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  Should I Make My Wife Watch the May Broadcast?

  by TTATTelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for some background, i am still in.

  still an elder.

  very much awake.

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  Why I remain one of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Brother Jeramy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  allow me to begin with a clarification: when i say i am one of jehovah's witnesses, i don't mean that i am an advocate of the watchtower society or a devotee of some of its more controversial false teachings.

  i mean that i am a christian, a disciple of jesus christ dedicated to jehovah god, and who remains in union with my brothers and sisters who make up the family of faith that globally refers to itself as jehovah's witnesses.

  some totally understand the distinction between the family of brothers and sisters and the corporate organization known as the watchtower society (wts).

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  Waking up from the JW dream... The biggest loss for me, was the idea of justice.

  by adjusted knowledge in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  being a jw you're able to ignore bad things to some level.

  it's the lazy way of saying, "jehovah will deal with it soon".

  but when i loss my faith, the biggest gut wrench was the idea that true justice was just an illusion.

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  This Good News of the Kingdom - Zion's Watchtower - Zionism - The End

  by LAWHFol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope you're all doing well.. i haven't written for a while, my previous screen name was objectivetruth btw.

  i look forward to resuming some good conversations with my jw.com family.. i haven't been active much of late, however a topic that i have continued to consider & study is modern day israel & the early watchtower's teachings on this topic.. this is part 1 - i'll post multiple posts, to help readers follow my train of thought.. first i'll cover the teachings and overall belief's of the watchtower on the jew's , israel, and god's plan for the jew's.. i've read a lot of the early publications.

  the 2 most insightful publications, for me to read were (links to the book's in pdf format highlighted in blue) :.

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  Thank you for redirecting me to the right organization!

  by economy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thank you, jw.net and cofty, for redirecting me to the right organization!.

  when i posted why did god permit scriptures to be corrupted?

  then i thought, if there is an organization that believes all scriptures are corrupted (which obviously makes it enemy of all religions), that organization is not ordinary, but gutsy, lionhearted, and worthy of close examination!

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  Whose God are you worshipping??

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the early writings of the bible its mentioned that the israelites worshiped false gods, gods of the stars and other celestial bodies.

  ezekiel even bloviates against this in his writings and king josiah is said to have abolish these practices.

  jeremiah mentions that god would even destroy the city were sun worship was being practiced a place called bethshemesh in egypt.

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  ARE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY STATISTICS REALLY TRUSTWORTHY?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  of these, over 2,000 were admitted to concentration camps.

  1,000 died in prison and concentration camps.

  another 1,000 of jehovah's witnesses died in prisons and concentration camps.".

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  Article: Jehovah’s Witnesses holding classes at Palm Coast training center

  by AndersonsInfo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20141226/news/141229531?p=1&tc=pg.

  jehovahs witnesses holding classes at palm coast training center.

  by tony [email protected].

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  Shunning Disfellowshipped & Apostate family Members. Scriptural?

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone who is a witness or was previously a witness, is aware of the written & un-written rules concerning association with disfellowshipped family members.. there are a multitude of quotes through out the watchtower publications, but these 2 will suffice.. "are you proving yourself holy by not associating with family members or others who are disfellowshipped?

  "the clear instruction in the bible is: avoid them.

  that means that we have to stay away from them... the bible says that apostates are mentally diseased and that they use their teachings to make others think like them... what must we do to avoid false teachers?

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  Corpus Linguistics - Text Analysis of All Watchtower Publications since 1800's

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been working on a side project for a while.

  the goal of the project is to create a comprehensive database of all publications throughout history.

  with this database i will be able to instantly find trends in text,sentiment of writing, methods used, and scriptures emphasized.. essentially i will be able to put a word like "apostate" into my tool, and instantly receive a report showing every time the word (or similar words) has been used in all publications since 1870.. i will also be able to create reports showing word density used in publications over time.. so i'll be able to see that the word "governing body" has increased in usage 25% year over year since 1975.. or i will be able to analyze the november 2014 wt and run an algorithm that helps to determine, what the tone and motive of the writing is.. the thing that i am most excited about is the ability to instantly find every occurence of a scripture in every publication.. this will be a great tool to find flip flops in doctrine as well as inaccuracies in biblical interpretation.. i will for sure publish all interesting findings here.. .

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