Posts by Riley

lett has announced in the latest video update that jehovah has dignified the brothers by now letting them to choose for themselves whether they want to have a beard or not -.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/global/2023-governing-body-update-8/.

this applies worldwide and to all brothers in any position..

Riley

I have tried the beard thing. The longest I have made is about 10 days. I also end up playing with it and feeling like a homeless person.

All religious zeolots have beards, they are just getting with the times.

I just can't wait to see Lett deep throat a banana when they allow oral sex. Explaining proper watchtower technique.

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How's the 14,669 New Zealand brotherhood reacting to Steve's MIT talk?

by was a new boy in

the latest.

stkirsch24 minutes ago.

there is no question: the leaked data shows the vaccines have killed over 13 million people worldwide.

I hate the way they talk.

by Riley in

what is with the jw cadence when they speak.

do they think they are teaching people ?

they sound like pro wrestlers doing promos or shakespearean actors.

What is with the JW cadence when they speak. Do they think they are teaching people ? They sound like pro wrestlers doing promos or Shakespearean actors. I don't even have to hear the words or what they are saying. It is just the cadence, the inflection in there voices, the rhythm of the word patterns.

It still sends chills up my spine.

Why do they think this sounds good ? They sound like idiots in a cult.

Or maybe I am just being a really small person.

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The ''dreaded'' birthday cake

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | september 2023. study article 39. let mildness be your strength.

11 if a workmate asks, for example, why we do not celebrate birthdays, consider: could he be wondering whether we are allowed to have a good time?

or might he feel that our position will dampen the company’s team spirit?

Riley

The Taliban eat Ice Cream.

ISIS enjoy eating Ice Cream.

Eating Ice Cream makes you a terrorist.

Fun game we are playing here.

Seriously for people who have as many social events as the JWs do, to declare someones celebration as wrong is pretty silly. Even the biblical reasoning behind it is filmy at best. I don't think really is any evidence that first century Christians did or didn't celebrate birthdays or had any problem with it.

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Covid Vx likened to Jesus ransom

by KerryKing in

this morning i decided to log into the local cong meeting on zoom, during the public talk the speaker likened the covid vx to jesus ransom sacrifice, saying that those who didn't avail of the vx, the 'anti vaxxers', are just like people who refuse to put faith in jesus.. i felt sick, knowing my unvxed but active jw parents were sitting there, i logged off immediately.

surely such talk is pure blasphemy or am i just over reacting?!.

i appreciate your thoughts, it will hopefully help me to approach my jw family with facts and logic, i'm praying they wake up fully and 'get out of her', i know they have reservations that's why they refused the vx..

Riley

Listening to opinions about vaccines from religious people , either pro or against is stupid.

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Doctrines and Bible Interpretations

by IWant2Know in

i would like to know if ex's and formers who are not church christians, believe that many of jws' doctrines and bible interpretations are correct, or do you feel that they aren't?

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Riley

The whole Jesus coming in the name of god is reference to Jesus revealing the power and character of what god is. The visible image of the invisible god. The hesham of the Old Testament.

Jesus didn’t come to give us the missing vowels or the Tetragrammaton.

JWs do not have this correct.

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Doctrines and Bible Interpretations

by IWant2Know in

i would like to know if ex's and formers who are not church christians, believe that many of jws' doctrines and bible interpretations are correct, or do you feel that they aren't?

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Riley

I think my turning point was learning the new testament is basically the story of god and jews and god and the church. The whole god of Israel to the god of everyone.

The whole " Other sheep " and " Little Flock " being the heavenly hopers and the earth hopers , 1914 and 1919, just became too bloody stupid for any real student of the bible. The WTS at its core is just voiding the new testament for anyone but the governing body.

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Israel vs Hamas

by Riley in

we might have russians involved in the middle east and are attacking israel.. wait.. i thought the watchtower and tract society was the central figures in the end times.

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not that i believe in any of this nonsense but any news in jw world about how the evangelical narrative might be playing out closer than the wts stupidity.

Riley

It think being wiped off the face of the earth by the entire Muslim world might be a little different than being banned from being annoying telemarketers.
Honestly if the JWs didn’t go door to door calling people false religion and telling people no to defend the country, no one would care. I don’t think being annoying trolls pushing the limits of free speech makes you a victim.