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  The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

  by Generation Me in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

  it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

  mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

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  Oops, my question was already answered above before I could post.
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  Oregon, Hillsboro Tribune, Article: Jehovah's Witness sex abuse case in feds' hands

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.pamplinmedia.com/ht/117-hillsboro-tribune-news/255785-125363-jehovahs-witness-sex-abuse-case-in-feds-hands.

  lawsuit seeks $10.5 million from hillsboro church, watchtower society .

  attorneys for a 40-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man who say they were sexually abused nearly 30 years ago by a church elder in hillsboro want to have a lawsuit filed by the pair last fall placed back in state court jurisdiction.

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  I'm wondering why the Watchtower would even keep any records and not destroy them. All they have to do would be to deny such papers exist.
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  Some Questions About Jesus

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why didn't jesus ever write anything?

  why are there no letters to jesus?

  no painting of jesus from that time?

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  "Why didn't Jesus ever write anything?"

  He never thought he would have followers into the indefinite future. He didn't even think there was going to be a future except for "The kingdom of heaven" which was imminent.

  "Why are there no letters to Jesus?"

  Why write to him if you were following him?

  "No painting of Jesus from that time? No busts or sculptures?"

  Paintings and busts are made of historically important people which Jesus was not until the Christian church took control a couple hundred years later. Then they made plenty of paintings of him though none are likely to be realistic.

  "How is it that Paul, a man who never met Jesus, became the founder of the Christian church?"

  The same way Jesus got his followers. Through force of personality.

  "Is Jesus a man turned legend? Or just a myth all together?"

  Legend but not myth. These religions are always founded by a charismatic individual who makes a deep impression on his followers.
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  In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

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  @ notsurewheretogo,

  "These materializations occur by a power which the demons posess of being able to draw out of the mediums body connected streams of the cells of which her body is composed, and then changing the form of these living cells into any desired appearance."

  In the world of the paranormal that is known as ectoplasm. The image below shows what these 'spirit mediums' are doing. It's fake of course and the Witchtower falls for it.

  
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  Embarrassing relatives.

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my cousin phoned yesterday to tell me my jw sister sent her a sympathy card for her husband's death and tucked inside there was something else, she lowered her voice.

  what was it i wondered?

  a nice letter, pictures of her new grandchild (she lives many miles away)?

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  "Didn't trust myself to speak."

  I have bitten my tongue on quite a few occasions but in retrospect I always regretted it. Those people should know where we stand and exactly what we think of them.
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  More Anointed Join the ranks

  by paulmolark in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was an elder we had a sister who was known for providing oral pleasures to some people in the congo.

  i was on the committee.

  this girl for some odd reason was put on public reproof 4 times for the same thing.

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  For some reason the theological term Godhead comes to mind.
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  Christian self-righteousness

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  doesn't matter what brand of christianity - this cartoon says it all:.

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  Good cartoon. You can fill in just about any other religion like Buddhism or Hindu or even *gasp* Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  I admit it, I believe in evolution.

  by Louise in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after leaving the dub religion behind, i read everything that i could get my hands on, be it about other religions, beliefs, gods, occult, evolution - you name it - i read it.

  i did this to 'catch up' and to educate myself, so that when i can to a decision it would be an intellectual / educational one.

  not just because some book or person told me to believe it.. i have over time and with reading aids come to totally believe and accept evolution.

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  Ain't Grandma beautiful?

  
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  Indiana "Religious Freedom" (right to discriminate)

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".

  "oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?

  you're fired!"..

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  EndofMysteries,

  "...initially the 'activists' were going for equal rights, not trying to force anybody or shove things down throat, peacefully and decently winning over support. Then suddenly laws start getting changed and they start getting more rights."

  Their aggressiveness is the result of decades worth of resentment at how they've been treated in the past.

  "Tons of people and businesses who'll love getting tons of extra business from others turning down gay clients."

  That's not likely to happen in a small one store town.
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  Indiana "Religious Freedom" (right to discriminate)

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".

  "oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?

  you're fired!"..

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  Cofty,

  "Feed the hell out of it. Kids are always embarrassed by their parents. When their parents are shamelessly mocked for being utterly stupid, the kids with figure it out. Homophobic bigotry will drop by magnitudes in a single generation."

  Disagree. The culture in which those kids are raised in reinforces/normalizes such thought and behavior in school and elsewhere. They're not going to be embarrassed by their parents unless perhaps they're living in a mostly liberal region.

  I doubt that homophobia will drop anymore than racism has in the red states.