Posts by paradisebeauty

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Disfellowshipping Image

by naazira in

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this photo can be found in the april 15 , study edition article titled:.

why disfellowshipping is a loving provision.

just by looking at this image we can see how quickly the barrier between the congregation and former member is put up, after the announcement that this sister is no longer one of jehovah's witneses.

paradisebeauty

I have not seen happy jw's in my 20 years of knowing them

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Those who were converts from another faith. When did you realize that you were being lied to?

by TTWSYF in

my experiences have included being lied to about what the bible says.

mind you , i am not referring to scripture twisting, i mean out right lying about what is written.. obviously at least some here didn't realize until it was later.. just wondering what others experienced.. thanks.

paradisebeauty

I was baptised 12 years ago. Over the time I saw many things. Some questions came across my mind but just as a wisper, I never really thought of them, not even in my mind, I do not think I even had the courage to formulate those questions in my mind.

Lately I felt even more and more that something is wrong or that I do not get something right. - was not sure which was the case.

I prayed to God to show me what I understand wrongly, where I am wrong.

And later I came across a quotation from a book: the desire for peace and security worldwide, ch 1 par. 16 which says: Jesus is not the mediator between God and all mankind, Jesus is the mediator between God and the 144 000.

I started researching this and I discover this is one of their main doctrine. This is why only the annointed are partaking, only them are considered children of God, only them are part of the congregation of God. They consider this understanding a part of the sacred secred revealed to them.

But this is also a hiden doctrine. They hide it from most JW's. I am sure less of 80% of jw's have no idea of this but this is one of their main doctrine in reality.

In last month's study article they even say other sheeps are saved by the way they treat the annointed ones and by the things they do for them. So, their salvation is by deeds not divine grace.

This doctrine is against everything that the Bible says on God, Crist or true christianity. This is such a distortion of christianity. I wish jw's could understand this.

As I study more I discover more and more doctrines who are not supported by the Bible and more and more things that prove there is no way God would have chosen this org. As His "only" channel of comunication on earth.

They do not give spiritual food, but poisen!.

I am upset with myself for not researching into other sources all this years and just taking as good and valid all they said...

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Convention Tomorrow...

by freemindfade in

kill me.... it's hard to put into words just how badly i do no want to sit through this 3 days of bull $hit.

i will appreciate any and all words of condolence, humorous, serious, or otherwise.

paradisebeauty

Losten to some podcasts:

http://www.stfpodcast.com/File/july2006_newperspectiveon_manifestations.mp3

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Watchtower now Proudly Promoting the DIVINE Jesus

by FusionTheism in

the revised nwt has a footnote on john 1:1 showing that "a god" means "divine.".

also, their other publications are now much more boldly referring to jesus as divine:.

jesus--the way, the life, the truth (2015), page 306-307:.

paradisebeauty

I swear you have to be a freakin retard to be a JW sometimes.

Clambake, since my awakening I am thinking this religion is for spiritual lazy people.

If you do a little research by yourself you see so many misunderstandings in their doctrine.

I never thought of myself as spiritually lazy but if I would have researched a little and not take as valid everything they said I would have never got baptised.

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The monthly broadcast as an opportunity to wake up

by paradisebeauty in

i was thinking that maybe the monthly broadcasts are a occasion for some jw's to wake up.

before those broadcasts they probably imagined that the gobgoverning y members are some very special peopleand that you see in their behavior and words that they are "chosen".

but now all jw's can see them for who they really are: average men, some full of themselves, some ridiculous, some just normal men with nothing special.

paradisebeauty

I was thinking that maybe the monthly broadcasts are a occasion for some jw's to wake up.

Before those broadcasts they probably imagined that the gobgoverning y members are some very special peopleand that you see in their behavior and words that they are "chosen".

But now all jw's can see them for who they really are: average men, some full of themselves, some ridiculous, some just normal men with nothing special.

Maybe some jw's will ask themselves why they should obey these men without question.

Do you think this is possible ?

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NOT on JW.org: Huffington Post interview with Director of new movie about Jehovahs' Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

by Balaamsass2 in

danielle tumminio become a fan .

episcopal priest, life coach, and author of 'god and harry potter at yale'.

email.

paradisebeauty

I like this, and it is true:

No one has a monopoly on the truth and a healthy discussion about religion needs vagueness -- room to contemplate the wonderment and mystery of the unknowable.

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Return to Jehovah Photo

by naazira in

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friends

this picture is in the new publication from this year's convention, titled "return to jehovah".

part 1the lost one i will search for.

personally, the animal looks scared of the shepherd.

paradisebeauty

If they really wanted people to return they should stop that stupid rule of shunning ex members!

That rule is not Biblical.

They have that rule because they are afraid ex members will tell current members TTATT and will expose them.

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Last sunday study article: you are saved by helping Christ's anointed brothers

by paradisebeauty in

in the last article of march watchtower - study edition they make some affirmations that are totally in contradiction with what the gospel says:.

paragraph 7: .

and what of the reason why people will be judged as either sheep or goats?

paradisebeauty

In the last article of march watchtower - study edition they make some affirmations that are totally in contradiction with what the gospel says:

paragraph 7:

And what of the reason why people will be judged as either sheep or goats? The outcome hinges on how they have treated the remaining ones of Christ’s spirit-anointed brothers on earth.

So people are not saved by grace, they are not saved because of Jesus Christ's sacrifice! they are saved because of their deeds. More exactly the good deeds they do for the anointed ones.

What??? This teaching sounds so Pharisaic and anti christian! Not even Paul or the other disciples said something like this. How can they say this?

And how come most jw's see nothing wrong with these kind of statements?

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Jehovah's Witnesses and Plastic Surgery?

by John Aquila in

in my area, a lot of the young jws, especially girls are getting breast implants, nose jobs, chin implants.

asian jws girls get eyelid surgery, and one girl even got her legs lengthen 5 inches making her about five feet nine inches tall the male jws are getting hair transplants and nose jobs.

and nobody in the congregation says a word, including elders.

paradisebeauty

Really?

Where I live is very rare.

I've done some surgery and everyone was like WHAT??? HOWW??? WHYYY? How could she???How dares she?

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2015 convention releases

by paradisebeauty in

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-convention-releases-2015/.

stephen lett speaks again in the beginning of the movie ... please smb make him shut up and go hide himself.

can they not see how ridiculous he is?.

paradisebeauty

About the new movie ... they portray how horrible lives live have the ones who marry nonwitnesses.

But the reality is, couples where both are jw's are not much happier.