If there really was a place called "Blazes" they the GB would be their bowing on their fingers and toes.
Cheetos
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Has the Watchtower ever officially LIED?
by Dead Man Joaquin inno, i'm not here to defend them.
but you know how they love to get off on technicalities.
i'm sure all here would agree that the wt is extremely evasive, misleading, and intellectually dishonest (i.e.
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Jesus and Discreet Slave WT QFR ?? Help
by aniron ini seem to recall a question from readers "what did jesus mean when he said his "faithful slave" would be "discreet?".
can anyone tell me the date of the wt it was in or direct me to where it is on forum.. .
thanks .
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Cheetos
Um, the word ("Discreet") now ask your self with all that you know of the ones who call them selfs the ("discreet") slave do they fit this; notice how it says that to be discreet you must be free from ostentation here is the difinition of osentation also:
os·ten·ta·tion
( ¼ s " t µ n-t ³" sh … n, -t … n-) n. 1. Pretentious display meant to impress others; boastful showiness. 2. Archaic. The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition.dis·creet
(d ¹ -skr ¶ t " ) adj. 1. Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect. 2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest. --dis·creet " ly adv.--dis·creet " ness n. -
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Suicide
by Nicolas ini know it's a touchy subject, but anyone here has ever thought of suicide while they were still in the organization?
it seem to me that jehovah's witnesses have a much higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population.
i contemplated suicide myself when i was struggling to get piece of my life back together after being raised as a "perfect little jw" when i was young.
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Cheetos
Oh yes, I think most people have thought of it at some time. Always keep in mind that suicide is like walking through a door that has only one door knob. But as far as it relates to Jehovah god, he looks into the hart, do not listion to the witness dogma about if someone commits suicide that he through Christ will not remember him or her, if your having thoughts about suicide first talk to a friend and pray to Jehovah then talk to your doctor, (don't bother with talking to elders they are mostly mallet heads) cause it can sneek up on you even if you think your not serious so get help, coming from someone who knows.
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Why can't Witnesses Gamble? There's nothing in the bible about it!!!
by Witness 007 inif caught in any form of gambling you will be disfellowshiped!!!!!
the principles are "gambling is greedy and selfish, putting faith in the goddess of good luck.
" this is lame!
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Cheetos
Because they again, like to control other peoples actions and if you let them shame on you!
I love to play slotts from time to time, and go to a casino and eat at the buffet on fish night, and drink lots of beer and if I am winning big on a slott I will tip the waitress to go get me a good cigar. I won a lot of money playing two dollar machines I always won good on colored Lucky Sevens" and Double Dimond Double Spin".
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SURVEY: Who Believes In "God"?
by minimus inand by that i mean the supreme being or jehovah or jesus or buddah or whatever you might consider to be "god".
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Found= Rose Ball's Bible Students group! Still going in Australia 2007!
by Witness 007 inrose ball was russell's "step-daughter," his wife later claimed in divorce court, that russell had an "inapropriate" relationship with her.
before this rose had married australia branch servant hennings and moved to melbourne...however.
{yearbook 83 p.40-43} "in 1908 there was upheaval in australia {watch 1910} branch organiser hennings defected and carried the bulk of the melbourne class with him...brother russell apionted r. nicholson as branch servant.".
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Cheetos
This is intereting information about her father:
Charles Taze Russell?
Claims have been made that "Pastor" Russell (1852/02/16 -1916/10/31), founder of the International Bible Students Association — forerunner of the Jehovah ’ s Witnesses — was a freemason; that the banner on the front of early issues of the Watchtower contained masonic symbols; and that Russell ’ s gravestone bears a masonic cross and crown symbol.Russell was not a freemason. Neither the symbols found in the Watchtower nor the cross and crown symbol are exclusively masonic. And the cross and crown symbol does not appear on his gravestone in the Rosemont United Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — it appears on a memorial erected some years later.
In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after the style of our masonic brethren." He further develops this idea: "true Bible believers may or may not belong to the masonic fraternity, but they are all masons of the highest order, since they are being fashioned, chiselled and polished by the Almighty to be used as living stones in the Temple Built Without Hands. They are free from sin, and therefore accepted by the God of Heaven as fit stones for the heavenly Temple." Later in this address, Russell stated quite clearly that "I have never been a mason." Those who claim Russell was a freemason quote this address out of context without noting the rhetorical imagery.
Although Russell wrote about the pyramids and the Knights Templar, the pyramids are not a part of Freemasonry and Russell ’ s understanding of the relationship between the modern Knights Templar and Freemasonry displays an outsider ’ s ignorance of both organizations.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry03.html#mason
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My nana passed away tonight.
by Es ini receieved an sms of my mum saying nan was slipping away i literally called as soon as i got the msg, and she had already passed away.
things were looking up for a bit, we were managing to get some water and food into her and she had accepted to have a tube put in her, they tried last night but it was unsuccessful.. when i saw her on saturday it was the most alert she was, sunday she had very laboured breathing and tonight when my mum go into the hosp, my nan was no responsive, it was like she just waited for my mum to come in and then she passed away.. im in shock, even tho i knew it was coming it was looking hopeful for a bit there.. thanks for your support.
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Cheetos
Rest assured she will live again. For everone who has ever lived and then died will live again.
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What's wrong with JW's in a nutshell.
by JeffT ini was pondering this after an aa meeting the other day.
a couple of the 12 steps involve working constantly to improve our conscious contact with god.
they do not seek him out, go into a guide place to seek his guidence.
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Cheetos
It consist of one big word "organization" you basically worship organizatioin" more than god, they say they have to be organized well no kidding Sherlock, but you don't have to inject it into the baptism talk along with the Holly Spirit and Jehovah God. And of couse add to that all of Ruthorford's delightful rules that he taught was from god him self. Take away these two things and you got basicly the modern day Bible Students".
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Should I Keep Any Of These Watchtowers and Awakes?
by Justitia Themis ini am cleaning out a room.
i have loose copies of the following years worth of magazines.
should i keep any of these issues?
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