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I guess the religion hasn't technically become extinct huh? Some here say that the WTS will never die out but seems as if they are destined to become a shell of it's former self. That's fine with me...If the shell becomes reduced to a few thousand worldwide, that's as good as extinct to me. Although reduced to 7 doesn't sound too bad either.

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Do some WT phrases make you squirm?

by jeanniebeanz in

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for me it's "the doors of the ark are closing.

i can never forget as a child, being forced to see the graphic images in the publications showing families, mothers with little babies clinging to a rock and others drowning as the ark floats away.

fathers shaking their fists at god for destroying their families... it's like some of the little mind control still functioning in there somewhere causing a kneejerk reaction of uneasiness.... are there any others that bug you?.

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Antitypical fulfillment

Happifying, efficacious, heav'n, giv'n, o'er, wondrous

"blah blah blah blah. Is it not?"

Why do they address the audience as "brothers"? "Brothers, should we not blah blah blah blah?" Then you see the women nodding their heads. Doesn't make sense.

As already mentioned, "_______(fill in the blank) Ones". If I am a siamese twin, is it still right to call me that? I would be offended.

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dubspeak follies

by what_Truth? in

what would you think if i told you "last thursday i went to the service meeting at the kingdom hall to hear the presiding overseer give a talk from the platform.

most of us here know that to mean "last thursday i went to church to hear the head pastor give a sermon on the door to door ministry from the pulpit", a pretty common and straight forward event for a jehovah's witness.

i asked my pennicostal wife what she thought the phrase meant and she guessed it had something to do with slavery and human sacrifice.

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The term Publisher. What are we publishing? Does publishing mean knocking on doors and giving out magazines?

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WT banned music

by truth_about_the_truth in

it's been a while since the society has been specific about what kind of music to avoid hasn't it?.

the last i remember was when the said to stay away from rap and heavy metal.

that was a while ago.

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So I guess he thought debased actually meant music wit da bass

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Another Urban myth Perpetuated By the WTS

by BluesBrother in

it is funny how some things stick in your mind .

this little point about a man supposedly swallowed by a whale, then rescued, stayed with me and i certainly used it in the "field ministry" in order to support the jonah account.

*** g70 5/22 p. 11 the great sea monsters ***.

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In 1891 the English whaleman, James Bartlett, was swallowed by a sperm whale

Wow, you actually can use "swallow" and "sperm" in the same sentence and not be drrrrrrrrrty.

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Does the WTS's past matter?

by M.J. in

i know, i'd jump into this topic by saying, "heck yeah.

they're the ones saying they've been appointed by god based on what they were doing back around 1914-1919.

" but i'm trying to help someone out who has reached a roadblock with his wife.

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Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. ---- 1984 by George Orwell

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In the last days there will be a witness to all the inhabited earth........

by holly in

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and then the end will come.. something like that!!.

so, for those who believe the bible, who are these people and what scripture would back that?.

holly

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Jeff,

Amen. Couldn't have expressed it better myself.

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In the last days there will be a witness to all the inhabited earth........

by holly in

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and then the end will come.. something like that!!.

so, for those who believe the bible, who are these people and what scripture would back that?.

holly

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Remember Jesus made that quote 2000 yrs ago when he was virtually unknown to the world outside of Judaea. Who today in the yr 2005 doesn't know about Jesus and the message that he brought? Even atheists, buddhists, hindus, whatever know about it beacuse of all the 'witness' work being done for the past 2 milleniums. The idea that JW by themselves need to carry this out is preposterous. You dont need to reinvent the wheel.

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WT banned music

by truth_about_the_truth in

it's been a while since the society has been specific about what kind of music to avoid hasn't it?.

the last i remember was when the said to stay away from rap and heavy metal.

that was a while ago.

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It's been a while since the society has been specific about what kind of music to avoid hasn't it?

The last I remember was when the said to stay away from rap and heavy metal. That was a while ago.

Have they made any specific bans recently? What kind of music could they forbid now anyways? It would be hard because music is so fragmented now into subgenres.

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