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YOU MIGHT BE A J.W.

by brandnew in

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if getting ready means putting on a suit........ you might be a j.w.. if going out to the field has nothing to do with grass, baseball diamonds, or football ......... you might be a j.w.. please continue my friends.......i know ya got some.....; ).

Village Idiot

If a woman pulls a sweater over her head (in substitute of a veil) when a man walks in while she is studying the Bible with someone.

Yes, that happened to me.

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Keep Seeking Jehovah's Righteousness! Assembly

by Maralee in

if anyone should get the recording of this special day assembly will you share it with me?

thank you, maralee

Village Idiot

@ OUTLAW: "Is there a Reward for anyone who finds it?!"

You'll get to pet lions, isn't that reward enough?

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Fun with the book of Job

by sowhatnow in

fun with the book of jobjob ch 1 vs4 they celebrated birthdays.

] and it was several days long...new international version4 his sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.orother version...4 his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

[how would a jw twist the following scripture that says job offered a sin offering in case the sinned...]5.after a series of banquet days was complete, job would send for them in order to sanctify them.

Village Idiot

sowhatnow:

"lol, so nobody wants to touch the dragon thing? or that God for 'no reason' let satan torture Job?"

God did have a (wretched) reason to allow Satan to torture and devastate Job. Satan challenged him indicating that Job would not hold faithful if his wealth was gone. God was trying to prove that he would have remained faithful no matter what. It was an ego trip for God.

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who are this lot ?

by stan livedeath in

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http://www.friendsofjehovahswitnesses.com/about/

Village Idiot

@ stan livedeath:

"just out of idle curiosity--how many russell offshoot religions are there still going ? i dont think the WTS would lay claim to him any more."

By the way, I forget which one of the Bible Students organization I got it from but I purchased the bound volumes of the Watchtower from the beginning to 1916 (When Russell died.) as well as the Dawn series of the latest edition.

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

by Simon in

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(the david bowie song in case you're wondering).

there seems to be a lot of talk and speculation about the changes that are coming at the next district conventions.

there have certainly been quite a few articles and talks (esp.

Village Idiot

Nitty-Gritty:

"If you keep searching you may get it right one day, if you don’t search you will never find....my thought anyway."

Like the broken clock that's right twice a day? Anyone can get anything right by simply talking up a storm. One out of a thousand things he might say could come out to be semi-correct. No need for chronological voodoo.

As I pointed out above Russell had an atypical view of things in which 1914 would be the end of the end not the beginning of the end. The most embarrassing thing was his prediction that no war would occur in Europe or - hedging his bet - it would be a minor war before 1905. It was in 1905 that he once more changed his predictions.

As for Russell "always" placing a disclaimer on his predictions I remember reading his book The Time is at Hand where it emphatically said:

"True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved; but we are living in a special and peculiar time, the "Day of Jehovah," in which matters culminate quickly..."

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What could you have been if you were never a JW?

by minimus in

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oh, the possibilities!

there is a lot of wasted talent.

Village Idiot

I quit High School in 11th grade to pioneer. Had I never been in the religion I would have become a paleoanthropologist - the study of prehistoric humans. Not the most lucrative of careers but it would have been the love of my life.

Speaking of evolution, the JWs are proof that not all evolution leads to an advanced state of being.

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The bible has lost its validity...

by ADJUSTMENTS in

the bible has lost its luster during this age of information so many real truths have been brought to light with the help of the internet, that the bible just isn't looked upon the same if at all anymore.

if you can still cling to the bible after thorough research then "god bless you"!

(no pun intended).

Village Idiot

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

...

“EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

“Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”

Thomas Paine The Age of Reason, The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume IV. Pages 22-23.

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YOU MIGHT BE A J.W.

by brandnew in

jw
friends

if getting ready means putting on a suit........ you might be a j.w.. if going out to the field has nothing to do with grass, baseball diamonds, or football ......... you might be a j.w.. please continue my friends.......i know ya got some.....; ).