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  That's all there ever was to being a Jehovah's Witness

  by Terry in

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  jehovah's witnesses weren't jehovah's witnesses until 1931.until that year the people who had been hard-headed followers of end times false prophecies by william miller and seventh day adventists, more or less settled into following charisma-ballyhoo preaching by folks like "pastor" c.t.

  russell.what was it that attracts these people?

  it is a thin veneer of pious bible interpretation as a means of prepping for the end of the world.yep.

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  Wagering on fictional mythology to be true and factual is never a good bet or a idea.
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  the Mormon Church has $70,000,000,000

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/03/07/lds-church-discloses/.

  it turns out the lds church has about $38b in stocks and mutual funds from major companies such as apple, microsoft, amazon, walmart and others.

  they also have numerous dummy corporations to hold assests with a combined value of $32b.

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  The WTS always portrays that they run on a slim margin, in reality it doesn't when you combine all the attached corporations together .
  
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  the Mormon Church has $70,000,000,000

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/03/07/lds-church-discloses/.

  it turns out the lds church has about $38b in stocks and mutual funds from major companies such as apple, microsoft, amazon, walmart and others.

  they also have numerous dummy corporations to hold assests with a combined value of $32b.

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  Since they are based in the US they probably don't pay any tax on those investments.
  
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  Crocodile tears

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  assembly experiences.

  brother so and so gets sick goes to hospital, refuses blood, dies; leaving widow and orphans.

  then the experience continues--usual meals and such, then the bastards actually took the family door to door within a few days.

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  The WTS active machine is one of self supporting biased propaganda, particularly at Assemblies.

  Brother so and so gets sick goes to hospital, refuses blood, dies; leaving widow and orphans. " I am SO sorry "

  How about another happy event or circumstance ....

  Brother goes to hospital dearly sick, doctors recommend a blood transfusion, brother recovers and leaves the hospital healthy to return home where wife and children are happy and relieved father is home living, family continues on living happy and in love.

  Everyone involved including the doctors conducted themselves in a Christian way by helping to cure and tend the sick out love and respect, Jesus Christ's greatest commandment.
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  Governing Body

  by Acer21 in

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  What part of the JWS religion isn't a theological fraud ?

  It was a invention by men to empower those men
  
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  I met an Exorcist

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  i like to ride my bicycle to starbucks.

  when weather permits i sit on the patio and write in the sunshine.a pesky crow i call edgar usually arrives to beg (or steal).that's all you need to know before we begin._____________________.

  location exterior : the patio of starbuckstime: 11 amcast:lou : media / news analyst, religious fundamentalistterry: crow magnet and know-it-alledgar: spawn of satan________________.

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  I think you did an admirable job Terry of revealing some inconvenient truth about the JWS internal cover up of pedophilia within the JW organization.

  Funny how you smack a JWS with some uncomfortable truth they quickly leave and retort " Go to JWorg. "

  Brand loyalty is a paramount inquisition with JWS no matter what , well Jah is watching after all to see how loyal one is to his chosen organization.

  Elder: "I really don't think it's profitable to continue this line of questioning. I have to go now. If you have any other questions. . .

  I would have gone into the organization's dating of events which keep on getting changed (1874 -->>) and how this change is most likely relating to the organization's literature proliferation agenda.
  
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  Can we really talk about BEAUTY?

  by Terry in

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  can we really talk about beauty?

  (first, a necessary preamble.

  bear with me, please.

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  I think this article helps to explain what Terry is getting at .......

  
  Plato writes that the Form (or Idea) of the Good is the ultimate object of knowledge, although it is not knowledge itself, and from the Good, things that are just, gain their usefulness and value. Humans are compelled to pursue the good, but no one can hope to do this successfully without philosophical reasoning. According to Plato, true knowledge is conversant, not about those material objects and imperfect intelligences which we meet within our daily interactions with all mankind, but rather it investigates the nature of those purer and more perfect patterns which are the models after which all created beings are formed. Plato supposes these perfect types to exist from all eternity and calls them the Forms or Ideas.[2] As these Forms cannot be perceived by human senses, whatever knowledge we attain of the Forms must be seen through the mind's eye (cf. Parmenides 132a), while ideas derived from the concrete world of flux are ultimately unsatisfactory and uncertain (see the Theaetetus). He maintains that degree of skepticism which denies all permanent authority to the evidence of sense. In essence, Plato suggests that justice, truth, equality, beauty, and many others ultimately derive from the Form of the Good.
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  2020 March Announcements And Reminders!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just in case anyone needed this.. 2020-march-announcements and reminders.

  https://docdro.id/pfczjnr.

  petra.

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  Organized corruption of an organization that full of lies and corruption.

  Complete and functioning with its own corrupt lawyers
  
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  Interesting piece about Stephen Lett and family: property developers

  by Diogenesister in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  another very well researched programme by the blue envelope exploring stephen lett's bio and his family interest in property.

  interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the gulf coast.

  once again, highly recommended veiwing.. https://youtu.be/9qh0jbvsdrc.

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  So what we can take from this is that its no wonder Lett knew the value of property investing from the many sales and purchases the WTS made. $$$

  Promote a vow of poverty to all others who are closely under him in the organization but make some lucrative investments behind closed doors.

  Those sneaky GB members

  It makes me wonder if JWS even know what the word hypocrite is ???
  
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  I met an Exorcist

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i like to ride my bicycle to starbucks.

  when weather permits i sit on the patio and write in the sunshine.a pesky crow i call edgar usually arrives to beg (or steal).that's all you need to know before we begin._____________________.

  location exterior : the patio of starbuckstime: 11 amcast:lou : media / news analyst, religious fundamentalistterry: crow magnet and know-it-alledgar: spawn of satan________________.

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  Funny stuff , ask a spiritualist to define what is a spirit and they all get a tither.