Topics Started by singlebaby

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WHY has the Governing Body become what it has become? History shows the way . . .
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if a human being has the desire to worship god, what could possibly stand in the way?.

thousands of years ago tribes and nations used imagination to figure this out.. early humans made humble offers to the gods to curry favor and (perhaps) to bribe them.. offerings of food, prayers, and even blood were used to convince the supernatural realm of a sincere desire to negotiate favor and protection.. we all know this already, don't we?.

step one: wooing a deity : offer something to god in return for a benefit.. _______________________________.
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Still nothing credible?
by Separation of Powers in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i can hardly believe that anything new is gonna be announced at the annual meeting.

i mean, there is absolutely no one i know in this organization capable of keeping a secret and we haven't heard anything but "big changes are coming" "just wait and see" "big things are in the works" and my personal favorite posted by one of our members who was told not to diassociate because "things are gonna be announced that will change your mind".. no one i know at the hall or in positions of responsibilty has ever been able to keep anything confidential.

it's always been like the character on in lving color, "i aint one to gossip...but you didn't hear that from me.".
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October 2nd, 2014: The World Ends Tomorrow, Taking all Bets!
by Oubliette in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on october 2, 1914, charles taze russell, founder of the watchtower, announced that the gentile times have ended!.

tomorrow will be exactly 100 years since his historic announcment.. to commemorate this centennial occasion, i will gladly take bets in any amount of money that the world will not end tomorrow and that on friday, october 3rd, 2014 gmt, we will still all be here, for better or worse.. any die-hard jws interested in taking the other side of this friendly little wager?

still hoping the big "a" is coming tomorrow and your loving god, jehovah, is going to commit mass genocide and execute 99.9% of earth's population because they don't follow the dictates the 7 members of the "faithful and discreet slave," aka, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses?.
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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users
by Londo111 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.

it seems that the wts legal dept.

has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.
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JW's and depression
by FeelingFree in
1. jw
2. friends
i was wondering how many of you suffered badly with depression when you were in "the truth" and if you feel your depression was related to being part of the organisation?

are you better now you have left or still have issue's?

whatever your experience's i would be very intrested to know (if you feel you can talk about it.).
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Where Are You on The Witno Scale?
by tresdecu in
1. jw
2. friends
1 - still think it's the truth ...came to this site cause danger is your middle name.. 2 - concerned, smoething's amiss but still believe.

3 - 98% sure it's bs, but still go for / with family.

4 - anger / denial, inactive with minimal attendance (ie memorial, spec talk etc).
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Will JW.ORG actually harm the WT Society Long Term ?
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
my son and i were discussing this yesterday over coffee.

since the wt society in previous years virtually demonized going on the internet at all for jw's - now wt leaders are doing a complete turn around or about face probably so as to " compete " or keep up with all the anti-jw websites that are out there to give the wt society point of view.. however- it very well may backfire on them as once people start doing google searches looking for jw.org it will bring up all the other websites dealing with any jw issues and in the privacy of their own homes out of curiosity i'm sure lots of jw's are going to want to check out some of these sites to see what all the " apostate " hoopla is all about.

i wonder how many jw's will do this and will it have an effect in opening more minds to other views ?
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Possible Way For FDS / WTS To Stop Power of TTATT
by singlebaby in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so hello to all you veterans.

i have thought of a way that the slave may publish a wt in the near future to stop any efforts to .

teach the truth about the truth (ttatt).
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Well, IT HAS BEGUN. See the future of the WTBTS in print.
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hate to read the wt, but i skimmed the july 15 study edition.

i found many examples of propaganda, of course, but a couple things really stood out.

1) the future of the preaching work.
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That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in
1. jw
2. friends
leaving the university with my degree!.

exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!