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  Manipulative language

  by Hendrixgrip in

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  2. beliefs

  someone recently included the phrase from a talk, “cherished errors”, which made me think about something i wanted to get off my chest.

  the societies use of manipulative language has been discussed on this site many time and i hope this adds to the ammunition to fight back against them.

  periodically , i’ll run into someone and they’ll say “hendrixgrip, why don’t you come to the meetings anymore.” i’ll give them some not too specific reason like, “i’m struggling with the overlapping doctrine”.

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  smiddy3

  johnamos ,if you had said that to me when I was still active I would have given you that deer in the headlight look .

  The fact is most JW`s cant think or reason about scriptures , they have been conditioned to be mentally lazy about such things and leave it all up to the GB to tell them what to believe .

  I have learnt more about what the Bible teaches and what it doesn`t teach on here than I ever learnt at a KH.

  How they have the audacity to call baptized JW`s ministers of God is mind boggling .{ and that includes kids baptized }
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  Just wanted to share my little bit of good news.

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. family

  i haven't been posting here much lately, i think i only created one topic in 2018!

  but this is worth it.. i am a grandfather 😊.

  it happens all the time but damn, it feels good.

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  smiddy3

  Congratulations Nic,you and the missus will be great grandparents.
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  I'm not alone in the congregation, after all

  by ohnightdivine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can now say that i'm not alone to know ttatt in my congregation, after all.. i have come to know that my close friend is awake, even without me sharing the ttatt with him/her.

  on one of our recent conversations i mentioned about being tired and no longer being uplifted anymore, and my friend then told me he/she was feeling the same.

  i don't know how it happened but we knew we could trust each other.

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  smiddy3

  That`s good news ,you both can support each on a personal face to face level .
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  Political Correctness and Censorship / Banning Books

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  banned books?censorship?.

  let’s say you live in a land where the rule is: you can’t offend anyone.okay, fair enough.

  let’s take a look at what follows (implicit in this rule).. if you are speaking to 10 people, is it okay to offend 1 in 10?

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  I would hate to see anything the WT/JW prints or says being banned as that is the best "witness" against them.
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  Did you actually read the bible end to end?

  by Ultimate Axiom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in my ten years as a witness i never read the whole bible end to end, what with four magazines a month, the book study, meetings and talk preparations, there just wasn’t the time.

  i knew all the important references to ‘prove’ the various jw doctrines, and the cherry picked chapters that help foster the idea that it’s a good book, but that’s not reading it.

  well after nearly forty years out, i decided i would do it.

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  smiddy3

  I might ask ,which Bible are you referring too ? In Christendoms religions their are different numbers of Books that are considered to be part of the Bible

  Just as an example : 2 Bible Accounts of Noah

  The book of Enoch .

  The book of Jubilees

  The Testament of Noah

  The book of Jasher

  Compare the following :

  The roman Catholic Church

  The Protestant Churches

  The Greek orthodox Church

  The Russian Orthodox Church

  The Eastern Orthodox Churches

  Just to name a few that have different numbers of Books in their Bible from other Churches .

  And their are heaps of other Books of Scripture that men, not any God, that decided not to include them in the finished product .
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  Accept flip flop beliefs....Jehovah is the one who is driving the Celestial chariot

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower bible and tract society uses its governing body to force jehovah's witnesses to accept their flip-flop beliefs and doctrines.

  their history of conflicting false teachings and practices have left members in confusion.. in this video, david splane blames jehovah god for all the changing doctrines.

  "jehovah is driving the chariot.".

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  I do not believe any of the GB believe it anymore ,maybe one time in the early days ? but certainly not now.....Why?

  They know they are false religious prophets ( profits they have)

  The fact that they keep re-writing and changing facts about their early history.{ No organization does that unless they have things to hide } In fact I think you would be hard pressed to find any other organization that would stoop to that low level ,except maybe organized crime syndicates .

  Their "New Light" is always a cover up of failed prophecy`s ,expectations ,evidently`s ,and whatever to cover their arse.

  They are manipulative in their language and deliberately lie justifying it with there "Theocratic Warfare " strategy.

  Not to mention the control over every aspect of a JW`s life ,including the type of clothes they wear when & where, what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms for married couples ,what entertainment they watch and even the music they listen too.

  As well as dictating how many hours they should getting in the witnessing work and how many meetings they should be attending every week .

  And also trying to control what is left of a JW`s critical thinking ability .
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  Who else had to sit though last weeks WT study, 6th Jan 2019 - "Buy Truth and Never Sell It"

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  that title, “buy truth and never sell it”.

  is that not our goal has jw’s, to try to sell the truth to those who have the right heart condition to accept it?.

  para 9: “when the fishermen peter and andrew were invited by jesus to become “fishers of men,” they “abandoned their nets.” (matt.

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  nowwhat?

  Good point , on the one hand JW reject Dec.25th as a made up date of Jesus Christ birth accepted by Christendom ,

  And not accepted by true Christians { Jehovah`s Witnesses }

  On the other hand .

  The name of God =Jehovah a made up name by none other than a Catholic Spanish Monk of the 13th Century accepted by Christendom and also accepted by "True Christians" - Jehovah`s Witnesses" despite the fact that the JW`s /G.B. acknowledge that is not the correct pronunciation of the Divine name ,but one that is commonly used in Christendom. " Aid to Bible Understanding " first edition.

  Is it not obvious that double standards apply here and one that involves the Divine name that Jehovah`s Witnesses claim to uphold so dearly ? as THE NAME OF GOD ?
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  Neighbor teens selling drugs

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  2. family

  not too long ago had a lady and her two teen sons move nearby.

  she had mentioned awhile back how they came from a rough ghetto neighborhood.

  this lady is always screaming and fighting with her sons, so loud, homes away hear it.

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  This could be a tricky one .

  If you do decide to "rat" them out and they discover it was you who did so ,are you prepared to take the consequences ?

  You can never be absolutely sure they wouldn`t surmise or guess you were involved .

  On the other hand who want`s druggies / dealers to be living next door to them with the problems that may bring.?

  Maybe involving a willing third party from out of town do an anonymous tip to law enforcement being careful not to divulge anything to tie you or them to the tip off.
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  Good Business Ethics

  by bola in

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  2. friends

  happy new year to everyone in this forum.. i need advice on business ethics like writing a curriculum vitae, being present for an interview, providing services like and answering customers needs.

  thanks.

  i am just 22 years and i need advice..

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  smiddy3

  Best of luck bola ,with all of the suggestions given here you should do well in getting any job you apply for.

  One tip from personal experience : If you have a chosen profession you wish to pursue don`t give up if at first you don`t succeed in getting it.

  I had opportunity over a few years to apply for a job I wanted no less than 4 times with the same company before I finally got the job.

  They regarded me as an Aussie battler who persisted to get the job he wanted .

  I ended up working for them for 28 years and retired with a nice payout.

  Good luck to you .
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  Crisis of Conscience is being delivered to my door today. I can't wait

  by Fognomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since i have no one else to talk to about what i am going through, i just thought i would let this group know that i have .

  crisis of conscience coming to my front door today.

  i already know what i will say if my wife says something.

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  smiddy3

  I read C.O.C. while I was still a JW and it didn`t wake me up ,I just thought maybe R.F. was a disgruntled relative of Fred Franz and maybe a little bit jealous he wasn`t given the same recognition .

  After leaving I read Don Cameron`s "Captive Of A Concept" which I highly value in exposing the JW religion for the fraud that it is.