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  Today's WT study! So hypocritical!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so today's study is all about being kindly, and not judgemental to those in the congregation....we don't know their circumstances etc.... i can't believe the hypocrisy being spewed out...both in the article and by means of the answers from the audience!.

  we know the reality is so different!

  unless a witness does everything exactly as the gb directs...in every aspects of life, they are effectively no longer a good person, but are viewed as spiritually lacking or weak..... they are going directly beyond the biblical directives, and being ones who condemn, rather than ones who commend!.

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  It is as though they are COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS that their actions contradict the point of the article!
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  Today's WT study! So hypocritical!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so today's study is all about being kindly, and not judgemental to those in the congregation....we don't know their circumstances etc.... i can't believe the hypocrisy being spewed out...both in the article and by means of the answers from the audience!.

  we know the reality is so different!

  unless a witness does everything exactly as the gb directs...in every aspects of life, they are effectively no longer a good person, but are viewed as spiritually lacking or weak..... they are going directly beyond the biblical directives, and being ones who condemn, rather than ones who commend!.

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  The "best" part of the study was seeing judgemental & critical ones commenting on the EXACT things that they are guilty of!!! *facepalm*
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  How could this be? Were they disfellowshipped and later re-instated?

  by Kenneson in

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  2. friends

  prosecutors seek death penalty against twin teen.

  brothers in altamonte shooting on s.r.

  436. christopher and manuel rodriguez are twin brothers,.

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  LOL DD!

  Anyway, a practising JW? Seriously?? Nahh.. I don't think so...
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  JW's just called at my door, simply handed me the JW.ORG tract and left! JW's now mere leaflet distributors.

  by yadda yadda 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm off work today and its a monday morning.

  a male and female jw just knocked on my door, i opened it, the guy just handed me their latest website promoting tract saying "hi, were just leaving these with people today", and then he made to leave.

  i looked at the tract and then looked at him as he was turning to walk away and said to him "ok, thanks, but ummm you could've just left it in my letterbox.".

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  Hmm.. during special tract distribution campaigns, they are supposed to offer the current magazines too and engage the householder in conversation using the suggested presentation of the month in the OKM. However, it depends on the cong. Some congs, especially those with a vast territory, may choose to cover as much territory as possible during the special campaign, so the offer of the magazines might be overlooked
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  The END did NOT come in their lifetime part 2," They lied to the end!"

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a sweet old sister recently passed away.

  that moved me to write part 1 of " the end did not come..." so here is the latest.

  sister x goes to the hospital for her issues.

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  I wonder what the heck was the person trying to accomplish by saying such a stupid thing???
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  Just curious...how did you find Jehovah's Witness Net?

  by cultBgone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the influx of new posters made me wonder if the push to view jw.org is helping curious ones find this support site?.

  please post whether you found jwn during an internet search or if someone told you about it.. i myself was directed here by a df'd family member once i shared my doubts with that person..

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  Curiosity killed the cat
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  Question for active believing witnesses.

  by Brainfloss in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  oops ---next post.

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  A watcher,

  This is what I believed in. It is similar to what you mentioned -

  As a JW, I NEVER believed that only less than 10 million people would be saved

  People today are confused due to the fact that there are too many religions. Christianity itself has over 40,000 denominations! It is NOT the fault of people that they are confused. Therefore, it does NOT make sense to believe that everyone who is not a JW would be destroyed!

  My reasoning was that after the downfall of false religion, it would be obvious to right hearted ones that JW's have the truth. After false religion is no more, it would narrow things down a lot and then the choice between serving Jehovah or Satan would not be difficult to make. Jehovah would make the truth more convincing to people at that time, as he is the God of love & mercy and does not desire for any to be destroyed. Subsequently, many more millions, or even billions, would be able to take sides with Jehovah and be saved

  I always believed that this reasoning should be the correct one instead as it made more sense
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  More dumb JW logic

  by Batman89 in

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  witnesses always say when a person comes into the "truth"(deception) it was because jehovah saw they had the right "heart condition".

  so they're basically saying that only 7 million people on earth which is way less than 1% of the population have good hearts and are good people.

  and everyone else is just evil?

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  I NEVER believed that only less than 10 million people would be saved

  People today are confused due to the fact that there are too many religions. Christianity itself has over 40,000 denominations! It is NOT the fault of people that they are confused. Therefore, it does NOT make sense to believe that everyone who is not a JW would be destroyed!

  My reasoning was that after the downfall of false religion, it would be obvious to right hearted ones that JW's have the truth. After false religion is no more, it would narrow things down a lot and then the choice between serving Jehovah or Satan would not be difficult to make. Jehovah would make the truth more convincing to people at that time, as he is the God of love & mercy and does not desire for any to be destroyed. Subsequently, many more millions, or even billions, would be able to take sides with Jehovah and be saved! =)

  I always believed that this reasoning should be the correct one instead as it made more sense
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  Noticed my old KH is using a lawn care service

  by Zoos in

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  2. friends

  when i was still attending i almost single handedly took care of the outside grounds.

  i actually enjoyed it - gardening being a hobby.

  but i turned in the keys to the shed about three months before i made my official exit.. .

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  Blondie: "The rules were... no women of any kind"

  No such rule where I was. In fact, any help was welcomed. I wonder where the bro's in your area got their "rules"
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  Simon, please update my profile picture!

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i've read on another thread you need to delete the cached file of the profile picture so that it can be updated by the gravatar user.

  i created a gravatar account, added the email address i use on here and uploaded the an image, but nothing happens.

  this was 3 days ago.. could you please solve this problem?.

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  * cute cat smacks not-so-cute penguin with furry paw *