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  What do you love about being a JW?

  by FL_Panthers in

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  2. friends

  as the title says, share what you love about the truth!.

  we know that the gb or anything else in the truth is all true and nothing is false!.

  love u guys xxx.

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  Jeffro

  villagegirl:

  Jeffro - Wow you should start your own cult, you have it down pat. Look into my eyes, you are Jehovah.

  Either you're joking, or you've completely misunderstood. So I'm going to assume you're joking.
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  What do you love about being a JW?

  by FL_Panthers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as the title says, share what you love about the truth!.

  we know that the gb or anything else in the truth is all true and nothing is false!.

  love u guys xxx.

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  Jeffro

  a watcher:

  The thing I love most about being a JW is my personal relationship with Jehovah. Jehovah's earthly organization is secondary.

  It's ironic but not surprising that your favourite aspect is your 'personal relationship with Jehovah'. The part of the brain that people use for 'what does God think?' is the same part of the brain used for 'what do I think' (as distinct from the part of the brain used for 'what does someone else think?'). As far as your own mental process goes, you are Jehovah. That is, what 'Jehovah' wants is just your (re)interpretation of what you are constantly told 'Jehovah' (and therefore you) are 'meant' to like/dislike etc. This is why it's so 'important' to 'keep going to meetings' and read the 'spiritual food' from the 'faithful slave', because in the absence of the controlled source of information, people start to think independently. Your 'relationship' with Jehovah is merely an artificial side-effect of believing the teachings of your preferred publishing company.
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  JW vs Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Da.Furious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if this was discussed earlier.

  i tried to search for a similar topic but couldnt find one.. anyway, i am an active jw or is it jehovah's witness?.

  recently i noticed a trend, mainly found between teenagers and older techie brothers, of referring to themselves as jws.

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  Jeffro

  mynameislame:

  They even seem to be promoting it with jw.org.

  Well... not really. It's not that they "even" seem to doing that. They are especially doing that. They've been very far behind the technological age for some time, and obviously their marketing team (probably hired externally) have told them to get 'on brand'.
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  JW parents are CRAZY

  by Demokan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello again, for those who don't know me i'm a 15 year old boy.

  and recently my mom is displaying symptoms of demensia, she left the stove on today and she yells at us for watching commercials on t.v that are "demonic" because today there was a commercial on television for the new 300 movie and she started yelling at my sister to turn it off, and then i was listening to coldplay as a playlist while doing my school work and she started yelling at me to turn the demonic music off.

  she says "demonic" this "demonic" that.

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  Jeffro

  Demokan:

  She watched this illuminati video about lady gaga being part of the illuminati and she won't let me listen to her music now.

  Of course the illuminati stuff is nonsense, but at least some good has come of it. Maybe find some good music.
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  Jacob becomes Isreal, Why? Bible Study Gen. 32-35

  by What is Truth? in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have had a facination with this passage for some time since starting reading james kugel's book "how to read the bible" and i am curious to get your imput.

  it is genesis 32: 24-32 where jacob gets his name changed.. i am most interested in how this story relates to the early dealings with isrealite's god.

  specifically, who is the person that jacob wrestles with?.

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  Jeffro

  What a ridiculous fable! This one 'angel' had to 'wrestle' all night with Jacob, but another angel could instantly kill 185,000 'evil' Assyrians? Then after 'wrestling' all night, the 'angel' has his hands somewhere around Jacob's 'thigh', after which Jacob is then 'limp'.

  Maybe someone saw Jacob rolling around all night with this other guy so he came up with the story that: "oh... um... ah... him... no... he's ah... a... an... angel... yeah, an... angel... and I was um... wrestling... yeah... wrestling... for a... a... blessing."

  Maybe the 'wrestling' 'angel' was also one of the guys who wanted to stay in the public square in Sodom instead of at Lot's house (Genesis 19:2).

  Just sayin'.
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  Can God see into the future? is a wrong question!

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i read today in this site: can god see into the future?

  (by duvanmuvan ), i thought of posting an article, rather than commenting!.

  did god know that adam and eve would disobey?

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  Jeffro

  exWTslave:

  God only teaches us

  Adam and Eve are just symbols

  It's quite an awkward story if you're claiming that one character of the story is real and the other two are 'allegorical'. Especially when the one posited as real is even more proposterous than the others. Why not ditch the story altogether, stop making 'excuses' for the fictional barbaric God of the Bible, and just get to the point where people should take responsibility for their own actions?

  If you want to know more about superior laws and superior system of things existing in the Spirit World, and other planets, read DESTINY OF SOULS, written by Dr. Michael Newton.

  Ah... No. Seeing as there is precisely zero evidence of a 'spirit world', what is Mr. Newton's source?
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  Can God see into the future? is a wrong question!

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i read today in this site: can god see into the future?

  (by duvanmuvan ), i thought of posting an article, rather than commenting!.

  did god know that adam and eve would disobey?

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  Jeffro

  Is there any evidence that God exists? No.

  Is there any evidence that Adam & Eve existed? No.

  Is there evidence that Adam & Eve as portrayed in the Bible definitely did not exist? Yes.

  I think that covers it.
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  When did Watchtower launch the first WT Library CD?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the first i became aware that one existed was 2005. but i was under some rock till then.. the other question is have should probably be fielded in some other thread but i'll ask it here anyway .

  how long have watchtower writers been creating their magazine articles, books, booklets, etc., by using computer software?.

  len.

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  Jeffro

  The Quiet One:

  In 1993, Watch Tower of Pennsylvania produced the Watchtower Library on CD-ROM, an electronic compilation of most of its religious materials published since 1950. Subsequent up-dated versions have been released (collectively, the “CD-ROMs”).

  Only The Watchtower magazine goes back to 1950 on the CD-ROM. Other publications only go back to 1970.

  Watchtower Library on CD-ROM was released biennially from 1994 to 2002, and annually since 2004, each time titled as the edition for the year prior to release.

  FatFreek 2005:

  How long have Watchtower writers been creating their magazine articles, books, booklets, etc., by using computer software?

  From 1977 onwards, including a special project ('MEPS') from 1979 to 1986 for multi-language computerised typesetting.

  Elements of MEPS are present in Watchtower Library on CD-ROM.

  The following languages are referenced in MEPS but do not have full MEPS support:

  • Braille
  • Esperanto
  • Inuktitut
  • Northern Ojibwe
  • Cree (Omushkego)
  • Cree (Woods)
  • Cree (Plains)
  • Cree (West Swampy)

  The following languages are "deprecated" in MEPS:

  • Braille
  • Chinese Phonetic
  • Esperanto
  • Hawaiian
  • Iroquois
  • Ketchi
  • Kinyiha
  • Yiddish
  • Bahasa Melayu
  • Guajiro
  • Kipare
  • Ovambo
  • Quichua
  • Kitaita
  • Mambae
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  Death threats and Hate mail from Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  are jws becoming radicalized?.

  exposing hypocritical jehovah's witnesses.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/178644278990236/.

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  Jeffro

  At my blog about JW's '607' doctrine, I received this 'charming' message from "Maureen G." of Ashburn, Virginia:

  Look at you. You think you are wiser than Jehovah. He will feed you to the birds on armageddon, we’ll see!

  It's fairly clear she was 'inspired' to say that after reading page 7 of the February 2014 issue of The Watchtower.
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  Bizarre comment about jw.org at SAD

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.

  "and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.

  in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.

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  Jeffro

  Almost anyone typing "JW." (with the full stop) into Google is specifically looking for the JW website anyway. Clearly, this 'loving provision' protects innocent JWs from accidentally straying onto JW.com instead - the Texas-based Jackson Walker Attorneys. Praise Jeebus that JWs are protected from accidentally visiting that obviously apostate website designed to lure away 'true Christians'.