GREAT QUOTES viewed with JW's in mind
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• Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. —Benjamin Franklin
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Jehovah’s witnesses stop growing, improving, learning when they accept the Watchtower’s misnamed ‘Truth.’ Lost souls waiting at a bus stop for a bus that never comes; all the great things they could have done, people they could have helped, productive lives they could have led are suffocated by standing there waiting for Armageddon to solve every problem for them.
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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
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Jehovah’s Witnesses beam with satisfaction when they tell you, “All of us agree on everything.” Individuality shriveled and fell off like the carapace of a locust.
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• When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Nietzsche
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JW’s spend every waking moment staring at the end of the world as though it were a puppy in a pet shop window eager for a home.
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• Don’t let schooling interfere with your education-Mark Twain
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The Governing body would add, “Don’t let education interfere with your indoctrination.”
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• Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde
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The householder awakened by the doorbell on Sunday morning would agree.
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• I destroy an enemy by making him into my friend — Abraham Lincoln
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JW’s don’t bother making friends by exercising kindness. They ‘mark the foreheads’ of 'goats' and imagine they’ve doomed a sinner at Armageddon.
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• Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. — Tryon Edwards
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JW’s begin with a delusion: they are automatically right. They don’t listen when others speak, they plot the next refutation.
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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
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The instrument of destruction of the human mind lies in the magazines, Watchtower & Awake!
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• The most dangerous man is the man able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the authority he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. ― HL Mencken
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And that, my fellow Apostates, is US!
GREAT QUOTES, but filtered to include Jehovah's Witnesses
by Terry 6 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Terry
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Oubliette
Great collection of quotes relevant to JWs and more importantly ex-JWs!
Thanks!!!
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looter
"JW’s begin with a delusion: they are automatically right."
Yes! That is why it is so hard to actually tell them anything about their organization. They are not open-minded.
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breakfast of champions
Great list!
I think you could fit this one in there as well:
"We are what we pretend to be" - Kurt Vonnegut
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adjusted knowledge
I loved Benjamin Franklin's and Samuel Clemen's wit. They both have savy quotes.
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Hidden-Window
Great selection. Nietzsche and Wilde always seem to be right. I discovered Nietzsche while I was a Ministerial Servant and kept reading his books while an Elder. He is one of my favorite authors. As a Jehovah's Witness, you start your path to freedom when you realize that no one should limit what you read or watch privately. Your quotes and great comments remind me of how fearful many Jehovah's Witnesses are of philosophical ideas, or ideas in general unless they can find them in literature from the Watch Tower.
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eyeuse2badub
Terry,
Great list!
A quote that I picked up on another "apostate" site; "I'd rather live with questions that can't be answered----than answers that can't be questioned!"
just saying!
eyeuse2badub