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  Help! they're giving me a talk #4 entittled:" IDENTIFYING APOSTATES"

  by dark angle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is quite awkward for me to give!

  our elder gave me that assignment last week and should be delivered next week on the theocratic ministry school.

  considering i have very unconventional views for the wts about blood, evolution, bible, and the gb, delivering this talk seemd quite maladroit.

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  lesterd

  Wear a sign around your neck?
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  How did the "Truth" set YOU free ?

  by JH in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the bible says that the truth will liberate you or set you free.. the watchtower applies this to their religion as if their "truth" sets people free.. if that's the case, how were you set free when you became a jw?.

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  One must first ask "What is truth?". To me is a level of knowledge and understanding. All things in the Bible are only tutors to teach us the level Christ wants us to achieve, and trust me the borg does not want you to achieve that level, that is why they spoon feed you table scrapes and not real meat, probably why they want to keep half of the WT "secret", that way they can lie to the R/F and not have the world take note of it.

  Knowing the truth is living it, adopting it as your lifes purpose, learning the mind of God, thinking like HIM. The borg can not have that because it frees one from the bonds of ritutalist, organized relegion, it fress one to think, open up ones mind and heart and be moved, used by spirit and truth. Truth is the simplist from of being.

  The borg is an elementry teacher, one that can and should be out grown. Even the Bibles teaching is rudimentry, intended to bring one to the complete truth and knowledge and into the glory of God. All this knowledge expands our limits to transend the fundimentals freeing us of ridged guildlines, which anyone can follow and not have a good heart, or good motives. You can walk the striagth and narrow with out fences or walls because the truth is yours....and it has set you free.
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  Do you belive you are anointed?

  by unbaptized in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if you believe you are anointed, please give the details on how you came to this conclusion.

  this is not a judgemental post, so all those with negative comments please keep them to yourself.

  this is a quest for facts and answers, nothing more.

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  lesterd

  we know from the founding of the world, there is no flash of light or revelation, one matures with the spirit and knows when thier adoption is manifest and complete. If one does not know or feel this, the rest cannot be explained.
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  What's the worst/scariest 'dream' you have ever had....

  by winnie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i still remember this one.

  i must have been about 6 years old.

  we lived in an old house and i had the same dream?

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  lesterd

  I was 13, and had this reoccuring dream; we moved to a new house and had a book study there, I could place every piece of funiture in my dream and new all the rooms, it was a unquie house, two story with a 1/4 bath under the stairwell and French doors between the living room and dinning rooms, a bedroom and bath upstairs with a balconey. In the dream armageddon came.

  We were serving where the great were needed at this time in Washington state and reassigned to Galveston, Texas so help start up a new congregation. When we pulled up in front of the house the brothers had rented for us a cold chill ran through my whole body, it was the same house that I had dreamed about, sure enough we held book study there and hurrican Carla swept the island.

  I stopped dreamimg after that
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  Do you belive you are anointed?

  by unbaptized in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if you believe you are anointed, please give the details on how you came to this conclusion.

  this is not a judgemental post, so all those with negative comments please keep them to yourself.

  this is a quest for facts and answers, nothing more.

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  lesterd

  If you are you know it, the kinship with Jehovah transends any organizational precepts on who is or isnt. If you lose it when you are no longer a member of the Borg then you never were, and those who partake mistakenly bring no judgement on themselves. You will notice that those long time parkaters as usualy quite, becuase for them to share the mana would most certainly contradict with the society is dealing out. The borg is geared towards the needs of increasing its numbers and not dispensing truth, the hard line truth that was taught by Christ would have most "Christians" running out tof all the religious churches.
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  1914 BREATHTAKING BLASPHEME

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  articulator manipulator

  the "truth" is worth lying for

  breathtaking blaspheme!

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  lesterd

  Who really is the one saying that he is delaying? The one who put a date, ergo a time limit on his presence? Or the one who questions the date, and in doing so questions the validity of those daters, and says it is not time yet, who is the evil slave that has not cared for the masters sheep?
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  Has anyone ever questioned Rev 7:9 or 19:1 in the Hall?

  by A-Team in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wonder what was your reaction when reading these two scriptures, especially when you were a witness?

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  lesterd

  Very good, you have seen the deliberate switch by the WT of the Greek words for the inner and outter courtyards, II still have problems getting dubs to see the the Greek words for inner and outter courtyards, a totla subversion of the truth.
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  any advice?

  by J-ex-W in

  1. social
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  my oldest son informed me tonight that he will not have a relationship until/ unless i do two things: 1) start going back to meetings (of course), and 2) show, seem, or whatever, that i'm sorry for all the pain that i caused him/ the family by divorcing their dad.

  [i told him there are a lot of decisions i made that caused them pain which i do regret, but that i cannot regret leaving their dad.

  this for him, is evidence of my wrongness in his and in wt eyes.. he said outright that "there can be no reason, short of dad being a serial killer" that could justify my divorcing him, and that the "only thing [that i] could tell him that would seem to justify it could only be a pack of lies.

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  lesterd

  TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!! Have we moved so far away from the God of truth?
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  Can't think of a title

  by sandy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  last night i went to my sister-in-law to be bridal shower.

  everything was fine .

  no questions or comments like .

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  lesterd

  My family hadnt been to a meeting in a year or so and the wife and kids really wanted Xmas, so we got a tree, Word got around and the elders called and wanted to ralk to us because they heard we we celebrating Xmas, it really spun their head when I told them that we werent celebrating Xmas, just observing the holiday, asked them if they took the day of work because of the holiday.
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  If YOU Were One Of The 24 Elders, What Would You Tell The Anointed???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now this could be fun.

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  lesterd

  What? Talk to yourself, whose listing, the BORG says the 24 elders are part of the 144000. I"d tell th 7999 to go to Bethel and kick the #@%& out of the one screwing everyting up.