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Do You Have Pity for People?
1 Of Jesus it was said, ‘He felt pity for the people.’ (Matt. 9:36) Do we feel such tender affection for others? (Matt. 9:36b, Kingdom Interlinear) How strongly are you moved to show it?
2 If your neighbors’ house was on fire and their lives were in danger, how persistent would you be in an effort to reach them? (Matt. 22:39) Would you tap lightly on the front door once or twice and, getting no response, go home? Surely you would exert utmost effort to reach them and save their lives! The lives of people worldwide are now at stake. For this reason Jehovah has provided his message of salvation and commissioned us to carry it to the people whether they hear or whether they refuse.—Ezek. 3:10, 11.
Anna Marina
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Did you feel contempt for Non Witnesses
by Steel inthe other day i went to this farm owned by this jw lady with my wife being a jw and my mother being a non witness.
later taking to my mother she noticed this vibe like this jw lady really hated her.
she just had these little slags like when we tried to pay for the fruit we picked , she looked directly at my wife and said " don't worry about it, i only charge wordly people ".. i also have this aunt who is a jw we are estranged from.
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Anna Marina
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Did you feel contempt for Non Witnesses
by Steel inthe other day i went to this farm owned by this jw lady with my wife being a jw and my mother being a non witness.
later taking to my mother she noticed this vibe like this jw lady really hated her.
she just had these little slags like when we tried to pay for the fruit we picked , she looked directly at my wife and said " don't worry about it, i only charge wordly people ".. i also have this aunt who is a jw we are estranged from.
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Anna Marina
It does dehumanzie - but only if you let it. There is a threshold - you either cross it or you don't. I didn't. People in my congregation hadn't. Some still haven't but are still in and trying to find their way out (PIMOs). Those coming out are not dehumanized.
Watchtower is two-faced. If people only perceive the kind face, they can't understand why people leave. Once the penny had dropped and they see it is a hypocritical organisation from the very top (ie not just a local matter) then they'd better get out or else end up being as bad as those who are misleading them.
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Did you feel contempt for Non Witnesses
by Steel inthe other day i went to this farm owned by this jw lady with my wife being a jw and my mother being a non witness.
later taking to my mother she noticed this vibe like this jw lady really hated her.
she just had these little slags like when we tried to pay for the fruit we picked , she looked directly at my wife and said " don't worry about it, i only charge wordly people ".. i also have this aunt who is a jw we are estranged from.
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Anna Marina
No, I never felt contempt for non-Witnesses either. Just the opposite, I only became a Witness because I cared about others. Watchtower is a con trick, a man trap for Christians. I joined because I was lied to about this network of people and there were some genuine Christians in the congregation I joined (now dead, left or leaving).
Occasionally I was in the company of another who was NOT a Watchtower publishers who had outstanding, kind resistance to their tactics. Some Watchtower publishers did exude this unspoken hatred for the person. Tone of voice, looks of distain, coolness. They gave off a sense of 'how dare you be here' even if that person was in their own home.
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What is Causing This Sudden Increase in Crime / Racial Tension???
by RubaDub inyes, there has been crime as long as we can remember.
under 8 years of obama, there was crime.
under 8 years of bush the younger, there was crime.
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What is Causing This Sudden Increase in Crime / Racial Tension???
by RubaDub inyes, there has been crime as long as we can remember.
under 8 years of obama, there was crime.
under 8 years of bush the younger, there was crime.
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Anna Marina
The first video on page 5, posted by MeanMrMustard - at about 4:06 one of the men explains that asking for evidence is racism.
That's just like Watchtower, only they don't call it racism they call it apostacy.
How often did we read this scripture to folks on the door?
(2 Timothy 3:1-3) . . .But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement. . .
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What is Causing This Sudden Increase in Crime / Racial Tension???
by RubaDub inyes, there has been crime as long as we can remember.
under 8 years of obama, there was crime.
under 8 years of bush the younger, there was crime.
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Anna Marina
Politicians need funding - but the people who do the funding may ask you to back being soft on some aspects of crime in exchange for that money.
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Bleecker Street — I saw a shadow touch a shadow’s hand (New York)
by slimboyfat inwill i ever make it to new york?
i feel if i ever did make it to new york i would never want to leave again.
what do i know about new york?
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Anna Marina
Nice if they'd express more diversity of architecture. No mention of pyramids.
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What is Causing This Sudden Increase in Crime / Racial Tension???
by RubaDub inyes, there has been crime as long as we can remember.
under 8 years of obama, there was crime.
under 8 years of bush the younger, there was crime.
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Anna Marina
Thank you, I'll check out those videos.
I don’t know how someone could watch the documentary and not be crushed by the sheer irrationality of it all.
I understand your sense of disbelief. But from what I have seen of the elders, otherwise intelligent, friendly people act normal up to the point where reality and the truth is perceived by them as a threat.
I have seen it most starkly when someone who I think KNEW Watchtower's doctrines were rubbish from the start, was presented with the truth (ie 3 is not 11). The truth is going to reveal something about them which they don't want to be seen. It's like a thief caught with his hand in the till. So what the thief does is, he seeks to convince all other onlookers that the shop keeper is the thief. If they refuse to believe him. He burns the shop down and says the shop never existed and the onlookers are mad for ever believing it did. If no one takes any action against this thief and arsonist, he'll carry on like that. Therefore, everyone had better prepare to view the world his way or have their own houses burnt down and their stuff stolen.
If anyone gets upset by theft of arson, the words theft and arson get reframed. In Watchtower world maybe they'd be reframed as 'privileges'. Yes it is absurd but once you get to this level, you realise how that which is often viewed as common sense is actually Christianity. People have taken commnon sense values for granted but now others are challenging that view. And the questions are 'why is something wrong?' What is 'wrong?'
Yes, many laws do rest on Judeo-Christian values. Now here's a question, is attacking such laws Antisemitc? If not, why not?
Putting out information which stirs up agression by group of people 'A' against group of people 'B', isn't that a hate crime? If not why, why not?
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What is Causing This Sudden Increase in Crime / Racial Tension???
by RubaDub inyes, there has been crime as long as we can remember.
under 8 years of obama, there was crime.
under 8 years of bush the younger, there was crime.
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Anna Marina
A quick note on Frankfurt School. Am still watching 2nd video, MeanMrMustard - don't know if the speaker will bring this out in his talk but Frankfurt School came about because Marxism failed.
Stalin bought the Russians a lots of tractors and the Russian peasants were moral in the Christian sense, due to their culture. So although life in Stalinist Russia was not easy, it succeeded in a number of ways because the population were Christian.
In the face of Christianity Marxism failed. The Frankfurt School considered that Marxism failed because it had focussed on property in the financial/economic sense. What was needed was a cultural attack so that property was not just a house or a car, but a wife and children. The family. The sense of property and propriety were to be attacked in a new manner via the media. Hollywood, BBC (which George Orwell alluded (as the Ministry of Truth) to in his book 1984).
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What is Causing This Sudden Increase in Crime / Racial Tension???
by RubaDub inyes, there has been crime as long as we can remember.
under 8 years of obama, there was crime.
under 8 years of bush the younger, there was crime.
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Anna Marina
MeanMrMustard - yes the grievance is the point - if you haven't got one make one up. Forget 'turn the other cheek'. Even if you haven't been wronged, you gotta complain.
Haven't watch all the second video yet. Just part of it and it's reminding me about those who view poetry as real science. A poet, like a journalist, has license. But how does such a license tie up with maths, probability and evidence? The justification for poet license as science is 'I have experienced the truth in a way you cannot." So anyone who opposes the poet's beliefs is stone walled. Same with Watchtower.
I approached the Governing Body on the purely scientific matter of the number 3 actually being the number 3 and not the number 11. This was in relation to Dan 1:1, not the trinity.
On this special number 3 rests the authority of the Governing Body (ie 1914). And a special number 2 at Dan 2:1, supports 1914 as well. Their problem with number 2 is that it needs to be 20 and it isn't. Cause Jerusalem fell in the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar and they depend on Dan 2:1 being the year that followed the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar. Anyway they make it all up and use brilliant techniques to confuse everyone about something really simple. Then they tell them to wait on Jehovah - who didn't get anything wrong to sort out their rubbish.
Am making a video on it to explain it all - here's one of the frames from it. What Watchtower is doing is making out Dan 1:1 is actually 2 Kings 24:1. Well it isn't.