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Beware jw Propaganda Part 2
by rockhound in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the august 22, 1978

awake!

published the article "do others do your thinking?
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Beware JW Propaganda!!
by rockhound in
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2. beliefs
worldly.

worldly people .

satan.
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Am I a bad person to ask Why?
by rockhound in
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2. beliefs
in the light of thinking that i am a person of reason, having a measure of good sense, and not wanting to go against the flow of the main stream, i now look back and wonder "why did it take me 40 years to wake up and smell the roses" about the organization?

when the big fiasco, and i mean big fiasco, of 1975 came and went, didn't i know down deep that i had been chasing "parked cars" spiritually?

with my spiritual nose bleeding i just hung in there with the rest and didn't make a fuss.
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Tsunamis out ????
by rockhound in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this past week is surely one all will remember.

one day a tropical "paradise", and the next day a death trap for over 150,000 people.

are the huge plates really going to stop pushing on one another so that there would be no danger to "paradise"?
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In "The Truth"?
by rockhound in
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2. beliefs
while at assemblies we would often see friends" in the truth", and one of the questions they would almost always ask is, are your kids still "in the truth"?

it seemed the thing to ask, with so many falling away from" the truth".

reflecting on that expression "in the truth" i think that most witneses feel as i did, that the watchtower had pretty much cornered the market on "truth" from god's word, hence the feeling that if we stayed close the the watchtower organization, we without doubt had,or were in, or were closely associated with "the truth" .
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In "The
by rockhound in
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2. beliefs
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Where's the beef?
by rockhound in
1. watchtower
2. bible
jehovahs witnesses look to their watchtower magazine each week for new light that would set the course for current "truth".

in looking back over the last 40 years of my association, "new lights" batteries ran out many times and had to be replaced with even newer ones.

some how this made sense to me at the time, but as time past, i began to wonder just how these "new light" articles could be called meat in due season.
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Fearing the Pain
by rockhound in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
after the death of her witness father, a dear friend of ours told us her mother, in deep depression, said "this wasn't supposed to happen.the new system should have come by now" .

depression is not unique to this heart broken sister.

a witness in our old hall was out in service one day with four pioneer sisters.
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Quotations from the past
by rockhound in
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2. beliefs
it occured to me last evening, while reading "famous quotes", that if the word government was replaced by the word religion, how many of these quotations would apply to the watchtower society and it's members.. we will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

--dr. martin luther king jr. .

the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Creative days
by rockhound in
1. watchtower
2. bible
genesis records that on the fifth creative day, the waters of the earth would teem with living creatures, and every winged bird would fill the sky.

at the beginning of the sixth creataive day, all the creatures that move along the ground were created.

keeping these texts in mind, i'd like to share with you some of my observations about this wonderful earth that have convinced me that the creative days of genesis were far longer than the 7,000 year long periods we were taught as jehovah's witnesses.