Amen all the way down the line. Even though a JW may admit some of these are true, like service reports and beards, I think anything can be reasoned away as long as they're convinced that the central tenants that make JWs unique are true. If those are true, then the 'little' things aren't too important. However, speaking for myself, once I realized that these unique JW teachings I was convinced were in the Bible actually weren't, like Christians living forever on Earth, military service being wrong, blood ban, door to door preaching, last days, etc. Then the nagging doubts about all the little things made sense and there was no need to rationalize. It was basically all false.
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A Jehovah Witness is....
by Vanderhoven7 inthis is not exactly a new topic, but bears repeating anyway:.
a jehovah's witness (non-anointed) is a person:.
a. who is not born of the spirit of god (spirit begotten) and therefore cannot see/inherit the kingdom of god.. b. who has not been justified by the blood of christ.. c. who is not part of the new covenant.. d. who has no personal mediator.. e. who is bereft of a heavenly hope.. f. who cannot come unto jesus christ when troubled or have commune i.e.
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What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?
by minimus ini remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.
he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.
interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.
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neat blue dog
In the New System after we've filled the Earth, we might go on to colonize other planets
That was actually official teaching, from Studies in the Scriptures.
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What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?
by minimus ini remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.
he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.
interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.
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neat blue dog
There are so many marriages lately the end can only be a matter of months away
There isn't a face palm GIF good enough for this 😮🙄😏 lol
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What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?
by minimus ini remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.
he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.
interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.
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neat blue dog
"Look at that car accident! We can expect more of that in these last days." (just a single car that hit a phone pole)
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Thin magazine make you think, is it?
by Gorbatchov injw father in law in hospital, this weekend, maybe last days of his life.
with his last energy he was reading a watchtower magazine for comfort.
i could understand.
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neat blue dog
They did it gradually so the shock wouldn't be so great.
1536 pages a year.
1152 pages a year.
768 pages a year
576 pages a year
480 pages a year.
All in a little over a decade.
Who knows what's next?
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JW's Blow Their Own Trumpet Each Month
by The Fall Guy inw06 12/1 p. 27 par.
11 what it means to love our neighbor - “jesus commissioned his followers to preach and to teach and to “make disciples of people of all the nations.” by our participation in this work, we show love for......... neighbor.”.
by recording the number of hours of “love” shown to neighbours each month in their monthly report slip, aren't jw's in reality doing what christ said not to do?.
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neat blue dog
The faithful and discreet slave isn't being very discreet are they?
P.S.
I can't start any topics anymore, not even text only, so if Simon sees this . . . HELP lol
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New JWism in April broadcast?
by AuntBee indoes anyone know what it means to be "securely wrapped up in the bag of life"?
is this a new special wt terminology?
they said it or a slight variant of it, several times in the broadcast, perhaps 3?
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neat blue dog
That one takes the cake, er, garlic bread.
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6-BOEs-Just Arrived!
by Atlantis in2018-03-31-general data protection regulationhttps://we.tl/z1g1kyveqg2018-04-01-assisting in seldom worked territorieshttps://we.tl/vjspmlzrag2018-announcements and remindershttps://we.tl/hz9omncxib2018-consent for personal datahttps://we.tl/wnlmxqfp7n2018-instructions-for-use-of-personal-datahttps://we.tl/c1ftcszyk22018-oclam-may-7--28--answer sheethttps://we.tl/ieggkojrsyatlantis!.
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neat blue dog
Is the data consent form coming to the USA, or only Europe??
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Movie-goers can be fickle (great movies that should've enjoyed huge box-office success)
by LoveUniHateExams injust thought i'd start a thread about this topic.. john carpenter's the thing (1982) was a great film, one of his best imo.
for me, it's right up there with alien (1979) as one of the greatest sci-fi horror films ever made.
and yet one film made anything between $100 - 200 million at the box office whereas the other made only $19 million.
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neat blue dog
The Star Wars prequel trilogy. Oh wait, they were commercially and critically successful.
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My search for religion.
by joe134cd insince leaving the jws i have become more interested in finding out about other faiths.
here are a few of my findings.. lds: i just couldnt get my head around the mental gymnastics i would have to do to understand their doctrines and theology.
i attended their services twice.
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neat blue dog
Hi joe134cd, thanks for sharing your spiritual journey. As a Christian, my personal opinion is that when the Bible says to avoid "sects" and other similar thoughts, this applies to all denominations. Any subdivision of Christianity is in effect a sect, and as such there can be no true religion in the sense of any one denomination that 'has it'. What makes Christians different than ancient Israel is that now God deals with individuals and their personal faith. Not that it's wrong to fellowship with other Christians, even in church settings, but I don't think it should take precedence, and I'd never want to get dogmatic/set in my ways or 'go beyond the things written'. Do your best to maintain you personal autonomy, and never give your faith away to humans.