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  Making Friends with Babylon the Great: Watchtower’s New Goal

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/iv_uifab-qg?si=ttnajiuizmtqlte9.

  it began during the last annual meeting of 2014 and now is trikling down to their watchtower magazines, this new "live and let live" attitude towards people of other faiths, or as they were known as babylon the great soon to be dead in the hands of god members.but it is a new different story, so let's read paragraph 15 from study article 15:.

  "jehovah is kind to both the righteous and the unrighteous.

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  blondie

  Reporting not supporting

  Note the WTS dances around again about what interfaith is; interestingly a congregation buying a building once used for religious reasons is not interfaith because it is a "one-time transaction." "Thus, an act of interfaith is that of sharing in worship or of having spiritual communion with other religious organizations." "In working out the details regarding such a purchase, contact with the other party should be kept to a minimum and should be strictly business" WT 2002 10/15 p. 27 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002767

  Note the WTS dances around again about what interfaith; interestingly a congregation buying a building once used for religious reasons is not interfaith because it is a "one-time transaction." "In working out the details regarding such a purchase, contact with the other party should be kept to a minimum and should be strictly business" "Thus, an act of interfaith is that of sharing in worship or of having spiritual communion with other religious organizations." WT 2002 10/15 p. 27 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002767

  Keep in mind that specially selected elders can participate in a forum where other representatives of other religions do the same, it is not a debate. Most often another entity invites jws to participate, but the WTS has to approve and pick the presenter. I can’t find a link specifically to this, but I know from such jw presenters that this is how it works. The WTS carefully monitors what that jw representative will say.
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  Former Butler County Jehovah's Witness guilty of sexually assault child

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/butler-county-jehovah-witness-sexual-assault-conviction/ child had mental disability....

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  blondie

  https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/butler-county-jehovah-witness-sexual-assault-conviction/ Child had mental disability...
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  Found Anthony Morris out in the wild!!!

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  that was click bait.

  did it work?

  https://youtu.be/_spl7to0m3y?si=gujblhtzkpy0fvzz .

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  blondie

  Beth Sarim hahahaha Staying away from pythons
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  2025**01**15**Ages For Ministerial Servants and Elders!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2025-01-15-ages for ministerial servants and elders.. see page 2. .

  https://pdfupload.io/docs/1b0b5c00 .

  https://imgbox.com/p3a9yjmr.

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  blondie

  Thanks, Petra. Think of you everyday, and Atlantis.
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  How Do JWs Understand Salvation & What Is Needed to Obtain It?

  by LauraLynn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.

  salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.

  to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.

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  blondie

  Review of BITE model by Steven Hassan https://freedomofmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BITE-model.pdf
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  Found Anthony Morris out in the wild!!!

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  that was click bait.

  did it work?

  https://youtu.be/_spl7to0m3y?si=gujblhtzkpy0fvzz .

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  Even from the side and beard, this was not Tony, at least not to me. He must have embarrassed the WTS or didn't obey something that the WTS felt was not being loyal enough. He is laying low. One leaves, they appoint another one as bad if not worse. The only time I saw a GB member leave alive were ones that "embarrassed" the WTS.
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  News of fires out of control in California

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

  these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

  malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

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  blondie

  The WTS does say something, it told their members of all their members who had died and we affected, a very small number compared to the vast # of non-jws that were affected.
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  Pa. Has Charged 14 Jehovah's Witnesses With CSA Just Since Last Fall ! More Expected.

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwk6pxprkg&ab_channel=thethornbushwasblazing%26yetdidn%27tburnup.

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  blondie

  A real family is a group of people who are connected by love, respect, and mutual support, regardless of whether they are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. Being like family covers a large range of types of families. My father molested all his children, my mother knew it, when the youngest needed support I was the oldest and my nearest brother in age joined with me to do something to help the youngest. That's when I discovered the Watchtower organization's image was more important than abused children.
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  2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

  this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

  but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

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  Geoffrey Jackson, "we just don't know"...I guess he hasn't learned the WTS trick, "the bible does not say, but" and precedes to give an answer.

  Would God permit nuclear war?

  The Bible does not say. It does say that “fearful sights,” or terrifying events, would occur in our day. (Luke 21:11) An example of such events includes atomic bombs being dropped during the Second World War.

  How long did it take Noah to build the ark?

  The Bible does not say how long it took Noah to build the ark, but it seems that he spent several decades building it. Noah was more than 500 years old when his first son was born, and he was 600 years old when the Flood occurred.b—Genesis 5:32; 7:6.

  God told Noah to build the ark after his three sons were grown and married, which could have taken some 50 or 60 years. (Genesis 6:14, 18) Based on this possibility, it seems reasonable to conclude that the ark could have taken 40 or 50 years to complete.
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  Mike Rinder has died

  by iloowy.goowy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just hearing about this now.

  mike rinder has died.. he was a lifelong scientologist who broke away from the organization and became one of its biggest detractors.. rest in peace, mike!

  thanks for what you did to expose cults.. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/mike-rinder-obituary?pid=208313152.

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  blondie

  I saw several of his and Leah Remini shows and how he helped people escape Scientology. I was sad to see he had died too. :(