Posts by Anna Marina

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The bird that had options to leave, but chose to be mentally enslaved

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | august 1, 2001. make your advancement manifest.

8 first, since “oneness” is to be observed, a mature christian must be in unity and full harmony with fellow believers as far as faith and knowledge are concerned.

he does not advocate or insist on personal opinions or harbor private ideas when it comes to bible understanding.

Anna Marina

These words are significant

when it comes to Bible UNDERSTANDING

By mixing WT teachings with the Bible, understanding is actually prevented.

When you only suspect something is wrong, you do not act with the same level of conviction as when you know something is wrong.

Therefore some sit in their cage because they are hedging their bets, just in case it is right. It's not but they can't work out why it is not. Possibly they can't work it out because they are too busy chasing privileges or other.

(2 Timothy 3:6-7) . . .For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, 7 always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

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My response to a letter I received from a JW doing FS

by smiddy3 in

it is a response to a letter i received to explain god`s kingdom and to refer me to jw.org.

type written but signed personally.. and this page looks like it has been photo-copied.

so obviously he has sent many more around this community.. i intend to send this letter back with my hand written response as follows.

Anna Marina

Oh Smiddy - I like to give them my full name and address - you end up with these wonderful tumbleweed moments. So these zealous preachers are... hmmm... where? And their response is... silence. It's very peaceful and relaxing.

It's not really as much faff as this but keeping vampires at bay ain't that difficult. You just pull out your Bible and slap 'em with the Scriptures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IhEgYa6_2U

Anyway be interesting to hear if anyone gets back to you. I'll do my letter when I've finished my next vid. Nearly there. Just around the corner - I hope. :)

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TO SELECTED BODIES OF ELDERS ASSIGNED TO THE COVID-19

by pixel in

december 25, 2020. to selected bodies of elders assigned to the covid-19.

re: adjustments to arrangements for meeting family food needs during the covid-19 pandemic.

dear brothers:.

Anna Marina

All of us here have experienced how two-faced Watchtower is. Yes it pretends to be Christian but they are not.

Genuine charity and sharing is a fundamental Christian value:

(Acts 2:44) . . .All those who became believers were together in having all things in common,

(Matthew 6:3-4) . . .But you, when making gifts of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, 4 that your gifts of mercy may be in secret; then your Father who is looking on in secret will repay you. . .

That said, I remember an African sister telling me how two-faced a Catholic priest in Africa was. She explained to me that the British would send their clothes off for charity but when they reached her part of Africa they ended up in the hands of a priest who would only give the clothes away in return for an act of prostitution.

I have no detailed facts for this story, therefore I cannot assess how true it is. But I can imagine such senarios taking place (not only with clothes but also with food) in both secular and religious settings where people are being two-faced.

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what is This weekend watchtower trash about. Wife is in cult mode 12-27-20

by goingthruthemotions in

so what is this weeks watchtower trash about.

wife is in cult mode and trying to see if there is a link.. thanks.

Anna Marina

1895 was an important year...

They changed the cover of the Watchtower.

*** w80 7/1 p. 6 par. 5 “Watchman, What of the Night?” ***
Appropriately, on January 1, 1895, the Watch Tower magazine changed its front-cover design to show a corner watchtower at the edge of a raging sea. Also, at the bottom of the page under this new design, the magazine displayed the following words based on Luke 21:25-31 (AV) in italic letters: “Upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves (the restless, discontented) roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear and for looking forward to the things coming upon the earth (society); for the powers of the heavens (ecclesiasticism) shall be shaken. . . . When ye see these things come to pass, then know that the Kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Look up, lift up your heads, rejoice, for your redemption draweth nigh

Looks like I managed to get it in the video. I didn't plan it that way. You'll see it towards the end of the video.

https://youtu.be/LlKmrul3aFg

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FYI - Check out each week's cult mode brainwash material

by bats in the belfry in

:for those who need to be up to speed ... a summary of each week's jw mental jog your spouse has to endure.

you may want to bookmark it for reference so you get a hint why your spouse might be going berserk.. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e - (auto updates to current week).

Anna Marina

Boarding a bus going anywhere else would mean that you would head in the wrong direction.

Watchtower isn't a bus it's a hijacked plane - those steering the plane have a LOT to answer for. They claim to be Christian but they are not. Their aim is a crisis of conscience and the destruction of Christian faith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEogeIIOJzU

(Matthew 18:6) . . .But whoever stumbles one of these little ones who put faith in me, it is more beneficial for him to have hung around his neck a millstone such as is turned by an ass and to be sunk in the wide, open sea.

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A positive about been a former JW

by joe134cd in

i decided on christmas day to wash the house and do some yard work.

i had a concerned neighbour come out and bring me some of their christmas food.

although i appreciated the food and wished her a merry christmas, the neighbour was concerned as to why i wasn’t inside enjoying christmas.

Anna Marina

We were always encouraged to boldy witness. I did my best and made sure everyone knew I didn't celebrate Christmas. So this year, friendly people have been saying to me, "you don't celebrate Christmas." This has given me a fine opportunity to explain what happened to me.

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My response to a letter I received from a JW doing FS

by smiddy3 in

it is a response to a letter i received to explain god`s kingdom and to refer me to jw.org.

type written but signed personally.. and this page looks like it has been photo-copied.

so obviously he has sent many more around this community.. i intend to send this letter back with my hand written response as follows.

Anna Marina

Hi Smiddy - no suggestions but I have one that I'm going to do as well. I am delighted to let you know I have been sent a copy of the little brochure 'Return to Jehovah'.

I know the big bad GB are so and sos, but the individual publishers can be so sweet. So I'm going to take the approach that they wrote to me because they care and I'm going to convey that I care very much about them.

I like what you have written Smiddy and its thumbs up from me

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More JW left ideology examples

by neat blue dog in

the latest gb update ramps up the fear of the plandemic even more, and introduces a whiteboard animation that advocates staying at home, wearing masks and social distancing.. https://www.jw.org/finder?locale=en&category=latestvideos&item=pub-jwb_202012_12_video&docid=1011214&applanguage=e.

then there's another 'save the planet' type article that mentions debunked and unrealistic green new deal-esque talking points such as alternative energy, switching to a plant based diet and less manufacturing.. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/peace-happiness/save-earth/.

Anna Marina

Data-Dog - yes they are Communists with religion - the logic behind 1914 is that the messiah is a new age of history not Jesus Christ's promised return. They want a nice crisis to say 'we are in a new age/epoch of Man's history, therefore you must do things our way.'

One of the elders in my ex-cong was asked to be the Agenda 21 rep for our area. He told me this himself back in the 90s (I think). I was quite a while ago. His best friend wanted to be a Sufist. They were very, very close. The best friend was not a JW.

This is the same JW family who set up the Jah-Jireh nursing homes.

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More JW left ideology examples

by neat blue dog in

the latest gb update ramps up the fear of the plandemic even more, and introduces a whiteboard animation that advocates staying at home, wearing masks and social distancing.. https://www.jw.org/finder?locale=en&category=latestvideos&item=pub-jwb_202012_12_video&docid=1011214&applanguage=e.

then there's another 'save the planet' type article that mentions debunked and unrealistic green new deal-esque talking points such as alternative energy, switching to a plant based diet and less manufacturing.. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/peace-happiness/save-earth/.

Anna Marina

Road to nowhere - they can't count. Well they can but it's special counting. And the covid referred to might be the 11th plague visited upon the Eygptians (Exodust 41:42) which will be dealt in in next week's Watchtower study which took place last year.

They are gaslighters - and you need to always have your gaslight snuffer to hand when dealing with them.

Neat Blue Dog - they are very civil rights/green aren't they. As if that's the people they were out looking for. What you find amongst the deep greens is that they consider Pan is the one who will return when all the industry has gone. Then Pan and the nymphs and satyrs will prance back and everyone will be... back in the Age of Aquarius or something. That was supposed to be 1975 though wasn't it? :)

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Who was it who ''rescued'', or ''saved'' you?

by Beth Sarim in

from the borg?.

i point to none other than cal lehman and the towerwatch ministries.

towewatch.com.. the years following the collapse of the ussr and the 1995 generation left a bad taste in my mouth for a long time.

Anna Marina

God gave me a brain - I know that people have to have come before they have arrived and thereafter they are present.

Jesus said what Jesus said - I realised Watchtower was messing with the meaning of Jesus' words and that I had been lied to in my Bible study. Watchtower's con trick might be clever but Jesus' words cannot be tampered with. So I credit Jesus and thank His Father, Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for giving me a brain.

https://youtu.be/Ak5hMAzvuFg