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May 22, 1969 Awake! promises "you will never grow old" - Creative Writing

by Mad Sweeney in

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the year is 1969. faithful followers of the watchtower society are gearing up for the imminent end of the system of things just as they had been for the previous ninety years.

a young witness named andrew is trying to decide what to do with his life.

andrew is a smart kid and he has an entire lifetime ahead of him.

How to question their beliefs

by Scarlouie in

i questioned my mom today about beth sarim.

she of course had never heard of it, even after 40 years as a jw.

neither of my sisters have every heard of the 1976 predictions either, they are both born in with elders as husbands.

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When you hear the term, "NEW LIGHT", you will forget about "OLD LIGHT"

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Jehovah, a Just God ?

by wobble in

on what basis could a god whose main attribute is justice (coupled with love) ever bring about something like armageddon, let alone bring it soon ?.

PublishingCult

Asking these sorts of questions about God is like presupposing scenarios that involve or

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How to think straight. Useful resource IMO.

by Open mind in

the watchtower, on rare occasions, pays lip service to the importance of good critical thinking skills.

most born-in jws probably think they have decent "perceptive powers", i know i did.

i got good grades in school.

Jehovah, a Just God ?

by wobble in

on what basis could a god whose main attribute is justice (coupled with love) ever bring about something like armageddon, let alone bring it soon ?.

PublishingCult

On what basis could a God whose main attribute is Justice (coupled with Love) EVER bring about something like Armageddon, let alone bring it soon ?

God, Armageddon, cosmic justice, sin, faith . . . all man-made concepts.

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So much for being Christian

by MrFreeze in

so, i found out a friend of mines cousin overdosed on drugs the other.

its absolutely awful.

i got a text from my mom this morning that said her friend who lives across the street from them said they had an overdose across the street.

Oh, how JW's devour with glee the tragedy and grief of all those who do not peddle WT publications at every opportunity. They point their hypocritical fingers at those outside the organization and just the same say, "aha! See what happens when you are not one of Jehovah's Witnesses?!?!?"

I remember a JW kid, Jeff Hardrick, who took a gun and blew his own head off up in his bedroom to escape the pressure, guilt, and abuse from his JW mother and stepfather.

I remember a JW kid, David Something . . . who drove his car out to the desert, ran a hose from exhaust pipe to window crack to escape this kind of abuse from his JW parents.

I remember Ron Raceler, a young JW, just made ministerial servant, newly engaged, who left the Kingdom Hall one night, drove down the road to a high bridge, and jumped to his death. His worldly father found him at the bottom of the rocky ravine.

Suicide: It isn't just for worldly people under Satan's influence anymore

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does this hall in victoria bc mean that many have to travel

by therevealer in

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friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e43jtb84gq.

PublishingCult

Flat panel tv's in the new KH? SUHWEET! The most likely reason for this is to catch football and baseball highlights during the WT study

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Morality, Justice, and the Christian Loophole for Pedophiles

by PublishingCult in

i listened to the content of this vid, and it reminded me of the way in which the wtbts deals with pedophiles amond their ranks.. matt dillahunty tells it like it is..

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I liked this so much I typed out a manuscript of this audio clip.

TRANSCRIPT of AUDIO

So backtracking, because I don’t want to miss out on this, what she wrote was: “I don’t want to live in a world where those with power enforce their evil intent on the masses and not face any type of consequence. Without God, people can easily escape human justice. I can’t buy into that”. She also made this point about, um, you realize, because someone mentioned pedophile priests and she’s like “You realize yes, pedophiles are immoral but there are pedophiles that escape from human justice and therefore it’s good to know that God’s justice is eventually going to get them”. And this becomes the basis of why she believes.

And so here is my response and I’ll just read it . . .

The kind of world you want to live in has no bearing on what kind of world you do live in. If this is your principal objection to world views that don’t include some cosmic justice in them, if you’ll forgive the condescending remark, you really don’t understand what you’re talking about. Life isn’t fair, and the desire for justice that you express is one of the key foundations of most every religion. We’re all aware that sometimes good goes unrewarded and evil goes unpunished.

And so, some justice seekers invented a security blanket to ensure they aren’t mired in depression. It allows them to avoid facing the harshness of an indifferent reality. Whether its heaven and hell, or karma dictating infinite rebirths, it serves the same purpose. Some of us actually prefer to face reality. Some of us realize that there is not good reason to believe that the universe is anything other than indifferent to our existence and our perceptions of good and evil. Some of us realize that dealing with reality on reality’s terms is the only real way to make any real improvement in the situation.

Life isn’t fair. And that’s actually comforting if you think about it. If life were fair, that would imply that you actually deserve the bad things that happen to you and those that benefit from evil deeds are similarly deserving. The realization that there is no reason to expect justice is what ensures that we take steps to impose justice. The realization that good isn’t always rewarded is what drives us to reward it when we see it. The realization that evil isn’t always punished is what drives us to work together as a cooperative society to deal with our problems collectively and individually in a way that encourages real change, and that hopefully minimizes harmful actions.

Realizing that justice isn’t guaranteed allows us to appreciate it when it happens and work towards ensuring it on a more regular basis. Your particular God concept view of justice represents the height of irresponsibility and injustice. Your chosen religion has us born as reprobates, guilty before we have taken a single breath. Responsible for things we’ve never done. It offers instant undeserved forgiveness for the most horrible of crimes and punishes people whose only crime is disbelief . . . forever. It advocates slavery, denigrates women, curses homosexuals, orders the stoning of unruly children, sanctions wars of exterminations, condones human sacrifice, and poisons every mind it touches. It includes only one unforgivable crime – disbelief. Is that just? This justice you so admire does no such thing. It is divine edict, arbitrary, capricious, and ultimately unjust and immoral.

Yes, I realize that there are pedophiles out there who have escaped our flawed justice system. Do you realize that your system says that they’re all still eligible for an eternal paradise? How does that address your objection? Under the rules of Christianity, the pedophile who escapes justice here can also escape your ultimate justice. Under the rules of Christianity, he may live forever in paradise while someone who spent their entire life doing good, helping others, and contributing in a generally positive way to the one and only life we are sure to get, ultimately is judged unworthy of that reward.

Don’t kid yourself, you haven’t accepted a cosmic sense of justice that alleviates the problem, you’ve accepted one that you believe alleviates the problem, for YOU. It is a selfish justification that shows no regard for real matters of justice. It is the height of arrogance and your desire to feel special because somebody up there thinks you‘re special.

According to the paradigm you advocate, He thinks ANYONE willing to worship him is special with no regard to justice or character. Go read Romans. No one makes this point clearer than Paul. The law was established with full knowledge that no one would be able to fulfill it. It was established to demonstrate this inability and damn us further, and then a loophole was established to let some people through regardless of their standing with the law. Your religion has made you a slave. It has made you uncaring. It has made you support immorality and injustice while claiming that arbitrary edicts and loopholes count as either. It is a reprehensible lie that poisons the mind and prevents you from understanding reality. When the scales drop away from your eyes, as they have for many of us, we’ll be here. And you’ll realize you are not alone, and not to blame. - Matt Dillahunty

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Bully Gets A Reality Check

by PublishingCult in

jw
friends

school in australia.

subway.

not taking this shit anymore.

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School in Australia

Subway

Not taking this shit anymore