The article contains puzzle pieces kinda that fit into a larger frame they don't offer the casual reader who grabs a magazine off the cart or accepts a copy at the door. We pick up on that frame: when they say "apologize quickly" or "serving others is a privilege" what they really mean is be submissive, or more specifically, "submit to the Governing Body and the Elders by living your life however they tell you." The author(s) want their advice to stand alone, as if the article will help the casual reader raise their child, but we all know the article doesn't stand alone: it's sorta preliminary advice which tests whether you're "fit" to join up, which makes much of the advice ring hollow or come across as blatantly hypocritical, as other posters pointed out already.
john.prestor
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Awake No. 2 2019 - Way To Destroy Your Childrens Hopes And Dreams Watchtower!
by pale.emperor innot that i spend much time on the cult's website, but i like to skim through their latest propaganda to make sure i'm up to date with their nuttiness.
(and when i say skim, i mean just that.
the wafer thin, dumbed down content can be read in like 2 mins flat).. i just had to share my thoughts on the above piece of trash.. no.
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Accepting Responsibility Is Something Many People Won’t Do
by minimus inpoor jussie.
it’s really not his fault.
poor politicians, they were simply misquoted.
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john.prestor
Oh for Christ sake who's whining now? Talk about a victim mentality.
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Awake No. 2 2019 - Way To Destroy Your Childrens Hopes And Dreams Watchtower!
by pale.emperor innot that i spend much time on the cult's website, but i like to skim through their latest propaganda to make sure i'm up to date with their nuttiness.
(and when i say skim, i mean just that.
the wafer thin, dumbed down content can be read in like 2 mins flat).. i just had to share my thoughts on the above piece of trash.. no.
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john.prestor
It's their wording that creeps me out more than anything. 'A privilege to serve others,' really, how and why? Limit your kids access to social networking also comes across as isolationist because it's coming from them and they don't want kids talking to non-Witnesses.
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shunning of those who have "left da troof"
by resolute Bandicoot inhi friends, .
can somebody please help me locate a recent thread that dealt with shunning of family members and the policy double standard, e.g.
jw.borg explanation that the family relationship is unchanged and the recent daily text that suggested that we should shun them.. tried searching but could not find it.. thanks rb.
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john.prestor
Ding, that isn't true. If they actually said that it would be everywhere.
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shunning of those who have "left da troof"
by resolute Bandicoot inhi friends, .
can somebody please help me locate a recent thread that dealt with shunning of family members and the policy double standard, e.g.
jw.borg explanation that the family relationship is unchanged and the recent daily text that suggested that we should shun them.. tried searching but could not find it.. thanks rb.
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john.prestor
Amiable atheist, I remember seeing that clip. That man is a liar and knows he's lying, he should be ashamed that he got up in front of the court and tried to deceive them, what a bold witness he gave. What difference does it make if someone can 'come into the congregation and sit wherever they like,' how does that relate to shunning.
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Jesse Smollett
by Bill Covert inin the news northwestern memorial hospital [where jesse smollett was taken after attack], evidently fired 6 nurses for accessing jesse's file.
i did a topic [i was unable to locate in order to bump up] on the sept.1 1987 wt.
article "a time to speak when?
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john.prestor
What are you talking about? Give us a little more background.
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Russia Confiscates $30.4 Million Property From Jehovah's Witnesses
by Room 215 inhttps://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/russia-confiscates-30-4-million-property-jehovahs-witnesses.
it would appear that with this most recent confiscation the total taken from the jws by moscow amounts to more that $75 million.
(ouch!
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Yeah, I'm with Corney on this one, just because Jehovah's Witnesses piss off the government doesn't mean they get to steal their stuff. -
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“Millions now living will never die”
by HappyBlessedFree inso i’m just reading the part in ray franz book “crisis of conscience” about the 1925 prediction of “millions now living will never die”.. ofcourse all witnesses are very familiar with this campaign.
yet none of us ever had an issue with it, including myself.
since the booklet was published in 1920, we are one year away from 100 years from that time.
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john.prestor
Ding, sounds like it's just an excuse for them, an easy way to wish something away, to pretend it out of existence.
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Giving fake address to elder
by Addison0998 inso i got married a few weeks ago, living a great life now with my husband, he was definitely the perfect guy for me :) but anyways, we are going to work on slowly fading, going to meetings once a week or every two weeks, and then in a few months move to a hall where nobody knows our families and the elders hardly know each other, and fade out a lot more.
but an elder asked for our address, which we didn’t feel comfortable giving him, because we don’t want any unexpected visits to “shepard” us, when we miss a few meetings, because they already text us when we miss 2 meetings in a row, which we had just gotten back from our honeymoon 🙄 so we “accidentally” gave him the wrong apartment number.
so if they ever come pokin around they will be lost, and if they call or text us we will just have an excuse for not replying.
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john.prestor
To be fair it would be nice if the Elders admitted they keep tabs on people unless, correct me if I'm wrong, pretending this is about locating someone in the event of a disaster or the Great Tribulation. Like I get if you live on the coast of some tsunami-prone island but in rural America or some European city like what kind of disaster do you guys expect?
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“Millions now living will never die”
by HappyBlessedFree inso i’m just reading the part in ray franz book “crisis of conscience” about the 1925 prediction of “millions now living will never die”.. ofcourse all witnesses are very familiar with this campaign.
yet none of us ever had an issue with it, including myself.
since the booklet was published in 1920, we are one year away from 100 years from that time.
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john.prestor
Carla, that's hysterical, I mean damn apostates are just utterly committed to this whole 'lead them astray' thing, they even forge old books. Liike what is this, how naive do you have to be to believe something like that, like apostates just lurk backstage fabricating documents or something? Either the person really wants to believe that or the person is stupid, there's no nice way to say it.