i thought i’d shear this with you good people.
the cognitive dissonance is just breath taking.
i over heard this comment at a relatives family dinner the other night.
OP’s comment from a JW that “Jehovah’s organisation has never stopped anyone from growing a beard” is true.
Just like Jackson's comment about it "seem[ing] presumptuous to claim to be God's sole channel," is entirely true. It was not, and never will be an admission of governing body presumptuousness, it is though a statement of fact that people would [correctly] think the governing body claiming to be God's sole channel was presumptuous.
breaking news!
every jehovah’s witness elder in the 67 counties of pennsylvania are being given notice by state attorney's office to turn over any & all documents relating to child sex abuse cases!
watch attached video beginning at time-stamp 101:00...pay particular attention to what is said after 103:00.this is wild!.
I can hear it now, it's PERSECUTION!
another example of jehovah protects his people except when he doesn't.
https://www.wifr.com/2023/02/12/rockford-police-54-year-old-man-shot-killed-vehicle/.
When is America going to bring some sensible gun laws? .?
Right after they finally, if EVER, get sensible crime punishment laws! Ever firearm I own was legally purchased, according to the law. Every firearm I own has never in over six decades of ownership been used in a crime. Several firearms I own have been used to either prevent a crime, or stop a crime in progress.
But hey, it's THE GUN, not the idiot criminal wielding one that is to blame. . .right?
i thought i’d shear this with you good people.
the cognitive dissonance is just breath taking.
i over heard this comment at a relatives family dinner the other night.
they just have fits with any hair past the corner of your mouth no matter what
And we can't forget the "credit card" rule for a mustache. A strip of bare skin at least the thickness of a credit card must be trimmed between your lip and the longest 'stache hair. At least that was a rule in the area I live.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
2023-01-27--civil unrest.
click image to enlarge.. .
https://postimg.cc/gxqvnfcq.
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)
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.
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 ---!"
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.
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.
