Posts by jwfacts

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JWFacts is incorrect about "Holy Spirit". Do YOU know about the 40 or so years the WT taught there was NO holy spirit?

by Bad_Wolf in

i did my own extensive research as i was getting out, and by exploring actual changes and mentions of core doctrine, i learned how it came about that the gb teach that only they know the truth and only they get holy spirit.

i was checking if jwfacts had it, and although they mention many older articles, it seems they didn't realize they taught there was no holy spirit.

this was a real big eye opener for me, so thought i'd share it, and curious if any of you knew about this yourselves????.

jwfacts

I was checking if JWFacts had it, and although they mention many older articles, it seems they didn't realize they taught there was no holy spirit.

JWfacts is a he, not a they.

Holy spirit is Jehovah's force, and it cannot be that there was suddenly "no holy spirit." Rather, Rutherford said holy spirit did not direct him. This is touched on at https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/directed-by-holy-spirit.php where it says "Over time he came to the conclusion that once Jesus was enthroned, holy spirit ceased guiding the Slave and Jesus was using his angels to direct his people."

I may open up my folder of custom research later and quote the articles

Please do, I would like access to the quotes.

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Carts on both ends of the farmersmarket

by Still Totally ADD in

jw
friends

my wife and me have a booth at the local framers market.

there is usually about 12 t0 14 vendors each week on a small short street in town.

what is funny on each end of this short street are cart setups with 3 people on each cart.

jwfacts

I assume you pay to have a stall at the farmers market. Do the JWs pay either the markets, or the council if on council property, or are they illegally setting up their carts? Maybe you could call the council and asked for them to be moved if they are not there legally.

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Christchurch, New Zealand Convention 2018 (August 31-Sept 2)

by The Poetry Of Reality in

jw
friends

anyone have the attendance numbers/baptism numbers for this?.

i would also be interested to find out the convention attendance stats for new zealand for any year available - so that they can be added to this.. thanks!.

jwfacts

what ages were those baptised?

27

In search of custody hearing advice ...

by dubstepped in

i don't have kids, but i recently found that someone with kids that lives in my town is also an ex-jw.

she just happened to post on an apostafest thread on facebook for an event that i attended, saw that we lived in the same place, and i met her for the first time tonight.

pretty cool.. she has a 14 year old boy that is super smart and very articulate.

jwfacts

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/mental-issues.php discusses a couple of cases where the court found in favour of the non-believer, and the reasoning why.

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/disfellowship-shunning.php has quotes that show that shunning is very strictly enforced. She could play the 2016 Convention Video on shunning video to the judge, where the mother refuses to even answer calls from the child, and how that coercion forced the child back into the religion.

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Ancestery.com— I Got My Results! Very Surprised

by minimus in

jw
friends

so i got my results in on sunday and my bloodline is mostly from great britain and italy and greece!

not what i expected at all but it does explain my love of italian and greek foods.😎.

jwfacts

ShirleyW7 hours ago
I have a feeling that sometime down the road these ancestral websites will be blasted on 60 Minutes or just the news in general for misleading people about their genetic history.

I was incredibly impressed by it. My son has a vast mix in him, and the results were exactly what I knew about my history and also that of his mother.

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Ancestery.com— I Got My Results! Very Surprised

by minimus in

jw
friends

so i got my results in on sunday and my bloodline is mostly from great britain and italy and greece!

not what i expected at all but it does explain my love of italian and greek foods.😎.

jwfacts

I got mine, and it said I was half British and half Hungarian. Turns out I'm not Australian after all.

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Donated Jewelry -- where is it sold?

by anon123 in

not really sure in what forum this topic belongs -- trying to find out where kh or other jw org sells the jewelry that is donated to it..

jwfacts

Up to about 7 years ago, my mother used to sell the jewelry that was donated to Bethel. Dad was a CO and would go to Bethel twice a year to do the audit. Mum would be assigned to deceased estates. She would take the jewelry to the city and sell it to some place that bought it in bulk.

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Being cyber stalked by an elder - and how I dealt with it!😉

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

ah...this is funny!.

my instagram is set to public .

i have nothing to hide.

jwfacts

I’ve accidentally liked a photo, which turned out to be very awkward. Hopefully your elder is feeling the same way. ... It was a good photo though.

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Have you ever considered trying ancestry.com?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was recently given a gift of ancestry.com and i’m curious if anyone else has used this service?.

jwfacts

I have used familytree. I was blown away at how accurate it was. Absolutely spot on for my ancestry, which spans a few countries. My gorgeous son is even more mixed, and the results were spot on for what I know about his mother’s background.

I also learnt a few things about my background and origin of my name that I was not aware of.

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Views on the golden ratio??

by Freedom rocks in

what are your views on the golden ratio or fibonacci sequence?

i know jws and some other groups use this as proof of gods existence.

i'm still looking into the debate but was wondering what others thought.

jwfacts

People seem to have a very loose concept of what constitutes “proof” of their belief system. That something fits with a belief does not make it a proof. Many such proof can be used to support both sides of an argument, often a confusion of correlation and causation.

The Golden Ratio fits the concept of intelligent design, but no more so than it shows that the universe and evolution exist as the do because they follow a mathematical structure independent of a higher power.