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  "DO NOT look here! Seriously...just dont!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  ok, so you all looked here??.

  this thread is prompted by losch's stupid 'decrees' in the march 2018 broadcast, where he denounced online information that may be 'negative' about the organization.. it strikes me that the gb are so dumb!

  the moment someone says "dont look at something", human curiousity will make most people look.

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  days of future passed

  I think a snake and Losch had the same idea.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCX5JJwkZhU
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  Organization Updates for POMOs?

  by charonsdog in

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  i've been physically out since early 2014. before that, i was mentally out for a long period of time.

  now, having zero contact with family or former friends, plus living in a southeast asian country where it is possible to not ever see a jw.

  since i have discovered this site, i'm learning lots of things about the organization that i wasn't aware of before.

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  days of future passed

  That is from 5 years behind. It occurred to me that if someone had the organizational skills, a time line of the changes would be great.

  I'm afraid I don't have a good idea of "when" somethings happened since then, so I'll just guess. (poorly)

  All congregations gave their money that they had saved for their kingdom halls to the society. Chaching!

  The society now owns all the kingdom halls and sells them off when ever they want to.

  All sorts of videos that promote

  • the end is NEAR!
  • Shun like you've never shunned before - don't even pickup the phone from them.
  • kiddie videos that want children to donate all their allowances to them, frighten them by telling them if they fall asleep or play during the meetings, they'll miss important information and die at Armageddon. ad nauseum

  In Australia the Royal Commission weighed the WT in their policies of protecting/reporting Child Sexual Abuse and found them lacking. Shockingly lacking. Cases of provable abuse and not a single one reported to the police. Still on going on what is going to happen to the WT.
  

  The WT has broadened out who to shun - it's not just the dis-fellowshipped but also those that go to few/none meetings and the spiritually weak.

  Plus it's money money money, can we have your money?
  
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  How soon is soon?

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i guess if the jdubs have no clue how long a generation is they also wouldn't know how long a time period the word "soon" refers too.. 60 years ago my mother would hammer into my brain how soon the great tribulation was.

  soon jehovah would destroy the wicked.

  then a few years later there was no need to go to college because the end was so soon.

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  days of future passed

  Didn't the society use that illustration of children asking their parents "how soon are we going to get there?" To a child, a short trip can seem like a looonnnng time. That is how it is with us. We just have to be patient and wait on Jehovah..... or something to that effect.

  Telling my mother, I wasn't supposed to graduate high school, get a job etc. falls on deaf ears. At her age, soon isn't soon enough.
  
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  Cult words

  by Great Cook in

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  if there is any english literature teacher on this forum ...can he or she analyze those words of this song ?.

  radicalization is going on ... and people sing without any reaction at the meetings...they are so brainwashed.... song 50.

  1. take my heart and may it love.

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  days of future passed

  Ugh, now I remember another moldy oldy.

  To the work, to the work Oh you servants of god

  Let us follow the path that our master has trod

  let the joy of jehovah your strength to renew

  mhhhmmhhh .. ...dum dee dum...
  

  Hastening on, hastening on hastening on hastening on..

  and follow till the work is done!

  Obviously, missing a few words and some may not be entirely right. But hey, 55 years ago.
  
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  The next time I see the cart babysitters

  by Sour Grapes in

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  the next time i see the jdubs standing or sitting by their carts sipping their coffee lattes or updating their facebook pages, i am going to approach them with the following thought process acting as an interested person.. do jw's believe the end is near?.

  do you consider your preaching work to be urgent?.

  why do you just let people walk by if their very lives are at stake?

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  days of future passed

  I was at a shopping mall yesterday and as I was driving by a fabric store, I saw a group of witnesses siting about 15' from the entrance. 1 sister, 3 brothers. All bundled up and freezing in the late afternoon windy rain. They had a cart on one side of them and one on the other side. With hands tucked under their arms, they joked and laughed.

  No one was remotely interested. I guess you could say that the world at large was shunning them. People hurried by like they were a homeless contingent. What a waste of time.
  
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  Cult words

  by Great Cook in

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  if there is any english literature teacher on this forum ...can he or she analyze those words of this song ?.

  radicalization is going on ... and people sing without any reaction at the meetings...they are so brainwashed.... song 50.

  1. take my heart and may it love.

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  days of future passed

  Wow, that is a retread. In the very old green paper song book, there was a song with some of the same phrases.

  Take my silver and my gold

  nothing lord would I withhold.....

  That got repeated twice. Did it come from that song book or is it really a new one? I think they got rid of the old songs because they copied from old hymns. It also seems like anyone who really knows music - doesn't write for them anymore.
  
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  Clearly, undeniably, without doubt ... is there a term for introducing a thought in such a way.

  by jwfacts in

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  watchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".

  for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.

  "jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.

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  days of future passed

  The WT is really saying that God blessed those women, so that they can die for him. Otherwise, they would have given up. And if they gave up, they might not make it into the New World. So obviously, God blessed them.
  
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  Watchtower back to criticising the United Nations

  by AverageJoe1 in

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  the outline number 44 from this year’s regional assembly states:.

  la organización de las naciones unidas es en realidad una falsificación del reino mesiánico, y es una ofensa para dios.. .

  translation: “the united nations organisation is actually a counterfeit of the messianic kingdom, and it is offensive to god.”.

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  days of future passed

  Maybe the WT wanted another library card and the UN said NO - too much trouble from the last time you had one.
  
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  "Do not hold back good if it is in the power of your hand" Prov 3:27

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was musing over this scripture at proverbs 3:27.

  "do not hold back good from those to whom it is due , if it is in the power of your hand to do so".

  this passage has often been used to show that if we have the means, or opportunity to do good, or to assist others in need, we should act.

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  days of future passed

  NVRZL8 - I was thinking along the same lines, but I would use the president.
  

  But my line was this: What if the president knew where a terrorist group was operating in the US - but he refused to take action until everyone that hadn't supported him as president, acknowledged they were wrong. So the terrorist group continues to kill while the president refuses to get rid of them. And he blames it all on the non supporters.

  When I was believing this was all the "truth", I would have come up with an excuse as to why it was ok for God to let everyone suffer. And that is the main problem - the WT taught us to make excuses for God. (and for them too of course)
  
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  "Do not hold back good if it is in the power of your hand" Prov 3:27

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was musing over this scripture at proverbs 3:27.

  "do not hold back good from those to whom it is due , if it is in the power of your hand to do so".

  this passage has often been used to show that if we have the means, or opportunity to do good, or to assist others in need, we should act.

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  days of future passed

  That's a new way of thinking about it. That's something we would have never thought of as a witness. Now if the GB heard this version, they would simply say "well it's you that is holding back from doing good for God!" (and us .