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Flat Earth Jw and Galileo Galilei
by Earthmeasured in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the image you can see what jw wrote about how galileo was treated by the catholic church.

now they are disfelloshipping me because i believe the earth is flat.

is this coherent?.
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PIMO GB members?
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the gb individuals are chosen not by holy spirit as we well know but by being selected for one quality only, that of implaccable loyalty to the watchtower organisation.. to be up there requires the fixation that the org is being used by god -- even though now in the small print they claim they are not divinely guided -- what a laugh, what a puzzle?.

the more i watch their antics the more implausible they seem.

their function: to persuade as many people as possible to conform to their own whacky beliefs.. most jws eventually leave the fold, only one third remain as we understand, so will any of the gb become pimo?.
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Infiltrated Elders?
by john.prestor in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i'm watching john cedars commentary on the annual meeting from this last october, and at one point he shows a clip of garrett loesch talking about the struggles jehovah's witnesses faced decades before in the soviet union.

he claimed that police officers, maybe the kgb, infiltrated congregations which met in secret by studying with jehovah's witnesses, getting baptized, and then working their way up to becoming elders.

ceders jokes that this shows what kind of role holy spirit actually plays within body of elders, but another interpretation came to my mind just now.
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Events leading to my decision to disassociate
by Roger Kirkpatrick in
1. jw
2. experiences
following is a summary of events leading up to my decision to disassociate from jehovah's witnesses and the unforeseen results of that decision.. a young man named joel engardio produced a documentary about jehovah's witnesses called "knocking" which aired nationally on pbs.

i purchased the dvd from joel before it was even released and we exchanged emails.

joel had been raised by his jw mother and had been active in jw activities during his adolescence, but he was never baptized as a jw.
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Has Anyone Ever Outed You For Being “Apostate”?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
either here on this site or by a congregation member?

?.
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Flat Earth and Jw. Not possible?
by Earthmeasured in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.

im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.

i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
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If My Dad Were To See The Watchtower Org Now
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
as we all know, this org has metamorphosized from one ugly creature to another continuously since it's inception.

but more so it seems in the last 30 years.. i got to thinking what my dad would think if he were to be brought to life for 5 mins to see the way things are now.

how would he even react?.
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Science Fiction--Undue influence--Mind Control
by TerryWalstrom in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been asked repeatedly, "how and why would you use science fiction and the history of jehovah's witnesses to explore the serious problem of mind control?

"how can you get jw's who may be waking up to dare to consider they may be subject to undue influence?i noticed early on with jw's--almost all of them are big science fiction fans!the same is certainly true of scientologists.as to "how"?

this chapter deals with the central plot point.. white house 1908. roald amundsen (arctic explorer) stood speaking softly in the oval office of president theodore roosevelt.. “newspapers call this the heroic age of exploration.but this word hero—that kind of word misunderstands the very nature of a man.”.