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  "ah yes Dad, do you mean those times when Jehovah made those mistakes and errors?"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so...while chatting with my ultra "spiritual elder" father on the phone this afternoon, i couldn't resist using that line!.

  i had sent him that video of the recent convention showing brothers and sisters dancing to the "kingdom song" and waving their illuminated phones and arms in the air like some sort of revival church concert.

  (perhaps someone can post that link to that thread again here?).

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  His Cognitive Dissonance obviously got the better of him, and he suddenly had to ring off....
  

  Thanks for sharing. He may not seem like it, but I think that he did listen.
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  JW's - Do you follow pagan practices?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  w95 5/15 p. 19 part 1—flashes of light - great and small: “jehovah’s witnesses do not celebrate birthdays because these observances have pagan origins and tend to exalt the ones having a birthday.” (jw broadcasting doesn't exalt the gibbering body??????).

  in order to be “faithful in what is least” and to “stop touching the unclean thing,” j.w.

  's should abhor & shun all of the following traditions and practices due to their pagan/demonic origins - especially using the names of weekdays and several of the names of months.. “it was believed that sneezing was the way for the body to rid itself of the devil's evil influences.

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  There must be many everyday practices whose origins are pagan/demonic, but are now used by people who in all good conscience do not attribute anything to the origins. Motive is everything.
  

  Yes, like covering up for sexual abuse of children.
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  Cult Leader Thinks He’s Jesus

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was sent this video and don’t know if anyone was aware of it or if this has been posted before but in russia there is a religion known as vissarion’s church of the last testament where their leader who was formerly known as sergey anatolyevitch torop who goes by vissarion believes he is the messiah.

  according to the video, there are 5,000 followers worldwide with 2,000 followers actually living on site with vissarion.

  i found it pretty odd but very interesting and wanted to share it on here.

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  Not news to me. I shared before that I knew an elder who once said that he's Jehovah.
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  Are there any full preterists here?

  by quincemyles in

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  2. beliefs

  are there any folks here who believe that armageddon, the "second coming of christ.

  " the great tribulation and resurrection are past events rather than future?.

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  Are there any folks here who believe that Armageddon, the "second coming of Christ." the great tribulation and resurrection are past events rather than future?
  

  
  
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  Wierd Shunning Stories

  by VW.org in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i went to a shopping center.

  i saw a dub who was once a very friendly person.

  he was about 10 metres from me when i noticed him.

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  Has anyone here got any wierd shunning stories where dubs have shunned in a cowardly way?
  

  When I was in the process of fading I was working with a few JWs around my age, and my boss at the time was a non-JW brother from a JW who helped me get the job. So my professional life was quite mixed in with the JWs.

  Needless to say, the JWs around me at work and I were not in a comfortable position. As I left, I also had to change jobs. After I did, they would see me, sometimes they were hanging out with the former coworkers of mine, and they did the exact same thing like you described in your case, they held their head down and did not make eye contact with me. I was quietly confident as all this happened as I said hi to them all.

  To make matters worse, they are the kind of people who love/need/have to save appearances at all times. The funny thing about it is that at that time it was news (to them) that I am gay, so my former coworkers started thinking that those two JWs were acting stupid for other reasons. It was quite hilarious to see them squirm in discomfort.
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  Just thought I'd share. New up coming apostate

  by joe134cd in

  1. forum
  2. links

  just listened to this delightful young irish lass and just thought i'd share.

  a pleasure to listen to her.

  well spoken and presents a good argument.. https://youtu.be/qitwc2qumgs.

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  Thank you.
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  Russia is Smart

  by Kohanic in

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

  so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

  lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

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  Lol it's funny now that I'm on the Russian side of this debate now, ban them all!
  

  Indeed.
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  Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i came across this video, which looks at mental illness among jws.. it is an old video, but really hits the nail right on the head as to the reasons why there is such a high level of mental illness among the jw's.. https://youtu.be/co-b65w-zqs.

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  I've seen it. I had forgotten about it. Thanks.
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  The new world we live in

  by JaniceA in

  1. social
  2. family

  so, i'm in a starbucks.

  it's 5:45 pm.

  this kid who is maybe 6 years old yells, "mom, my tablet is fully charged any my phone is at 84%!".

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  Is anyone else frequently bemused at the ways in which the world and childhood had changed? My nephew has cheap phones for his one and two year olds to watch cartoons in the car.
  

  I am bemused too. The way we live today have both good and bad things. At 6 I did know about percentages and had the capacity to learn and know more, but I'm glad that kids have better access to information today. What people decide to do with what they have, that's another story.
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  Hello from Scotland - it has been ages....

  by The Scotsman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well how the devil is everyone?

  i have not been here for a long time........totally lost track of what is going on in jw land, apart from the little bits i hear from family members still in.

  (they say everything is swell and that armageddon is just round the corner).... :).was hearing that anniesland congregation in glasgow has been (or is about to be) disbanded.

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  Well how the devil is everyone?
  

  Not sure if I met you, but welcome back.