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  How was it when you were a JW as a kid?

  by nevaagain in

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  whats worse than being an adult jw?

  when i was a kid i always had a bad concience all the time.

  i believed i would not survive armageddon for the fact that i didn't like going to service and i didnt like going to the meetings.

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  Hardly

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  INSPIRED ERROR: new phrase among JW CO

  by wannaexit in

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  there is no end to their madness.

  the co gave a talk on inspired error.

  i have never heard of it.

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  I recently sat through this nauseating talk. When I heard the title I thought wow okay they are finally going to come clean about the inspired error of the GB. How stupid I was in thinking this.

  It's pretty sinister the way the CO linked demons to viewing negative information concerning the WTS.

  Then he goes on and on about the GB existing in Biblical times. He did admit that the phrase did not appear in the Bible but he insisted that spiritual instructions did originate from a "body" of elders and apostles like the circumcision problem.

  It took some restraint on my part to sit through that garbage. Him and his wife are definitely company material. He further said that the Bible should be used to confirm the teachings. I thought to myself "exactly!"
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  Jehovahs Witnesses and the Name , HOW Important. ?

  by smiddy in

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  jehovah`s witnesses place great emphasis on the importance of god`s name as jehovah .so much so that they are often accused by christendom`s religions as substituting jehovah for christ.. the old testament ( hebrew scriptures identify god as the tetragrammaton four hebrew consanants yhwh and not jhvh.

  as mistakenly believed by a 13th century spanish monk .. modern scholars including the j.w.`s agree that the more accurate pronunciation of gods name would be more nearer to yahweh than the name jehovah .. so why do j.w.`s insist on the name ?

  jehovah ?

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  I don't have a problem with the name Jehovah being that Bibles for many, many years, have clearly used the name 'Jesus' and other similar Biblical names that all the same utilize the 'Je' prefix. Names like Jeremiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoram, etc. And all of these names connotate Jehovah in some form.

  I do have a problem with the abusive nature in which the WTS uses the name Jehovah. Even using the name in places where Jesus' name rightfully should be in the Bible.
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  An incident was reported to me at a cong near me.

  by poopie in

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  this df persons walks up to the cood and says i would like to give you my reinstatement letter because i have been attending meetings here ,the cood says do not give me that letter i need to observe you first then you can rurn in letter i ask my friend is that something new?

  the person only wants to return because they want to speak to there mother and father and siblings so thats the resl reason but now they have to sit and wait for this elder to observe them what hypocrites.

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  "Power wears out those who don't have it."

  The only power elders have is the one we give them.
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  A nuclear war take place and a 1/3 of the world population is wiped from the face of the earth.

  by James Mixon in

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  how many of you would return to jehovah, wt?

  better yet, how many jws would walk???.

  i do believe it will happen one day....

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  Well the first thing I would do is pray for the sincere brethren who are still associating with the WTS due to still having family connections.

  Shortly thereafter, I would hope, not pray, sincerely hope, that every single piece of machinery, computer, laptop, building, and office, that is dedicated to printing WTS material including that piece of crap NWT translation, if you can call it that, has been blown to bits and completely in ashes.
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  Just read this on JW Talk......

  by WHATSGOINGON in

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  just saw this on the public area of jwtalk (i am not a member).

  here is the link.. http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/23523-privvy-news/.

  such a shame - i do feel for these ones - i just don't know what to say.... wgo.

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  I had never visited the site before. Boy oh boy I felt very strange reading the comments. It shocks me to see the naiveness of the brethren. I don't feel angry just sad that they don't see the Watchtower for what it truly is.
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  Intriguing - but Unsubstantiated!

  by The Searcher in

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  according to one source on a western european 'apostate' website, the org's plan is to abandon the name "jehovah's witnesses" in the future, and replace it with "worshippers of jehovah.".

  http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/fixnews/#comment-4313 .

  the gist of the account appears to be a repeat of rutherford's re-branding and debunking of old predictions made by the previous shower of fakers.

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  If true, it wouldn't change much.

  The GB could change the name to The Holy of Jehovah or Jehovah's Monkey Show and it still wouldn't comply with Scripture:

  Daniel 7:13-14 " .....I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him.
  14 To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed."
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  Evidence of God.

  by Jaewook kim in

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  sugar water will show blue light over the sun.. salt water will show red light over the sun.. our body components, salt sugar water.. blue blood vein and red blood... definition of our body in his form.. this is the evidence, of our god..

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  God does exist however, the evidence is not quite the way you describe it.
  
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  This was a message I sent to a zealous witness in Chile who formerly had blocked me

  by joe134cd in

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  below is a message i sent to a witness in chile.

  i have included it in its raw form with spelling mistakes included.

  i was deep in thought this evening so i thought i would ask you directly to get your honest opinion on it, and i guess if you block me then that's ok.. seriously were you totally unaware that the chilean flag is placed inside the kingdom halls to avoid having to pay a fine during fiestas patrias celebrations (september 18-19).

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  So this person unblocked you after this note?

  As Giordano mentions, anything that even resembles an attach against their Org would immediately trigger their cult personality to block anything else you wrote down.

  The mind conditioning is incredible.
  
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  Living forever

  by jws in

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  someone on facebook posted john 3:16 where it says people will live forever.. not that i believe it, but i just cannot imagine this.

  this, to me, would be the true hell.. if i'm very lucky, i will live to be 100. at nearly half that, already some parts of life no longer hold much interest to me.

  even tv shows.

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  Tenacious

  If death was something we looked forward to after living a full and satisfying life, we wouldn't fear it or dread it.

  That's not to say that there are not many people who after living what they consider in the context of today's world, a full and satisfying life, who wouldn't look forward to resting in death. Yet, the majority of humans would have liked to have had more time to do many more things hence the bucket list was born.

  I agree with Village Idiot in that, and this is considering planets and stars still, to this day, continue to be formed, we might eventually become space travelers exploring other planets, stars, and galaxies.

  It's impossible for God, who designed and created humans, to be unable to please his created species for eternity. Scripture does say God will make sure we are in need of nothing.
  

  This is the way I see it; If I took an ant from my front yard and set it free to roam my front yard then the neighbors, how long would it take it? What would that ant encounter during the voyage? Let's say that after about a few thousand years the ant finally completes their voyage and exploration of planet earth. The only thing that is left for exploration and voyage is our solar system comprised of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (still a planet when I attended school). So after many more thousand years, that ant finally completes this journey. The only thing that is left is the rest of our Milky Way galaxy which is roughly 100k light years across. This completion bear in mind, does not include the intimate exploration of different animal and plant species which are in the thousands. That alone, adds many, many more thousands of years.
  

  Yeah, I'm very, very comfortable with living forever.