I've lost count of how many times I've read the Bible cover to cover of the decades, but looking back there was only ONE time where I really learned a lot: in 2016 when I wasn't wearing my dogma goggles, just reading it without preconceptions and going where the answers led me. All the other times were for the most part a futile exercise of a JW rule/custom that doesn't allow real growth in practice.
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JWs and daily Bible reading schedule
by AuntBee injws often point to this, to show outsiders they are allowed to read the bible on their own without the publications.
although, as we know, the org still teaches that you will never progress along the road to life without the pubs.
and, i would imagine that what they learn/conclude from their own bible reading, must remain within the confines of current wt teaching, even on the most minute points of doctrine.
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With the ramped up talk are the governing body trying to coerce Jehovah to bring on Armageddon?
by nowwhat? ini loathe hypothetical questions on this forum.
but i got the honest impression that they are so delusional they can bring on armageddon with all their talk and jehovah will have no choice but to act.
( not that i believe in armageddon anymore).
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nowwhat?
I get what you're saying. The GB definitely have a lot of con artist in them, and they at least subconsciously know it's all false, otherwise they wouldn't suppress information, worry about legalities, and scheme for the future. Still, at times there are decisions they make or words they say that just make you wonder how delusional they are, and to what extent certain ones of them believe.
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Affected by assembly
by Saltheart Foamfollower inhi - first some context - i have been pimo for about 20 years now and so have been to a lot of assemblies in that time.
last weekend i went to a circuit assembly and for the first time afterwards i was able to talk directly to someone who knows i'm out.
i realised then that although i didn't agree with any teachings (i sat picking holes in the arguements as usual) the experience of being there had affected me - the way of life started feeling normal as did the overall way of viewing the world.
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I too used to be suckered by the singing at conventions and get waves of emotions. Now, the veneer is gone, and the echoing voices over the sound system sound like propaganda, and the singing strikes me as a creepy display of delusional uniformity.
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Affected by assembly
by Saltheart Foamfollower inhi - first some context - i have been pimo for about 20 years now and so have been to a lot of assemblies in that time.
last weekend i went to a circuit assembly and for the first time afterwards i was able to talk directly to someone who knows i'm out.
i realised then that although i didn't agree with any teachings (i sat picking holes in the arguements as usual) the experience of being there had affected me - the way of life started feeling normal as did the overall way of viewing the world.
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neat blue dog
PIMO for 20 years, wow! I'm just over a year and a half myself. I don't know how you do/did it, but congrats on achieving a measure of mental clarity and peace with yourself, as much as can be expected in your situation, that is.
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Armageddon started...
by mikeflood injust joking i really don't think so...but the situation in syria is pretty worrisome...just hearing the news that france and great britain are attacking with cruise missiles in 72 hours.
i mean assad is not gonna gasify his adversaries when he almost won the civil war.
trump too suspended a very important trip to the latinoamerican presidents summit in peru, just to 'oversee the american response to syria.
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just imagine if the predictions of the bible unfolded before our very eyes
Yeah except . . . the Bible doesn't actually predict any of that stuff, all JW interpolation. Which reminds me: How do the King of the North and the King of the South fit with regards to Syria? 😜
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Summary of WT Foundation Quotes
by Vanderhoven7 inthe watchtower, november 1, 1922, pp.332-337.
do you believe that the king of glory is present, and has been since 1874?… this is the day of all days.
behold, the king reigns!
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Great compilation Vanderhoven7, this is a bookmarker for sure. The really frustrating part is that most of these quotes are not on WT Library, and hard copies are getting more and more rare as Hall's consolidate and 'book burnings' commence. The one currently available gem in here would be from the 1968 WT, the quote about how it may be weeks or months, but not years. This is still on WT Library 👍
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Hotdog "rumour" - need verification
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5354790390333440/hotdog-rumour-need-verification
thinking:
Is this a homo thing?
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Hotdog "rumour" - need verification
by Fay Dehr inin view of the recent jw broadcast warning about "rumours", i wanted to verify what has repeatedly been spouted by a certain am3:.
"i saw bodies resembling human hotdogs" (or words to that effect).
i have no idea where to begin, so perhaps some of you across the pond in usa may know some useful search tools?
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neat blue dog
Interesting. I don't know how you get access to this stuff in library of congress?
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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 4, movie set
by neat blue dog init also looks like guests got to walk around the sets of what i'm guessing is what was used for the new jonah movie, coming soon to a convention near you, summer 2018.. .
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It also looks like guests got to walk around the sets of what I'm guessing is what was used for the new Jonah movie, coming soon to a convention near you, summer 2018.
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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 3, Jonah and tour stats
by neat blue dog init also looks like guests got to walk around the sets of what i'm guessing is what was used for the new jonah movie, coming soon to a convention near you, summer 2018.. .
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some tour stats .
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This is really part 4