There's a comments section at the bottom of the article. So far all the comments are supportive of the mother's actions and express disapproval of her husband and the religion. It would be interesting to see what JW apologists would eventually have to say. Right now JWs look very much like the heartless pharisees that condemned Jesus for healing on the sabbath. They still have not learned what Jesus told the pharisees to go learn: "I want mercy and not sacrifice".
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This Story Says It All
by Lee Elder inthis story shows the sad reality of being a jw in a medical emergency, and how incredibly difficult it is to make an informed, free choice about medical care.
it also shows that for jw's, obeying watchtower leaders is more important than marriage or even the life of your child.
very sad indeed: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/267054/religious-husband-dumped-saving-child/ .
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Song 63 - They're Watchtower's Witnesses.
by Island Man in1. they've made gods of flesh and bone, also gods of wood and stone.give them all loyalty, their own blood disown.shackled minds just cannot seethat it's pure idolatry.why, witnesses deserve such disdain!since few will use their god-damn brain!.
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they're watchtower's witnesses.they parrot such foolishness.theirs is the god of false prophecy;lies he foretells constantly.. .
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1. They've made gods of flesh and bone,
also gods of wood and stone.
Give them all loyalty,
their own blood disown.
Shackled minds just cannot see
that it's pure idolatry.
Why, Witnesses deserve such disdain!
Since few will use their god-damn brain!(CHORUS)
They're Watchtower's Witnesses.
They parrot such foolishness.
Theirs is the god of false prophecy;
Lies he foretells constantly.2. Proudly they declare God's name,
while by conduct, it defame.
News about their problems -
" 'postate lies!" they claim.
We help others come to see
How The Truth they cannot be.
As we grow strong, our voices we'll raise,
until they end their wicked ways.(CHORUS)
They're Watchtower's Witnesses.
They parrot such foolishness.
Theirs is the god of false prophecy;
Lies he foretells constantly.3. Witnesses defame God's name,
Heap on it reproach and shame.
They conceal the wicked;
their victims they blame.
par'dise they hold out to men,
if they spurn blood to their end.
Watchtower slavery ends joy and peace;
They shun all who ask for release.(CHORUS)
They're Watchtower's Witnesses.
They parrot such foolishness.
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On the Subject of Demons, I Have a Story to Tell.
by snugglebunny ini have posted the full story on a fb site.
so my apologies to anyone who's already read it.
some of what i've written is what was told to me by my father.
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Chook: I've never seen or experienced anything demonic, but I still can't work out what moves a ouja board.
It's the participants that move the board by a process called the ideomotor effect.
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Subliminal images - why and who are the individuals behind it?
by UnshackleTheChains ini remember about 5 years ago reading on another site about subliminal images in wt literature.
i honestly thought it a load of bs until i checked out one glaringly obvious image of a creepy skull in clouds within the knowledge book.
i was shocked and even showed my wife at the time who thought it was creepy.. so my question is why?
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Island Man
Most cited cases of subliminal images is nothing but pareidolia. I have noticed a few weird images in the Live forever book. But these images are actual images and not subliminal. I think they were probably done as a joke/prank by some member[s] in Watchtower's art dept.
What I see some doing by taking mirrors and aligning it unto Watchtower artwork to look for demonic faces is total rubbish! Take any publication with artwork and scrutinize it meticulously and you're bound to see images of faces and other creepy things due to confirmation bias and pareidolia.
Lastly, this notion that subliminal images have some kind of power over our minds to get us to do things has been long studied and shown to be blown greatly out of proportion at best and total pseudoscience, at worst. Subliminal images are useless for any purpose other than artistic fun.
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Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?
by LoveUniHateExams injust thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.
mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.
the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.
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Not in any particular order:
I am legend.
War of the Worlds (the newer one with Tom Cruise)
The Matrix
The Mist
Dawn of the dead
Over the hedge
Ice age
Valerian and the city of 1000 planets.
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom.
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There is no Holy Spirit.
by hoser inthere is no holy spirit.
i lead a double life.
i post on apostate web sites, swear like a sailor, covertly subvert the watchtower religion and do many other things i'd rather not mention.
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"There is no holy spirit"
I figured as much when I read that holy spirit helps God's servants to remember things and I noticed that speakers on the platform would regularly forget the names of persons in the audience with whom they've interacted with multiple times a week for years! Speakers' brains wouldn't be so taxed to the point of failing if they had the help of holy spirit.
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Bible pssssges that are immoral - Lot offering his virgin daughters to be gang raped by homosexual males
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tell me me more about your just & loving god..
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Jay Hoover hardening Pharoah's heart so he wouldn't release the Israelites so that Jay Hoover would have an excuse to kill thousands of innocent first born children of the Egyptians so that Jay Hoover could make a celebrated name for himself. Isn't Jay Hoover just the epitome of self-less love and compassion?
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Some prayers really annoy me
by stillin ini realize that prayer is a really personal thing, but representing a group in prayer has become so full of cliche's that i just want to vomit sometimes.
co week almost every prayer has the phrase "special week of activity" in it.. then there's "please look after the sick and afflicted.".
not so much anymore, "please bless this food and the hands that prepared it.".
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The prayer where the brother systematically reviews the various parts on the meeting - because he wants to make sure that those vital meeting points sink into Jehovah's head. I mean, it's not like he'd be abusing the privilege of speaking to the sovereign of the multiverse to do a meeting review with the audience, right?
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Today's Watchtower Study 25 June " Do You Share Jehovah's Sense of Justice?" April 2017 issue
by BluesBrother insame theme scripture as last week deut 32.
3/4 "a god... who is never unjust".
do i share that spirit ?
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How many JWs would have spotted the glaring contradiction between what the bible actually says and Watchtower's claim that Jehovah does not punish the sons for the sins of the father?
Just last week they were spinning a scripture in Ezekiel to say that God never punishes the future generations for the sins of the wicked. But some of the scriptures cited in this week's Watchtower study shows Jehovah clearly and explicitly talking about bringing calamity on Ahab's future generation for his sin.
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Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had Your Way?
by minimus ini still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.
what about you?.
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It is never the wise course to single out a particular cult for banning. Doing so only causes the govt. to fall into their persecution narrative. I think this is the best approach for dealing with cults:
(1) Outlaw harmful practices, giving no exemptions on grounds of religious freedom. Examples: Make it criminal for any parent to refuse their child life-saving medical treatment in the absence of readily available effective alternatives. Make it criminal for any person in authority - corporate, religious or otherwise - to teach subordinates to refuse medical treatment to the death. Make it a hate crime for any authority to teach subordinates to shun any group of people whether by race, religion, organization membership ... whatever. Freedom of religion stops where it can be demonstrated that their practices are harmful physically or psychologically - without any exceptions. No special privileges in the name of religion!
(2) Make it illegal for any organization - religious or otherwise - to have secret policies or secret rules that only a few at the top are privileged to see. All rules, guidelines, policies, etc that govern the operations of an organization must be publicly accessible. The only exceptions would be for confidential data about rank and file members and information related to physical security measures to deter theft and physical attack, etc. The only organizations that want to have secret rules are those that are intent on engaging in unethical or illegal practices.
(3) Educate the population on critical thinking - from primary school to university. Make it as important as Math! Make this education mandatory in all schools! Avoiding this education by homeschooling is not an option! Also, educate the population about the deceitful and harmful actions of cults - without naming any one. Make this a rigorous, ongoing education campaign. This will essentially inoculate the public against cult indoctrination.
In other words, employ legal measures to make it very difficult for cults to function and grow as cults, thus forcing them to abandon their cult traits or risk the leaders and those enforcing cult traits being arrested for criminal behavior.