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  Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

  by John Aquila in

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  last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

  "when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

  when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

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  cantleave

  There's only so much I could take learning the the semantics between pornea, indecency and brazen conduct.

  Ha ha, you just reminded me, I was so serious about those details back then, and after we got back home, the whole elder body would conjure up different scenarios to see if we all understood the difference between those terms. Now that I look back I just shake my head at how young and stupid I was.

  We even had a judicial hearing with a sister whose husband went to a worldly bar and had a girl dancer - dance on his lap. We judged it as fornication because the dancer's genitals touched his lap and we gave her permission to divorce him scriptural. Can you believe a bunch of elders in their 20s giving an older woman permission to divorce her husband.
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  Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

  "when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

  when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

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  cantleave

  
  

  It's not in the written text, we were told to write notes and instructions on the sides of the pages. And make sure no one in our families saw the book or our notes.

  
  

  Little did I realize it was indoctrination at its finest.
  
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  Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

  "when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

  when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

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  John Aquila

  Last night I was looking over the notes on my old elder’s book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.
  

  "When you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told."

  When I went back to school, I learned this quote in one of my world history classes.

  If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Now you know why they keep explaining the “Overlapping Generation” over and over and over?
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  New light!, says JW-Archive. The inspired word can have mistranslations, says Dec 2015 WT

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sorry, i know i posted this earlier but i believe the title did not gather enough attention.

  i think is a topic worth discussing.. http://www.jw-archive.org/post/127866869178/new-light-the-inspired-word-of-god-can.

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  Crazyguyo

  There's older watchtowers that say the same thing that the translaters were not inspired. This religion is such a joke.

  
  Here's one I always use with the JWs when I feel like freaking out someone and getting a laugh for the day. It always works, they totally lose it for a while.
  
  *** w96 4/15 p. 19 Why True Worship Receives God’s Blessing ***
  Bible translations themselves are not inspired by God. Translations, by their very nature, may reflect variations of the understanding of the original tongues in which the Bible was recorded.
  
  
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  I never realized how boring I was.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

  thats what happened this morning.

  i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

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  Vidiot 35 minutes ago

  The JWs I knew always said I was interesting.

  But then, look where I ended up.

  Welcome Vidiot to the site where all the boring people post.

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  The folly of Watchtower's theodicy. Or, why would an all-powerful and all-wise God need to justify his sovereignty through suffering?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower says that evil and suffering exist at present to vindicate jehovah as being the only one qualified to govern; to bear witness to man's inability to govern himself independent of god and under satan's direction.

  the claim is made that the questions raised by satan regarding god's motives as universal sovereign can only be answered by allowing humans to see the evil and suffering that results when man lives independent of god's protection and direction.. watchtower and jws seem to think that this is the best theodicy in the world.

  but there are some serious flaws in it.. 1. such a theodicy suggests that all perfect and intelligent creation, up until the advent of adam and eve, did not know god and his ways well enough to be confident that his motives as universal sovereign are pure.

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  stuffwotifink 29 minutes ago

  It always got me that after all this suffering and woe... After mankind Finally understands and can see how much we need god to rule over everything for us... Once the point is made for all time, never to be questioned by mankind again...

  You forgot to mention what will happen after the 1000 year reign of Christ.

  Another freaking test!

  And to top it all off, the WT says the lake of fire will always exist for any dissenters who get tired of living in paradise and want to have sex. Remember those that are resurrected can not have sex, they can only look and wish. Anything more than looking and wishing, even just a small "touch" and into the lake of fire you go.
  
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  BAD NEWS: We'll be dealing with Watchtower far into the future

  by Zoos in

  1. social
  2. humour

  fortunately there will still be people waking up to the scam.. .

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  Apostates from sector 7 to the rescue.....

  
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  I never realized how boring I was.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

  thats what happened this morning.

  i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

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  John Aquila

  Sabin

  Bastards!

  Yea I feel like saying that too.

  Bastards!
  
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  I never realized how boring I was.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

  thats what happened this morning.

  i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

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  John Aquila

  LisaRose

  I knew a person that was proud of the fact that the only thing they ever read was the Watchtower and Awake. I could not relate to that as I am a lifelong reader and interested in many things,

  Yea, I understand, I'm at that point now where I read anything I can get my hands on. On the other side of the spectrum, I can't stand to read even one sentence of WT publications. They disgust me.
  
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  I never realized how boring I was.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a true believer in the watchtower, i never knew how truly boring i was until being out for a couple of years and then sitting down with a group of jws and having a conversation..

  thats what happened this morning.

  i decided to go have breakfast at mcdonalds and a group of jws who were out in service and know me also stopped for breakfast and sat down with me and we talked for about an hour.

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  Sabin

  For others it`s self-righteousnes

  I believe that describes a lot of people in the WT organization. Most just can't see it though, and the ones that finally do and can't take it anymore, are posting on this site-LOL!