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  FOLLOW THE MONEY WatchTower style

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_cfvw1myb8xo0vbh_eepl3antwd5uj-o-fkwfayppe/edit?usp=sharing.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Part 2 is in the oven.
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  What happened to Marvin Schilmer and his Blog against the JW's?

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspoturl=https://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/07/complete-donation-what-happened.html.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Perhaps he was translated accidentally while on Google.
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  TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  top ten reasons.

  (why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.

  the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Having been immersed for a great many years in the online society of EX-Jehovah's Witnesses, I've grown accustomed to something which is easily taken for granted. What is that thing, you ask?

  IT IS RARE to meet people in everyday life who have been forced to face being dead wrong about a "certainty."

  Once that has happened, you have a completely reset personality.

  Without it, you just drift along happy as a self-assured clam.
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  TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  top ten reasons.

  (why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.

  the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.

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  TerryWalstrom

  TOP TEN REASONS

  
  

  (Why) JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CAN'T COPE with the REAL WORLD
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  1. The WatchTower Organization denies access to reality, substituting its OWN propaganda version instead

  1. Only Watchtower approved publications are allowed.

  2. No higher education is to be pursued.

  3. No non-JW friends or associations are encouraged with worldly "outside" POV.

  4. No free-style questioning of doctrine is permitted nor is constructive criticism.

  5. Threat of being "marked" or disassociated is wielded to discourage insubordinates.

  2. Between every real-world event and the JW's mind, a roadblock has been placed.

  1. The interpretive moment of free thought is interrupted by RE-LABELING in Watchtower-speak, jargon, and doctrinal rhetoric substituted.

  2. World events are twisted into a narrow storyline and propagandized as End Times signs leading to Armageddon.

  3. Individual tastes for Personal IDENTITY are expunged and replaced by a collective PERSONA. You are not yourself. You are to be viewed as a representative and example.

  1. Private thinking is red-flagged as selfish and sinful.

  2. Personal ambition is crushed. Only door-to-door ministry substituted as "worthy" endeavors. Beards and tight-pants are glaring demonstrations of satanic ego.

  3. JW’s are coerced into a public spectacle of theocratic performance for judgement.

  4. No individual is allowed a right to fall in love and marry or educate or earn without prior approval. You are the property of the Kingdom Hall and the Governing Body.

  4. Both History and Future cease to be objective occurrences

  1. Every human endeavor is judged as to whether it is part of Jehovah's Plan

  2. Great Leaps of advancement for humanity are disregarded and minimized.

  c. Terrorist atrocities are proof positive of a Satanic doomed world.

  d. Individual triumphs and tragedies have no particular value; only Armageddon matters.

  5. Talent, Creativity and Genius are transformed into useless ego obsessions.

  1. No personal achievement is praiseworthy since all glory is for Jehovah only.

  2. Neither Musical, Artistic, Scientific or Mathematical ability is encouraged because the preaching activity supersedes all else.

  3. Critical Thinking leads to skepticism and eventual disfellowshipping. Even intelligence itself is marked as suspicious.

  6. Ignorance, poverty, disease and psychological disturbance are NOT worthwhile for charity, education or institutional tasking for JW's.

  1. Building hospitals or colleges diverts precious time away from the JW ministry. Besides, Paradise implies repair and perfection anyway.

  2. Becoming a physician, social worker, volunteer in the community or joining any established task-oriented organization DISTORTS rather than solves human problems because Armageddon is coming quickly anyway.

  3. Humanitarian activity, disaster relief and institutional charity promote secular and false-religious creeds instead of Jehovah's solutions.

  4. Personal financial concerns aren't important to the congregation. Your finances are a symptom of End Times eventuality, not a focus of brotherly remedy.

  7. Human perception is untrustworthy, corrupted by sin and worldliness

  1. Only thoughts which come from official Governing Body writings are safe.

  2. Personal opinions, life experience and original analysis constitute hubris and running ahead of Jehovah's plan for his people.

  3. Calling attention to doctrinal irregularity, questioning "new light" and repeated calls for clarification red-flag spiritual weakness and danger.

  8. There are no "Good" people in any other religion. If they were good they'd join Jehovah's Witnesses.

  1. The appearance of goodness, charity, benevolence and selfless devotion to others by Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists or other religious types is only an artificial misunderstanding of Jehovah's permanent solutions to mankind's true problem: sin and death.

  2. Most do-gooders are religious fakes, imposters and money-grubbing charlatans who should be exposed and not admired.

  3. There is no one good except Jehovah anyway

  9. Everything you read, see, experience and think is a distortion by Satan for the purpose of deflecting you from Jehovah's TRUTH.

  1. Watchtower study replaces corrupt images, thoughts and ideas with clean, purified and approved replacements.

  2. The human heart is desperate and corrupt. What you "feel" is probably sin and not compassion. Don't trust yourself to know anything.

  3. The entire world is in the control and power of invisible demonic forces hellbent on destroying humanity

  10. Doubting Jehovah's organization isn't the result of logic or awareness of errors

  1. They never said they were perfect or inspired or prophetic

  2. Jehovah eventually repairs any damage (Wait on Jehovah)

  3. Disloyalty to the Organization is disloyalty to Jehovah himself. Armageddon will settle that score.

  In view of the Ten reasons above, there can be no doubt that the Organization has completely REMOVED REALITY from JW awareness.
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  Being denied a right to reality is to have one's mind taken hostage.

  Without thinking your own thoughts you cannot ever be an actual real person.

  The group thinks FOR you and instructs you what to do and say and how to be.

  Without that GROUP there is only doubt, emptiness, and longing to be cocooned by the "other" and cradled away from fear.
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  Why it is hard to break free?

  You wonder why JW family member won't listen to reason?

  You wonder why the obvious isn't at all obvious?

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  JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CAN'T ABIDE REALITY.

  For them......it isn’t allowed to exist!
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  But where else should we go? Can you answer this question?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  having watched many jc youtube videos one question that gets asked is "where else would you go?".

  in other words if not jehovah's witnesses then what other religion or organisation would you go to?.

  it's one that i have trouble answering, what would you say?.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Let's indulge in essentialism for a wee moment, shall we?

  Being Christian is being Christ-like.

  It is a symbiotic / supernatural alignment of different species of being.

  If there truly is an existential reality to God, Christ, and Holy Spirit, we should understand that THEY HOLD ALL THE POWER.

  For us to assimilate the personality of Christ is to take on that power individually and enter a relationship for keeps.

  Your proximate Location has nothing to do with it. Attitude, gratitude, and noble-minded activity will create an environment others will desire to inhabit. You will become the focal point of a Brotherhood just as did Jesus himself.

  Otherwise--this is all just fantasy camp.
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  TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  top ten reasons.

  (why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.

  the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Now and again I reconsider what sort of mindset I possessed before I was tampered and molested by the Jehovah's Witness mind rape.

  Who would I have become if left alone?
  I shall never know nor am I able to imagine.

  Whoever that Terry was . . .he was bloody well murdered.
  I'm his ghost.
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  FOLLOW THE MONEY WatchTower style

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_cfvw1myb8xo0vbh_eepl3antwd5uj-o-fkwfayppe/edit?usp=sharing.

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  TerryWalstrom

  The financial transactions of early WatchTower days are quite interesting and often flabbergasting. You can hunt down these documents online with a little persistence. They make for interesting reading.

  For example:
  http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/
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  FOLLOW THE MONEY WatchTower style

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_cfvw1myb8xo0vbh_eepl3antwd5uj-o-fkwfayppe/edit?usp=sharing.

  link to hard copy.

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  TerryWalstrom

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L_Cfvw1Myb8xO0VbH_EEPl3antwD5uJ-o-FKwfaypPE/edit?usp=sharing

  Link to Hard Copy
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  How Human was Charles Taze Russell?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pastor russell's life fascinates me.

  because he seems like a person who never had any fun.

  such a serious face without a smile to be found!

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  TerryWalstrom

  Rose Ball.

  She was a bit older than most people realize. However, Maria felt betrayed by her husband's conduct toward Rose. When the judicial hearing was convened to decide the matter of mental cruelty in the estrangement of the Russell's, Pastor C.T. Russell sent Rose Ball to Australia! Pretty hard to get a process server down under to summon her to testify, eh wot?
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  THE MIND POLICE

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the mind police.

  ____________basic principle: [a man’s decisions end up as either successful or suicidal.].

  http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/concepts.html.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Heartfelt thanks!

  Just when I started to think the goon squad might appear with torches and pitchforks, too :)