Posts by mineralogist

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Warning to the Watch Tower - Mirror of Truth

by phoibos_2 in

they will never prevent the truth about their satanic religion.

http://watchtower-quotes.ath.cx/ .

keep cool .

mineralogist

It seems the site was run by a well known troll on www.sektenausstieg.net and therefore it wasn't the phoibos from there. I just banned the troll from our forum and a couple of minutes later his site was shut down.

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Warning to the Watch Tower - Mirror of Truth

by phoibos_2 in

they will never prevent the truth about their satanic religion.

http://watchtower-quotes.ath.cx/ .

keep cool .

mineralogist

Hi fairchild, so what is the second mirror you mentioned?

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Bible reading without the WT filter

by watch the tower in

you know even though i think the wt doctrine is mostly all garbage now, i still do believe that the bible is inspired from our creator.

the flaw in my understanding of it in the past was because i was interpreting it through the filter of the wts.

recently i have started clean slate and read the bible without the wt filter (easier said than done, your mind has a way of reverting back to what was programmed in there).

mineralogist

I bought a study bible while i examined the WT teaching but didn't really start to read it after my DFing. I layed it away but surely miss the feeling of having a relationship with god. It is now one year after leaving the JW and i think it would be good to read without WT-sight. But how to start? I don't know.

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"Jehovahs Witnesses" on Wikipedia the online encyclopedia

by JustTickledPink in

jw
friends

for those of you familiar with wikipedia, you can get the answer to almost any question.

it's the greatest online encyclopedia and reference.. for curiosity sake, i looked up "jehovah's witnesses" and came up with this link.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jehovas_witnesses.

not only does it do a pretty good job of outlining what jws are about, it also mentions they are suffering from a decline in numbers in developed lands.

mineralogist

Just fight for your changes with reference material. If it gets deleted reinsert it and ask for reasons on the discussion page. It might take some effort but it is possible.

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"Jehovahs Witnesses" on Wikipedia the online encyclopedia

by JustTickledPink in

jw
friends

for those of you familiar with wikipedia, you can get the answer to almost any question.

it's the greatest online encyclopedia and reference.. for curiosity sake, i looked up "jehovah's witnesses" and came up with this link.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jehovas_witnesses.

not only does it do a pretty good job of outlining what jws are about, it also mentions they are suffering from a decline in numbers in developed lands.

mineralogist

Are JWs specifically disallowed from celebrating Thanksgiving?

Even in germany, where it is completly different.

But back on the wikipedia article... EVERYONE go OVER there! contribute more to it. Make sure its complete and factual!

Oh yes - don't let the JWs take over the article for PR. And don't forget: wikipedia is in lots of languages (i'm busy with the german)

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Pioneer Book

by ScaryHairy in

jw
friends

i was wondering if anyone had the pioneer book, whats in it ?

i am just curious cause no one else beside pioneers are suspose to see it.

anyone know if it is availible online somewhere ?.

mineralogist

I don't know what's in it, even if my wife owns one. As a dub i thought it's not for me, and now i'm no longer interested.

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The Anointed, the Numbers and the GB

by thinker in

have you ever considered the anointed, the number of partakers at the memorial and the governing body together?

if you examine the number of partakers you can clearly see that sometimes the numbers increase.

i asked some jws about this and their reply was, "those are replacements for unfaithful ones".

mineralogist

I think you looked at the wrong column.

The column dosn't matter as before 1935 all at the memorial have been partakers.

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The Anointed, the Numbers and the GB

by thinker in

have you ever considered the anointed, the number of partakers at the memorial and the governing body together?

if you examine the number of partakers you can clearly see that sometimes the numbers increase.

i asked some jws about this and their reply was, "those are replacements for unfaithful ones".

mineralogist

If anyone can help fill in the blanks, it would be appreciated.

Have a look at this table: http://www.sektenausstieg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=310&Itemid=29

headline reads: year / peak / avrg / baptism / pionier / congo / hours / rv / studies / memorial / partaker
(of course before 1935 memorial equals partaker)

1925 they had 90,434(!) annointed

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