How is this "new light"? Every Bible or Old Testament I've ever read has Numbers 16:33...
Oh, no! Apparently by reading the scriptural account, I've inadvertently been "pushing ahead"(!)
bennyk
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-12-05 WT Study (Resurrection 2)
by blondie inhope of a resurrection.
sure hope of a better resurrection.
16. who at death went to gehenna, and why did they go there?.
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Elder Criticizes Going To Get Together If A Worldly Person Is There!
by minimus inmy mom told me that an elder said in his public talk on sunday that we need to stay separate from the "world".
evidently, the buzz is that there was a part being given by an unbelieving husband that has been recently attending meetings with his wife.
the issue was not that this man invited most of the congregation and they went (including the elder and his family) but that one fellow unbelieving husband who is being studied with did not get invited because he was "worldly and still smokes".
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bennyk
They always manage to turn to 1 Cor. 15:33; maybe someday one of them will crack open a Bible and read 1 Cor. 10:27. (Same Apostle, same letter) Perhaps Paul wouldn't have agreed with the Elder (?)
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Without the Internet. Would you still have been a active believing dub??
by Samuel Thorsen in.
perhaps i would.. struggeling with doubts of course, but going to the meetings and turning in 2 or 3 hours on my report every month like i used to.... what about you guys?
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bennyk
Before reading anything 'apostate', I had already left for reasons of conscience: my Bible-trained conscience would not permit me to worship the Golden Calf (WTS).
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Now that your out, what are your core values?
by m. kirov inare there any principles of the faith that you have kept... do you try to maintian a high moral standard?
did your views on abortion change?
would you go to war?
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bennyk
I am a Christian (very unaffiliated, different than the WTS - which was UN-affiliated ) and attempt to apply the Golden Rule as best I can (not always so very sucessfully, but I try). This means killing people is outside the pale, even when said person is still in utero. Loving your neighbor as yourself implies other things as well: not defrauding him, not violating his wife (even with her permission), not treating him with hatred/contempt, &c. I continue to try to maintain the New Testament standards of morality, sexual and otherwise. Just as before (my wife is happy about this).
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''YOU are my witnesses,'' Trump card (and comfort blanket)
by MidwichCuckoo inthis, i find, is always the bottom line.
'" "'you are my witnesses,'' is the utterance of jehovah, ''and i am god.
as his name is jehovah, the people must be jehovah's witnesses.
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bennyk
"Drunk" Rutherford's 1936 accomplishment (the book "Riches") states twice that "Jehovah's witnesses" are spirit-anointed. [can't give page numbers - am nowhere near the book, now] Seventy years ago, there was no official two-class system of Christians: the "Jonadabs" were not considered to be Christians until somewhat later.
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Did you ever hear "Congratulations" from dubs. when you were expecting?
by sweet tee init still amazes me how lacking jw's are in social decorum.
i had 4 children while in the b0rg and not once did anyone say congrats.
to me or my husband.
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bennyk
Not really; in the Watchtower World, fathers appear to be seen as little more than sperm donors.
My wife heard a few nice things from some envious "Sisters", and some not-so-nice things from the Pio-types. One Elder said we "know [we] were NOT to get pregnant!!!!!!" Someone else asked: "How did THAT happen?!?!" Answer: "Must have been something in the semen...."
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JWs Now Condones Long Hair on Men?
by ezekiel3 inyou be the judge.
the scans below are from the watchtower july 1, 2005 page 23 from the article "good news for people of all nations".. .
the man shown has hair long enough to tuck behind his ears and long enough in the back to throw any elder i know into a tizzy.. .
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bennyk
Because he is an "ethnic", he is granted dispensation from one of those "commands of men" (Matt. 15:9).
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Did you ever experience Holy Spirit?
by Ring Wielder ini was a jw for 40 years.
although as an individual/cong/body of elders holy spirirt was prayed for, i cannot think of one moment when i thought..right now i have gods spirit acting upon me.
it was never described adequately for me to completely understand and i suspect that others felt the same, yet everyone talked as though they knew exactly how it worked.
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bennyk
YES. The Anointing cannot to be mistaken for something other than what it is.
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bennyk
Thanks for all the hard work, Blondie!!!
I shall endeavor to bear in mind paragraph nine in my upcoming "informational" meeting (read: interrogation) with the self-proclaimed (spiritual) Gentile "princes"; truly something to look forward to.
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One upsmanship...
by hartstrings inwhen i was a regular attender, most of my jw "friends" were pioneers because that is who we spent our days with, lol.
well, it always annoyed the crap out of me when the pioneers would act like they were so special when they were able to get a new publication prior to its arrival at the local kh.
they were basically bragging about their connections.
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bennyk
Instead of grabbing and reading the new releases immediately, I often waited until they became available in my other language and then ordered them. Some asked us about this and were informed that if anything really important were to be found in the new release, we could rely on a third party to let us know; anyway, we already had a Bible or two, and so would manage, spiritually. Perhaps my lack of enthusiasm re: WTS publications was a "red flag" (?)
Instead of pioneering and wasting vacation time attending Pioneer School (adding insult to injury), I obtained the book from an e-friend with connections. (Dodged a bullet, there; no extra 900+ FS hours!!!! )