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  Has 1919 been abandoned? Is the sky falling?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i copied the following two items from jw dot orgs site entitled “dates of prophetic significance” at site below:.

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200271564.

  once held to be year when ‘true lord and messenger of the covenant’ came to spiritual temple (mal 3:1): w10 3/15 23; w07 4/1 22; w07 12/15 27-28; jd 179-182; re 31-32, 55-56; w92 12/1 13; w89 4/15 7; w89 7/1 30; w87 6/15 14-15. .

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  Has 1919 been abandoned? Is the sky falling?

  No the sky is not falling. It just a small puffy cloud evaporating into nothingness.
  
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  If turned off by the GB's latest bloopers- do you still have faith in God and Christ?

  by the-Question in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some go back to churchianity!.

  and that, to me, indicates they never had real faith in god- but it was in men.....

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  the-Question,
  

  ...the New World Translation, which USED to be the most accurate translation there is!

  A question: Why do you believe that?
  
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  New Avatar, Same Old Me

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  someone decided to make their avatar almost identical to my old one so i changed mine to avoid any confusion.. <- so lookout for this anytime you want to read some "amazing words of wisdom" from now on :d.

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  But I love the Canadian wilderness.
  
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  Women's March in Germany: Allah Akbar!

  by Saename in

  1. social
  2. current

  i just found something interesting... i found a video of a group of people shouting, "allah akbar!

  " while protesting in berlin, germany.

  it was the women's march.. praise allah for this one-minute recording:.

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  Saename,
  

  I found a video of a group of people shouting, "Allah Akbar!" while protesting in Berlin, Germany. It was the Women's March.
  

  I saw the video and I've got this to say:
  

  There was no group of women shouting Alla Akbar there was only one. Everybody else was shouting "pussy grabs back.
  

  It's obvious that the women at that protest were Liberals.

  The one individual that made that shout was being looked at with disdain. It is likely that she was being sarcastic.

  https://youtu.be/IExb_Kc3DkM
  
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  SJW thinking on the right: The lack of agency

  by bohm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the nut-left got a dilemma with islamic terrorism: on one hand their natural instinct is to defend muslims from any (perceived) attack on islam and on the other hand radical islam is shock full of values that are 100% opposed to everything they believe: the nut-left would simply be stoned to death in a country which properly followed sharia law.. how do you fix the cognitive dissonance?

  well, the standard script includes the following items:.

  first, you don't really defend sharia, at least not in its entirety, but spend time talking about the evils of the west, in particular, israel.

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  Simon,

  The right generally aren't the ones actually threatening and attacking people.
  

  • A couple, who were at the infamous Bundy ranch incident went, sometime later, to an eating establishment in Nevada with a shopping cart full of weapons. They shot and killed two policemen; draped their bodies with a Gadsden flag (The Tea Party's flag with the rattle snake); and said that the revolution has just begun. Afterwards they went to a shopping mall were they told everyone to leave and then the girlfriend shot her boyfriend and committed suicide.
  • A man went to a Unitarian church with a shotgun, killed two and wounded seven. He later said that Liberals must die and that he went to that church because he couldn't reach Liberal politicians. Unitarians are known to be Liberals. This man had political books in his home which included Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly.
  • A white supremacist shot and killed six victims at a Sikh temple before he was shot by a police officer. He survived the shooting and immediately committed suicide.
  • A mosque in Florida was set afire.

  Those, and more, are the ones that made the news.
  
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  What I miss about going out in service.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, very little, to be honest.

  the structure and commitment of the ministry provided discipline necessary to my life.

  therefore, i did it, as required, and felt some sense of fulfillment at the bible study stage.. i do like talking to people.

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  Unfortunately, I was able to convert two persons at my high school. It wasn't field service per se and I did not count my hours (as I could have) but it amounted to the same thing.

  I was an introverted person who found it extremely difficult to engage others in a normal conversation. Like most others, introverted or not, I wanted to simply count my time placing magazines.
  

  In actual field service I got to the point where I was beginning to have anxiety attacks. One night I was with a brother approaching people in a retail establishment's parking lot. We were scaring people who apparently feared that we might be robbers. I ended up telling that brother that there was "something wrong with this". He agreed with me thinking that I was referring to myself, not our being there.
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  Trumps Inaugural Address - Comparisons

  by azor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i thought i would start a new post about trumps inaugural address.

  has anyone here seen "the new pope"?

  jude law gave a stirring performance playing the pope.

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  Spoletta,
  

  At least he spoke in (mostly) coherent sentences. It would be great if someone could synch his mouth with an old Hitler speech, or vice versa.
  

  I've noticed that when Trump speaks coherently it's because he's repeating what someone else said to him. When he's speaking his mind it inevitably comes out as word salad.

  I noticed this from a speech he was making using a teleprompter. He was understandable. He got turned off by it though, and decided to ad lib it. When he did that he went to default mode.
  
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  Smelly WATCHTOWERS

  by Zoos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in 1967 i had the misfortune of being born with a watchtower stuck in my ass.

  it took 45 years for me to realize, "hey!

  there's a watchtower stuck in my ass!

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  Nice metaphor Zoos.

  It took me 8 years. Part of it may have been the fact that I wasn't born in and had an idea of what independence was like. However, I was 14 when I joined so it made a major impact on my life. It helped that I came in on my own volition; no family in the religion.

  Fourteen to twenty one. My curiosity got me in; my curiosity got me out.
  
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  Jehovah sure loves foreskins!

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.

  he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.

  it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?

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  Blondie,
  

  ....what is the WTS position on circumcision of men in their organization?
  

  If I recall, they say that it's up to the parents to make that decision.
  
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  Russia to liquidate Jehovah's Witnesses' organization

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://starconnectmedia.com/2017/01/19/russia-gets-go-ahead-to-liquidate-jehovahs-witnesses-organisation/.

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  I've seen videos of Pentecostal churches demolished in Russia by the government. Vladimer Putin has made the Russian Orthodox church the official religion (Even though he has allowed Sharia and polygamous marriage in Chechnya!!!).

  What is done to the Witnesses is not acceptable since it can be - is being - done to many religions.

  In Russia they cannot have a prayer group in a person's own home and those who do are in fear of the authorities finding out.