A Paduan
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Do other religions have questions you're not allowed to ask ?
by A Paduan inthere seem to be certain unanswerable questions that only "apostates" would ask - ones that sort of send up a flare.. do other religions have these "you must be the debbil" fears of thought ?.
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"celebrate" christmas ?
by A Paduan inin another thread the question was put forward "what does it mean to celebrate christmas" .
i posted essentially this but recevied no further input - so my question is am i right - does it really boil down to decorations ?.
as far as i can tell decorations, a tree, wrapping paper and presents on christmas morning are what really separates others and jws, because other aspects of the holiday don't really seem different:.
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vAre other groups similar to jws in this ?
by A Paduan inby the comments of the scrutinised and the ex-jws it is obvious that a person can see or figure the lies of jwism and then get themselves in very hot water simply by reiterating or repeating the "inconvenient" information that the org itself has provided - without any external input or external information or external scrutiny.. is that a fairly unique condition for such a group these days ?.
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and now we have to silence you
by A Paduan inif a jw reads jw pulications, figures out it looks like a sham, and then brings up the inconvenient truths to "the wrong people" - is that all it takes to get silenced - ousted - removed - ceased etc ?
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Dysfunction and being at home
by A Paduan ina colleague recently noted, when the topic of jws came up, that one reason discussed for the higher representation of jws requiring health care for psychosomatic disorder, self harm and mental illness, was that these are the people at home when they call.. it was suggested that the higher level of social dysfunction is not so much generated, but gathered, as it it these people who are at home or who have the type of time it takes to become jws.. thoughts ?.
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No respecter of persons
by A Paduan inthis phrase is in peter i believe, and essentially relates to 'bending over for certain classes of people'.
but, certain uses of this phrase by jws and the wtbts leads me to think they use it as an excuse to simply disrespect people - things like "shun them in their own home".
do they use this phrase to support their personal sacrelige with "sinners" and "worldly people" ?.
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Does WT deliberation always fit to their conclusion
by A Paduan inin defining their beliefs and doctrine, and interpretation of scripture, has the wtbts always commenced with their conclusion, and made the "facts" fit to it (not that the 'facts' last long).. eg.
"the world" (other people) are evil, so vaccines are the devil's pus - we've dug up "a scientist" who says blah blah blah ...............
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Did you consider
by A Paduan inwhen doing the 'preaching work' did you consider things such as '1975', 'this generation', the work that will be completed 'in the twentieth century', organ transplants, etc........yet marginalise discussion of this or anything else you grouped as "old light".
basically did you avoid discussion of or mentioning anything you knew was bunkum, while still preaching the wts ?.
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New light is in the sand - simply stick your head in to see
by A Paduan inis "new light" the ultimate method to marginalise discussion of the religion ?
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a major defense stategy against thinking.