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  "Criminal Minds" quote

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  i was just watching an old episode of criminal minds and there was this description of cults:.

  "cults commonly have their own language.

  they invent or redefine certain words only the cult members understand.

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  Syme

  Yes, Orwell had defined this characteristic of a cult (the Party, in that case) in "1984": the newspeak.
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  What is the youngest a child has been baptised as a JW?

  by Ultimate Axiom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the youngest reference i have come across is in the 1992 watchtower (march 1st page 27) - “in the summer of 1946, i was baptized at the international convention in cleveland, ohio.

  although i was only six years of age…”.

  i would like to find more examples of this, particularly of examples in more recent times.

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  7 years old the youngest I've heard of. The funny thing is, JWs are take quite pride in the "fact" that they don't practice infant baptism like the "false" Christians. But nobody stops to think much difference is there between baptizing at 7 or 10 and infant baptism? It's just infant baptism with added hypocrisy.
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  When was your last Kingdom Hall meeting?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  i stopped going to kingdom hall meetings about nine years ago.

  i was fading for the longest time, refused to go out in field service, dropped out of the ministry school talks, no longer answered at the watchtower study, arrived at the meetings the last second, and left as soon as possible.

  i couldn't take attending the meetings any longer.

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  6 years ago. It was a usual meeting, I didn't know then that it would be my last. I was PIMO long before, I was posting here already. I just needed a push. That push was learning that a friend had just DA'ed. I thought, that's it, I should at least have the courage, if not to DA as my friend, to completely drop out.
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  What is your most favorite politically incorrect film

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since all the leftist idiots are trying to cancel films they don't like i am buying some dvds of my fav.

  pi films.

  my favorite top pick is animal house.

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  Syme

  Life of Brian is also a hilarious extremely incorrect film. They don't leave anything untouched. They even predict (prophesy?) today's PC insanity in that "I want to have babies" scene. Such a prophetic scene it needs rewatching:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAc5JqcBPK8
  
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  What is your most favorite politically incorrect film

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since all the leftist idiots are trying to cancel films they don't like i am buying some dvds of my fav.

  pi films.

  my favorite top pick is animal house.

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  Syme

  If we're talking about today's films, it's practically impossible to find anything that doesn't comply to the newly mandated diversity norms of Hollywood. They don't have much of a choice, the producers and directors: they have to be PC in order to be considered for awards and get high scores from critics. There are exceptions of independent films like Infidel.

  I'd say True Detective Season 3 has just a weenie tiny bit of non-PC implication, in that the protagonist is a black conservative and makes an irritated remark to the white liberal journalist that tries to preach to him. Maybe it's not much, but, amidst of drought...

  The Highwaymen, about the cops that killed Bonnie and Clyde, has also a slight anti-PC feeling to it. Again, we're talking about drops, but welcome ones.

  Also, the comedy-horror "Get out" does a funny satire of white wealthy liberals who patronize black people and virtue-signal while being worse than Calvin Candie in Django Unchained.

  Now, if we go back in time, we surely can find more non-PC films, even though Hollywood people, being artists, always had a tendency for marxist or meta-marxist ideas and social patronizing.

  Gladiator was a good masculine film, and non-ashamed of it. Remember the scene where the poet gets killed on the first second of the first fight. If that film was made today, the masculine general would be killed straight away and the pacifist poet (who would have another dozen of diversity checks) would beat everyone magically and then become emperor. Traditional virtues (in the original literal Roman sense, virtus meant basically manliness) such as family and religion are also portrayed favorably in the movie. I'm pretty sure Gladiator couldn't be produced today.
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  EXCELLENT F.B Post re: latest Borg Mind Control etc

  by Phizzy in

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  2. child-abuse

  from william.

  h. bowen on facebook :.

  alienation and garbage the new message of jehovah’s witnesses.

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  Oh my God, what did I just read...!

  It's unbelievable, these videos should be illegal, the whole cult should be illegal worldwide, I can't stand them any more!

  On a more sober reflection, having parents who are in the cult and will prob look at that video: I think the antidote to that venom from our part is to tell them we love them. While the Society tells them to hate us. We should fight back with love (only with our closest ones; I don't care about the others. I prefer they hate me rather than pester me). Then, maybe, they will stop and think, who's inciting them to hate, and who's loving them, hence, who is evil and who is good.
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  Thoughts on JW funerals

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently had the sad opportunity to attend 2 jw funerals.

  the first was a few months ago and the second today.

  the first was my grandfather's and the second of an old friend back from my jw days.

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  I recently had the sad opportunity to attend 2 JW funerals. The first was a few months ago and the second today. The first was my grandfather's and the second of an old friend back from my jw days. I attended the first funeral in person, while I watched via zoom the second one; however, I wasn't able to finish watching -I had to sign out.

  I'll explain why.

  In both cases, I would love to hear some things about these people. Some things about their lives, about their characteristics that made them loved to their loved ones, some anecdotes from their life, some thigs they used to say or to do. I am SO enraged, that I have to say, nothing of the sort was heard. Only a line of introductory plain comments like "His name was [], he was born in [], he was married to [] and had [] children, and he was baptized in []". This only takes around 60 seconds. The rest of the whole 45' minute talk is a typical propaganda JW speech talking about ransom, resurrection and, of course, how to join and stay in the Org if you wanna avoid getting fried and see again your deceased loved one. And this is not because of an elder that does the talk. That's a script there for every jw funeral, like a public talk. I've seen this script, the elders are supposed to be VERY brief about the deceased's life, and concentrate on the indoctrination message.

  They don't allow a shred of dignity to anyone inside their group, not even at death.

  Even at death, one is not allowed to have a talk dedicated to their person. Even at death, one is only a tool to bring in recruits (and even that, doesn't happen; most of the attendees are already in, and the rest are not going to convert because of a funeral talk.) The more I think about it, the more I realize this is one of the worst aspects of that CULT.

  This thought has stuck with me since the first funeral, resurfaced today, and is making me sick.

  If you are wavering in your doubts about this group, think about that. Let that fact sink in.

  I'm dreading the day when my jw parents are going to be gone from this earth, and an elder will use the instance to make a jw talk according to borg guidelines.
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  Announcement December 3, 2020 FOR CONGREGATIONS

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  announcement.

  december 3, 2020. for congregations.

  1. covid-19 vaccine information: several covid-19 vaccines may soon be approved and.

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  "We do not attempt to make choices for others. Here are your instructions as to which vaccines you may take and which not".
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  2020-12-1-For Special Full-Time Servants In The Field In The U.S. Branch Territory!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2020-december 1--4 pages.

  for special full-time servants in the field in the united states branch territory.

  https://www.filemail.com/d/uywnukoqvtsfdgq.

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  Syme

  Thanks for sharing, Altantis.

  What strikes me with that letter is the amount of specific instructions given, on top of the already enough specific instructions of the state. The state has given enough instructions and rules for the pandemic, so what's the use of this? Like, whatever amount of instructions Caesar gives, it doesn't matter at all if no instructions are given by the Org. As for the necessity of specifying even the most elementary things that even a five year old can grasp on their own.. so much for the "we follow principles, not rules" fantasy. That level of sheepiness never ceases to amaze me.
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  2020-New-October-Elders-Manual-Addendum-and-S-147-Announcements! (as of 2020-10-02)

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new--2020-october--shepherd the flock of god--elder manual.

  new--2020-october--addendum to elder manual.

  2020--october-s-147-e--announcements and reminders.

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  Syme

  Hi Petra, I would like a copy please. Cheers