Posts by Splash

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Does anyone know how many partook of the emblems last memorial ?

by Chook in

i think this is the only growth area in jw land..

WT - Study Ed, October 2017 - The Truth Brings, “Not Peace, But a Sword”

by Sanchy in

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another article analyzing how bad poor jw's have it when it comes to opposition from family.

few interesting quotes:.

parr 2:.

Splash

For example, Jehovah instructs us to “stop keeping company” with unrepentant wrongdoers. Despite our pain of heart, we must avoid normal contact with a disfellowshipped family member

Here the WT equate unrepentant wrongdoers with disfellowshipped ones.

It's extremely common to find thoroughly repentant ones who are df'd as a punishment or because their wrongdoing was common knowledge.

WT cleverly redefine "unrepentant" to mean "declared unrepentant by the elders" and the flock dutifully nod along, adding further anguish to an already crushed spirit.

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What Happens If the JW Beard Policy Stumbles a Person

by Cold Steel in

some of the videos on youtube really make the beard policy look ridiculous.

i wondered what would happen if the jw beard policy caused someone to stumble?

jesus most likely wore a beard, and charles taze russell had a beard.

Splash

JW's are stumbled when a man in the congregation grows a beard, because they are told to be stumbled when they see a beard.

If tomorrow they were told not to be stumbled by beards then tomorrow none would be stumbled.

Even the term "stumbled" is an exaggeration used to coerce and control.

If you are stumbled then you stop going to the hall or on the ministry.

The worst that happens in the congregation is that some are "surprised".

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JW hospitality toward those not in the org.

by Chook in

let's here some stories of good samaritan conduct , i asked an elder so called friend once could my son sleep on garage floor for a couple of days due to work , the answer was no due to son not believing..

Splash

An elder was telling me about a sister who had just stopped pioneering.

His exact words were "she's no use to us now".

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Road Sweeper vehicle ploughs into JW Carts

by darkspilver in

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in newcastle town centre.

uk.. the chronicle live.

15 june 2017.. a council worker will stand trial after he was accused of being drunk at the wheel of his road sweeper in newcastle city centre.. john paul carruthers, who has since resigned from his post at newcastle city council, was allegedly over the legal drink-drive limit when he ploughed into a jehovah’s witness stand on northumberland street near to haymarket metro station.. prosecuting, james long told newcastle magistrates’ court: “the allegation is that he was driving a newcastle city council road sweeper when he collided first with a jehovah’s witness stand next to haymarket metro station.

Splash

sparrowdown Nobody was hurt ???

Apparently not.

The road sweeper drove into the cart, not the nearby Starbucks.

In his defense he said the roadsweeper was trialling new software that automatically homed in on road side rubbish.

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London fire..

by zeb in

i bleed for the poor souls caught in that.

no sprinkler system in that domestic building..!.

tragically the govts various of london learned nothing during the world war..

Splash

There is far too much speculation and political opportunism at the moment.

There's far too much buck passing here too. Noone will hold their hands up for this.

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London fire..

by zeb in

i bleed for the poor souls caught in that.

no sprinkler system in that domestic building..!.

tragically the govts various of london learned nothing during the world war..

Splash

Waton, you're right

Just watching it on the news right now, it's heartbreaking. So much sadness. So much distress. I've never seen such a thing, a funeral pyre would not have ignited so rapidly. I wonder how many bodies are still in there.

It's heartening to see the community response there.

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