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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  TerryWalstrom

  Michael Moore set the standard of the "little" guy against the corporate giant.
  This is the keystone documentary approach when a powerless person succumbs to undue pressure by bureaucrats. The GB before their TV career were at least mystical and mysterious and a certain cachet and rubric of charisma prevailed. However, in this instance, the WORLD HEADQUARTERS and "nobody home" paints a stark and eerie picture of the monster under the bed.
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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  TerryWalstrom

  I was finally able to penetrate the firewall of A&E and watch
  the documentary presentation of CULTS & EXTREME belief.

  From the text intro:
  "Former Jehovah’s Witness Romy Maple–a survivor of child sexual abuse–embarks on a journey to uncover why her pleas for justice were systematically ignored by top members of the organization."
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  First off, this production is first rate as to sound, story, photography, lighting, hosting, and handling of sensitive materials.
  Let's face it, there are more ways to go wrong or too far or not far enough in an expose' and the unfamiliarity of a densely hermetic organization over a hundred years old is a tough nut to crack. Simple is best.

  Kudos are due Barbara Anderson! Barbara was a writer and researcher at Watchtower headquarters...until....(no spoilers...yet.)

  Had she made one false move this program would have been easy to dismiss. The burden was on her shoulders to be clear, concise, empathetic, neutral in tone and non-histrionic. She passed with flying colors!

  Barbara is saved for the latter half of the presentation as a bridge or link to the interior workings at the hive central headquarters.
  The fact that Barbara was not kicked out of headquarters is important. She left with the horrific discoveries uncovered in her proper job as researcher and writer with access to history and documentation.

  Child abuse cover-up popped the cork and she was outta-there post-haste!
  Thank you, Barbara for opening up your private home to TV crews and to the invasion that entails as well as the unpaid hours devoted to making certain the story came across with i's dotted and t's crossed properly.

  The end of the program was rather creepy in my eyes and I'll tell you why.

  The victim traveled to the new headquarters in Warwick.
  The car trip with a very nervous grown-up abuse victim agonizing over her decision to disconnect formally and face to face (if possible) with the leaders of the cult spoke volumes. The location really felt like an isolated bunker not unlike the creepy David Koresh compound in Waco, Texas!

  The man-behind-the-glass was the cherry on top with his impersonal paid-to-lie conversation and abrupt dismissal of the obviously distressed lady standing on the other side of his cage.
  She is directed to a big electronic fence and told someone would come down to talk to her.
  What follows was a tone not unlike Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
  A truck appears after an uncomfortable wait and parks with engine running on the other side of the fence (which never opened). Not a soul got out to walk down for a conversation. The "standoff" (again a Waco flash in my mind) continued for 40 minutes. It was Psych-out pure and simple.
  I'd bet a dozen donuts the goons in the truck had binoculars and were frozen in place by the sight of video cameras in the lady's vehicle.

  Back to the glass window.
  She is upset. The JW inside is squirmy and simply wants her gone as fast as possible. This is way above his pay grade. (Not that I think he's paid.)
  He half-opens the security door and snatches her Letter of resignation as a JW and quite rudely (I thought) dashed back inside like a genuine gutless character.

  A dyed-in-the-wool Apostate JW activist will complain there were missed opportunities. Yes, of course.
  However, while agreeing there are a great many levels and depths of complaint yet untouched in this presentation--the simplicity of the story is impactful in a way that a more dense and polemical slant would not have done.

  I'm guessing this A&E JW topic is deliberately simple because a more profound forensic investigation is soon to appear with the Leah Remini series (formerly Scientology exposed.)

  I've give this a gleaming B+ mostly thanks to Barbara Anderson.
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  A&E - Cults and Extreme Belief - Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Incognito in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't seen this posted.. tuesday may 29, 2018 @ 10pm (new york time zone).

  cults and extreme belief - jehovah's witnesses.

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  TerryWalstrom

  So, guess who did NOT get to see the A&E program on cults and extreme belief?

  Yeah, me!

  I had procrastinated on signing up for my Roku link and discovered I don't have the proper credentials (no TV provider).

  Well, bloody hell.

  Did anybody record it?
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  Season 1 Episode 1 A&E Cults and Extreme Belief (Video)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1it will post soon on site..

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  TerryWalstrom

  https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1
  
  It will post soon on site.
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  (Controversial Topic) CLASS WARFARE in MARXISM and JEHOVAH’S WITNESS THEOLOGY

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  class warfare in marxism and jehovah’s witness theology.

  (both) jehovah’s witnesses and marxist communists concern themselves with something called “the end of history.”.

  the end of history means the end of a struggle between groups with conflicts of interest.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Baptism by fire, I'd call it, Waton. Have you ex-posited that story here for all to read?
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  A thinking man coming to grips with the Bible

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no ego and no agenda--and yet--a thinking-out-loud tour of what the lasting value ofbiblical teaching might mean.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wwbgo6a2w.

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  TerryWalstrom

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pxfWpIRxnw

  More interesting than the title of the video would lead one to assume.
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  (Controversial Topic) CLASS WARFARE in MARXISM and JEHOVAH’S WITNESS THEOLOGY

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  class warfare in marxism and jehovah’s witness theology.

  (both) jehovah’s witnesses and marxist communists concern themselves with something called “the end of history.”.

  the end of history means the end of a struggle between groups with conflicts of interest.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Thanks, Waton.
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  A thinking man coming to grips with the Bible

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no ego and no agenda--and yet--a thinking-out-loud tour of what the lasting value ofbiblical teaching might mean.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wwbgo6a2w.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I'm humbled by your words, LV101. That made my day. Thank you, kindly!
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  (Controversial Topic) CLASS WARFARE in MARXISM and JEHOVAH’S WITNESS THEOLOGY

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  class warfare in marxism and jehovah’s witness theology.

  (both) jehovah’s witnesses and marxist communists concern themselves with something called “the end of history.”.

  the end of history means the end of a struggle between groups with conflicts of interest.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Ha! I got ZERO grief and ZERO response :)
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  If only JDubs were truthful with their Bible students

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jdubs are the masters of deception.

  what would you do if you were studying with the jdubs and they told you that when you get the truth, become a jdub, and join the borg that every single person in the world is bad association?

  in fact, you will have to be careful because even some in the congregation can also be bad association and you have to be careful around them if they have too much facial hair or if the sisters' skirts are a little too short or if the brother pants are a little too tight.. and you will find such delight in not dwelling upon the life that you have now which is unimportant because this system of things is going to be destroyed so there is no need to get a good education or to worry about your problems.. you just need to focus on the paradise earth that is just around the corner..

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  TerryWalstrom

  Perhaps off-topic per se but not really is this critique of how MARXISM fails and perfectly (to my mind) parallels JW "theory".
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0iL0ixoZYo