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Blanket Judgements and other JW phenomenon
by LDH inmy mind was wandering last night and i started thinking about the way 'faithful' jws issue blanket condemnations.
i wondered if it's a personality thing that is just reinforced by the jw mantra of "we're always right and we're the only true religion etc.
" or if it's a jw or other fundy religious phenomenon.. here's two examples, feel free to add your own.. when i was about 17, i started visiting nyc regularly, and attending different congregations (wow!
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Does this help?
by openminded intoday our society raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad.
we are taught that we should all do what were told and that the people that are disobedient are almost always bad people.
society tells us this, but it is not true.
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Very very simple equation....
by JW72 inworld end 1975(and other dates)-not happen-false prophecy-steer clear of false prophets-steer clear of jws.. .
we shoulda had those kind of equations in math lessons, i would have definately understood (unlike most jws!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
man, i'm so tired o' bein' right!!!!.
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Manipulate through guilt
by Norm inone of the most important techniques in manipulating people is to get control of their guilt.. all totalistic movements, religious or political use this method.
few organizations are better then the watchtower society in mastering this.
the religious cults have the advantage over the political that they can use the ultimate authority, namely god.. a typical example of such manipulation can be found in the january 15, 1997 issue of the watchtower.
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Another Dumb "Awake" (6/08/01)
by metatron inyes, another dumb, deceptive, biased "awake" magazine.. on the subjects of health and aging, the awake is becoming.
more and more desperate.
science is threatening to create miracles.
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What if they did something useful?
by tergiversator ini posted this in response to a thread by nojw86 on h2o and thought i'd see what people here thought about it.... what if the witnesses did something useful for a change?.
just think what they could accomplish, if all the effort spent writing about antitypical fulfilments of obscure psalms was spent writing magazines to educate people about, say, health and sanitation.
if, instead of full-color books on dubious details of daniel's prophecies, they printed full-color textbooks on real history, science, literature, mathematics, etc., for distribution to areas where books aren't so easy to come by.
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Tipping Your Hat to a Woman is SATANIC
by JanH in*** w52 4/15 254-5 questions from readers ***.
"* is it proper for men to tip their hats to women?g.
s., missouri.
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Time to move on
by joelbear inwell most of its been fun guys and gals.. but i'm outta here.
i am much happier thinking about other things.
i just realized that as long as i keep coming here i am still a slave of the watchtower.. big farewell hugs.
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?