Posts by Ding

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Dropped my family off at the thought control assembly 🙄

by UnshackleTheChains in

well that's my family dropped off at the assembly for their mind control charge up.

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from what my 2 sisters (non witnesses) in ireland said about my mother (pioneer) after her assembly, was that she seemed to more fanatical and that they couldn't change the subject as obsessed with the end etc.. i hope their mind control coercive talks don't have too much impact on my family.

Ding

Assemblies psych people up for a couple of months and then everything gets back to normal.

Sometimes assembly talks even wake people up, such as when they announce "new light" that contradicts what the WT has been teaching for years.

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The day G. presented a talk about the tricks of Rutherford

by Gorbatchov in

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today i rememberd the evening i presented a talk at the kh school from the proclamers book.

it was about the conflicts of rutherford.

i decided to speak the truth about the ugly tricks of this president.

Ding

"Mr. Gorbatchov, tear down this Hall !!!"

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How can the New World Translation be the ''finest Bible translation'' without containing any errors?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

here is a photo and article where the governing body claims that the new world bible translation committee and jehovah's ''spirit-begotten sons'' wrote the finest bible translation available to mankind.

the watchtower—study edition | february 2017.

“who really is the faithful and discreet slave?”.

Ding

The NWT is the "finest" in terms of supporting WT interpretations and dogma.

Even so, there are places where it doesn't do so well at that.

John 1:3 is an example: "All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence."

That certainly seems to support the conclusion that Jesus is God.

I don't know why they didn't add in a couple of "others" into this text (which aren't there in the Greek) like they did in Colossians 1:16-17 to avoid this "problem."

Colossians 1:16-17 (NWT): "because by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through him and for him. Also, he is before all other things, and by means of him all other things were made to exist..."

I thought sure they would make this change in John 1:3 in the 2013 NWT edition because a lot of critics have commented on it, but they didn't...

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How old is old?

by joey jojo in

having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

Ding

134.

Now that generations overlap, so do years.

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Jehovah's house for Sale?

by JohnTron72 in

when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

Ding

Remember the most important commandment of the WT religion: Never question anything the "faithful and discreet slave" says or does or you are engaging in "apostate thinking."

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"Do Religions Today Feed or Fleece The Flock?" March 22, 1988

by days of future passed in

i pulled this magazine out of a box of "never placed and never will be" from the 1980's and 90's.

of course it is hypocritical (like most articles) but especially now since the jw religion has their own channel.. it is an article about tele evangelists - the four prominent ones.

it takes up 3 1/2 pages and it is full of the misdeeds and greed of these preachers.