall. Someone spent 2 years getting a Bible study up to the point of regular meeting attendance and about to join the Theocratic School.

The bible study asked for a School Guidebook but the elders said "only when you shave your beard".

He never came to another meeting. True story.