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  Please how do someone become an Anointed Christian in Watchtower Organization.

  by bola in

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  please how do someone become an anointed christian in watchtower organization.

  i informed my elders in my congo that i am an anointed christian..

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  BluesBrother

  This guy is a wind up merchant!
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  BluesBrother

  Purr purr is right in his opening post. The culture of this board has changed tremendously over the years.I also dislike the extent of political subjects, especially since much of it is Right Wing American which is a total turn-off to a Brit like me.

  In the good old days this board was........

  We could go on about how we liked it better back then, but what is the point of that ?

  It is what it is. We must accept it or leave. I find there are still times when I read things about the WTS that I never knew . It is still a valuable source of information. I learn what they are up to, what they are saying and I can still blow off steam and talk to people of the same mind as me. When you live in a partial dub household, that opportunity is priceless.

  If there is a better place I would like to find it . I find Reddit to be too superficial and lacking depth . I don’t use Social Media.

  So , I’m sorry if you go Purrpurr , I will continue to ignore the threads I don’t like and search for the good stuff on here.
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  2700 years ago Jews ate pigs

  by fulltimestudent in

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  from haaretz newspaper:.

  what does a pig skeleton discovered in jerusalem say about first temple era jews?.

  the argument here is that sanctions on eating pork were only introduced in the 2nd temple era.. so what does that tell you bout biblical accuracy.. .

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  BluesBrother

  One skeleton does not prove that it was on their menu.

  it could easily be , a non Jew living there, a naughty Jew who fancied a bacon sandwich.

  Any other ideas?
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  Did ANYBODY Here Believe The Witnesses Were The One True Religion?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i was raised believing i was very fortunate knowing i had the truth.

  i was groomed to be an elder.

  i figured if mother said something, even if i couldn’t totally understand it, it was correct because mother knows best.

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  BluesBrother

  Of course I believed , I would never have done it otherwise. I’d bet you did too.
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  Deuteronomy 23:1 funny verse

  by neat blue dog in

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  i'm surprised i only noticed this just now, deuteronomy 23:1:.

  "no man who has been castrated by having his testicles crushed or who has had his male organ cut off may come...".

  🤣.

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  BluesBrother

  Come come children, this is junior school humour.

  About castrations, what’s new? They do it to animals all the time. I was hearing yesterday about male opera singers back 2 or 3 centuries who had it done to preserve their high voice.

  Nothing untoward in Deuteronomy
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  Splane`s war rhetoric

  by inbetween09 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the last talk o the saturday convention of jw was already often the centre of discussion, with all the name calling, logical fallacies and fear mongering.

  however, it was interesting, not just what and how splane adressed the matter, also what he actually had to admit.

  1) he had to admit, that the org is actually loosing court battles, left and right.

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  BluesBrother

  Good points inbetween. Reading between the lines , the reason he had to deliver this talk Is that a lot of the faithful are concerned about adverse news reports and their settling of claims. They are worried. We’ve got ‘em on the run !
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  What kind of literary device is this?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know there's a name for this technique but i need a name, nonetheless.. if i say to my audience: apostates are horrible, satanic, dirty, sinners, mentally diseased etc ... all hateful traits.

  and then i say: person a is an apostate.

  then my audience will associate all the traits previously associated with "apostate" with person a. but i can say: i never said person a was horrible, satanic, dirty, mentally diseased etc.

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  BluesBrother

  The ad hominem attack is “ sneaky “ in that it diminishes the person without having to deal with his arguments.

  It is also pretty silly if you think about it.

  E.g. Say you are visiting a facility for the criminally insane. Suddenly an inmate comes running down the hallway shouting “Fire! Fire! . Do you reject his warning and say “He’s just nuts ......”

  No , of course not , you get the hell out of there .

  Noticeably, the WTS denigrates ex members, so called apostates, but never answers our legitimate concerns. I guess they can’t.
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  Have you been vaccinated? Have you had any side effects?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  hi all.. i'm 42 years old.

  i have had two jabs of the oxford-astrazeneca vaccine.. after my first jab i experienced flu-like symptoms - shivering, wanted to lie down in a dark room, etc.. i experienced no side effects after my second shot.. how about you?.

  how many jabs have you had?.

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  BluesBrother

  Yes, two shots of Pfizer. No I’ll effect at all
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  Splane's "Apostate" talk transcript

  by FFGhost in

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  2. friends

  for any who can't (like me) muster the masochism necessary to sit through an 18-or-so hour commentary on a 30 minute talk from a certain famous/infamous commentator, here is a link to a transcript from splane's saturday afternoon "apostate" talk:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/ot7z2e/splanes_apostate_rant_transcription/.

  there are many topics worthy of consideration, but this particular section really stood out to me:.

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  BluesBrother

  I sat through this three times ( glutton for punishment) final time yesterday in the company of dub family watching the Convention. They were surprisingly quiet after it ......

  He spoke of corrupt courts , news media being biased against them .....as reasons not to believe what you read about The Society. Very cleverly, he denied nothing but to the sheep who follow blindly- he denied everything. To use his expression “ sneaky”

  The good thing is the fact that they had to give this talk at all. They must be worried over there in War-wick !

  I like to think that we have got them on the run !
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  STUDY ARTICLE When a Loved One Leaves Jehovah

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | september 2021. study article 39. when a loved one leaves jehovah.

  2 think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!

  (jude 6) and imagine how hurt he was at seeing his beloved people, the israelites, rebel against him time and again.

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  BluesBrother

  They always spin this as "rejecting Jehovah". Truth is many of us learned enough to reject the WTS . That is a big difference.