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  Does Jehovah have a visible organization?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  why do jehovah’s witnesses say they are god’s organization so matter of factly as though such an audacious claim is an undisputable fact?

  here is how one person sees this claim.. "the entire jehovah’s witness religion is founded on unsubstantiated hubristic claims which are continually repeated until they are assumed by adherents to be a proven fact.. never is this more evident than when the beliefs of a jehovah’s witness are successfully challenged.

  the more compelling the evidence against them, the more they resort to repeating their convictions with a sense of insistence, as if they are chanting a mantra.. confirmation bias is prevalent in all religious ideologies, but particularly with jehovah’s witnesses.

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  they won’t stand being preyed upon by panhandlers.

  That must be what one "brother" meant when he went up on the stage for the final prayer and said, "Let us PREY." Okay, I know, a lame attempt at humor.
  
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  Turkish & Syria Earthquake Victims approach 40,000 WT Says:

  by Slidin Fast in

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  2. friends

  you couldn't make it up.. "tens of thousands affected by devastating earthquake in turkey.

  a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southeastern turkey early monday, february 6, 2023. later, a magnitude 7.5 tremor hit the same region.

  a number of significant aftershocks have been felt in the region.

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  Responsible brothers are providing much-needed spiritual assistance to those affected by the disaster.

  Good. I am sure those affected don't need medical help, food, good drinking water, any financial assistance, help locating missing relatives, or. . .well we all get the idea.

  Throw them a WT or quote a Bible verse, and let them be well, warm, and well fed-somehow!
  
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  April 2023

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  study article 19. how can we strengthen our faith in jehovah’s promise of a new world?.

  17 many servants of jehovah have applied jehovah’s counsel to “keep in expectation”​—even for decades.

  louise, for example, began serving jehovah in 1939. she says: “at that time, i thought armageddon would come before i finished high school.

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  Noah, Abraham, Joseph, had to wait a long time before receiving the promised reward.

  I would think there is a pretty big difference between waiting a long time and RECEIVING something promised and waiting a long time and finally dying without EVER RECEIVING what you were promised.

  If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in highschool and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way toward its finish, if not actually gone!" Awake! 1969 May 22 p.15

  Of course WT has purged that Awake from it's past and only people who may have somehow kept an original will be able to prove they made those promises.
  
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  2023-01-27--Civil Unrest!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2023-01-27--civil unrest.

  click image to enlarge.. .

  https://postimg.cc/gxqvnfcq.

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  I’m sorry for any of them and others with special needs who didn’t hear from anybody during Covid.

  I know what you mean. There is an older fellow who still is a friend, even though I no longer run the JW hamster wheel. I stop by and visit him because he is 88 years old, confined to his bed, needing 24/7 nursing care due to severe effects of lung damage caused by previous employment and now a leg broken in three areas.
  

  Because of COVID he was considered an "at risk" person and the oh so loving JW's decided that he should not have any personal contact, to show how much they valued his life and didn't want to take any chance of bringing in COVID exposure. So for over three years now he has had only one visitor that went to the hall before COVID. That would be me. Just today he told me that he thought it would be better if he just finally died because other than me NO ONE cares if he lives or dies.

  I hate the lying hypocrisy of the self-righteous JW's who flap their gums about what a loving "brotherhood" they have! If there were a literal Hell I am sure there would be a special place for them there!

  E.O.R. (end of rant)
  
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  Why Does the WatchTower Society INVEST in unethical enterprises?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  investing in unethical enterprises.

  in the ocean, big fish swallow the little fish while the big fish are swallowed by the even bigger fish.. below is an example of this principle.. .

  a fellow named mccann donated 50k shares of rand cam engine corp. to the watchtower society.. rand cam engine corp. manufactures aircraft engines for commercial, recreational, and military clients.

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  Ok, than we can suppose that the WT has a base on Mars

  There is a saying, "Everyone likes a little ---, no one likes a smart ---!"
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: Zoom Cancelled Love Jehovah Go Back to In Person Meetings

  by HiddlesWife in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a new video posted by the exjw critical thinkers jt & lady cee:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvmulzbczvm&t=1s.

  i had a hunch that wt was going to do so, but this is happening quite soon.

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  Who knows if they put on Zoom and do something else while they are ( supposedly ) listening to the meeting?

  Whaattt? Y'mean I was supposed to actually be listening to that stuff when I logged in to ZOOM, and then muted my PC and walked away to do other things? Now that I am full on FedUp I don't even do that anymore.
  
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  2023-01-27--Civil Unrest!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2023-01-27--civil unrest.

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  FedUpJW

  2. Please also review the arrangements you have made to secure the Kingdom Hall and protect congregation records.--sfl chap. 22 par. 11.

  Given that this was for elders in the United States branch territory I would suggest that those elders follow the example of the way U.S. government officials handled "classified" documents. Scatter them around in boxes at different houses and garages.

  And thanks to Atlantis from FedUp.
  
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  Elders are no longer teachers

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  back in the day when i was a young witness lad, you very much got the impression that at least the training as theocratic teachers was good.. even the bible reading back then had a short introduction and conclusion.

  you had to research and prepare your own ministry school talks and then perhaps you would graduate to a half of a 55 minute public talk.

  then later if you were a book study conductor, you got to decide which scriptures to read and highlight.

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  . . .the elders are teachers

  In my somewhat recent experience before becoming totally FedUp I found that the so-called elders were perfect examples of the saying, "Them as can, DO! Them as can't, TEACH!"
  
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  The Hubris of the Governing Body

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's difficult to comprehend how arrogant the members of the governing body must be to sanction much of the content that appears in their literature.

  they identify themselves as the 'faithful and discreet slave' - that alone requires an astonishing degree of pride.

  but what is even more amazing - arguably to the level of insanity - is the way they then use that phrase to elevate themselves above the rest of the organisation.

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  The use of the third person / first person pronouns in the literature disguises the grandiose nature of the hubris of the top leadership. Unfortunately, JWs can't see that.

  There were quite a few who took vocal exception to my use of "governing body" and said I shouldn't use "governing body" in place of "the slave". My answer was to refer them to *** w13 7/15 pp. 21-22 “Who Really Is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?” *** 10 Who, then, is the faithful and discreet slave? In recent decades, that slave has been closely identified with the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  They just couldn't abide replacing "the slave" with "governing body" as it placed to much emphasis on elevating eight specific men above the rest of the organization.
  
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  March 2023 WT - Recruitment drive!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dedicate your life to jehovah, by being baptized as a jw - not as a christian.

  (a follower of christ - acts 11:26).

  par.

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  With the same mouth they condamn people not waiting to marry, the SECOND most important decision one can make, until they are past some so-called "bloom of youth" WT praises pre-pubescent youths for making a life long decision to get baptized, the MOST important decision they can make, along with all the horrors that go along with it.

  Sounds pretty hypocritical to me.