Jack Ryan
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“....current agitation over birth control (is evidence that) the ‘New AgeÂ’ is at hand.”
The Golden Age April 7, 1926
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“Disease (is caused by) fermentation and heat.........not germs."
The Golden Age August 25, 1926
oh by the way...
(This was a dozen years after medicine had proven bacteria and viruses caused most diseases)
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“Human footprints seven feet long found in California.”
The Golden Age January 13, 1926
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The Flood may have been caused by all of the other planets being on one side of the earth simultaneously. God may have inserted the “youngest” planet Neptune on the other side to act as a gravitational corrective to make sure it cannot happen again!’
The Golden Age Jun 16 1926 pg 583
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The Bible clearly shows where it is written that he himself says he does not. Only the Father knows.
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Super Size me! ?
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A waste of time is preaching all your life that the Due time is at hand
(Luke 21:8) . . .He said: “Look out that YOU are not misled; for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The due time has approached.
’ Do not go after them .
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We used to say the same thing about Jesus being a Televangelizer...... ooops... wait.... new light.
God has now told us it is ok to be a televangelist.
Fast forward 5 years....
New light.... "All JW's should actively be a soldier for Christ like Allen Smith and DEFEND the new Mother Ship Warwick!!"
Resistance is futile!!
@James Thomas Rook Jr. will no longer be allowed to speak in favor of JW's. Sorry. Waste of time!!!!
Now get out there and stand next to a cart at some obscure park somewhere!!!
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Somebody needs to show this video to Bethel's legal dept that has spent millions of hours filing notices to take down videos off of YouTu I can just see Jesus now filling out a copyright claim against somebody reposting the Sermon on the Mount.
LOL....
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It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
So... go for it.
I would love to see how THAT Judicial Committee could justify a disfellowshipping.
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So for decades where we were told that our worldwide increase was PROOF of Jehovah's Blessing....
This would then be PROOF of what exactly?
Or am I just being too picky?
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Wait a minute!
Oh... nevermind.... we already got rid of the song "Theocracy's Increase".......
new light.
Continue on.
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Did I miss any?
Children sit with families discussing these pages .....   How is this healthy?
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Fake Faith
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And just in case brainwashing youths from infancy above with the right words to have such a "fake faith"... let's add a little pressure to make sure the youths can never leave... and in many cases they won't even want to after being told this:
Yet JW's are "Champions for Freedom of Religion"??? Â
Every heard the saying that "Charity starts at home?"
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Why don't JW's understand that this is clear and obvious child abuse:?
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Fake Faith
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A message to young people in this weeks Watchtower Study paragraph 12:
How to use the website jw.org to guide you answering a peer asking “Why do you believe in god?”
The answer to that question can and should not be guided. If the question was about the flood or the end of the world then yes, use a textbook answer that can be “researched” on the website.
But a personal question like that shouldn’t need to be guided from any outside source. If you have a real faith or belief in a higher power then you wouldn’t need an outside source to help you explain that.
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Who needs a good reminder?
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Dagblad van het Noorden
Today a large article was published in a Dutch newspaper 'Dagblad van het Noorden'. It is about Frank Huiting, the Reclaimed Voices Foundation and the adopted motion in Parliament. The Branch office has given a reaction:
According to the organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses, an investigation desired by the entire Parliament into sexual abuse within the church, is disproportionate. "The Reclaimed Voices Foundation says that this is a structural problem within our Church. We do not identify with this at all," says spokesman Michel van Hilten. According to him, the scale of the problem is not larger than elsewhere in society.
They therefore refuse to cooperate in such an investigation. "Have you read that motion? The first three paragraphs are rattling assumptions. We are certainly not going to cooperate on the basis of assumptions. There are all kinds of stories about us, that we have a closed structure and that there are many cases of child abuse. But we have a handful of incidents and reports of abuse each year. Reclaimed Voices can only arrive with 301 cases if those issues have been taken out of context, through double counting or if other types of issues are counted as abuse.
Jehovah's Witnesses refuse contact with Reclaimed Voices. "No, we are not going to go along with that. They have hired a lawyer, they work through the media, and the phase of constructive consultation has long since ended.
The Church sees no reason for internal research either: "We have seriously considered it, though. We are not an apathetic organisation, without any self-reflection. We have set up a very sound protocol for this. Our protocol is a compilation of our efforts to protect children within our community. Because our protocol has been posted on our website, everyone now has access to our working methods. Once again, there are many calls, without any knowledge of the facts. Such an investigation is shooting with a cannon on a mosquito."
source in Dutch: Dagblad van het Noorden
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Zahlreiche negative Medienberichte über einen systematisch skandalösen Umgang mit Missbrauchsfällen zwang die Religionsgemeinschaft zu einem umfassenden Gegenschlag auszuholen.
Die Vorwürfe auszusitzen war eine jahrelange Taktik, was aber nicht dazu geführt hat, dass die Vorwürfe abnahmen. Nun hat man sich entschieden in den Angriff über zu gehen und pauschal alle Medien, die negative Informationen über Zeugen Jehovas verbreiten, als boshaft, teuflisch und verlogen zu verurteilen, um sie auf diese Weise zu diskreditieren.
In der Zeitschrift Wachtturm vom August 2018 (Studienausgabe) unter der Überschrift „Kennst du die Fakten“ werden nun alle Gläubigen darauf eingeschworen wie sich Zeugen Jehovas richtig zu positionieren haben.
Dazu einige Auszüge aus dem Artikel:
Absatz 1: „der Teufel und seine Welt will unser Denken verdrehen“. Anfänglich wird gezeigt wer die Feinde sind, der Teufef und die gesamte „seine“ Welt. Hier wird der allumfassende Konflikt, in dem die Gläubigen stecken, deutlich.
Absatz 3: „Wir müssen vorsichtig sein und dürfen nicht alles glauben, was wir hören“. Ein guter Rat, wenn damit nicht gemeint ist:
Absatz 6: „Besonders vorsichtig müssen wir sein, wenn es um Berichte über Gottes Volk geht. Vergessen wir nicht: Der Teufel ist der Ankläger von Gottes treuen Dienern [Zeugen Jehovas]“ dann„überrascht es uns nicht, wenn wir empörende Berichte über Jehovas Zeugen hören“. Hier wird klar: Berichte sind besonders dann falsch, wenn negativ über Zeugen Jehovas berichtet wird. Negativ = falsch.
Absatz 15: „Die Bibel warnt davor, sich auf den eigenen Verstand zu verlassen“. Was in jeder fundamentalistischen Sekte den Gläubigen immer wieder eingebläut wird ist, seinen eigenen Verstand nicht zu gebrauchen sondern ausschließlich den Führern der Religionsgemeinschaft zu vertrauen.
In einem Kasten wird gezeigt wo die Gläubigen sich informieren sollten: Ausschließlich auf den Internetseiten der Wachtturmgesellschaft können zuverlässige Informationen gefunden werden.
Es bleibt ein Rätsel wie diese Religionsgemeinschaft eine Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts werden konnte, wenn man sich jene manipulativen und gesellschaftsfeindlichen Ansichten durchliest.
Deutsch source:
https://www.tips.at/news/wien/land-leute/432661-zeugen-jehovas-erklaeren-den-medien-den-krieg
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Jehovah's Witnesses declare war on the media
By: Richard Wagner
Numerous negative media reports about a systematically scandalous handling of abuse cases forced the religious community to make a comprehensive counter-attack.
The allegations were a year-long tactics, but this has not led to the allegations decreased. Now they have decided to go over the attack and sweep up all the media that disseminate negative information about Jehovah's Witnesses as malicious, devilish, and hypocritical in order to discredit them in this way.
In the magazine Watchtower of August 2018 (study edition) under the heading "Do you know the facts" now all believers are sworn to how to position Jehovah's Witnesses correctly.
Here are some excerpts from the article:
Paragraph 1: "the devil and his world want to distort our thinking". Initially, it shows who the enemies are, the devil and the entire "his" world. Here the all-encompassing conflict in which the believers are stuck becomes clear.
Paragraph 3: "We have to be careful and not believe everything we hear". A good advice, if not meant:
Paragraph 6: "We must be especially careful when it comes to reports of God's people. Let's not forget: the devil is the accuser of God's faithful servants [Jehovah's Witnesses] "then" we are not surprised when we hear outrageous accounts of Jehovah's Witnesses. " It becomes clear here: reports are particularly wrong when negative reports are made about Jehovah's Witnesses. Negative = wrong.
Paragraph 15: "The Bible warns against relying on one's own mind." What is taught to believers in every fundamentalist sect is not to use their own intellect but to trust only the leaders of the religious community.
In a box is shown where the believers should inform themselves: Only on the websites of the Watchtower Society reliable information can be found.
It remains a mystery how this religious community could become a public corporation by reading those manipulative and anti-social views.
Note: Just take out the "B" in Borg
Source in German:
https://www.tips.at/news/wien/land-leute/432661-zeugen-jehovas-erklaeren-den-medien-den-krieg
Tips is a regional newspaper in Upper Austria (there it appears weekly), Lower Austria (in Amstetten weekly, otherwise partly biweekly, partly monthly)
Founded in 1986, the newspaper is part of the Wimmer Medien Group ( Oberösterreichische Nachrichten ). The publisher and owner is Rudolf Andreas Cuturi. In 2017, there will be 30 Tips-Regional editions, 16 of them in Upper Austria and 14 in Lower Austria. According to Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyzes MA 16 - Regional Weekly Papers, Tips has more than 1.1 million readers per issue in Upper and Lower Austria, which corresponds to a coverage of 65.6% in Upper Austria. The newspaper is delivered to all households as a direct mailing.
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Watchtower, Study Edition, March 15th, 2015
Loyally Supporting Christ’s Brothers
Link: https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2015207
This article is a doozy. It has many points of interest that carefully play on words, and emotionally manipulate the reader. It really is something.
Pay special attention to paragraphs 6, 7, 9, 10, 17, and 18.
These paragraphs clearly highlight anyone who is not an active JW will be judged a goat and be killed. Also, spectacularly, those paragraphs point that if you want to be judged a sheep, meaning to not be killed by God imminently, you need to a)recognize the divine authority of the Governing Body, b) obey the organization unquestioningly, c) preach to recruit new members, and d) give financially to the organization.
This article sealed the deal for me. I'm sorry but only a cult would wield the fear of divine destruction to demand divinity status, loyalty, obedience, and money.
Some more source material:
Gods Kingdom Rules!
Chapter 21, Paragraph 17
Link: https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102014263#h=25
Here we are told that the goats, who are comprised of everyone from kings to slaves, will be sent to everlasting cutting off.
This material is great for discussing how a God of Love could murder billions:
Watchtower, December 1st, 2005
Armageddon - A Happy Beginning
Link: https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2005881?q=armageddon&p=par
This wonderful article is a real gem. It compares the murder of billions of human beings, including children, to a home owner exterminating pests. I kid you not. They use the word pest when describing the destruction of people. Real people.
1925 C.E.
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After maintaining that there would be ‘no slip upsÂ’ about the importance of 1925 the Society backtracks telling those who were greatly disappointed that.......
“Some anticipated that the work would end in 1925..................The difficulty was that the friends inflated their imagination beyond reason......”
The Watch Tower August 1 1926 pg 232
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