a few days ago my door bell rang.
when i answered it there were two sruffy looking men there both of them in their 60's/70's i would say.. one of them with a huge belly said to me " hello, we are going around the community today gadging peoples views from all nationalites, because we feel thats very important to do in this area as we have cypriot, russian and british like yourself...".
i interupted there and said " sorry, who are you?".
the name Jehovah is the English translation for JHWH, right (not that anyone knows for certain) and other translations and theologians use this word but the watchtower is at fault for substituting the name in place of this acronym, JHWH, (tetagrammatan) throughout the New Testament. don't recall whether they slipped the name in the old testament.
i obviously need a review and appreciate your knowledge --- and i'm too lazy/busy to google.
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i have just found this out and this is why my family are suddenly 100% shunning me.
it won't get me to go back to the cult, but it will result in a very lonley old man not seeing his 4 grandkids ever again.
what a waste!
hairyhegoat: what is the game plan --- is there a fund for billboards, pamphlets, class-action suit.
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thats the question i keep asking myself once i began learning the truth about the truth.
one definition according to merriam-websters collegiate dictionary is the body of real things, events, and facts.
another (often cap) is a transcendent, fundamental or spiritual reality.
"why was i so gullible" --- ahhh, because we all want to live in fantasyland and have perfect friends & live forever. they offer one heck of a sales package at the door.
oh, just to have some fairydust!
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are any christians on this forum???.
if you found christ can you please let me know, so i can chat a little?
you guys seem to be all kinds of stuff here... no judgments now!
Thanks for info to click on "members" and "Chalam." didn't know this. love Chalam's posts and scriptures.
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she asked me if i am christian.
i told her that i was raised as a jw, but i do not go to the kingdom hall.
she says that she watch charles stanley and franklin graham on tv.
i think dr. chas. stanley is awesome. he's educated and i've enjoyed watching him few times. think he believes in trinity but i don't care. you can go on his website and check him out at intouch.org.
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randy/dogpatch has posted some interesting material about troubles in the organization.
this info generated a lot of skepticism about the possibility of watchtower fragmentation.
frankly, it is very easy to be skeptical considering everything that ordinary witnesses are willing to believe or put up with.. i think it would be useful to realistically consider what sort of event(s) would bring the watchtower down or cause its fragmentation?
numbers equal dollars in the board game and i know they're lying about growth (except desperate 3rd world where there's no hope). heard a hardliner saying the public talk is spewing about ones who left yrs. ago are now coming back --- yeah, right! heard a calif. convention was so empty witnesses thought they showed up wrong weekend. how can older ones contribute more when individual funds/retirements are down. GOV'T really needs to protect individuals in their tender yrs. from this religious corruption. the Bible makes the promises that desperate souls yearn for (the freaks at w/t didn't dream this up other than to throw in a cubby or lion) and the old people must realize by now the madmen promising they'd never croak were half-baked. even w/all the promises for 130 yrs. --- most thought they were strange so i hope they go broke having to give the publications away.
what is it that attracts the african-americans to this cult? are they tired of the great music in their traditional type churches.
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randy/dogpatch has posted some interesting material about troubles in the organization.
this info generated a lot of skepticism about the possibility of watchtower fragmentation.
frankly, it is very easy to be skeptical considering everything that ordinary witnesses are willing to believe or put up with.. i think it would be useful to realistically consider what sort of event(s) would bring the watchtower down or cause its fragmentation?
I would donate for billboards.
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a jw told me a while back as i was leaving - "you will never find friends in the world that are like those in the organiation".. i smiled to myself and thought "god, i hope not".
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lol.
YES --- i was told something similar (how witnesses would be perfect in new system) by a JW acquaintance and i laughed and said i'd rather DIE than be stuck w/those perfect people in paradise.
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solely by means of the pages of the bible... is like trying to know someone based on what's written about them in their high school year book.
while what others write there may say a lot... oh so much is left out.
best way to get to know that person?
Thanks, again, Stephen. Will copy your info.
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solely by means of the pages of the bible... is like trying to know someone based on what's written about them in their high school year book.
while what others write there may say a lot... oh so much is left out.
best way to get to know that person?
Question for Chalam --- What is your position on voting and being part of the world or this applies to other things about the world --- how can you interpret?
Thank you.
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