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  Am I reading well?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://jwsurvey.org/child-abuse-2/the-friday-column-governing-body-issues-apology-to-abuse-victims-announces-radical-policy-changes

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  opusdei1972

  “The Governing Body has concluded that while we still believe blood to be the sacred embodiment of life, it will be up to each Christian to decide whether to accept a blood transfusion when deemed necessary. Significant advancements in science, along with the understanding that Jehovah’s command to the Israelites and early Christians applied to the original Law Covenant, has revealed to us that transfusions are a personal medical decision. We trust that all of Jehovah’s people will respond positively to our increased understanding of the scriptures.”

  If the above change were made by the Governing Body, it would cause many lawsuits against the Organization, and it would quickly be dismantled.
  
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  Am I reading well?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://jwsurvey.org/child-abuse-2/the-friday-column-governing-body-issues-apology-to-abuse-victims-announces-radical-policy-changes

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  opusdei1972

  Yes, it's a joke for April 1.
  
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  Am I reading well?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://jwsurvey.org/child-abuse-2/the-friday-column-governing-body-issues-apology-to-abuse-victims-announces-radical-policy-changes

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  http://jwsurvey.org/child-abuse-2/the-friday-column-governing-body-issues-apology-to-abuse-victims-announces-radical-policy-changes
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  What was jesus doing for the first 30 years of his life?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  30 years is a long time in the life of a human yet little is written about this time frame,l wonder why?

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  opusdei1972

  He seemed to have been a follower of John the baptist for a while. Then he decided to create his own sect. My take is that he never did a real miracle. His divinity was invented by his disciples.
  
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  A new article on Gerrit's thinking on "Going to College is like pulling the trigger to our mouth"

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have written a new article about how truthful is gerrit's comparison.

  as you may know, in 2005 gerrit losch gave a talk in which he compared higher education with committing suicide.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjh4qvmxyhy.

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  opusdei1972

  It's in Italian
  
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  A new article on Gerrit's thinking on "Going to College is like pulling the trigger to our mouth"

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have written a new article about how truthful is gerrit's comparison.

  as you may know, in 2005 gerrit losch gave a talk in which he compared higher education with committing suicide.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjh4qvmxyhy.

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  opusdei1972

  I have written a new article about how truthful is Gerrit's comparison. As you may know, in 2005 Gerrit Losch gave a talk in which he compared higher education with committing suicide.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJh4qvmxyHY
  

  In fact, Losch is right in what the Watchtower's doctrine concern. No witness could survive as a witness after attending scientific lectures. For instance, how could you accept the Water Canopy Theory (still supported by the Watchtower Society) after attending university lectures on Geophysics???
  

  Jehovah was responsible for the original watering of the ground by means of a mist arising from the earth, and he established the laws governing evaporation of water and its precipitation as rain. (Ge 2:5, 6; Job 36:27; Am 5:8; see CLOUD; MIST; RAIN.) On the second creative day, God produced an expanse by having some water remain on earth while raising a great quantity high above the globe; the waters above the expanse undoubtedly supplied the water whereby the wicked were later destroyed in the Flood of Noah’s day.—Ge 1:6-8; 7:11, 17-24; Isa 54:9.

  These topics I analyzed in my new article in Spanish.

  http://jehovismo.com/estudiar-en-la-universidad-es-como-dispararse-una-bala-en-la-cabeza/
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  Who has made an unforgivable sin against the holy spirit?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all sin and some sins are worse than others but blasphemy against the holy spirit is said to be unforgivable.what is considered to be an unforgivable sin?

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  Rutherford said:

  “It would seem that there would be no necessity for the ‘servant’ to have an advocate such as the holy spirit, because the ‘servant’ to have an advocate is in direct communication with Jehovah and as Jehovah’s instrument, and Christ Jesus acts for the entire body.” (Watchtower, September 1, 1930, p. 263)
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  June 2016 WT (study edition) Bashing Higher Education....AGAIN!

  by ToesUp in

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  2. friends

  paragraph 14: .

  "this means that we need to examine our heart constantly to see if it is being enticed by worldly entertainment, associations, and styles of dress and grooming.

  or the love of the world might involve efforts to attain “great things,” such as through the pursuit of higher education.

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  What if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates hadn't thought in "great things" ???

  The Watchtower uses tablets, personal computers, software, etc. So, the Watchtower's argument is bullshit.
  
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  Freddy Franz, One of the smartest men of his day????

  by DwainBowman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  back in my teen years this story swept through jw land, that according to, the guinness book of records , freddy franz, was listed as one of the seven, most intelligent , men in the world.

  dose anyone else remember this?

  i remember trying to look it up, but never found anything in print, and ii point that out once or twice , and was told a co, had told about it, and he wouldn't lie!

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  Indeed, if not the the smartest, Freddy Franz was the most foxy of the witnesses in Brooklyn. He could maintain a multinational corporation promoting and printing, for many decades, his eccentric and deceptive theological ideas, without assuming any responsibility. Remember that he was the theologian successor of Rutherford and Woodworth.
  

  For instance, after the 1975 fiasco, the governing body did anything for condemning his stupid prophecy.

  After the Woodworth's lunacy against vaccination, Franz won him by banning blood transfusions and all its fractions.
  
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  The Watchtower Corporation's (JWS) extenuating lies .....Why and for what purpose ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  upon researching the historical activity of the wts.

  it becomes clear that the head editorial writers of this religious publishing house propagated many formative lies or unproven speculations framed within its own bible theological interpretations.. .

  going right back to its earliest inception the head writers of the wts proclaimed that christ has returned and that mankind was going occur a dramatic change through this returning establishment of christ, as prophetically told though bible scripture.. the first year devised by the wts of this return was 1874 and through means of using an obscure measurement of the great pyramid of giza 1914 was to be the year of armageddon.. the 6000 years of mankind's existence was used at that time as well ( early 1900's) to support this supposed code cracking, which was used once again in the late 1960's to create 1975 as another year of significance.

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  Their masters were the early Christian scribes. They even wrote forgeries so as to maintain the early Christians expecting the return of Jesus. The Second Letter of Peter is one of these examples. Another one is the Apocalypse of John, whose author was a liar who invented visions where Jesus said "I am coming soon".