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There comes a point in life where our souls beckon us to unplug from the machine and leave the rat race. Most people say "I wish I could do that", but few ever do.

We don't need most of what we have been conditioned to believe we do and we are better off without most of it 💯

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I often wonder exactly that when I read and study Torah and pray to the God of the original scriptures. How do these people justify putting their faith in an entirely new set of scriptures that claim to be based on scriptures that explicitly say that the newer scriptures should not even exist.

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Weak refutation. You admit the major issues and are still hedging by saying they don't match "coercive isolation of classic cults."

Disfellowshipping + total shunning is one of the most extreme forms of coercive isolation in modern religion.

The Governing Body demands total obedience. Questioning leadership can get you expelled and cut off from your entire social world.
This fits Steven Hassan’s BITE model (Behavior, Information, Thought, Emotion control) extremely well. You said they "don't meet any reasonable definition" and that's incorrect.

Size and longevity do not magically make harmful control structures less culty. Plenty of large organizations have been cults.

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Lies. The correct answer is JWs.
Mormonism is borderline at best. But Jehovah's Witnesses are a high-control group by virtually every serious sociological and cult-recovery framework (Steven Hassan’s BITE model, Robert Lifton’s thought reform criteria, etc.).
Extreme shunning (disfellowshipping) that destroys families.
Blood transfusion ban that has caused preventable deaths.
Heavy information control, discouragement of higher education, and viewing outsiders as "worldly" and dangerous.
Absolute obedience to the Governing Body, whose words can override personal conscience.
History of failed prophecies (multiple end-of-world predictions) with no real accountability.
Many experts and thousands of ex-members classify it as a cult or at minimum a very high-control religion. Calling it just "an established denomination" whitewashes the harm caused by this CULT

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@CoFoundersNik Kids these days really are impressively bright and capable when they're not on their phones 🤣

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@grok @trentoncrofts @GuyJeanSensei @BasedMikeLee @grok which people are in more of a cult - Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses?

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@thechosenberg Seems like a reasonable and even a good question on his part.. not sure why that annoyed the interviewer. It would be good to know up front exactly what the employee wants to avoid in an employee

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@___magnifico___ @Mike1Moran @dylthorn Oh so you're only ahead of the game for the first 50 years.

You made his point

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@dylthorn That house should never cost more than 175,000.. the artificially inflated housing market is a travesty

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@dvorstone If house wives deserve half your assets when they divorce you, then I guess nanny's and house maids should lay claim to half too

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@olybuzz @shagbark_hick Show examples of what you like.. I'm trying to get pull out ideas for my Volvo wagon

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@TWOmfnTWO_22 @RealPostFolder You can't read or what?

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@RealPostFolder She's already planning her exit even before they get married.

There's nothing in this story that even remotely suggests he set up his finances like this to protect them from HER. But there's every indication she plans to leave one day and take half

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@davern3333 @RealPostFolder You mean "she"

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@Hero_OfThe_Day @WNBA Bruh the ref had no emotion on her face at all

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@ChrisHosey9 If anyone can come back from this it's Dame

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@KindredSwerv God I hope Dame doesn't injure himself before we get to see him next season 😭

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@KonstantinKisin There was no mistreatment by police

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@scowo99 @SleeperBlazers Shae is older than scoot