They didn't say anything about Mr Scully to me, and they couldn't say anything based in fact about me because I had just moved there from 1000 miles away.
Posts by Scully
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16References: what did the elders say about you to your other half during courtship?
by truthseeker inwhen you announced your intention to marry, what did the elders say to your future bride/groom?.
in a long distance courtship, did you have any trouble getting a good "spiritual" reference?.
an elder in my hall told the elders in my wife's hall that i was a low hour publisher.. .
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It's official, the internet IS the Watchtower's nemesis!
by cedars ini have been inspired recently by some of the comments on this forum regarding the society having reached a "tipping point".
it's been observed that, despite the overwhelming weight of evidence that the society is nothing more than a damaging cult, the number of witnesses continues to increase, albeit gradually.
the latest figures i have available are those in the 2011 yearbook, showing a global 2.5% increase between 2009 and 2010.. as we all know, the internet is steadily rising in accessibility (or "penetration") around the world, and it provides a wonderful resource for those who are curious about joining the faith, helping such ones to quickly identify precisely how warped the teachings of the watch tower society really are.
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Scully
I'm LMAO that the WTS actually used the term "junkie" in its Literature™.
Man, they're really reaching - trying to get JWs to believe that any internet use is going to turn you into an addict.
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Watchtower Hate Speech and Intimidation Might be a Violation of US Federal Law
by DT inthe united states is more lenient than most countries when it comes to hate speech and allowing organised religions to have their way, even when they hurt others.
however, there are limits.
i found a federal law that seems strangely relevant to recent watchtower articles that labels former members as "mentally diseased" and discuss the "slaughter of apostates".
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Scully
If this hateful speech escalates or results in violence or other unlawful or intimidating actions, then it would be easier to make a case that a certain group of people (the governing body) actually conspired to interfere with the basic human rights of its members. This would especially be true if they persist in their actions despite worldwide media coverage and possible prosecutions in other countries. They won't be able to claim that they couldn't have predicted the results of their actions.
I hate to say it, but certain Witness "types" are the prime profile for degrading to violence. It's the one's the have developed a codependent relationship with the Watchtower and it's doctrine. They use the Watchtower like piglets use their mother's teats. As the Watchtower's fantasy degrades down many people will find themselves frightened and completely void of world view.
I've said similar things before, and have been criticized for it too. I honestly feel that for some JWs, it wouldn't take too much of a "suggestion" or "hint" from the WTS for them to switch from Waiting On Jehovah™ to destroy Apostates™ to being happy to do Jehovah's killing on His behalf. They've never retracted this statement from the November 15, 1952 Watchtower:
*** Nov 15, 1952 Watchtower ***
We are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and in the land of Palestine. "Thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, . . . And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee."-Deut. 13:6-11, AS.
Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God's law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship.
Translation: The WTS would love for individual JWs to execute God's Judgement™ on Apostates™ who are "members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship", if it weren't for that pesky "law of the land".
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So i was talking to my Jdub coworker today...
by shakyground inhe asked me about the place i moved to last year.
i told him it was ok, maintenence are a little slow fixing problems, and there has been crime lately.
i said most of the developments around here are nice and peaceful except one up the road which is considered the hood lol.
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Scully
I wonder what he thinks of his fellow JWs who own rifles and shotguns for hunting, and how he justifies that kind of violence against other species that Jehovah Created™.
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The Watchtower slams the Catholics, why not Islam?
by punkofnice ingiven that the wbt$ is always ready to insult the catholics and other religions why don't they slam islam in the same way?.
is it because it's not considered 'christian' or do they know that muslims won't take their insults?.
or do they and i just missed it?.
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Scully
They may be fanatics and bat$h!t crazy cult leaders, but they're not stupid. They don't want any planes flying into their pre¢iou$ NY City real estate.
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Now that the S**t is hitting the fan how are the JW's reacting??
by highdose inthis article is starting to go global now i think ( please everyone keep it spreading) how are the jw's reacting to it?
i don't mean the offical spokesman statement, i mean the individual jw's that we know.. what are they saying about it?.
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Scully
I am the Co-ordinator of the body of Elders in a Jehovah's Witness congregation. I agree wholeheartedly with ANYTHING the Governing Body says. They alone are used by our heavenly father Jehovah to dispense Truth at the proper time. Matt 24:45. If the Governing Body asked me to kill myself I would gladly sacrifice myself as only they have words of truth. Apostates deserve all they get and are 'not of our sort'. When the watchtower plainly says we should hate apostates, who am I to argue. After all God will destroy them at his great war soon. I have noticed apostates are normally from troublesome families anyway. Good riddance I say. Long live the Governing Body. Praise Jehovah!
I have told him he is doing more to hurt the organisation than any apostate could.
Comments like this one are precisely why the WTS doesn't want any JWs responding to media critiques of JW doctrine and practices.
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Like him or not, Richard Dawkins is helping spread the word about JWs
by Franklin Massey inhttp://richarddawkins.net/articles/643264-war-of-words-breaks-out-among-jehovah-s-witnesses.
http://twitter.com/#!/rdfrs.
http://twitter.com/#!/richarddawkins.
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Scully
Perhaps Christopher Hitchens will also add those quotations to the next edition of God Is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything.
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What Was The BEST Thing About Being A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus inthis thread could be a saver!.
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Scully
minimus, I think OUTLAW gets those pics from his back yard.
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SO FRUSTRATED - I lost my flash drive
by Mad Sweeney inin addition to a bunch of stuff from work and school, all my research for this saturday's cult free radio was on there (in addition to the previous shows).
if it doesn't turn up soon i'm going to have to "wing it" tomorrow.
i don't want to have to wing it.
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Scully
hope it turns up soon, so you don't have to kill me for posting that. LOL
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SO FRUSTRATED - I lost my flash drive
by Mad Sweeney inin addition to a bunch of stuff from work and school, all my research for this saturday's cult free radio was on there (in addition to the previous shows).
if it doesn't turn up soon i'm going to have to "wing it" tomorrow.
i don't want to have to wing it.
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