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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  BluesBrother

  Well , I am still going for another booster this week.
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  Washington State-Spokesman-Review article: The Silent Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/oct/02/the-silent-witnesses-jehovahs-witnesses-covered-up/.

  the silent witnesses: jehovah’s witnesses covered up child sexual abuse in washington state for decades, lawsuit alleges.

  sun., oct. 2, 2022. by wilson criscioneinvestigatewest.

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  BluesBrother

  Terrible story... The reality is that back in the 70’s child abuse was just not taken seriously, as it is today.. since it always takes place in private it wa often assumed that the kid was making it up.

  You would think though that even the dumbest elders, in the absence of an official laid down policy on it, would have alarm bells ringing if multiple claims against the same person were made? Evidently not...

  we shall watch with interest.
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  Annual Meeting 2022: Geoffrey Jackson: Why Jerusalem mattersem Matters

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/pdtwglldsza.

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  BluesBrother

  I watched GJ’s talk… it was nothing about spiritual Jerusalem or that sort of thing. He said how the end is sooooo close! He discussed the situation in 1st century Jerusalem, the rebellion in 66ce. I think he wanted to show his research into the period and the various revolts that drove the Romans out.

  His point was that JWs need to be decisive and not be “ fooled into. trusting worldly institutions that look impregnable now” , but flee the city as they did in 66ce and were spared when the Romans came back and destroyed it…..

  Thats all. I think we all made a bold decision when we quit the WTS . I know that I have never doubted that decision since.
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  Tony Morris, Demonic Humanity, Annual Meeting talk

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/vktqyahg0tg.

  there seems to be a difference of opinion between geoffrey jackson and tonny morris on how to deal with their feelings towards worldly people.geoffrey jackson made a point to say in his talk that jesus wept for the wicked in jerusalem but following that bloodthirsty tony morris in his talk wants the demon stirred wicked humanity gone..

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  BluesBrother

  Road To Nowhere.

  Thanks for your considered reply.. All the best wishes.
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  Tony Morris, Demonic Humanity, Annual Meeting talk

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/vktqyahg0tg.

  there seems to be a difference of opinion between geoffrey jackson and tonny morris on how to deal with their feelings towards worldly people.geoffrey jackson made a point to say in his talk that jesus wept for the wicked in jerusalem but following that bloodthirsty tony morris in his talk wants the demon stirred wicked humanity gone..

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  BluesBrother

  There is a lot of exaggeration about Tony Morris’ whisky. I saw the video the someone shot in a liquor store.. yes he bought a box of whisky, which I found amusing but I never saw a Cadillac……

  I was settling into the talk from the AGM on that video, but then the presenter cut in and took over . I wanted to hear the rest of Tony Morris’s talk . What did he say in the bit we did see? That “The World “ is controlled by demons…

  Well, we all know that is what dubs believe. We have always known that. They don’t mean the normal people, they mean those doing horrible things.. the school shooters , the politicians who invade other countries etc. Back in the day we all believed it . It is a convenient label to hang on those who do things that just cannot be explained
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  which Translation Now?

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you who still respect the bible, which translation/s are you using now?

  why?.

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  BluesBrother

  It seems that people have their personal favourites. The important thing is accuracy in translation, and who is to say which is the “best” since they are all produced by scholars.

  As an ex Witness, brought up on the Original NWT , I still use it a lot. I suppose that would be my ‘go to’ translation. For study of a verse I like to compare translations . I use the Blue Letter Bible site and I have now bookmarked the Bible Hub. Thank you to the poster who gave the link…
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  I never had a happy birthday this year 5/7

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife had a hip replacement on june the 17th and while the op itself was apparently succesful ,she has had a reaction to the anesthetic ?

  and has suffered delirium and is still in hospital with no apparent improvement.. its been very distressing for me to say the least.

  sorry if i sound a bit morbid but i just had to share,.

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  Hi Smiddy, sorry I missed this thread earlier. I am glad that your wife is better now. It is frightening experience for the loved ones looking on.

  I had a similar experience a few years back . I broke my hip and after the op I went into postoperative dementia. I don’t remember much about it but I was not at all “ with it” . After a few days or week or so ( I’m not sure) I came round but it took some while to get really back to normal mentally.

  So, I’m glad your ordeal is over and I wish you both all the best.
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  ARMAGEDDON

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can i ask please especially for all who are pomo?.

  we've taken a decision similar to revelation 18:4 to get out of the watchtower and not share in its sins.. how many of you still believe that god will one day terminate the world's many systems by means of an armageddon?.

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  BluesBrother

  One day , maybe…..who knows?

  I do know that there is no good worrying about something that will probably not be in my lifetime and is completely unknowable…..
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  JW Obession with the trinity

  by Riley in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so a few years i watched a lecture series by a man named dr. micheal heiser called the two powers in heaven, jesus in the old testament.

  funny thing was it wasn't even very evangelical in nature, so i turned off my religious binders and just watched it like a regular person.

  it turns out that the new testament is a hinge point in the bible.

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  BluesBrother

  “ It got me thinking, how depressing it is to spend your entire life trying to disprove this. It literally comes up at every meeting”

  No it doesn’t… Back in the day, maybe because it was a burning issue that they had to deal with on the doorstep. In the 21st century nobody raises that objection so they do not mention it … I can’t remember the last time.
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  A question about the contemporary generation teaching following a conversation with a JW apologist

  by Giles Gray in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

  i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

  i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

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  BluesBrother

  Jehovah’s Witness elders are not Biblical archaeologists, they have no knowledge apart from what the WT has taught them . Indeed, it has been levelled at me that I “ would know nothing without the Society, so why do I dispute what they say?”.

  The fact is that nowadays we can find out information in readable forms without a degree in archaeology. Of course we have to guard against false information, but that can usually be spotted and when subjected to a group such as ours , falsehoods are called out.

  JWs are not permitted to read contradictory information. The video correctly showed the attitude. JWs just trust the Society. Of course the Bible does not give a BCE date for the fall of Jerusalem ,it is calculated by men .

  What the Bible does say is “ Do not put your trust in nobles nor in the son of earthling man” (Ps. 146 : 3) NWT .