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  Why are JW REQUIRED to report Field Service Time???

  by JT in

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  if you ever wanted to know why this poster put it best

  repost-------------------------------------.

  in reply to: why do jw keep track of hrs?

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  Black Man

  Tax purposes. It helps them justify their non-profit status.
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  Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?

  by Black Man in

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  even when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.

  think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.

  that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.

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  Black Man

  bttt!
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  Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?

  by Black Man in

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  even when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.

  think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.

  that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.

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  Black Man

  bttt!
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  Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?

  by Black Man in

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  even when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.

  think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.

  that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.

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  Comatose: Yeah, I remember thinking that EXACT same thing, whenever I saw a happy non-JW family.
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  Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.

  think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.

  that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.

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  Designs: I remember working out in service more than a few times, the "friends" whom I was partnered with were making dibs on some of the houses (mansions being some of them), saying they would get that house once Jehovah destroyed their owners at Armageddon.

  Disturbing!
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  Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.

  think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.

  that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.

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  Black Man

  Even when I was dyed-in-the-wool J-dub, I felt the Armageddon teaching was one of the most MORBID concepts to be hammered into the psyches of JWs. Think about it, only JWs would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while EVERYONE else would die a horrible death. That includes people who do GOOD THINGS and are GOOD PEOPLE, but are just not JWs. This would also include billions of CHILDREN. Why would such a loving God annihilate billions of CHILDREN?? Also killed in this global genocide are billions of workers whose lives are built on helping people - doctors, missionaries, police and fire personnel, etc.

  I remember thinking back to the 80s during my middle and high school years and think how my teenage years were so depressing for me because the reality that I knew, my teachers and classmates, other good people who reached out to me, but were not JWs were all going to die and die very soon, because the end was right around the corner. I spent my teen age years depressed over that, and as such my studies in school suffered. I remember thinking what's the use of even trying to do well in school? Everything is going to be destroyed anyway. There was no striving for higher education, because that was spawned by Satan. It was full-time ministry or else! And that's if the system even lasts that long. The end was so close, two minutes to midnight if you remember the imagery from a popular Watchtower article from the 80s.

  But at the same time, you had publications and various parts in meetings that would promote Armageddon as such a happy time for mankind. Who else remembers the countless pictures in publications (witness porn), showing non-JWs being destroyed at Armageddon with buildings falling on them, the earth swallowing them up and any other imagery you can imagine to show the destruction that awaited the "wicked" or non-JW's. And then there would be a corresponding picture showing only the JWs walking past Armageddon and on to the New Order, smiling at the destruction being executed against the wicked. Looking back, that was MORBID AS HELL, and I wonder how the psychological damage especially on young minds being taught that nonsense can be quantified.

  I remember thinking how crippling and morbid that so-called future was and as a youth I think it affected me more than I realized. Anyone else had a similar remembrance/experience/feeling about ARMAGEDDON??
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  Can you prove Jesus existed outside of Bible (so called) evidence?

  by punkofnice in

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  i thought i'd done a thread on this before but can't find it.. so.

  did jesus actually exist?.

  without using the bible i'd like to see obvious proof..

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  Black Man

  Bttt!
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  OMFG Dinosaurs and Noah

  by konceptual99 in

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  just fell off my chair whilst listening to the bible "highlights".

  someone has actually just said that the flood account actually helps inform scientists on matters that perplex them.

  for example for decades they have wondered how the dinosaurs all disappeared but if they looked at the account of the flood then they would see the answer.

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  Black Man

  Bttt!
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  Closed WT Branches list.

  by Hecce in

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  one of the friends at extj forum provided this list of wt branches that have been closed so far, there is also a mention that two large ones are in the process of being dismantled, they are spain and argentina.

  posted for informational purposes and it seems to be accurate.. thanks for reading.

  1) alaska.

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  Black Man

  Great thread!
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  "Jehovah ALWAYS had/used an organization". How would you reply?

  by EdenOne in

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  in a recent meeting with elders, an argument was used to the effect that jehovah has always [= throughout history] used, or operated through, an organization; therefore, the wts must be that organization today, since god must be using one.

  naturally, i know what arguments i've used to counter that argument.

  but i'm interested in hearing yours.

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  Black Man

  bttt!