Fundamentalists are wacky, regardless of religious flavor. Any benign activity in life suddenly becomes fodder for promoting their particular brand of religious nuttery...
AndDontCallMeShirley
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How to traumatize your kids while baking cookies
by rebel8 inhttp://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-novel-way-to-traumatize-your-children.html.
well dubs may corner the market on messing with children's heads, but there are other contenders.. .
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local needs "are you spiritually grown up?"
by sylvlef inyesterday local needs was this theme.
are you spiritually grown up.. summary: if you are between 18-35 and not ms or elder, you lazy idiot are like a child.
at this age, especially if you grew up in "da trooooth" you have no issue with jw.org doctrine right (how do you know...?
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AndDontCallMeShirley
This goes right along with ToMo's (a.k.a. "Tony Too Tight Pants Human Hot Dog The Turd) recent comments at the "special" meeting: 'Has your family vacationed at Disneyland but haven't visited Bethel? SHAME ON YOU!'
'Sisters, are you interested in a brother who's not an M.S. ? SHAME ON YOU! If a brother is 23 years-old and NOT an M.S., there's something wrong with him.'
This tells you all you need to know about WT: they've got nothing to offer anyone, and the only way to keep JWs in the program is by threats, intimidation and fear. Pathetic.
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How could you justify that God killed all firstborn children in Egypt?
by Mr Fool inwas it necessary for god to kill all innocent firstborn children?
no other way out for the almighty god?.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
DD: By the way, don't forget to thank God for preserving all the flesh eating bacteria and brain eating amoeba's...
Thank you, GOD. You are awesome.
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Kingdom Hall Money Grab Was for Child Abuse Its Completely Clear
by thedepressedsoul inif youve followed the news lately there are more and more child abuse cases popping up.
one lawyer said he has over 28 cases in the pipeline that are going to be coming out soon.
on december 1 st a new one just popped up.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
Vidiot: What, they can't dip into their numbered accounts in the Caymans or Switzerland?
Shhhhhh, Vidiot! Those accounts don't exist. WT keeps that info. on the low low.
Those accounts are the GB's "Golden Parachute" when the fecal matter hits the air-moving device and they have to amscray off U.S. soil.
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Governing Body, Faithful Slave disconnect.
by prologos inwt doctrine now says that there was no faithful feeding slave at pentecost, in apostolic times, ---but there is now, since 1919. previously they taught there was always a slave feeding -sometimes unknown , but an unbroken, if sporadic lineage.. while the early, and later christians (in this doctrine) had no discreet slave, they had a governing body.
the tradition of a (wt) governing body is older then the idea of "feeding my sheep".. governance over care.. are they working on an unbroken if sporadic governance of the congregation too?
we still feel the reverberations, consequences of the talking snake too.. .
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AndDontCallMeShirley
A 1st century GB is a WT myth. But, if there was one it opens up a whole can of worms for WT. Where'd it go for 2,000 years if it's so critical to god's plan???
And why was there no GB even in WT's structure for most of its existence if a GB is critical to god's plan??
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NOT on JW.org: Huffington Post interview with Director of new movie about Jehovahs' Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
by Balaamsass2 indanielle tumminio become a fan .
episcopal priest, life coach, and author of 'god and harry potter at yale'.
email.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
"The Watchtower Society can benefit from a healthy dose of humility."
Funny. Irwin Zalkin came to the same conclusion in his dealings with WT.
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What are the Core Teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by cultBgone inrecently someone asked me to define what core teachings have such a hold on jdubs that they have trouble breaking free.
trying to single out the driving force that keeps them in the borg, this is what popped into my head:.
obviously there are lots and lots of wacky things the jdubs teach/believe/pretend to believe.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
They are united (all believe the same thing, do the same thing, say the same thing -religiously speaking)
WT brags about this point, but really, what choice does a JW have? A JW must believe everything the GB teaches without question and regardless of evidence to the contrary; dissent is dealt with swiftly and harshly. Rather than being a bragging point, it's actually one of the most embarrassing things about JWs- 7 million+ minds that have been switched off.
Christ's presence started invisibly in 1914.
Except that it was originally pronounced by WT to have happened in 1874 and preached thusly for almost 60 years. Except for that, yes, Jesus' presence began in 1914.
JWs are to be no part of the world.
Except for the whole UN/NGO thingy, Rutherford's sedition against the US Govt, his attempted alliance with Hitler, etc, etc. Other than these, and more, examples of blatantly currying favor with the world, yes, WT is "no part of the world".
Preaching house to house is a must for all christians that are able to.
Despite the fact that not one scripture says Christians preached from door-to-door, no commandment saying as much exists, and no record exists that Jesus ever did it.
Other than that, yes, it's a requirement for Christians.
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WT doesn't so much have "core" doctrines as it does doctrines du jour.
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How could you justify that God killed all firstborn children in Egypt?
by Mr Fool inwas it necessary for god to kill all innocent firstborn children?
no other way out for the almighty god?.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
I don't have any proof. But if an entity labeled God made the universe it would make sense that he was outside of it.
What if an entity called man invented god?
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Governing Body, Faithful Slave disconnect.
by prologos inwt doctrine now says that there was no faithful feeding slave at pentecost, in apostolic times, ---but there is now, since 1919. previously they taught there was always a slave feeding -sometimes unknown , but an unbroken, if sporadic lineage.. while the early, and later christians (in this doctrine) had no discreet slave, they had a governing body.
the tradition of a (wt) governing body is older then the idea of "feeding my sheep".. governance over care.. are they working on an unbroken if sporadic governance of the congregation too?
we still feel the reverberations, consequences of the talking snake too.. .
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AndDontCallMeShirley
It's a parody of a joke of a conundrum no matter how look at it.
Allegedly Jesus comes in the first century to establish truth and restore pure worship...then he dies and leaves his followers with nothing (no FDS) for the next 2,000 years. Epic fail.
Russell allegedly picks up the torch given him by Jehovah™ in 1876 as the modern FDS. WT recently pulled his FDS ranking and asked for their decoder ring back (post-mortem, of course. It's easier to bully a corpse).
According to WT, all anointed were the FDS. As of 2013, only the GB is the FDS. This is interesting because their has not always been a GB. Russell was an autocracy; Rutherfraud was a dictatorship. The GB didn't exist until late in WT history, and until recently, they had no clue they were the FDS. Hell, until the later 1970's the GB was simply window dressing for WT, as the Prez had all the power.
Ah, the world of WT....
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How could you justify that God killed all firstborn children in Egypt?
by Mr Fool inwas it necessary for god to kill all innocent firstborn children?
no other way out for the almighty god?.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
God is outside our universe.
He is outside the box.
So whether God had a begining or not outside the box is inconsequential.
God exist outside time. Time only exist in our universe with man.
I saw this episode of Star Trek also.
You know deep down that things don't come from nothing. We came from God...
Nope, sorry. You assume too much. Consider some of the cutting edge science in the world of physics. It is becoming more explainable how something CAN, and most likely did, come from nothing.
GOD is not a legitimate default to every mystery.
[edit]: I respect your right to believe what you want to believe, JB. It's just that some people need more than feel-good religious ideology/fantasy when it comes to life and important questions. I find the "god did it" default position empty as it answers nothing. It's the lazy way out of a good, deep thinking session.