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  The Seven - Do they lead God's Congregation?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

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  there are seven men who proclaim to be the faithful and discreet slave.

  but, are they?

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  they're leading someone someplace, lol,
  

  matt;15:14
  

  Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit

  
  the great dragon has 7 heads too..... [hmm isn't 7 in the bible supposed to mean completeness?]

  
  
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  Is the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses really an inferior form of Christianity?

  by nicolaou in

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  seems to be quite a few posters recently pulling down the beliefs of jw's as not biblical or truly christian.

  maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, i really don't care.. in some important ways though mainstream christians often behave better than jehovah's witnesses; most don't practice shunning or impose lethal medical prohibitions on their members.

  many are far more tolerant of the lgbt community and a few even make the awkward attempt to square the fact of evolution with their faith.. please note that i'm saying some, not all.. so i suppose it's fair to say that differing forms of christianity can be better or worse for individuals, families and the wider community.

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  seems to me they want to be a spin off of Judaism or be ancient Israelite's . they really don't believe Jesus is who we should be praying to, or that he is as important as god, since they have put Jahs name in place of 'Lord'[JESUS] . [thus actually supporting the trinity, lol ]
  

  or that Jesus' name is to be preached, or that he is a mediator and whatever else.
  

  they also pick and choose an mosaic law to' sort of' follow. and then twist it terribly. the whole,
  

  no blood, no divorce, women are inferior, shunning, the whole us and them, mentality,

  got to be baptized in water, [old baptism] 1000 pharisee like rules. and 'we belong to jah. ie: Yhwh.

  hmm
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  oh my, I have hear this before, lol
  ‘I'm struggling to get a handle on your question,
  a lot of different questions mixed up together.’
  cofty, gee, sorry,
  I have that effect on some people.
  My loyal subject , DJS ,asks ‘whats up with girls?‘
  Well there you go, thats one thing, lol
  hard to figure some of us out and how we think eh? oh yea, were all over the place, lol,
  And I might ask, where did THAT little piece of evolution come into play,?
  the fact
  that women are so totally opposite of men, that often we have trouble communicating.
  um , perhaps, men and women ARE from different planets? and were all just an experiment.
  yes crofty, those are different questions, but weren't meant to be off topic.
  doesn't it all end up in the same place? why and how did we get here.
  you said,
  [‘This makes absolutely no sense unless every living thing from humans to yeast evolved from a common ancestor.’ ]
  Of course to me, it makes perfect sense that all things came from one common ancestor. but there sure are some interesting puzzles we may never solve.
  off topic, but to clarify
  I do not believe the biblical story of anything, to be fact. [its funny how it does say from dust we are and to dust we shall return, so, dirt has the same elements and enzymes and proteins ect as breathing things?
  you said,
  ‘there was no first humans who fell from perfection.’ I agree.
  I say, the word ’ perfect‘ does not mean what people think means.
  perhaps a better word would have been acceptable, lol
  I cannot comprehend a god or being, who has no beginning or end,
  even doing what the bible says he did.
  I could never swallow Genesis, never got past chapter 2 without a thousand questions.
  it makes no sense at all. The idea that anyone can simply read that book, and come to any logical conclusion, for anything, is beyond me.
  Ive never had a huge problem with evolution, other than its a work in progress.
  I think its also fascinating that people can actually explain it,
  while I sit with a deer in the headlight expression on my face, and wonder why I cannot understand.
  
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  lol, your all speechless, my work here is done.
  
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  Did you know that Satan bump nesties with Eve.

  by James Mixon in

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  some christians explanation for evil in the world.

  i came across this "serpent seed".. it claims that cain was the offspring of eve and the talking serpent (sorry i'm lmao while.

  writing this) that christians much later identified as satan.

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  i think the book of genesis attempts to explain a whole story about 'alien' life forms and how they were 'placed' in the garden.... i dont think were here by accident [well maybe a crash landing lol] , just sayin.
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  Im all for trying to understand the science behind how the world came to be, but my brain hasn't evolved enough allow me to grasp math and science.

  Now dont laugh too hard, and dont hang me.
  

  I always remember the WT explanation of why evolution wouldn't work, the claim that if you put a bunch of watch parts in a clothes dryer and tumble them around, a watch is not going to get made.
  

  It always disturbed me though, as to where any matter came from to begin with. [the human idea that something doesn't come from nothing]

  [WHO put those watch pieces in?lol]

  Now here is how my mind works with no prior reading of any science. [ i cant understand it anyway, I read your post twice and still dont get it. I failed science,lol]
  

  How did matter, or proteins or whatever, lol, 'find a compatible mate' to connect to, to get a process started?

  what set off a big bang ? where did it all come from to be there in space? see, where still not there yet, and so we make up religion to explain away things. [all religion is man made anyway].

  am i wrong to think, if large pieces of oddly shaped 'puzzles' were put in a gravity free 'space' and they floated around long enough, they would fit together well enough eventually, even if it took a million years. and then things as they gain more 'ability', can 'evolve' into something?

  yes im that stupid.
  

  However, again,lol, my mind wants to know where all of this stuff floating around came from, and what it is floating around in .

  Now don't hang me for being so naive, lol, i cant digest science talk, it like a foreign language .seriously. not my fault, its my genetics. Im more hands on, not a brainiac.
  

  [ my son, has left the jws years ago when he was 20, after listening and reading to Steven hawking and Richard Dawkins and whoever else is anti bible and creation,[ i like that sam harris] he had to convince me were not crazy to stop believing the bible. well, I was all for it.]

  now the Queen of Clean must go to work, have fun with your ridicule, lol
  
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  Galling Meeting Today! Truly Nauseating!

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
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  first scripture used by the public speaker was jeremiah 31:34 - "and they will no more teach each one his companion and each one his brother, saying, know jehovah!

  for they will all of them know me, from the least one of them even to the greatest one of them, is the utterance of jehovah.

  for i shall forgive their error, and their sin i shall remember no more.immediately, i was distracted.

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  well if they were to read the verse 33, the reader would conclude that Israel was the only people being referred to.
  in fact if you start at the beginning of that chapter it says.
  
  “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
  
  
  Id take issue with this, ‘they will no more teach each one his companion...’
  so why are they still teaching, lol
  why don't they just KNOW , isn't the holy spirit supposed to guide you?
  
  yes I agree, what is the example set by the GB?
  not to mention,
  limitations and mistakes are two separate issues, to lump them together like the WT writers do, makes for a lot of low self worth.
  which is why so many older ones who cannot and SHOULD not go door to door,
  [omg most really shouldn't] will feel like ‘sinners’ or slackers,lol, if they cant get out.
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  admitting mistakes when someone actually makes one, is the crux of the issue.
  Who will be the judge of what is considered a mistake.
  obviously to put too much hot sauce on nannas omelet is a mistake, lol
  but to have a difference of opinion is not.
  the WT [or any religious org] will reason that learning something outside what they teach is being ‘misled’ and is a mistake for their followers,
  but not for them, thats considered ‘new light’ lol
  
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  How will the Watchtower Cult end?

  by WireRider in

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  some announcement of sorts?.

  there are all kinds of conspiracy theories.

  their head count and time cards are all faked by the gb, and "congregations".

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  when their free ride ends...
  

  http://paperpilotsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/free-ride

  
  

  .....Cause the fake smiles are getting harder to hide
  And your free ride is getting harder to find

  ........But it's getting old going down their road
  Don't you know you just need your own

  lol
  
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  Security Guards at Bethel and Body Guards for GB?

  by RetiredLE in

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  "happy" vid.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je6_855ucac @ about 2:25 is a bethelite with a "security" jacket.

  and then here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts23nn0emnw a "brother" at the gate claims to be sia security.

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  well if they stop attracting attention to themselves there wouldn't be an issue at all.

  If they didn't 'store up treasures on earth'
  

  there would be no reason to have to hire so many different advisers.
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  Infighting at the top?

  by JeffT in

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  we've all been trying to decipher what is going on at the top of the watchtower organization.

  clearly, the game's afoot, we just don't know what game we're playing.

  item: the constant harping about money and donations.

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  what I wonder is what the writers of the magazines and books and the creators of these videos are thinking inside.

  who is instructing them as to what to research and write, so that they have written such contradictory statements.

  if there is a power struggle, whos ideas get printed in what lesson?
  

  who , I wonder agrees with these new 'electronic lessons' in the kingdom halls and who is loosing?

  How can anyone sit at meetings, and not question the sneaky financial changes ?
  

  how can one even be an elder and not be on zoloft?

  perhaps, the older group of senile G.B. men are in lala land and the younger ones are being sneaky and influencing them. who knows,

  but man, what a show.