Posts by days of future passed

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Why the Oxygen Special will not work like we think it will...

by HiddenPimo in

within the very documentary is a reason i think that jw's for the most part will not wake up even if they watch this program.

the one lady actually saw as her family sat behind the abuser in court supporting him despite the established fact that he had abused their very own child.. this shows how deep the indoctrination is.

i am not saying that some won't wake up, but the majority will carry on, not even because they think these things are lies but because they will look past that at all costs to side with jehovah.

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I found that the program was long. Course, it was supposed to be viewed on two separate nights so watching it all at once would make it long.

It was presented in a serious and cautious manner. Hated how the WT jerked people around. Promising to "look" into scheduling an interview with Bundy but obviously it wasn't going to happen. Playing games with Zalkin and Bundy when they showed up at Warwick.

I watched the Dateline on CSA years ago. It didn't get me out then but it did figure on getting me out later. So this program will do the same thing I'm sure for others. Especially if more and more articles/programs come out.

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Allowed?

by punkofnice in

a jobo i know has cancer.

her son goes and cleans her house and generally cares for her.

so does another non-jobo relative.. the congregation, interestingly, has shown very little support apart from the odd one rabbiting on about 'bible promises this and that'.. so, the co visited and said, 'but your son is an apostate(tm).

days of future passed

Years ago I ran into my former boss, a JW lady who didn't know I was no longer apart of the religion. She wasn't pioneering at the moment and explained how she'd been taking care of her ill mother-in-law.

That was great but then she said "That's been my service to Jehovah" She felt she had to say that because, this religion puts itself first above any act of kindness. Just so I wouldn't think she was slacking.

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Have You Ever Been Scammed?

by minimus in

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friends

of course we all were scammed while we were jehovah’s witnesses.

i’m thinking of ways besides religion.. a popular scam is to get a call from your electric company saying they overbilled you and needed to verify your name, address and social security number.

then they will send you your money back.

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The second biggest scam for me (not counting the WT) was my sister. I always believed that as family, we would look out for each other. Also, that she wouldn't lie to me. Wrong on those two as well as many others.

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Special meeting next month (February 2020)

by Jofi_Wofo in

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friends

it was announced today that we will have a special weekend meeting next month.

it will be 3 hours long and will include some streamed content.. no explanation was given as to what the meeting will be about, only that it will be exciting and we will not want to miss it..

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Hear any chatter about it after the meeting? Probably how now easily to donate money by having automatic withdrawing from your bank account by the WT.

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Poem about shunning.

by R1001 in

the shunning .

he places the smiles .

wherever politeness asks, .

days of future passed

You have a lot of truth in that poem. What most have gone thru and more will go thru. I don't find it negative, it's just your experience and frustration and sadness.

Keep writing.

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The large shield of blind[ing] faith

by waton in

2 thoughts on yesterday's jan 19.

2020 wt study.

no 46 wt nov 2019.. the shield of faith, that jws are told to hide behind is so large, page 19, that if held comfortably would require it to have rear view mirrors, (to see 1975).

days of future passed

I saw the picture on reddit they used. Most significant to me was that they used a woman in the illustration and not a man. How many times in the past did they use a man, most probably an Israelite, to wield that shield?

So they are recognizing that they better bolster up the "large" army of women cause the men are leaving. Wow really, I am pretty surprised with that.

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Watchtower Study March 2020.....Make peace with your brothers

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .

4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.

(read matthew 5:23, 24.

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JTrottigy

My, my. So many who perceive that they may have been wronged. Didn't the lord and savior Jesus Christ counsel to remove the rafter from your own eye so you could see how to remove the (tiny) straw from your brothers eye? And what about let the one without sin cast the first stone. I must be in good company here as so many of you are perfect.

This is how they guilt people into not standing up for themselves.

By the way, from the mouth of the Watchtower itself:

Tampering Discovered and Corrected

It was obvious from the start that the text of Tischendorf’s discovery was basically identical with that which was the foundation for today’s Bibles. Yet it revealed evidence of tampering.

An example is the familiar account at John 8:1-11 (Authorized Version) about an adulterous woman about to be stoned, and that reports Jesus as saying, ‘Let him that is without sin cast the first stone.’ It was not in this early manuscript. So later editions of the Bible have removed it or put it in a footnote to refine the Bible text. Other additions were also found and deleted.

So using a "tampered" text is funny coming from a JW.

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Watchtower Study March 2020.....Make peace with your brothers

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .

4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.

(read matthew 5:23, 24.

days of future passed

I just found it annoying that articles like that, only had results from the "nice" people who did try to smooth things over. The takers and the mean ones - they never apologized. In fact, I think it encouraged the selfish to take advantage of the others because people who were trying to be christian, were guilted into forgiving them without any evidence of "repentance".

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Adam could have put Jehovah In Paradox!

by JohnTron72 in

i'm going to be the first and throw this out there for others but, from careful study of the scriptures i've found a loophole that even adam who was perfect at the time missed!

i'm sure everyone has heard the conundrum about ,"can god create a rock he can't lift?

" and if he can't create one he can't lift, then god cannot do everything" well that doesn't really matter since we know jehovah says himself he cannot lie right?

days of future passed

It was also punishable by death to have sex with a married woman. Also it was a penalty of death to murder another person. Saying sorry wasn't a condition to get out of it. It was also against the law to count the people. How many died because of it? All of these things were done by David. He got confronted and only then did he say sorry.

I guess it's good to be a favorite of God - you get to say sorry and live. Unlike the regular people like Uzzah. He didn't a chance to repent. And as I said before, David was responsible for not having it carried by the levites.

NOVEMBER 15, 2012 study article

Life was considered sacred under the Law. A deliberate murderer could in no way be exonerated. He was to be put to death without fail. Thus in Numbers 35:30-33 we read: “Every fatal striker of a soul should be slain as a murderer at the mouth of witnesses, and one witness may not testify against a soul for him to die. And you must take no ransom for the soul of a murderer who is deserving to die, for without fail he should be put to death. . . . And you must not pollute the land in which you are; because it is blood that pollutes the land, and for the land there may be no atonement respecting the blood that has been spilled upon it except by the blood of the one spilling it.” This law removed such a wicked person from Israelite society. He did not run free to commit more murders.

I am not saying that there shouldn't be consequences for actions that hurt others. I am showing that God picks and chooses his justice depending on the person - it isn't consistent. Is it fair that the child died because of David and Bathsheba's lust?

From the same study article as above:

(Deuteronomy 24:16) 16 “Fathers should not be put to death on account of children, and children should not be put to death on account of fathers. Each one should be put to death for his own sin.

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Pressures from world is like wind

by road to nowhere in

that lesson for today likens holy spirit to wind.

any sailor knows you have to sail across or into the wind to get someplace.

the wind will shipwreck you.

days of future passed

Do you mean that they are emphasizing that you have to "tack" to go forward? As in "we get to swerve back and forth in our teachings to go straight?" Or are you trying to formulate an answer to counter it?