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  What piece of WT literature is worth holding onto, or have you kept? Why?

  by losingit in

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  2. bible

  i have basically thrown away all of my bound volumes and loose wt and awake magazines.

  i kept some bpoks, the insight to the scriptures, god's love, the reasoning book, and daniel's prophecies (this was my favorite) .

  i held onto insight to the scriptures after reading some of ray franz's book, crisis of conscience.

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  donny

  I kept my Revelation book because of all the marking and notes I put in it. It reminds me how jacked up I was at the time.
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  Children of God Cult

  by EmptyInside in

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  i was listening to an interview on public radio of chris owens,formerly of the band,girls.. anyway,they touched on briefly how he was raised in the children of god cult.

  he mentioned how isolated he felt,and when he left at 16,he accepted the fact that he would lose communication with his mother.

  since that is the way of groups like that.

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  donny

  Cult = A small, unpopular religon.

  Religion = A large, popular cult.
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  Why does god kill children?

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
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  i was thinking about all the accounts in the bible that indicate god kills children as a punishment or teaching experience.

  1. kills all of egypts firstborn sons, who were innocent kids who did nothing to him or his people, who had no control over the decisions pharoah made.

  how many times have you read that account or thought about it without realizing the devastating pain dealt to all those parents, and remembered those were innocent kids?.

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  donny

  One of my favorite passages of the God of Love is found at 1 Samuel 15:3.

  "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'"

  I always enjoy listening to various apologists try to justify this command. So much for "You should not murder."

  And Psalm 137:9 is truly inspiring. "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."
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  Have you ACTUALLY seen any Bible prophecies fulfilled in your life/lifetime?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  blowed if i have!.

  i know the jdubs think that there are prophetic signs all around.

  well they bloody would!.

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  donny

  My dentist said I helped him fulfill Psalm 81:10. "Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it."
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  Accused of thinking too much

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been officially accused of "thinking too much".. i've tried to quit thinking, but i'm hoplessly addicted to it.i just can't seem to turn my brain off.. at times duing my school years i was accused of not thinking enough.

  now i'm guilty of thinking too much!.

  the brother even went on to say "could you imagine what the witness organisation if everyone was thinking independently like you do"?

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  donny

  What they are really telling you is that if you continue to think in rational terms, you will realize that the truth is not so truthful after all.
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  Rumor: April 3, 2015 start of Great Tribulation?

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on another forum, somebody mentioned that there is a growing belief with those high up in watchtower hierarchy that the great tribulation will begin april 3, 2015. evidently, one has to check the skycharts for that date and compare with 33 ceand also compare with the history of jws for past 40, 80, 120 years.

  dont ask me to verify the rumor...these things come and go.

  im sure lots of people in hq believe all sorts of things.. .

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  If the Society were to set another date, I would not think it would be one so close to the present. I figured they would at least give themselves the better part of a decade like they did with the 1975 fiasco.
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  Tell us your strangest, weirdest, funniest encounters going D2D

  by BluePill2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you where a brave little witness soldier, or even a pioneer (gasp), you must have seen a lot of strange shit.

  the probability of encountering "interesting" people or getting yourself into weird situations is pretty high.. i'll start.

  i have to get them together, but today i remembered this ones:.

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  donny

  A brother and I were working a two story L-shaped apartment complex one morning. We started at one end on the first floor and on the second door a man with bugged out eyes opened the door and said loudly "WHAT?" As my partner began his presentation, I noticed behind him there was no furniture in the living room, but there were several stands of wire stung across the room and these had papers clipped to them with clothespins. (The guy acted and looked similar to the professor on Back to the Future)

  As soon as my partner had mentioned the word "God", the man interrupted and said with great emphasis "God! the Omnipotent, The King of Kings, The Most powerful, Invisible, Creator, Divine, The Source, All Powerful........................"

  As he continued mentioning words or phrases that he associated with God, we slowly stepped back and made our way to the second floor. On the first door there we were invited in and we went in and talked to that family for about 20 minutes.

  As we left that apartment my partner said "Hey Listen, he is still at it!" The guy was still there repeating some of the same words that he was saying when we knocked on his door. We found a different staircase and left that facility as quickly as we could. Needless to say, we did not put him down as a return visit
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  smaller wt magazines

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i made a tiny comment about the smaller and poorer quality of the wt magazines to my wife (in) she retorted "thats because they are using the internet.!".

  it was not her words and her reply was almost rehearsed no doubt learned at the ms.. pretty good given the wts warnings against all things internet until relatively recently..

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  donny

  People will do things they otherwise wouldn't when money becomes tight. The Society knows that the the younger generations are relying on the phyical printed page less and less and if they want to remain relevant, they have to go with the flow.
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  How many people have you helped/facilitated to leave JWs?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. friends

  me: one, my husband, so far.

  if we all snatch one person from the borg, will our numbers grow exponentially?

  i'm no mathematician.. how many have you personally helped?.

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  donny

  Four as far as I know. My two daughters and a daughter and son-in law of a friend. I have also helped about 5 folks from ever becoming entagled with the Society at all. I did that by feeding them questions to ask the ones they were studying with. One of them told me that as soon as he told his study conductor that he was talking to an ex-Witness, the man never showed up again for another session. He said "The dude never called or left a note telling me that he was no longer going to conduct a stufy with me. He just stopped showing up on Friday evenings."
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  Getting to heaven on the wings of Lunestra

  by donny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  finally i was having an anointed moment.

  i looked up and saw jesus on his throne saying "my dear ray, i am coming soon.

  yes soon i am coming and i will be coming quickly so be prepared.".

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  donny

  It is amazing how something that is supposed to just make you sleep can have such bizarre and sometimes adverse reactions. LSD should be envious!