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Click on the projector to watch this MOST HILARIOUS video! (right beside the Joseph Smith picture)

You probably already seen this video (!!!!!!!!!! lol lol LOL LOL) but for those you haven't! Watch it now!

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Dubs are the WALKING DEAD

by GetBusyLiving in

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friends

lately i've just been getting contacted quite a bit by depressed zombie like cultist's.

i thought i would welcome being contacted by dubs after i da'ed but i actually really find it annoying!

they all drop comments like "nothing ever changes.." "i don't really go to the meeting's that much.." "i'm just so bored.." "if i didn't have meetings i could go back to school" "brother shitbag is a jerk.. i'm so sick of him.." "the elders treat me like a child" blah blah blah.

inquirer

lol lol lol @getbusyliving

I need a good laugh! :D

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Will the WTS Org change or Die Out?

by doinmypart in

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friends

the wts org has:.

a formidable enemy (ex/former members),.

an enemy with an excellent communication tool unavailable in the past (the internet),.

inquirer

Just one more thing... Just think about all the bethels around the world, all the kingdom halls.... Australia, US, Japan, England... There are so many JW's in Latin America too.

A lot of money there in real estate.

They shaked hands with the world in about 1992 with that NGO stuff as well. So now the world excepts them even if they vast majority of people don't think much of them.

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Will the WTS Org change or Die Out?

by doinmypart in

jw
friends

the wts org has:.

a formidable enemy (ex/former members),.

an enemy with an excellent communication tool unavailable in the past (the internet),.

inquirer

Just one more thing... Just think about all the bethels around the world, all the kingdom halls.... Australia, US, Japan, England... There are so many JW's in Latin America too.

A lot of money there in real estate.

They shaked hands with the world in about 1992 with that NGO stuff as well. So now the world excepts them even if they vast majority of people don't think much of them.

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Will the WTS Org change or Die Out?

by doinmypart in

jw
friends

the wts org has:.

a formidable enemy (ex/former members),.

an enemy with an excellent communication tool unavailable in the past (the internet),.

inquirer

Hey Sean! Welcome to the message board! (Yeah, it is a good site. I checked out a JW one with the tent icon and found it a bit boring -- couldn't help thinking that way! I not much of a critique on things... but even for me it was a bit boring.)

But anway! lol.... GARYBUSS!!!! Your amazing! Love your as always! You always make me giggle!

Good on you buddy! lol

...Anyway. I don't think they'll die out -- you never know though...

The JW of the "I Love Lucy" era and the JW's of the "American Idol" era (boy TV has gone downhill a lot!!!!) are 2 totally different organizations! That "this generation" doctrine was changed in 1995 to keep the Watchtower machine going.... How else do you keep it going? If not that, then the JW's have all this real estate to sell! That would make millions... billions out of it!!! They business tycoons man! What did Coca Cola do recently? New flavor: Vanilla Coke! What happened when McDonalds were accused of making people obesse? Sell healthy foods!

When you think of JW's as a business, rather than a religious organziation, you can see how they'll never die out. They've got members (not as much as they use to have) but there are still a lot of people that will help out their organization. I use to go the JW meetings on the Central Coast (80 km north of Sydney) and in Sydney... They didn't have a shortage of rich people in the organization! That's what always struck me about these people! When you buy stuff online from a JW, and are only interested in money! My mum found JW's to be a greedy money bunch! $$$$$$$$$$$$$

The reason why (in my opinion) so many people leave, is because the org suits middle class people. A lot of people don't have time to go to meetings, because they work so hard. People work on weekends, and people don't have time to go to meetings. Charles Taze Russel wasn't exactly a poor person. It only suits people like him. OTHER people don't have time!

So they'll always get help from someone or something SOMEHOW. Don't worry about this org falling! IN the distant future, they might decline dramatically, but they have a lot of material support to help the machine going!

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Does Genesis 1:26 support Devine Trinity???

by zagor in

i've seen several comments about trinity, so here goes another one: .

please read again genesis 1:26

this is very interesting paragraph and many times is being used as a proof of trinity as it says let us create .

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yucca

When you read gen chapter 1 its all about Gods creation of the world. When you read John chapter 1 (not the NWT) it says Jesus is the word and the word was God . Verse 3 says all things were made by him;and without him was not any thing made that was made. If you read in Acts chapter 5 there is the account of Ananias and his wife Sapphira in verse 3 Peter said Ananias why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, The third member of the trinity. Matt 12:31 Wherefore I say unto you.all matter of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men. Does that sound like an active Force?

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inquirer

Ok, only thing different about John 1:1 NWT, is the "a." Verse 3 is talking about Jesus as the Master Worker. Proverbs 8:29 "when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, "

Ok, in Acts 5:3, Satan was messing around with Jehovah's power (holy spirit.) It's like a clairvoyant telling you the future. It's not a special gift, it's the demons that are doing it. It says in Corinthians mircales done away with...

I know you didn't quote it, but people say the spirit is a personality because in John it says it's a helper. Does that mean wisdom is a female, like other translation try to put it as. Does it cry out in the streets, literally? (Proverbs 1:20) No, of course not!

Yeah, there is no forgiveness, if you don't respect his power (his spirit.) If he gives you life and you go "I don't care. Just kill me you whatever." You won't be resurrected, or forgiven. Just like if you don't respect his servants (2 Kings 2:23) and you say "go up you baldhead." That is deep dispect for a prophet! Speaking against spiritual things are strictly forbidden.

How do you explain this: Isaiah 48: 16 “Come near to me, YOU people. Hear this. From the start I have spoken in no place of concealment at all. From the time of its occurring I have been there.”

And now the Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself has sent me, even his spirit. "

He wanted his servant to complete a task for him and sent out his spirit (power.)

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Does Genesis 1:26 support Devine Trinity???

by zagor in

i've seen several comments about trinity, so here goes another one: .

please read again genesis 1:26

this is very interesting paragraph and many times is being used as a proof of trinity as it says let us create .

inquirer

Faith Re:

Humans are made in the triune image of God , Body, Mind, Spirit.

Animals have the body and the mind but not the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15: " it is sown a perishable body it is raised an imperishable body, it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory, it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power, it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Paul was speaking too all mankind, not only 144,000 JWs. As a disassociated JW, I now understand and embrace the teachings of Jesus and all the Apostles as for me.

Peace Out

Faith

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inquirer

Sounds like a man-made doctrine to me!

Where is the Scriptural support! The Scripture you showed doesn't talk about what you reckon it talks about.

I could also say the so-called triune god made man in God's image with the mind, body and limbs! (Take your pick!)

I have never heard of this doctrine before. But I am surprised you people don't put "mind, body and soul." Because a lot of you kinds of people are obsessed with crosses and souls... You hear people in songs always say "in my soul..."

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Does Genesis 1:26 support Devine Trinity???

by zagor in

i've seen several comments about trinity, so here goes another one: .

please read again genesis 1:26

this is very interesting paragraph and many times is being used as a proof of trinity as it says let us create .

inquirer

Narkissos

France
“let us create a man in our image according to our likeness”
Isaiah 44:24 similarly has Yahweh declaring: "I am Yahweh, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, when I spread out the earth, who was with me?"
There is the essence of the doctrine right there.

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inquirer: Look, you are not even reading my posts! :(