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  Fearmongering : The greatest ploy the Watchtower Society uses against its faithful members

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "shortly, within our twentieth century*, the "battle in the day of jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.

  " (the nations shall know that i am jehovah; 1971; 2nd ed.

  fearmongering or scaremongering is the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of impending danger or the habit or tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue.

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  The definition of insanity as applied to Jehovah`s Witnesses ,

  "saying the same thing over and over and over again and not getting any results " with regard to Armageddon and the great tribulation .

  I mean to say how many times since Russell came on the scene with his Watchtower and his predictions and all of his successors since have they predicted the big "A" and the "GT" ?

  I have lost count .

  And sadly to say what does that say about the mentality of all those who still follow the Governing Body leading this religion ?
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  One Liners

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  my doctor says that i need to have an operation to fuse the bones in my neck.

  he said that after it's done i'll never look back!.

  alcohol was my father's answer to everything.

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  I thought an innuendo was an Italian suppository.

  Scientists around the world are working on an Atomic pill to cure STD`s in men,

  its designed to give every man a nuclear weapon .
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  Do You Take Any Special Vitamins or Meds That You Would Recommend?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we get older , we tend to feel the aches and pains or some tiredness like never before.. i have some friends who are in excellent condition and i’ve asked what their secret was.. some swear by cbd oil as a cure all for aches and localized pain.

  greek yogurt is a natural food that can attack gut fat as does taking probiotics.

  have you found anything that makes you more energized?

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  Being of a mature age 79 and having a postrate problem ,once I was put on to Duodart capsules 500 ug / 400 ug taken 1 capsule daily ,my life improved dramatically .

  I hope this benefits someone here who might be suffering from this problem .

  But of course check with your doctor beforehand.

  Its worked wonders for me.
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  When you were an active JW, did you ever have dealings with a pyramid scheme?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm not sure why this memory popped up, and i was wondering if any others, when they were still active jw had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization?

  at the time it was 1993, and my husband and i were still newlyweds.

  once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time.

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  I had a couple of encounters with a brother and a sister that was involved with different types of weight loss schemes.

  The "sister" was rather plump and overweight and tried to entice my wife into the scheme ,I tactlessly told her that it didn`t seem to be doing her much good .

  And the "brother" who had a beer belly that any drinker would be proud of as having your own private keg wore a T-shirt that said "Lose weight ? Ask me how"

  That was a great source of amusement for me.

  Their was also a couple ex missionaries who ran a hair removal salon using electrolysis ,what a scam that was that many witnesses fell for.
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  “Millions now living will never die”

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so 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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  "Millions now living will never die " revised "Millions now living may never die "

  JW`s have a history of about 140 years ,a history that they keep revising and are embarrassed by their early publications .

  Catholics have a history of about 1700+ years and I`m not aware that they have ever revised there early history .

  The catholic church acknowledge there past mistakes and own up to them .

  The GB of JW`s don`t own up to anything and never admit to past mistakes .

  Just my observations.
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  Named and Shamed in Australia.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2019/02/government-names-shames-organisations-yet-join-redress-scheme/ .

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  With the up coming election in mid may ? is there something we can do to influence in some way politicians to make sure the recomendation`s of the ARC into institutionalised child sexual abuse are part and parcel of their policies ?

  And not a watered down version ?

  Can we influence politicians to put their money where there mouth is and make this a game changer for those that have been subjected to sexual abuse as minors and get some real justice done by the ARC Recomendation`s ?

  As Australians facing an up coming election shortly can we do something to make this change ?

  i`m open to all suggestions . As a group ? individually ? anything else ?
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  Remember 1992?

  by Tobyjones262 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anyone remember 1992?

  i can remember i was in the cult.

  times were changing at a rapid pace.

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  And didn`t they also indicate that all of the Bible prophecies about the end of the world The big A and the GT would all be over or in its final fullfilment by the end of the 20th Century ?

  And that the 21st century would usher in the paradise Earth that they have so often preached about .

  { Its peculiar when you Know that the Bible never mentions mans destiny is to inhabit a Paradise Earth }

  "Trinity" is never mentioned in the bible ,so it doesn`t exist

  "Paradise Earth" is never mentioned in the Bible so it doesn`t exist .

  Now to play the Devils Advocate :

  2 peter 3: 13 But their are new heavens and a new earth we are awaiting according to his promise and in these righteousness is to dwell .

  How do you refute this scripture ? with all of the above ?
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  Grace Gough ( RIP ) left the JW cult in her 70s and went on to help 1000s to escape the cult

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7ilnoxvu4.

  she helped me.

  sent me my first copy of crisis of conscience (free) grace has been featured on many talk shows, including sally jesse raphael, raising awareness of support for cult abuse survivors.

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  Thank you Tara for providing that photo and sharing it with us here ,she was a character and i only got to know her by her posts here at a later stage in her life.But she sure made an impression in whatever she spoke about.

  I`m sure she would be very proud of you also ,and thank you for this post and photo.

  Do you have a photo of her as a young woman ? i`m sure that would be appreciated by all that knew her here .

  take care ,you have obviously been a loving granddaughter to her.
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  JW at a thrift store....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i was recently in a thrift store, looking through some of the stuff there, when another aisle over, somebody sneezed.. (as far as i know, nobody lost a meatball.... 😅🙃 ...).

  anyway, somebody sneezed.

  and somebody immediately said, “bless you!”.

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  Jehovah`s Witnesses have always got to make a statement to the world about their stand on issues ,the non important one`s that is not the big issues of life.

  They don`t seem to realize how superstitious they really are about things that other normal people don`t give a second thought to.
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  Do You Take Any Special Vitamins or Meds That You Would Recommend?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we get older , we tend to feel the aches and pains or some tiredness like never before.. i have some friends who are in excellent condition and i’ve asked what their secret was.. some swear by cbd oil as a cure all for aches and localized pain.

  greek yogurt is a natural food that can attack gut fat as does taking probiotics.

  have you found anything that makes you more energized?

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  Simon i think you could replace one of those meat diets with Subway ,but I got a laugh anyway.

  Not to put a dampner on the health foods / vitamins trend ,however I know of two women who were religious in there eating healthy and taking vitamins lots ,that died at a young age .

  One in particular while in hospital dying responded to another young person who said to her "when I get out of here I will eat nothing but healthy foods"

  "My friend replied don`t even bother ,I`ve been doing it all my life and where has it got me "

  Vale Anita .