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  When You Would Hear A Talk About Committing “Secret Sins” How Did You React?

  by minimus in

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  it seemed as if every year a talk would be given in the congregation or at a convention about “secret sins”.

  very predictably, witnesses would have pangs of conscience and confess their secret sin.. back in the 70s, one sister with an unbelieving mate went to the elders to confess about husband and her engaging in oral sex.

  she was privately reproved for her “sin” and every so often would approach the elders to say she slipped up again.. i know i’d never tell anybody about my sex life just because of misguided guilt.

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  “minimums”: “Those talks were designed to create judicial meetings in order to cleanse the congregation and allow the free flow of Holy Spirit.”

  Boy, Minimus, I can sure relate to your thread! My dad used to scare me about sinning against the holy spirit (thus my username on this Website, “SAHS”: Sinned Against the Holy Spirit) – which made me feel profoundly worthless and effectively made me actually think that I was on “death row” awaiting my eventual yet inevitable and apparently terrifying execution at Armageddon. During that crucial time of puberty, during which I experienced some rather “unnatural” sexual fantasies, I developed an extremely morbid sense of foreboding regarding what I then perceived to be my imminent and ultimate end.
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  Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

  by Simon in

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  climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

  crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

  it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

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  “waton”: “Avoid using the brakes by coasting.”

  Well, what about this newfangled thing called “regenerative braking” – which has been implemented on transit busses and taxis for many years now, especially in developing countries in places such as South America?

  “Simon”: “As a species, we seem to gravitate to warmer climates and do better there.”

  All these consistent megatons of mass of greenhouse gasses, let alone all the proliferation of additional megatons of particulate matter (suit) from combustion of carcinogenic fossil fuels, HAS TO – and, indeed, IS CURRENTLY – having a profound and adverse affect on all life on our earth, including humanity!

  “Simon:” “As a species, we seem to gravitate to warmer climates and do better there.”

  Well, it’s already been established that traditionally the lower latitudes have been associated with decreased cognitive ability and motivation (along with increased fighting over resources and ideologies – thus the ideometric term synonymous with southernmost populations: “hot-blooded”).
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  Baptised 52 years today!

  by Phoebe in

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  january 29th - my baptism date.

  can you remember how you felt at your baptism?.

  i got baptised because my dad kept frightening me.

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  Actually, I’m 52 years old now, and I know only too well the profound fear about dying at Armageddon. My dad used to scare me about the ‘sin against the holy spirit.’ I was convinced at the time of my own inescapable Divine demise. But now I know the truth about the truth (TTATT). Thank goodness for sites like this which help us all to learn about ourselves.
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  Hello WTBS ...we have a problem... millions missing publishers

  by TexWiller in

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  as the title states there is a ...problem.

  allow me to explain.. i'll start with a letter from the president of the wtbs inc in 1974.

  *** yb74 254-6 is your faith dead or alive?

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  Well, the Jehovah’s Witnesses are the right religion. We know this because of the great increase in . . . . (Whoops.) I mean – okay, we are assured it’s the right religion because of all the prophecies the Watch Tower has . . . . (Oh, oh.) Well, okay, we do know it’s definitely the right religion because of the love . . . . (Oh, forget it!) [Satire indeed.]
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  I remember an article in the Watchtower of August 1, 1995, page 20, entitled “Our Rich Spiritual Heritage.” And I’m fairly sure that there was also a talk by that title at an older district convention or circuit assembly about ‘appreciating our rich spiritual heritage.’

  So the Watch Tower organization wants us to ‘appreciate our “rich” spiritual heritage,’ but they don’t want us to be able to know exactly what that heritage actually is.
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  Armageddon has started in Astoria, Queens

  by ShirleyW in

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  now we know that the con ed plant in astoria, queens had an explosion, but before anyone knew what the heck was going on, so many people were posting on social media their pictures of the "strange blue circle light" that was in the sky this evening,usually st. johns which is near me has a fireworks display after a game, i thought this doesn't look like fireworks, much brighter and no sound, it actually looked like it was 4pm in the afternoon right before the sun leaves the sky.. i live in the jamaica section of queens (just up from trump's foot dr. if you saw that article in nytimes.

  com the other day) and haven't lost power but laguardia is dark now, no flights in are out.

  just wondering how the old school dubs that saw the lights outside window, thought "finally, the big a is here" !.

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  “jp1692”: “Ugh, learn how to write!”

  Aren’t we pretentious.
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  Definition Of A Friend JW.Org Style True Story

  by newsheep in

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  thought i saw everything with publishers giving money to co's or leaving everything to the org through their wills which is their business.however when a brother(andre) whose job is to sign cheques going out from the georgetown, ontario bethel is signing cheques for relatives isn't that a conflict of interest?

  the one nephew was doing woodworking but was never successful until bethel offered him a job doing signs for halls as well as making cabinets and podiums.

  once he got the job he then went out and bought a cnc machine which is computerized.

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  The Bethel would do deals with the Devil himself if they thought they could benefit from it.

  But as for the conflict of interest issue, I don’t think it would result in legal problems unless they were getting some benefit or kickback to which they would’t be allowed, such as dealing with close relatives to secure building permits or bogus property inspects as a special “favor.” (Kind of like Donald Trump’s foundations and organizations receiving benefit through his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.)
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  In a flash of blinding light...

  by terraly in

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  one of the traits that is most endearing about a lot of witnesses is that they will not listen to logical arguments raised by family, friends, or *gasp* apostates, but they will listen to the most contrived and specious arguments that the writing dept.

  can spew forth.. then in the style of swift, i submit a modest proposal for getting past these defenses:.

  distribute an apostate watchtower issue.. we all know exactly how watchtowers look- the size, paper, style of artwork, and phrases used in the writing.

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  The most important feature of such an “alternative” edition of the Watchtower would be some important Web links to sites such as JW Facts, JW Survey, JW Leaks, AJWRB, AAWA, etc. Point people in the right direction so as to be able to make their own decision based on ALL the facts.
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  How would you reason with a JW that it is okay to say Good Luck?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?.

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  Another point: even the most prominent male Jehovah’s Witnesses wear ties bearing the well-known paisley pattern. . . . . But, did you know that even that has definite “pagan origins”? Well, consider this.

  “A design that is many hundreds of years old

  

  The design itself can trace its origins back to Persia and the Sassanid Dynasty, a period of time that stretches back to around 221AD. Its distinctive shape, likened variously to a tear drop, a kidney or even that most exotic of fruit the Mango was originally called “boteh jegheh” and was created as a motif for a religious movement known as Zoroastrianists. The design was supposed to represent the Cypress Tree which was their symbol of everlasting life.

  In Tamil culture, another region famed for it’s love of the pattern, the paisley design is known as Mankolam, as it resembles a Mango. Mango fruit is incredibly highly prized amongst the Tamil, it being a symbol of health, peace and prosperity.”
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  How would you reason with a JW that it is okay to say Good Luck?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?.

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  A substitute circuit overseer whom my folks had over for supper around 1990 used that word “lucky” very nonchalantly in his conversation. He didn’t even seem to realize any issue with that word “luck” in the archaic Watch Tower’s viewpoint.

  So much for all of “God’s people” unitedly towing their party line.