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  Bait and Switch "Bible studies"

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  mark jones, a witness for over 30 years describes what jws call bible studies offered to the public.. .

  "they (jehovah's witnesses) offer you a free home “bible” study - which turns out to be a study of a watchtower publication with the bible brought out as an afterthought to try and prop up whatever current idea the governing body are claiming is “the truth” this week.. i think it’s underhanded.. when my parents became jehovah’s witnesses and they offered people a free home “bible” study, this is what they brought to study with them:.

  what, did you think they were going to study the bible with you?.

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  carla

  I tried telling my jw all of this when he was first joining up, to no avail. The way they hook scriptures together they might as well hook this together; "....and he hung himself, now go and do likewise....".

  They have a bible at the ready to simply show that a certain scripture does in fact exist not to show any context. And for goodness sakes don't read the whole chapter much less the book!

  They name the NWT for legal reasons? hmm, I thought it was just another case of having to be 'different'.
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  Why are so many Jehovah’s Witnesses Angry and Rude?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?

  or is that just my imagination?.

  mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.

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  carla

  As a ubm I can't tell you how many people thought my jw was arrogant when discussing anything religious. These comments came from people who truly loved him but saw the extreme change in him once he became fully committed to the cult. It actually brings me to tears to think about it sometimes. I don't say that lightly either. I haven't been around many jw's to be honest, the few times I have I would say the women are the worst! I am just going to say it, it rhymes with 'witches'.

  When my jw was first joining up people would ask me what was wrong with him? why was he so angry? and so forth and this did not even include any jw discussion. He was merely seeing these former friends as 'non jw's ' who were 'less than'? worthy of destruction? these were people we grew up with and were in our wedding party.

  As a side note, I still wonder why jw's do not use paragraphs when posting online? I see this here and elsewhere and I can tell a newly pimo from a mile away for this reason. Anyone know why this might be?
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  What's going on in Ohio?

  by Bartolomeo in

  1. social
  2. current

  reporter evan lambert arrested by ohio police live on train derailment for doing what big media won't do: ask questions about toxic chemicals that poison water and air.

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  the largest "democracy" in the world that arrests journalists for simple questions.. imagine if it had happened in russia what they would have said.... https://twitter.com/thethe1776/status/1625202284144791552.

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  carla

  "My video camera footage shows my chickens were perfectly fine before they started this burn, and as soon as they started the burn, my chickens slowed down and they died," she told WKBN. "If it can do this to chickens in one night, imagine what it’s going to do to us in 20 years." - from this article https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-residents-fear-train-derailment-poisoned-air-ground-report-animals-dying

  "Among the substances were ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene were also in the rail cars that were derailed, the list shows.

  Contact with ethylhexyl acrylate, a carcinogen, can cause burning and irritation of the skin and eyes, and inhalation can irritate the nose and throat, causing shortness of breath and coughing,"- from this article - https://abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemicals-train-derailed-ohio-originally-reported-data/story?id=97080179

  I don't imagine we will ever really know the truth about it as they don't allow journalists to do their jobs anymore in the US.
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  Jehovah's witnesses sying County Governor om Oslo and Boken, Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  oops title going wrong.

  suing, in and viken correct.

  this afternoon a press release from the jw has been published in major news outlets in norway concerning the withdrawal of registration etc..

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  carla

  "They call the authorities' decision "discriminatory" and claim it "conveys a message that there is something seriously wrong with Jehovah's Witnesses".
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  New blood card system in March

  by Indoubtbigtime in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is going to be a hole new system of blood cards this march .

  the congregation won’t hold any information as they did before from march it will be all put on the pub.

  i think it’s to do with vaccines and they are worried now they got everyone vaxed and they want to distance themselves from medical responsibilities and say own personal decisions.

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  carla

  I saw in some article (not U.S.) they were trying to set up a 'pure' blood blank, no vax blood supply. Sorry, don't remember where I saw it.

  Just to add to more social harmony, now we will have the vaxxed and the 'pure bloods'. yikes.
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  Five members of Jehovah's Witness congregations across Pennsylvania charged with sexual abuse of children

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/sexual-abuse-of-children-jehovahs-witness-pennsylvania/521-1d54cc2e-3ec6-4d20-b67a-fc3c5e8f2580.

  https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-07-presentment-2_7_23.pdf.

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  carla

  Thank you for posting this.
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  Ex-Jehovah's Witness recounts her disfellowshipping and family estrangement in today's Huffington Post. A poignant read.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a thoughtful read in today's huffington post.

  it reminded me of how glad i am that 1st gen and i left the cult together and worked on keeping our closest relationships alive.

  it wasn't easy.

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  carla

  That article was just so sad. I know it is played out often in dubland, such a waste of love.
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  PIMO but to scared to talk about doubts

  by Indoubtbigtime in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am pimo but too scared to talk about my doubts with anyone for fear of being shunned.

  i know many now have doubts that the vaccines are safe and effective this is as good as doubting the gb.

  you can it say anything in doubt about the vaccines because the gb still act like salesmen for big pharmaceuticals .

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  carla

  It is my (non jw ) understanding that even a baptized jw does not have any guarantee of surviving the big A, they only have the 'hope' of surviving if they 'do' enough meaning fs hours, reaching out to become elder, pioneer, etc... even then they may not be 'worthy'.

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/salvation-only-for-jehovahs-witnesses.php

  I know my jw thinks that somehow all of us (his entire family, children, spouse, parents, etc...) will make into the 'new system' due to his 'work' and maybe because deep down we are 'good' people but just can't abide by all the jw rules just yet, lol. I guess we may get to ride on his coattails?

  Most of us look at his vision of paradise earth as 'hell'.

  I find this fitting- “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
  ― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
  
  
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  November 2022 Let Nothing Separate You From Jehovah

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  study article 47. .

  7 maintain your spiritual routine.

  consider how doing so helped shirley, a sister in papua new guinea, when she faced hardships.

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  carla

  Maybe she went down the street to the local Christian church for a free meal with no strings attached?
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  So where oh where did Judge Rutherford come up with JW theology?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bits of unreported history that may be of casual interest… as to doctrinal origins.

  sykes was one-of-a-kind in the pentecostal movement, but he was considered quite a maverick who went his own way with heretical teachings repugnant to the pentecostal faith.. joshua sykes’ congregation was integrated, unlike pastor russell’s public speeches/sermons where blacks and whites both could attend, but only in separate sections--sykes's members were sitting side by side in the pentecostal church.

  this was considered dangerous and inflammatory at the time.. pentecostal preacher joshua sykes practiced racial and gender "integration" as early as 1908 -- having both african-american and female assistant preachers, staffers, and members.

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  carla

  I wonder what current jw's would think of the Harp book? My jw wouldn't even look at it! I think because he believed I purchased the (original copy) from an apostate. Why that would make a difference I have no idea. It is/was genuine jw book. I think every jw should read it and see where it takes them. It is one of the more insane things I have ever read. That is saying a lot because I have no problem reading things that some might find a bit 'out there'.