@ Vienne: Thanks. I would recommend you read this one coz I am finding it very gripping.
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currently reading: jehovahs witnesses and the third reich by james penton.
a wonderful book written by an ex jw, born in 1932. i find this book very informative, interesting specially coz i was not around then.its thorough, lucid factual,every detail referenced and analytical data is provided to authenticate the veracity of assertion.
a pretty good read indeed for pimis n pimos alike!.
@ Vienne: Thanks. I would recommend you read this one coz I am finding it very gripping.
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currently reading: jehovahs witnesses and the third reich by james penton.
a wonderful book written by an ex jw, born in 1932. i find this book very informative, interesting specially coz i was not around then.its thorough, lucid factual,every detail referenced and analytical data is provided to authenticate the veracity of assertion.
a pretty good read indeed for pimis n pimos alike!.
@ Oppostate: Thank you for your input. it is good to know that I am not the only one who finds it is a good read.
@ Bethsarim: Thank you so much for your feedback.I do find it quite informative, I have researching things his book mentions just to verify stuff and it clearly links with other authors books that I have read in the past.
@Las M son A: Thank you for your input. I enjoy reading things that have been well documented and specially from times when I was not even born; or the very very early beginnings of the organization.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/frnku0/jesus_is_your_source_so_give_me_money/.
zing.
There was letter sent to all congs about the setting up of zoom thing for their meetings and one of them did mention that "we shall let you know about donations later". I suppose someone can upload the specific letter. I will see if I have it .
So the money is coming soon/ just round the corner....
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not only do they want everyone dressed up for the zoom meetings( which i won't do) they decided to keep the zoom meeting at 1pm sunday!
so they don't upset their spiritual routine!
ugh!
The best way to get out of Video zooming is to say your camera is botched, does not work!
No one can ask you to go buy a laptop or phone just for zrooming! If some eegit does then just say you can afford it,will you buy one for me! See them scurry back into their rat-holes and never bother you again about it!
There are ways out of this zooming thing people,use it.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/frnku0/jesus_is_your_source_so_give_me_money/.
zing.
currently reading: jehovahs witnesses and the third reich by james penton.
a wonderful book written by an ex jw, born in 1932. i find this book very informative, interesting specially coz i was not around then.its thorough, lucid factual,every detail referenced and analytical data is provided to authenticate the veracity of assertion.
a pretty good read indeed for pimis n pimos alike!.
Currently reading: jehovahs witnesses and the third reich by James Penton
A wonderful book written by an ex jw, born in 1932. I find this book very informative, interesting specially coz I was not around then.Its thorough, lucid factual,every detail referenced and analytical data is provided to authenticate the veracity of assertion. A pretty good read indeed for PIMIS N PIMOS alike!
SYNOPSIS:
Since the end of World War II, leaders of the Jehovah's Witness movement in both Germany and elsewhere have steadfastly argued that Witnesses were united in their opposition to Nazism and did not collude with the Third Reich. Documents have been uncovered, however, that prove otherwise. Using materials from Witness archives, the U.S. State Department, Nazi files, and other sources, M. James Penton demonstrates that while many ordinary German Witnesses were brave in their opposition to Nazism, their leaders were quite prepared to support the Hitler government. Penton begins his study with a close reading of the "Declaration of Facts" released by the Witnesses at a Berlin convention in June 1933. Witness leaders have called the document a protest against Nazi persecution, however closer examination shows it contained bitter attacks on Great Britain and the United States - jointly referred to as "the greatest and most oppressive empire on earth" - the League of Nations, big business, and above all, Jews, who are referred to as "the representatives of Satan the Devil." It was later, in 1933 - when the Nazis would not accept Witness blandishments - that leader J.F.Rutherford called on Witnesses to seek martyrdom by carrying on a campaign of passive resistance. Many ultimately died in prisons and concentration camps, and post-war Witness leaders have attempted to use this fact to assert that Jehovah's Witnesses stood consistently against Nazism. Drawing on his own Witness background and years of research on Witness history, Penton separates fact from fiction during this dark period.
Has anyone read it? What did you think?
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why did jehovah create the strains of corona virus ?.
is it part of the great tribulation that is closer than ever now ?.
what if lots of his people die from it ?.
why did jehovah create the strains of corona virus ?
To show us insignificant humans who is Boss
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not only do they want everyone dressed up for the zoom meetings( which i won't do) they decided to keep the zoom meeting at 1pm sunday!
so they don't upset their spiritual routine!
ugh!
My friend invited me to join in the vroom meeting of course to see what really went on. We made sure we had a background (via a projector and showed a library shelf full of jdumb books), and set the laptop in front of it.We logged in n we were just messing about during the meeting on our tablets, nodding our heads infrequently, had a good laugh!
So you can still be pimo just like you did at the halls!
We did not have to sit through the whole meeting either, my friend pretended to have accidently nudged the laptop which then blitzed us out .Did not bother to log in again.Was a good laugh though!
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this whole "zoom" thing has got me wondering whether some of it is legal or not.
if a person has to dress up for a zoom meeting the way the watchtower dictates, doesn't this really go "beyond" cult?.
even the cults who committed mass suicide were able to dress the way they wanted for their meetings.
I also wonder if they will start disfellowshiping people online at these Zoom meetings also. Will a persons name be broadcast online that they are no longer a JW?
Will that information go out to people who have no right to know?
Surprise, surprise! Well I heard the very first disfellowshipping via the vroom meeting last week!
So it will be braodcast as normal .
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german files as of 2020-03-27. .
2020-03-22--letter.
https://filebin.net/ury0g7yheelzn8vm .
Thank you Atlantis , Petra n T
Always appreciated. be safe.
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