Topics Started by Essan

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Challenge to DJeggnog Regarding his Lies.
by Essan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm disgusted.

so, i'm formally challenging djeggnog to either substantiate or retract his outrageous claim that:.

1. russell made no predictions about 1914.. 2. specifically, russell never predicted christ's "coming" for 1914.
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Maximum Damage to the WT.
by Essan in
1. forum
2. tech-support
i have to hand it to the society.

they understand the power of organization.

they demonstrate that no matter how ridiculous your message and how much the facts don't support your position you can still accomplish a lot if you are organized.
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Jehovah deserves to die - according to his own Law.
by Essan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yup, that's right.. if we apply the principle from god's own law at deuteronomy 22:8, that is.. .

"when you build a new house, you must build a railing around the edge of its flat roof.

that way you will not be considered guilty of murder if someone falls from the roof.
42
Would you pose as an "interested one" and "study" to help free my family?
by Essan in
1. jw
2. experiences
...in return for someone else doing the same with your friends or family?.

this is a hypothetical question to see how many would be interested in something like this and if it could work.

(i created another thread about this but the title and op wasn't clear enough.
40
The fundamental flaw with the WTBTS as "God's Organization"?
by Essan in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
there are countless issues that people have with the society and which together have led to many people realizing that it is not what it claims and pretends to be.

these include things like the secret un affiliation, contradictory and hypocritical stances, (malawi vs mexico vs un/ngo), the ever changing blood policy and ever changing doctrine, failed predictions for armageddon etc, etc, etc.. but what is the consensus about what the fundamental flaw is?.

what i mean is, many jw's hear about these various issues and manage to make endless excuses for them, even though this involves gross hypocrisy and excusing the society for things they would never excuse in other religions and which the society itself has ruthless condemned other religions for over almost 100 years.
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Strategizing against the WTBTS
by Essan in
1. jw
2. experiences
could we be doing more brothers and sisters?

i'm sure i'm not alone in wishing that there was more we could do to hasten the demise of the wtbts and to speed up the exodus of it's members.

and i'm sure i'm not alone in thinking of possible ways to do this.. one which i have been considering lately is to make use of the fact that many who leave the organization actually leave the area, move away, and start a new life.
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Inappropriate - Sick - WT & Awake articles over the years.
by Essan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i remember as a kid reading an article - not sure if watchtower or awake - which terrified the life out of me!

i remember thinking at the time "ok, this may be true, but i'm just a kid, i shouldn't be reading this!".

some of the details remain imprinted on my mind decades later.
33
What's the thinking behind calling yourself 'Apostate'?
by Essan in
1. social
2. entertainment
seems to me that we're playing into the society's hands here.. 'apostate' is the most evil and vile word for jw's.

i suspect it's even more of a terrifying trigger word than 'satan' or "demons", for them.. the society gives us that label which they have negatively loaded in order to make it impossible for jw's to hear us or have anything to do with us.

the word is associated with other words like "poison" and "toxic", "disease" and "filth".. so what sense does it make to use it and allow the society to have it's way?.
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Most recent Society lies about 1914?
by Essan in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
as i'm sure we all know, the society has lied repeatedly in the past about what they preached regarding 1914 in the run up to that year, claiming that what was preached was that jesus was to become king in that year and his presence was to begin then etc, when in fact they were preaching that all this had already happened in 1874 and that the end of the world would come in 1914.. .

but does anyone know if they have repeated this lie about what they supposedly preached recently?

when was the last time they claimed this?
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UN & NGO - PRO-WT Apologetics is TOP HIT on Google search!
by Essan in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i typed in 'watchtower ngo' into google search the other day and was shocked to see that the top result was for a pro-wtbts site called 'jehovahsjudgement'.

i'm very disappointed by this because it means that one of the first sites jw's searching for the truth about the society's involvement with the un are going to come across is this deceitful apologetics page which tries to make it seem like the society affiliating with the un is no big deal and perfectly acceptable!.

this pro-wtbts site is successfully debunked by a response site - http://jehovahsjudgmentexposed.blogspot.com/ - which takes apart their excuses and manipulative deceptions fairly expertly, but still, this site doesn't appear when you do a google search and i had to look really hard to find it.