Studies on shunning and acceptance also show that, for many people, to be outcast and unwanted by the group they are associated with is deeply effective even if the group are known bullies and criminals - the desire for acceptance completely overriding common sense.
A Paduan
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JW's will never turn on the WT Society
by moshe inthat is the conclusion i arrived at after watching the documentary , by alex gibney called, "the human behavior experiments" on the cable tv sundance channel tonight.. ------------------------------------------------------------.
one person is taking a consumer survey in a closed room and sees smoke coming in under the door- they immediately get up , leave and call for help.. the experiment is repeated with three people, two of them are paid to sit and have no response to the smoke coming in under the door.
the third person who is the test subject, fidgets, looks worried, and squirms as the smoke gets thicker.
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Where is the Love
by evetteto inugh...i dont know how to really start this,,,but i'm a christian and my husband was b4 our split in p1...however he returned home 3yrs ago on 12/17.
however he returned a jw wannabee, actually he studies with them he hasnt been baptized in the org...its so funny how i am picking up alot of the lingo here ev'1 uses...lol....anyway, i can see where his love is so conditional and i hv to remind him that god loves us "unconditionally".
i continue to give him the true word of god!!
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any suggestions on what I can say to him or not say?
Jesus helped the sick and needy, and told them of the kingdom, which was in the midst of them
Jws simply tell about their "kingdom to come, real soon, fair dinkum anytime now..." and have no charity to be seen. Jw charity is "blab blab blab blab blab goodbye" I think they're one of the few religious groups noted for not having charities.
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Make sure you bring up "this generation" (prophecied of in every Awake up until 1995 when they changed it because they were all near dead); preaching work to be "completed in our twentieth century" (changed in 1989 when becoming obvious it wasn't going to be); 1975 (say no more); and all the other dates and falsehood....prior to 1914 that date was supposed to be the end of the system, not the new "beginning of the end of the system with an invisible Jesus".
He'll probably say that they have "new light" now - just tell him all the rest of us will check out "even newer light" later on, so there's no reason for concern....or wasting time on only the current new light
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Did you consider
by A Paduan inwhen doing the 'preaching work' did you consider things such as '1975', 'this generation', the work that will be completed 'in the twentieth century', organ transplants, etc........yet marginalise discussion of this or anything else you grouped as "old light".
basically did you avoid discussion of or mentioning anything you knew was bunkum, while still preaching the wts ?.
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When doing the 'preaching work' did you consider things such as '1975', 'this generation', the work that will be completed 'in the twentieth century', organ transplants, etc........yet marginalise discussion of this or anything else you grouped as "old light"
Basically did you avoid discussion of or mentioning anything you knew was bunkum, while still preaching the wts ?
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What's in Watchtower Jan 1, 1989 page 12?
by pixel inhello everybody,
i'm doing a big investigation of what's in watchtower jan 1, 1989 page 12. in the bound volume paragraph 8 they change an expression.
i would like to see a scan, please, if anyone has it, of the original published magazine.
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It's just another false prophecy by a false prophet.
...and the coverup
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I wonder why they even bother speaking if it's going to change into "new light" later - oh, that's right; to trick potential converts
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Sunday's public talk about 1914 mentioned 586
by GBSJG inthe public talk of last sunday was about 1914, the last days and the prophecy of daniel.. so the speaker explains how we get to the 2520 years and that jerusalem fell in 607. but after that he must have talked about the 586 date for 5 minutes.
he said that some say the jerusalem fell in 586 instead of 607. but then you would not get to 1914 but 1934 and nothing special happened then.
then he says that jw have published convincing material about why the date must be 607 without mentioning what that material exactly is (he actually said this several times).
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But then you would not get to 1914 but 1934 and nothing special happened then.
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It's a wonder he didn't say. "Hang on, I'll just push a red hot poker into my brain..........there, that's better, now where was I"
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Does the WBT$ God "Jehovah" Exsist?
by OUTLAW inthe wbt$ caims to speak for god..a god that intends to exterminate eveyone except jehovah`s witness`s..a god that can`t make his mind up about what the truth is,or what his people the "jehovah`s witness`s" should preach..a god who`s organization the wbt$,is absolutly corrupt..a god who say`s exactly what the wbt$ tells him to say.....does the wbts god "jehovah" exsist?...outlaw
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Does the WBT$ God "Jehovah" Exsist?
Hmmmmm.................. No
It's an imaginary god (an image) - that is also like a beast that is like a man.
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If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.
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Wussie Henpecked Men will not Inherit the Kingdom
by gumby inhere's an oldie but goodie i thought you guys would get a kick out of........plus i felt like gettin all the ladies all riled up.
vindication i (book, 1931) pp.156-157 .
the women make monkeys or dupes of men.
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It's not a threat - it's a statement of fact - the effeminate of mind like jws fall into this description
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We call attention to a few slight changes which have been made in four pages of Vol. II. and six pages of Vol. III., "STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES." These are all trivial and do not alter the real sense and lesson,
what can one say
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 12-10-06 WT Study (SACRED THINGS)
by blondie inthis article will consider five things that are holy to all of god's servants.
(b) how do we hold jehovah's name as something holy?.
(matthew 20:28; hebrews 9: 14) we therefore hold jesus' blood as something sacred, "precious.
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The world in general pays less and less attention to sacred things. French sociologist Edgar Morin stated: "All the foundations upon which morals are based-God, nature, homeland, history, reason-have lost their unquestionable nature.... People pick and choose their values.
As per usual the c%@p begins in the opening comments - these statements are a plain contradiction
The fact that people pick and choose their values means that they ARE paying much more attention to what is sacred - TO THEM
The article is a lie - this first sentence corrected may be The world in general pays less and less attention to OUR sacred things
The 'watchtower' reeks of it
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Outer court? What in the world are you talking about? revelation 7:15
by icocer inhello, my coworker of 2 years is an active jw foot soldier.
me, never a jw, just a lurker on this site for 2 years.
i have thrown much at this guy but he allways comes back with something.
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I have thrown much at this guy but he allways comes back with something.
Have you tried this ?
-- For many many many years the wts emphatically proclaimed that "the generation of 1914" would not pass away - and then changed their prophecy - that is, once the description was passing the used by date, and before the said generation had near all died - plainly this fits the description of a false prophet - and it's not the only false prophecy -They Are A False Prophet