I have heard this critism of satanic minions among JWs here in the UK. Mind you it was from the same JW sister who used to quote the loony David Icke on her Facebook page, so a lot of the congregation would have given her ideas a wide berth anyway. Mind you David Icke's lunacy is no better or worse than that of the Watchtower's.
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Minions - new Smurfs?
by Festus ina friend of mine told me that her witness relative from west coast had reacted to minions (child animation) in a same way that some jdubs reacted to smurfs.. aka she claimed that minions are "from satan".. has anyone else heard this?.
well i guess harry potter, lotr etc has received similar recption....nothing new in that sense..
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Turning up The Insanity To 11
by FedUpJW inso a jw elder acquaintance sent me an email "encouraging" me to return to the organization, including this little nugget of a quote from today's wt session,*** w21 november p. 23 par.
11 how strong will your faith be?
***learn to trust those whom jehovah and jesus trust.
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It's similar to asking them "what religion does God belong to?"
God, assuming there is one, is surely accessible by the whole world if they want to talk to him.
But the JWs will go to great lengths to try and convince you that J-God must only belong to their religion and no-one else's. He's their God so "hands off you can't have him. He's mine!" Like squabbling children in the school playground. Lol.
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The Crazy World of Online Deliveries
by Simon inyou order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.
i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.
great!".
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What makes me laugh with Amazon is that if you order an obscure item you're told that it has to come from China and will take 13 weeks to arrive.
But if you sign up to Amazon Prime membership this obscure Chinese item can be delivered within 24 hours!
Do they have a warehouse stuffed with these once in a million requested items - or do they have a speedy way of getting it from the Far East overnight?
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Watchtower Study on 5th December.
by Lost in the fog inthe wt study for this week is all about disfellowshipping.
in an early paragraph it said "think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!".
however when you think about it, when this happened according to the wt teaching, jehovah still engaged with satan in the heavens (book of job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.. so why do the wt org practice shunning when jehovah god obviously didn't?.
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The WT study for this week is all about disfellowshipping. In an early paragraph it said "Think how heartbroken Jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!"
However when you think about it, when this happened according to the WT teaching, Jehovah still engaged with Satan in the heavens (Book of Job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.
So why do the WT Org practice shunning when Jehovah God obviously didn't?
Because it's a cult...
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Did your congregation have cliques?
by Lost in the fog indid your congregation have cliques?.
usually centred around two competing elders (or the elder's wife).
it could made obvious by whether you got to answer in the wt study.
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Did your congregation have cliques?
Ours did. Usually centred around two competing elders (or the elder's wife). It could made obvious by whether you got to answer in the WT study. The same ones got taken again and again even if there were newer students trying to answer.
I know some young ones would bet in advance of the meeting among themselves that brother so-and-so or sis such-and-such would hold the floor and answer more times than any other person. Lol.
I met a JW recently and we were chatting and I asked them in a jokey way if there were still the same cliques. They rolled their eyes and said it had got a lot worse because of pioneers who had moved in, followed by more of their family members, and even a few from the pioneers former Cong. Resulting in a new cult of the personality!
A cult within a cult. I'm sure it was the same in your hall?
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Money Spinners
by Lost in the fog ini can remember when i was in that there were numerous articles and assembly talks about not using the congregation as a means of making money from a captive audience of brothers and sisters.. i was looking at the etsy website and stumbled upon a jw themed product.. i wondered if there were any more and discovered that there were lots.
mind you maybe it's people who have left who see an opportunity for making money from gullible jws.. https://www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=jehovah%27s%20witness%20letter%20writing&ref=auto-1.
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I can remember when I was in that there were numerous articles and assembly talks about not using the congregation as a means of making money from a captive audience of brothers and sisters.
I was looking at the Etsy website and stumbled upon a JW themed product.
I wondered if there were any more and discovered that there were lots. Mind you maybe it's people who have left who see an opportunity for making money from gullible JWs.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=jehovah%27s%20witness%20letter%20writing&ref=auto-1
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Praying for others?
by pixel ini’m looking for an article, from the watchtower, where it says that we should not pray for other members from the stage.
does anyone remember an article saying this?.
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Was it this one? w09 11/15 pp. 3-7
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Watchtower takes parody poster to court.
by Lost in the fog inanother youtube presenter falls foul of the wt society's legal team.
the watch tower copyright lawsuit targets creator of "dubtown" lego animations.
https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/watch-tower-copyright-lawsuit-targets-creator-of-dubtown-lego-animations-torrentfreak/.
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Another YouTube presenter falls foul of the WT Society's legal team. The Watch Tower Copyright Lawsuit Targets Creator of "DubTown" Lego Animations.
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WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That
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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.
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What Do Today’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Think?
by minimus inwhen i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.
i understood jw doctrines .
i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.
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When I was in, in the good old days, you had brothers and sisters of the anointed who would give long answers in the Watchtower that showed how much they had drilled down into the meaning of the verses. As a result, I prepared my answers quoting references to (for example) Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words to draw out the meaning of a certain Greek word in a verse.
Nowadays I am told that the WT says the answers should not exceed 30 seconds, and that the first answer should be direct from the WT article, which is why I heard that they take the hand of the youngest kid in the audience who probably has been told what to say by one of the parents.
What I am getting at is that no one can express their deep study in such a short answer, which is why the average JW probably doesn't bother to study anymore.