Posts by Scully

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Does the WT attract needy dysfunctional type of people?

by William Penwell in

in your personal experience, do you think that the wt attracts needy types of people?

over the years, my experience is that they do attract very needy, insecure, dysfunctional, types.

i had an acquaintance that i just basically cut off.

Scully

Needy people are attracted to those who are confident, and JWs behave in a confident way. The WTS is very confident in their message (even though it's wrong!) and that gives a needy personality an anchor to cling to. Neediness is a form of social anxiety, and the (false) confidence of the WTS and JWs helps an anxious individual to have some manner of tending to their anxiety, helping them focus on something other than themselves and their fears. The WTS offers them hope that if they just do such-and-such, they'll learn to be like so-and-so, who is confident and able to get up on the Platform™ and speak to an audience, or go Door-to-Door™ and speak with authority to complete strangers.

They could learn the same skill set by going to Toastmasters, but Toastmasters doesn't recruit Door-to-Door™.

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You Are All Pieces of Garbage

by berrygerry in

although tomo's human hotdogs was as low as an alleged human could verbally go, tomo's fear-mongering was not an official video.. i'm wagering that the feb 2016 video will be pulled or adjusted.. what do you think, trash?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68pcx7ztac.

Scully

Hey!!! Those loaves of bread are leavened. Didn't the Apostle Paul say that leavening represented sin??

"Do you not know that a little leaven ferments the whole loaf?" ~ 1 Corinthians 5:6

If that flunkey knew the Scriptures™ as well as he claims he does, he wouldn't have needed the garlic to represent inherited sin. Just regular bread with yeast in it would have sufficed.

What an utter crock of shit though. Seriously. No different from any other belief system that tells you that you're worthless without their help. And of course, they expect you to donate as much as you can in order to have the Privilege™ of being told, over and over and over again, that you are nothing but useless garbage. Put some money in that Contribution Box™, go out in Service™ and try to convince other people they're worthless trash, and bring them to the Meeting™ next week, so we can get some money out of them too.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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Reveal News: "Jehovah’s Witnesses fight law on reporting child sex abuse to police" by Trey Bundy

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/jehovahs-fight-law-requiring-child-sex-abuse-be-reported-to-police/.

jehovah’s witnesses fight law on reporting child sex abuse to police.

trey bundy, february 1, 2016 .

Scully

And aside from that, those rat bastards have some nerve glomming onto the Catholic Church's schtick, after so vehemently criticizing the Catholic Church's procedures as a product of the whore of Babylon...

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Reveal News: "Jehovah’s Witnesses fight law on reporting child sex abuse to police" by Trey Bundy

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/jehovahs-fight-law-requiring-child-sex-abuse-be-reported-to-police/.

jehovah’s witnesses fight law on reporting child sex abuse to police.

trey bundy, february 1, 2016 .

Scully

The "sacramental confession" loophole was found to not apply to JWs. In a Catholic confession scenario, there is the confessor - the priest, and the penitent - the "sinner". It's considered exempt due to the fact that there are no other witnesses to the confession, nobody can corroborate the confession if the accused denies having confessed. In the case of JWs, confessions occur in the presence of at least two senior members of the Congregation™, usually Elders™, and then again in the presence of three Elders™ in the form of a Judicial Committee™. By the very nature of how a confession of wrongdoing happens with the JWs, where more than one witness to the confession is required, the "sacrament" of confession or ecclesiastical privilege cannot be utilized to exempt Elders™ from their duty to report child sexual abuse to the authorities.

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Aussie jw girl very sick in US funded by wordly people carity

by sherrie11 in

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-want-to-go-home-13yearold-phelicity-sneesbys-dying-wish-20160130-gmhky4.html.

this article is sad.

but what amazes me is her jw family is accepting donations or has to resort to the very worldly people they look forward to being destroyed.

Scully

Diogenesister:

Is this, perhaps, the one and only situation where it might do some good? In giving a dying child hope?

I think they've done enough of *that* already, when they told her that she would be Resurrected™ to Live Forever In Paradise on Earth™.

"She has hope that she is going to live forever. To her, this is a small chapter - it isn't the end."

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44 years old and having I.V.F help to have a baby thanks too bastard "this Generation" lies!! Wife wants kids in 2016! My story.

by Witness 007 in

as a young witness married couple in the 1990's we knew "this generation" of 1914 did not have long to go!

oh how cute a young pioneer couple we were.

we wont have kids till "afew more years pass" and we are in the new system.

Scully

Oh, and if you *do* decide on using IVF and are still JWs in good standing, please keep in mind that it is not necessary to tell anyone at the KH that you are using IVF, considering that it's a Disfellowshipping Offence™ <eyeroll>.

It's nobody else's business how you and your Mrs. became pregnant.

PS: The most elderly couple/first time parents I looked after on the mother-baby unit - she was late 50s, he was in his 70s.

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44 years old and having I.V.F help to have a baby thanks too bastard "this Generation" lies!! Wife wants kids in 2016! My story.

by Witness 007 in

as a young witness married couple in the 1990's we knew "this generation" of 1914 did not have long to go!

oh how cute a young pioneer couple we were.

we wont have kids till "afew more years pass" and we are in the new system.

Scully

The WTS has been "crying wolf" for such a long time. Its impact on young couples who made the decision to remain childless in This Old System Of Things™ goes back many, many decades.

Now that the WTS is giving elderly couples the toss at Bethel, who, indeed, is going to take care of them now?

If IVF is beyond your means, and puts your wife's health at risk unnecessarily, would you consider adoption?

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Types attracted to the sect known as jehovahs witnesses.

by atomant in

l have observed the types of people attracted to the sect are many times unbalanced,unstable,emotionally insecure types.the jdubs seem to home in like vulchers circling the prey ,preying on the vulnerables.they tried it on me when my father who was an elder died.promising that if you become a dub you will one day see him again.l said how can you promise that when you keep making false misleading predictions.l was wondering if others have observed this phenomenon.

Scully

JWs are instructed in recruitment methods that specifically target vulnerable populations, such as adolescents learning to be independent, college and university students who may be away from home for the first time, people in troubled relationships, separated, divorced, the impoverished, serious health problems, people who have just had a major move and have no local support system, families with new babies.

It's no surprise that the majority of recruits come from these types of backgrounds, because those are the ones being targeted.

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Witnesses killed my friend today.

by WasOnceBlind in

today has been a horrible day.

what began as a day of joy finding out that one of my lifelong friends had her baby, turned into a nightmare when her brother called me to let me know she had passed away after birth.

i was in shock and didn't ask how.

Scully

I've said this before, and I'll say it again now:

In the more than 50 years since blood transfusions were banned by the WTS, the very first concession came about when clotting factors were permitted for hemophilia. By and large, the most serious form of hemophilia affects males, because it is carried on the Y chromosome. So the lives of JW men are spared - wonderful news.

Except: published medical studies have shown that pregnant women among Jehovah's Witnesses are more than 40 times more likely to die in childbirth due to an obstetrical hemorrhage than non-JW women (5.2% versus 0.12%).

By maintaining the blood transfusion ban, despite the overwhelming statistical risks to the health and safety of women in an obstetrical hemorrhage emergency, the WTS demonstrates its complete and utter disdain for the lives of women and children among its members. If MEN were dying in childbirth, changing this policy would be a top priority for the misogynists who run the show.

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Witnesses killed my friend today.

by WasOnceBlind in

today has been a horrible day.

what began as a day of joy finding out that one of my lifelong friends had her baby, turned into a nightmare when her brother called me to let me know she had passed away after birth.

i was in shock and didn't ask how.

Scully

How incredibly tragic. I can't even put my rage into words.