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  Message Sending Maintenance

  by Simon in

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  i'm doing some work on the messaging service, so sending messages may fail - i'll update this topic when work is completed..

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  carla

  Hey Simon,

  If it matters, after I posted about the mailbox I then sent a message and got a reply from someone but then it disappeared after I read it. This was a few days ago. Just letting you know.

  Thanks for all your work!

  carla
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  Interesting news - Supreme court throws out case against Watchtower.

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. bible

  so my mum sent me this link, i need to speak to her about how she feels about this.

  maybe she didn't even read it.

  but the website looks to pro jw.

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  carla

  For most people (non jw) they see 'jehovah witness' much as you would say, Lutheran, Catholic, etc... simply defining which 'church' you belong to. I still find it a bit humorous when someone says, "a big jehovah knocked on my door", (big meaning very zealous) or " a bunch of jehovah's were in the neighborhood", "the jehovah's came by and I didn't answer my door!" and so on. They have no idea that they are probably really offending the jw's when they say things like that.

  Don't even get me started about having to explain that jw's don't go to 'church' they don't have 'churches' they have kh's!
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  Magic

  by Rattigan350 in

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  2. beliefs

  the april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.

  it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.

  it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.

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  carla

  It seems it all depends on the current litter-ature. My jw recently enjoyed a certain show about magicians but then very abruptly gave it up. No reason, just would not watch it. I knew.
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  Cite one scripture in the N.T. that chargers Christians to be witnesses of / for Jehovah.....Not one.using K.I ./ WTB&TS

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think the wtb&ts publication titled "the kingdom interlinear of the christian greek scriptures" speaks for itself.. the word for word translation of the greek into english.. that publication does not even contain the name or word jehovah either in hebrew letters or greek letters anywhere in the word for word texts.. their is not one scripture in the n.t.

  where christians ,followers of jesus christ are instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,however there are something like twenty scriptures that explicitly state followers of jesus christ are to be witnesses of, for, and about jesus...

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  carla

  Yes! jwfacts.com is an excellent resource! as is Atlantis as always. Imagine that? an ex jw has to download secret documents to a so called 'Christian' cult?! how bizarre. At least that's what my Christian and non Christian friends think of the whole thing.
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  Cite one scripture in the N.T. that chargers Christians to be witnesses of / for Jehovah.....Not one.using K.I ./ WTB&TS

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. friends

  i think the wtb&ts publication titled "the kingdom interlinear of the christian greek scriptures" speaks for itself.. the word for word translation of the greek into english.. that publication does not even contain the name or word jehovah either in hebrew letters or greek letters anywhere in the word for word texts.. their is not one scripture in the n.t.

  where christians ,followers of jesus christ are instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,however there are something like twenty scriptures that explicitly state followers of jesus christ are to be witnesses of, for, and about jesus...

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  carla

  johnamos, I see you as a jw mindset, perhaps if you are willing to really examine your own beliefs as jw's ask the doors to do, you will see things differently.

  Examine, then examine again and then keep searching and keep an open mind. If you are on Simons's board you are already in peril as a diehard jw and would be subject to df-ing just for being here. Sad isn't it? that your entire world could change in an instant just for looking at a website?
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  Cite one scripture in the N.T. that chargers Christians to be witnesses of / for Jehovah.....Not one.using K.I ./ WTB&TS

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think the wtb&ts publication titled "the kingdom interlinear of the christian greek scriptures" speaks for itself.. the word for word translation of the greek into english.. that publication does not even contain the name or word jehovah either in hebrew letters or greek letters anywhere in the word for word texts.. their is not one scripture in the n.t.

  where christians ,followers of jesus christ are instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,however there are something like twenty scriptures that explicitly state followers of jesus christ are to be witnesses of, for, and about jesus...

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  carla

  Muslims believe that Jesus was a real person that lived, does that make them 'Christians'?

  jw's are not Christian in any sense of the word.Yes, they give lip service every now an again. Simply using the word 'Jesus' at the end of prayer does not make one Christ like.

  Many people today like to 'identify' themselves as one thing or another. There is even a person who believes she is a cat and wants to be identified as such, doesn't make it so.

  I live with a jw, while he is a very good man and helps many, it is certainly not due to being a jw! it is from his non jw upbringing, a leftover if you will, that he helps non jw family and friends. Funny, it drives him crazy on one hand that non jw's are so 'sinful' yet he helps them. Must be hard to live judging others all the time yet feeling compelled due to his Christian upbringing that he can't help himself. His whole family is like that, all non jw, they help everybody. Be it sinful, gay, black, white, purple or polk-a-dot, they are just wired that way. In fact, if the local cong knew just how much he helped us sinful people he would probably be df'd or at the very least have his 'privileges' taken away. Always nice to have a nuclear option in my back pocket though I have never used it and wouldn't because he needs to see the cult for what it is on his own to truly let go of this ungodly disgusting 'religion'.

  I can't think of a more hypocritical organization than the jw's! They always ask what they themselves are not willing to do themselves. One prime example is at the door, they ask you to examine your religion while they will run for the hills if you ask them the same of their own so called 'religion'.

  jw's shouldn't even be used in the same sentence as Jewish folk.
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  Cite one scripture in the N.T. that chargers Christians to be witnesses of / for Jehovah.....Not one.using K.I ./ WTB&TS

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think the wtb&ts publication titled "the kingdom interlinear of the christian greek scriptures" speaks for itself.. the word for word translation of the greek into english.. that publication does not even contain the name or word jehovah either in hebrew letters or greek letters anywhere in the word for word texts.. their is not one scripture in the n.t.

  where christians ,followers of jesus christ are instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,however there are something like twenty scriptures that explicitly state followers of jesus christ are to be witnesses of, for, and about jesus...

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  carla

  johnamos, are you suggesting that because jw's use the word 'Christian' in their name on occasion that they are thought of as Christians? I don't know anybody that thinks jw's are 'Christians' in the traditional sense of the word. Most people who claim to be Christian rely on Christ work on the Cross for their salvation not a few men in NY or the 144,000 other jw's only. For Christians, salvation is through Jesus Christ and Christ alone. Nobody come to the Father but by the Son. It does not say to ride the shirt tails of others, you and you alone are to make sure of all things not rely on a few nut jobs in a writing dept somewhere.
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  Babylon The Great / World Empire of False Religion, do JW`s even preach that anymore ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. friends

  when was that first preached , with the book babylon the great has fallen gods kingdom rules ,the 1970`s ?

  where they claimed that false religion had a fall in 1919 and that it was continuing to that day .

  however today we see not babylon the great that is falling ,but the jehovah`s witnesses religion that are on the decline ,selling off branches , kingdom halls in one place after another throughout the earth .. and only a couple of years ago they were predicting they would be needing thousands of kingdom halls to be built for the expected influx of new worshippers ?

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  carla

  Do r & f even know about all the sell off's?
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  Heidi Hall: Life after WTS Good read

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  https://religionnews.com/2019/09/26/finding-a-faith-that-is-stronger-than-death-or-my-familys-rejection/.

  in my search, i left behind conditional, behavior-based love and traded it for the unconditional grace shown by a true family, whose bonds have nothing to do with dna.. and i’m dying grateful for that.. (heidi hall, who died sept. 25, 2019, at age 49, was a veteran journalist whose award-winning career took her from the standard democrat in sikeston, missouri, and the southeast missourian to the tampa tribune and the nashville tennessean before landing her at vanderbilt university’s public affairs office.

  the views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of religion news service.

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  carla

  Nice story on unconditional love, thanks for sharing.
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  wt and money

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  well she went off to the big convention this morning.

  as she left i ventured a bare tiny 'dont give them money' 'they have millions.

  ' she spun back, (we are on pensions.).

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  carla

  ugh, aside from the money part then you have to wait for the extreme dubbiness to wear off after a convention.