what do you think of this site. do you think the research is accurate. http://www.jwfiles.com
JW files
by lime05 7 Replies latest jw friends
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jgnat
It's not the best method to poll other posters on how accurate a site is. All we can do is give our own opinion, and then you have to judge our own past performance. The only sure way is to check each claim individually. I notice that the site is a mix of hearsay and direct WT quotes. We've had quite a discussion on this board on whether the Watchtower society is promoting the 2034 date for instance.
Quote's site, on the other hand, is careful to distinguish the owner's opinion with direct quotes from the Watchtower.
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Joel Wideman
I haven't found anything there that wasn't supported.
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lime05
2034 - the end. jehovahs witnesses attempt at comedy i guess.
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AuldSoul
I think it is a useful site for helping to spark thoughts on where the Organization's teachings may be headed. I drew some personally held conclusions from the absence of certain things from recent publications. I agree with jgnat that there seems to be more willingness to mix personal opinion with official JW teachings than I am comfortable with, but with that analytical filter in place I get some benefit from the site.
AuldSoul
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lime05
AuldSoul are you a jehovahs witness yourself?
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inquirer
I think it's an ok site (although I should have a better look at it)... you have to have a "testimonial site" down under, just to make sure to not give the impression it's just American people who feel this way about JW's! ;)
So we have some great sites on the Internet from different countries!
Australia - JW Files
England -- Jehovah's Witness Discussion
Canada - Quotes
America -- Commentary Press, Freeminds
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AuldSoul
lime05, nominally, yes. But as of 10/12/2005 not in any way, shape, or form in mind or spirit. I have no longer any hope for the organization correcting itself about anything until the hoped for prophecies prove to have not come true.
Unfotunately for them, technology means that a lot more people have access to older publications. That means a lot more people know what they were teaching back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Over the next 20 years every change they make is going to hit them squarely between the eyes so hard the impact will be felt in their groin. Organizationally speaking, of course.
If truth today changes into falsehood tomorrow, then tomorrow it was obviously falsehood yesterday and every day prior. As soon as a teachings changes they falsify all the prior years of that unchanged teaching. It isn't a matter of recognizing error and correcting it, it is a matter of claiming truth and being caught at lying.
AuldSoul