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  How about having a special undercover mode so PIMOs can browse the site with greater security?

  by Island Man in

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  when you visit the site it says jehovahs-witness big and bold.

  a pimo might be browsing the site and a jw might come up behind him unexpectedly and notice he's visiting a site about jws other than jw.org, which can lead to the pimo reported for viewing apostate information.. to help remedy this risk, i was thinking about the possibility of having a button that activates an undercover mode where the title of the site is not prominently displayed so it's not easily apparent to an accidental eavesdropper that it's an apostate website.

  also, the color-scheme and graphics can be different so that it doesn't look like the regular site.

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  @LevelThePlayingField Kiss-ass.
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  GDPR Congregation Record of Processing Activities

  by Fay Dehr in

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  gdpr congregation record of processing activities: https://1drv.ms/f/s!amcrvjcxi6m6gx7oc1gksxolaeae.

  ...and associated files.... .

  letter to boe dated january 6, 2017: https://1drv.ms/b/s!amcrvjcxi6m6gxyqlciog-dt815_.

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  I read @stuckinarut2's "polite and formal" letter. It left me quaking in my non-meeting shoes. May Jehovah have mercy on their souls.
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  Bible comes alive if we look for meaning behind the symbols it uses

  by Ireneus in

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  2. bible

  bible contains too much human thinking presented as though from god, thus much of its information brings dishonor to god.. yet it contains great beneficial truths behind the symbols it uses.

  let us take the only two cases of miracles jesus performed without any request from anybody which would show the very purpose of his ministry:.

  1) jesus healed a woman who “was bent over and could not straighten up at all.” (luke 13:11-13).

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  @Ireneous: "When I was born on earth, it was like I was entering a super luxurious hotel room filled with everything I need taking care of all my possible tastes...".

  But @Ireneous, what about those who were born in the more stricken parts of the globe? With that line of reasoning, they could definitively argue that God does NOT exist.

  I don't know... I've read your stuff before. Surely you have more conclusive reasons that aren't subject to geographic variables?

  Even the earth as a whole - our galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy. And whether our globe burns out from the sun exhausting its supply of hydrogen (as billions of stars have in the past), or we perish upon impact with Andromeda first - where will that leave this five star Chateau Marmont you speak of?
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  The false prophet strikes again! Didn't anyone notice?

  by nowwhat? in

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  last year during the closing talk our favorite anthony morris lll in all his glory declared" armageddon is imminent!

  " on the broadcast screen at every regional convention world wide!

  well it has been a year now and if you look at the definition of imminent , we are well past the expiration date..

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  It's not right to say something is imminent when you admittedly have no clue of the "time or the hour". Would it be moral to tell people that the cure for cancer is about to be released by scientists imminently? How do you think those people will view you in, say five or ten years when their sick loved ones have perished from the disease and there's no release of said cure? Is it moral to be telling people for another century that this cure is still imminent? Is your claim justified by saying, "well, we're closer now to the cure than we were last century - that's for sure!" You don't have the right to preach imminence of the cure for cancer when, like Armageddon, you haven't the damnedest idea when it will happen. That's called dishonesty.
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  Why the term "waking up?"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  is the term "waking up" the best way to describe when a jdub starts to have doubts?

  to me, it is rather that a jdub realizes that what they have believed for years was a pack of lies and then they have to make a conscious decision if they want to continue to believe in lies or stop being a jdub or just go along for the ride.. it just amazes me how many die-hard jdubs there are despite every failed prophecy about the end coming, the borg being a part of the dreaded wild best united nations, the put down of women in the borg, the massive cover-up of the child abuse in the borg, the willingness to let a child die because they need blood, and the eagerness to shun a child who at the age of 10 got dunked to make mommy and daddy happy only to not want to be a jdub later and have the parents treat them like they are dead because 8 overweight, balding, goofy looking, incoherent men in upper state new york say that are the rules for being a christain.. jehovah's witnesses are a very sad cult that attracts people with emotional, psychological, or medical issues, have very large egos, can't make simple decisions, and believe in the tooth fairy..

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  It's called waking up because the whole thing was a nightmare.
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses selfish??

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  is the average jehovah's witness selfish and self-centred?.

  i know, i know...many will object and say "no - preaching is the most selfless thing a jw can do.

  it saves others lives...".

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  The whole Jehovah's Witness organization by its own policies is selfish. It's a self-serving corporation, only caring for its own (scarcely, at that) and sapping up outside resources in a non-reciprocal fashion. Users and abusers.
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  Strange conundrum

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  i just had a thought inspired by @newboy's recent post:.

  why is it that despite the watchtower corporation being arguably the biggest publishing house in history, having produced billions of tracts, brochures, magazines, books for o very 100 years, and having the largest army of volunteer publicity agents on the planet, that 99% of the population is still clueless as to what their message is all about?.

  if you ask random people what jw's beleive you will rarely get the so-called "good news": gods kingdom is going to soon usher in a paradise earth and fix all the worlds problems under the 1000 year reign of christ.. you will instead get: "they're the people who... 1. don't celebrate christmas or birthdays, 2. don't take blood, 3. go around with the watchtower, 4. have big assemblies... etc etc".

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  Associating Watchtower publications with people who door knock or have big assemblies is tantamount to associating Reader's Digest with people who digest stuff.

  Vague and ineffectual to say the least.
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  Brainwashing by religious cult leaders (JWS) why and how to identify when its happening

  by Finkelstein in

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  2. beliefs

  hear the term brainwashing and you might think of government agents ‘turning’ unwilling spies against their own countries, or cult leaders using mind control to manipulate their followers.. you might even go so far as to think of the term brainwashing in relation to propaganda spread during the first and second world wars, in order to influence vast amounts of people.. but what exactly is brainwashing and should we confine it to the past?.

  what is brainwashing?.

  the term brainwashing was first coined in the 1950’s during the korean war.

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  @Finkelstein What a great article! Thank you for sharing this fascinating read. You can see this formula woven throughout Watchtower's indoctrination methods.
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  How about having a special undercover mode so PIMOs can browse the site with greater security?

  by Island Man in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  when you visit the site it says jehovahs-witness big and bold.

  a pimo might be browsing the site and a jw might come up behind him unexpectedly and notice he's visiting a site about jws other than jw.org, which can lead to the pimo reported for viewing apostate information.. to help remedy this risk, i was thinking about the possibility of having a button that activates an undercover mode where the title of the site is not prominently displayed so it's not easily apparent to an accidental eavesdropper that it's an apostate website.

  also, the color-scheme and graphics can be different so that it doesn't look like the regular site.

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  @Diogenesister I know @stuckinarut2's employee did that to his PC when she was supposed to be working. Went through his history or something and handed him straight to the elders.
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  Bible comes alive if we look for meaning behind the symbols it uses

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  bible contains too much human thinking presented as though from god, thus much of its information brings dishonor to god.. yet it contains great beneficial truths behind the symbols it uses.

  let us take the only two cases of miracles jesus performed without any request from anybody which would show the very purpose of his ministry:.

  1) jesus healed a woman who “was bent over and could not straighten up at all.” (luke 13:11-13).

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  Thanks, @venus. I always keep an eye out for both yours and @Ireneus' posts. I know they go against the grain here, but I find it interesting to weigh up different perspectives.