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  Our congregation will be deleted

  by Rattigan350 in

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  last night was the co's visit.

  prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.

  it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.

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  skin

  people at retirement age who did not plan (thanks to the religion telling them Armageddon would be here)
  

  Exactly, there is a couple here that have been very vocal over the last 30 or so years talking about how any one who plans for retirement has been blinded by the devil. It's very obvious that the end is so near....they used to continually say. They are now both very close to retirement age with no savings, dont own a house and are very worried about how they are going to live once retired. I could hold back and made sure they realised why they have got themselves in this mess. I was told in no uncertain terms that is not the reason. Meanwhile they continue to lap up the nonsense coming out of WT.
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  Need Help: My Correspondence with the Headquarters

  by Lobsto in

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  2. beliefs

  a month ago i sent a letter to the us branch about 607. my purpose for sending it was because i wanted to show to my parents through the letters the truth behind the date system.

  two days ago, i received a response from them.

  i think this is gonna be the first of many.

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  skin

  607BCE is clearly a biblical date, if it wasn't, then 1914 would be in error. Because 1914 is also clearly marked in scripture, and we know this by counting backwards using Daniel's 7 times prophecy we arrive exactly at 607. Here are two outstanding proofs that these dates are correct....Isn't this just circular reasoning? With no actual biblical start date or end date to base any of this from. So it has to be correct, to late to change it now, and I dont think they would change it, even if those many unread tablets show otherwise, then those tablets must also be wrong too.
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  "Gem from the November 2019 WT. Reject apostate material because JWs trust in "their brothers."

  by Daniel1555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dear friends.

  i didn't post for a while, but i still enjoy the great jwn community.. just wanted to share a "gem" from the november 2019 study watchtower.. paragraph 8 from the article "are you maintaining your large shield of faith?".

  satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.

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  skin

  They will try to turn us against one another.

  What more fear nonsense can they publish? And because JWs read this in the WT, they will believe that everyone in the outside world (enemies) have only one thing on their mind, and that is to make JWs turn against each other.
  
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  "Gem from the November 2019 WT. Reject apostate material because JWs trust in "their brothers."

  by Daniel1555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dear friends.

  i didn't post for a while, but i still enjoy the great jwn community.. just wanted to share a "gem" from the november 2019 study watchtower.. paragraph 8 from the article "are you maintaining your large shield of faith?".

  satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.

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  skin

  By default, anything that is negative regarding Jehovahs organization is obviously lies from Satan, end of story. Last thing they want JWs to know is that those branded apostates could be proclaiming the facts, the very facts that WT don't what their followers learning about.
  
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  Were is Tony Morris?

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  anyone seen tony morris giving talks in assembly or broadcast lately?

  he seems to be in hiding or vanishe.

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  skin

  He was used on a recent mid week meeting video, talking about forgiveness. Made me wonder if it wasn't his answer to his recent bottle store visit.
  
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  Does anyone think that Dubbers buy up old publications to destroy?

  by rockemsockem in

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  2. beliefs

  i see that there is a lot of people bidding on and buying the more controversial publications.

  it could be all due to people who have left the cult and want to read it as published the crazy things or prove it to a family member.

  but i wonder if anyone has ever heard of individuals buying up to remove something from the public.

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  skin

  I used to have an extensive personal library, in fact, right up till the mid 2000's, most JWs I knew gloated about their personal JW library. Not anymore, I've kept some of the older good ones, sold the rest (and was told I had to donate that $ back to WT, unlikely, you don't get paid twice for the same product). Had to hide the ones I've kept from "know it all" JWs. They say "Those publications are out of date so you should destroy them", oh but we love our rich spiritual heritage they will tell you in their next sentence.
  
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  Get you surplus Disaster Relief Supplies Here WTF?!?

  by HiddenPimo in

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  make money on stuff already purchased with donations and insurance refunds....

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  Wait. Who's selling this stuff? It doesn't say, does it?

  The contact email at the bottom of that flyer.
  
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  Get you surplus Disaster Relief Supplies Here WTF?!?

  by HiddenPimo in

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  make money on stuff already purchased with donations and insurance refunds....

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  They are auctioning some big equipment there, right down to salt & pepper shakers.

  Don't worry, there will be a local needs part after the next hurricane, asking for donations for the next relief work.
  
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  So Cricket Boring?

  by Slidin Fast in

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  2. friends

  if anyone watched or better attended the cricket world cup final and thinks that cricket is boring they should watch a re-run.

  what a game, what a spectacle!

  amazing!.

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  skin

  This world cup final had it all. Well done to both teams, as a NZer I'm gutted that the result came down to the team that hit more boundaries.
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  OCT 2019 Watchtower - Survival dependant on loyalty to JW Leaders

  by Listener in

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  2. bible

  there is so much wrong with the newly released october, 2019 but that's not unusual.

  what stands out is there statement claiming that survival through armageddon depends on loyalty to those 'taking the lead'.

  since they claim there will be a point during the gt that they (the gb) won't be physically around, jws must still be loyal to jw leaders.. whats interesting in this article is that they make it clear that they, the governing body are going to take part, from heaven, in the war of armageddon.

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  skin

  now living in the last of the 'last days'

  That saying was big back in the 1980's - 1990's. Haven't heard that over the last 20 years since it didn't come true back then. Oh, well, here we go again, lets use fear again by recycling this old phase to the new generation of followers who havn't heard it before. We are so close to the end this time.