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  Brutality

  by Anna Marina in

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  wt says jesus became invisibly present in 1914. what a load of old rubbish.

  but they are not the only ones.. in 1927 a woman called helen keller wrote a book called my religion.

  her book advocates the teachings of emanuel swedenborg who claimed that jesus had already returned.

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  Anna Marina

  Hi Phizzy

  Alex I of Russia was a Swedenborgist and some of Abraham Lincoln's friends were Swedenborgist. I think there was a Swedenborg church in the area where C T Russell lived. No idea if he ever visited it.

  It is the system or organization of the Watchtower which facilitates brutality. That system is founded upon a lie, so freedom of conscience is one of the first things out of the window along with loving kindness, tenderness, mercy - etc. And in comes a dizzying intoxication of scheduled activity. The faster you go on their hamster wheel, the less you feel, so you can hurt yourself and hurt others too, all the while thinking you are SO virtuous.

  (Matthew 7:15-20) . . .“Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to you in sheep’s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? 17 Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; 18 a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. 19 Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those [men]. . .
  
  
  
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  Brutality

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wt says jesus became invisibly present in 1914. what a load of old rubbish.

  but they are not the only ones.. in 1927 a woman called helen keller wrote a book called my religion.

  her book advocates the teachings of emanuel swedenborg who claimed that jesus had already returned.

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  Anna Marina

  WT says Jesus became invisibly present in 1914. What a load of old rubbish. But they are not the only ones.

  In 1927 a woman called Helen Keller wrote a book called My Religion. Her book advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg who claimed that Jesus had already returned. Adherents used several names to describe themselves including Second Advent Christian, Swedenborgian and New Church.

  The reason I have posted this is because Helen Keller was also involved in setting up the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). That organization, along with others has approached the UN to consider action against the USA for police brutality.

  Brutality can be physical. But if you have suffered at the hands of elders, wouldn't you describe elders as brutal? I think of their cold heartlessness which is capable of smashing tender feelings, crushing justice, destroying friendships and lying.

  Through WT, the lie about 1914 enabled a power structure to be established that would be brutal. It can crush your conscience and destroy your liberty, if you let it. It's power isn't weapons like guns, it's power is lies, superstition and media spin.
  
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  Would You Like To See Your Police Departments “Defunded”?

  by minimus in

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  do you think it’s a good idea?.

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  Anna Marina

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRen8nI8_aM
  
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  Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

  by minimus in

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  i agree with people who say all lives matter.

  i think blm is a racist group.

  if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

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  Supremacism is the supremacy of one particular group.

  Parents are supreme over the life of their unborn child. Hope none of the rioters support abortion.

  How's this for a slogan :-

  Millions Once Living Will Never Be Born - All Lives Matter.

  The Mosaic Law has been done away with and grace through Jesus Christ is available but for the record, the Ultimate Supreme One has not granted the right to take the life of an unborn baby of any colour to anyone:-
  

  (Exodus 21:22-25) . . .If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
  
  
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  Would You Like To See Your Police Departments “Defunded”?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  do you think it’s a good idea?.

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  Anna Marina

  When there is no decent security tourism goes down. So that effects the economy.

  In such a situation, I imagine the roads and hospitals wont get maintained, sanitation will be poor and maybe the infection rate for corona virus will go up.
  
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  Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i agree with people who say all lives matter.

  i think blm is a racist group.

  if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

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  Open question to anyone or rhetorical - would you trust the Governing Body of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society more or less if they were a specific colour? Or covered a specific range of colour?
  
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  Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i agree with people who say all lives matter.

  i think blm is a racist group.

  if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

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  Anna Marina

  Phobia is fear

  Eugenics is eugenics.
  
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  Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i agree with people who say all lives matter.

  i think blm is a racist group.

  if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

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  A German lady suffered at the hands of Germans. The Germans had killed her German family members. She couldn't stand Germans.

  She wasn't racist. She was eugenophobic and had good reason to be.
  
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  Breaking: Beards in The Watchtower

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .

  i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .

  i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .

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  And the woman wears a head covering. In paradise.

  Not that it means that much. They used to have a lion in paradise with a beach ball on its paws. Where was it going to get the beach ball from?
  
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  How many of you would actually believe a child abuser would let his crime be watched by minimum two witnesses?

  by Thinkforyourself in

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  2. child-abuse

  in many closed religious cults, sects or globally widely spread religions, sexual abuse on big scale is revealed and covered up by the religious authorities.

  in the jw, the culture is to deal with these matters within the org itself, and the rule is, "no crime can be proven without the presentation of at least two witnesses".

  men made the rules, men commit these crimes and men defend them and even forse these children to meet and talk to their abusers.

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  Haven't read the whole thread through, so sorry if someone else has said this but WT culture from my experience is all about getting people so dizzy with GB mind-rot/conscience-rot that bad things can happen right in front of someone but they are too afraid to speak out in case they are viewed as apostates. Apostates not to God, who would disapprove their horrid actions, but to a bunch of liars.

  Imagine WT being the petri dish of a social experiment. The question is how do you spin WT version of political correctness so that really bad stuff is done right under the noses of so-called 'Jehovah's Witnesses' and the congregation members say nothing.

  What I mean is something like 'gaslighting.'

  VERB

  gaslighting (present participle)

  1. manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.