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  JW's - lack of knowledge of their own beliefs

  by Illuminated in

  1. watchtower
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  why are so many jehovah's witnesses unaware of their own beliefs.

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  i would imagine the repetitive meetings, studies and door to door knocking would firmly root them in their beliefs.. yet, i've observed they either back out of challenging questions at times, or share a link to jay w org.. .

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  I remember back in the 1970s that some JWs did not have a full understanding of all doctrines (Particularly the rationale for the 1914 doctrine). However, they had a simple grasp of the basic doctrines like soul and hell and some would be able to do some basic proof texting, though for the most part they had to rely on a publication to provide them a biblical verse.

  I hear it's worse now but I figure that almost everything about the Watchtower has gotten worse.

  It's possible that the Watchtower, realizing this, might have come up with the idea of having their teachings easily available in Internet form in order to bypass the ignorance of their members. 
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  JW.org and recruitment

  by Illuminated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you believe the marketing of jay w org will convert more people or help inactive ones remain indoctrinated?

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  A pamphlet is all it took to hook me in at the age of 13. So I figure that some of the very young as well as naïve adults will respond.

  Unfortunate. 
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  Meaningful Study

  by Awake at last in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i never thought i would be commenting, let alone starting a new topic in the category of bible research and study.

  anyone reading my comments on this site would have realised that i am the most unspiritual person to have ever stepped foot inside a kh.

  yet for the first time in my life, on saturday night, i did some meaningful bible study/research, on my own without a wtbts publication in sight, except the nwt bible.

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  I don't think I can remember a single Watchtower lesson from the hundreds I've 'studied'.
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  anyone want 2013 wt library cd? or old books?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my mom brought me a bag of literiture that her khall was going to throw away.

  apparently they are not 'placeable' anymore, hmmm.. she cant stand to see those books tossed out like 'garbage' so here i go, .

  in ths bad was 5 brand new in the plastic wt 2013 library cds.

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  "ok books are getting tossed in the attic,"

  Ahhh, that could be a fire hazard.  
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  troll_R_stupid

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a guide to getting people to take you seriously - 10 tips for all you dummies.

  ) do your best to insult everyone's intelligence and upset them as much as possible.

  personal attacks are especially effective at getting people on your side..

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  Village Idiot

  11) Be full of yourself.
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  How do flood apologists explain these?

  by marmot in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  spear points dating to thousands of years before the flood (or even adam's alleged creation, for that matter) found preserved in situ among mammoth bones in naco, arizona.. or the 14,000 year-old footprint of a child at a mammoth hunting camp unearthed in a bog in monte verde, chile:.

  the kicker is that this isn't even the oldest evidence for human settlement of the americas.

  since the wt loves to trot out frozen mammoth carcasses as "proof" that mammoths died in the flood, who were these mammoth eaters in north america?

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  Perry, http://ncse.com/cej/3/2/answers-to-creationist-attacks-carbon-14-dating

  In the article above you will find the reason why mussels cannot be dated but other fossils can. The situation with mussels is very different than with other creatures.

  Try reading scientific answers to creationists (Mostly Young Earth Creationists at that).

  This is also an excellent book about scientific answers to creationists. Over 500 oversized pages of fine print dedicated to almost every creationist argument:

   Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy.                                 

   

   
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  LuckyNun is back

  by LuckyNun in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  long time no see.. so, since i last posted on here, jws drove my sister to attempt suicide again (she failed, but it was close) and drove my close childhood friend to actually commit suicide.

  i too kmy sister in and helped her recover.

  i think she's going to pull through.

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  LisaRose: "I would write a letter to everyone who lives near you parents saying that a child molester lives in the neighborhood and they should not let their children visit anyone unsupervised."

  That could bring on a police investigation and get her in trouble. 
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  LuckyNun is back

  by LuckyNun in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  long time no see.. so, since i last posted on here, jws drove my sister to attempt suicide again (she failed, but it was close) and drove my close childhood friend to actually commit suicide.

  i too kmy sister in and helped her recover.

  i think she's going to pull through.

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  Hi Tanya,

  I'm sorry to hear about what happened to you and your sister and friend. Have you ever thought of filing charges against your father? And don't be afraid of going to a funeral because you might be let in. Confront them instead.

  Anyways, welcome back. 
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  The boy who came back from heaven (the book), a hoax.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  oh really.

  the boy was six year old when he said he was in heaven with the angels.

  now he admit it was made up for attention..

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  Village Idiot

  My grandmother was about 5 when she had a vision of angels going up to God. She was suffering from a near fatal infection of Yellow Fever with a high temperature. These 'visions' are nothing more than the feverish creations of a traumatized brain. They are common particularly in hospitals.
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  Critical Thinking from the Wife !!

  by TTATTelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the other day i had a couple of drinks and went off on the gb (again), about how they are just posturing and have no clue.

  i said if they knew what they were talking about we would already be in the new world, but we're not ..so they dont...the end.. well i got some push back as would be expected, but what surprised me was what she said a little later.

  firstly she didn't pay attention to the public talk this past sunday and instead read an article in a watchtower on stress.

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  Village Idiot

  Hi Faye, 

  Another example that I would use is pointing out the numerous galaxies of the universe that have been photographed in the process of crashing into each other. These events are highly destructive with stars and their planets being ripped out of their orbits by the intense gravity of these objects crashing together.

  So the question is: Why does God crash galaxies one against the other? Why did he create them only to ruin them? Isn't God a god of order not of disorder - 1 Corinthians 14:33.

   

    

  By the way, welcome to the forum.