seeknontruther101

I grieved the holy spirit for a long time, so I understand how that part of it works.

Everything is already there in the Bible. It's just Jehovah's holy spirit makes it clear at the appropriate time. An anointed person has their heart circumcised. It's painful but it means they have to be like a kid before Jehovah. If an anointed person gets involved in false worship (like how Russell and Rutherford did with numerology and other stuff) then they are not in the light and their understanding stays dark, because they grieve the light, the holy spirit.

Apparently reading comprehension is not your strong point.  It was clearly stated a cartoon drawn on paper in a book.
And besides, cartoon dogs don’t wear underwear. Even Donald Duck didn’t wear underwear.

I was paying attention, and I took notes, and I noted what got thunderous applause. I did not believe ANY OF IT, and drew cartoons on the inside cover blank pages of my blue “inspired” book of a flagpole flying a “1975” flag, with three guys at the bottom saying “Let’s run this up the flagpole, and see who salutes it!”.
…. and when I showed the cartoon it was heresy!
For three years I disregarded what EVERYONE was saying, from California to Virginia to Zaire (the Congo), where I lived and worked.
Mid- 1974 I succumbed to peer pressure, reasoning “How could I alone be right and EVERYONE else be wrong?”  I quit my job and flew back home to be with my parents when “The End” came. The best job I ever had.
Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining !!
I don’t like it!

All I have done is decline to speak with someone who is determined to trash much of what I hold dear, someone I do not know personally, and someone whom I never have had significant interaction with. I think you have to stretch it to pronounce that course a ‘lack of love.’
Frankly, I could just as easily turn it around. I have addressed most of the points you bring up in far greater detail than in all the other commentators put together. This is in the several chapters I have called to your attention of ‘Don’t Know Why’ that deal with brainwashing, discipline, and Governing Body. All of it is original writing. None of it is boilerplate off the Watchtower. In the event you do not finish them all, it can only be through lack of love on your part. I even have a ‘Contact Me’ section at the end of the book, and no, the WNMF is not one of the places listed.
In my social media activities, I will frequently accept a ‘friend’ or new ‘follower,’ only to find they instantly want to set up an individual private conversation. What is it will people so presumptuous as to demand this? We are finite beings who already have full draws on our time. All of us must pick and choose the interaction they deem the most effective. 
I did not say this. I said, based on previous history, that this is probably what happened. I gave no opinion as to whether it was ‘merited’ or not.

Jesus resolutely trashes those things - the leaven of the Pharisees, the false doctrine of FDS/GB-Benefactorworship, and the satanic, antiChrist so-called "discipline" of the disfellowshipping doctrine. He is coming to trash them completely in the very near future. Will you shun Jesus too?
 
 
The Bible is God's Word, and at present many Jehovah's Witnesses are on the opposite side of Jesus' clear teachings. They should not be content with all of what the GB is teaching them, because a lot of what the GB teaches apostatizes from God's Word.
 
 
You "can live with that", true, if the "people" you disagree with are just nobodies like me, perhaps...but what if the "people" you disagree with are Jehovah and Jesus? The Kingly Law of Love is not optional. It's a command. If you choose to continue disagreeing with that Law, it will not go well for you.
 
 
"Insight slows down anger." I have learned that sometimes crazy "abusive" types like the MoiseRacette and boyle characters are just coping with some issues and don't know what they're doing, or they're just fooling around. I prefer their company to some who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel, claiming to be holy and close to God yet disobeying Christ's clear command that is so simple a kid could follow it: Love Your Neighbor.
 
If the MoiseRacette and boyle characters were real, I am convinced that they would stop and pick up a beat-up person on the side of the road, because the person behind the puppets showed mercy at times during the discussions, which is more than I can say for those who kept walking on by during truly abusive situations, people who you strive to imitate and would consider to be in "good standing" as Jehovah's Witnesses, including your GB idols and Bethel branch people.
 
Today's Watchtower is all about how loving "Jehovah's Witnesses" are, superior in love to those labeled non-"Jehovah's Witnesses". The Daily Text was all about how important it is to go to meetings because people there care about you and want to be your friends, unlike those labeled non-"Jehovah's Witnesses." 
 
While there are sincere loving Jehovah's Witnesses, any one of Jehovah's Witnesses who follows the disfellowshipping doctrine as taught by the GB is antiChrist and unloving. For them to say "we are the most loving people on earth - everyone else is less loving than us" is the pot calling the kettle black.
 
 
"In reply he said to them: “Why do you overstep the commandment of God because of your tradition?  For example, God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Let the one who speaks abusively of his father or mother be put to death.’  But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother: “Whatever I have that could benefit you is a gift dedicated to God,”  he need not honor his father at all.’ So you have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.  You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said:  ‘This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far removed from me.  It is in vain that they keep worshipping me, for they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
 
 
Jesus loves you, @TrueTomHarley @Anna @Arauna @JW Insider that is why he disciplines you. There is a lot of dross in the organization that needs to be cleaned off, and he wants you to help comfort others in the days ahead. But you have to wake up and put on your clothes first and stop walking around naked.
 
@Pudgy and @Srecko Sostar are already awake. When the tribulation hits, they will know what to do. They already know what it means to show impartial love.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/delhi-minor-stabbed-murder-people-indifferent-police-rohini-shahbad-dairy-2386114-2023-05-29
 
"A man killed a 16-year-old girl by repeatedly stabbing and bludgeoning her in full public view. A CCTV footage of the crime, which has gone viral, sends shivers down the spine. But what is equally chilling is the indifference of the passers-by who didn't intervene."
 
(Can you imagine if she was known to be "disfellowshipped" and the people walking by were Jehovah's Witnesses...do you think they would intervene?)
 
I know @Pudgy would intervene.
 
"He who is faithful in least is faithful in much."
 
If you saw "abusive behavior", @TrueTomHarley, enough to note it and to think it merited the administrator removing the abusive person, why did you not think to comfort the "victim"?
 
"He who is unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous in what is much."
 
That is why the "tax collectors and prostitutes and sinners" and disfellowshipped people who know how to show kindness with impartiality are going ahead of you into the Kingdom.

James is wise and has a more accurate understanding of the scriptures than the Governing Body.
 
@TrueTomHarley, I forgive you, because you don't know what you're doing. I am sorry for you, too, because you're pitiable and poor and blind and naked. I can't wake you up, but you will wake up when Jesus comes.
 
 

Part II of the book, entitled Apologia, is an exploration of all factors that may contribute to the opposition to the JW faith in Russia. Included are chapters entitled ‘Brainwashing,’ ‘Discipline,’ and ‘Governing Body.’ You may find what you are looking for there. I hope you do.
The meaning of ‘cult’ has changed over the years. Many groups that were once on one side of the word are now on the other. If JWs are a cult, it is because the Bible is a cult manual. If it is, they are. If it is not, they aren’t. As long as they find themselves on the same side as is the Bible, they are content. Let others squabble over the verbiage.
You actually don’t know that. When someone resolutely trashes what I hold dear, I tend to leave them to their own trashing, whether they be DFed or not. Nonetheless, I’ve not said an unkind word about you, whereas some of those you label as ‘more loving’ have become so abusive toward you as to (presumably) be driven off the platform by its administator.
Sometimes people disagree.  I can live with that. Do not confuse recognition of that fact with being ‘unloving.’