Posts by ThomasCovenant

i have been coming to this site to read news and your stories for about a year now, but have never posted due to my mortal fear of somehow being found out... i have family in as most of you do, who are all very sincerely convinced that they are on the path of light.. i have never been happy with the beliefs, mainly the doublespeak on the status of women, the hypocrisy, the dramatisation of the smallest of matters, and the general guilt trip that was my life until i stumbled across some hard evidence that my suspicions about 'gods channel' were well founded.

unfortunately i am now addicted to turning over every piece of information i can find, there seems to be no end to the amount of $#*& below the surface.

i will probably remain in this state for awhile, hungrily devouring all the information that makes me feel validated for my stand against much of the mindless rubbish that has gone around me during my life as a jw.

ThomasCovenant

Hello breakingfree.

Just saying welcome and hope to hear from you more.

Thomas Covenant

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BBC Radio 5 Live recording and transcript

by IT Support in

thanks for your call, peter.

should a doctor be able to override a patients wishes?.

lets take just one more call before we let you go.

ThomasCovenant

Hi

Thanks very much IT Support for the hard work.

I listen to Richard Bacon occassionally and my opinion of him has just increased. He did well in a frustrating situation.

This case has been widely publicized in the UK and I can't see that any sane person would think more favourably about JW's after this and the recent paedophile that escaped a prison sentence. It seems to me that Big J must be getting a bit embarrassed by his people, bringing reproach upon his name.

Richard Bacon 'No one tells you,no elder within the church,ever tells anybody they shouldn't have a blood transfusion?'

Ernie Reid 'No, no one can tell you what you should, or shouldn't do, Richard.'

Thomas Covenant 'That's bollocks, Ernie'

I feel another telephone call to London Bethel may be in order just to clarify this point.

Thanks

Thomas Covenant

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Huge Fine for Anti-Gay US Church

by ThomasCovenant in

hi.

apologies if already posted.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7072404.stm.

thomas covenant.

ThomasCovenant

Hi

Apologies if already posted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7072404.stm

Thanks

Thomas Covenant

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Trying to show active JW's that they are 'Apostate' already.

by ThomasCovenant in

whenever i have brought up the subject of who will be saved at armageddon with a jw they always, without exception, deny that it is a teaching/ belief of the wt that everyone but them are going to be destroyed.

there's a very good reason for this of course.

how many people can go through life constantly aware that at any moment god is going kill 99.9% of the population?

ThomasCovenant

HI

Fresia, I'm not so sure they have abandoned the idea in the eighties.

Here's some more quotes.

WT 01 15th February pages 12-17

Jehovah's Day of Judgement is Near!

para 10

''Annihilation awaits ALL (my emphasis) who will not listen and who thereby set themselves against rule by God's Kingdom.''

para 15

''There will be no escape for present-day practicers of false religion,............''

Para 18

''What a bitter ( I should say 'bitter' they are going to be killed) time that will be for ALL WHO IGNORE ( my emphasis) Jehovah's warnings given by his Witnesses and who fail to embrace true worship!''

Thanks

Thomas Covenant

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Trying to show active JW's that they are 'Apostate' already.

by ThomasCovenant in

whenever i have brought up the subject of who will be saved at armageddon with a jw they always, without exception, deny that it is a teaching/ belief of the wt that everyone but them are going to be destroyed.

there's a very good reason for this of course.

how many people can go through life constantly aware that at any moment god is going kill 99.9% of the population?

ThomasCovenant

Hi

Whenever I have brought up the subject of who will be saved at Armageddon with a JW they always, without exception, deny that it is a teaching/ belief of the WT that everyone but them are going to be destroyed. There's a very good reason for this of course. How many people can go through life constantly aware that at any moment God is going kill 99.9% of the population? And still remain sane? Therefore they (including myself at the time) have to put that thought out of their heads.

Nevertheless this is definitely the belief as we all know.

Now if the opportunity arises in the future I would like to try this approach with a JW.

Do you believe that only Jehovah's Witnesses are going to be saved at Armageddon?

No. We don't know who will be saved. We leave that to Big J to read hearts

Well I'm sorry to tell you that that is not what the Watchtower Society says. Therefore you are going against the Society's teachings which I think is known as 'apostasy'. I think I will have to inform the local elders that they have an apostate in their midst. Goodbye.

Throw the ball back to them that they are already not following the GB.

I need to keep a few choice WT quotes regarding who will be saved handy. Blondie always used to keep one to the fore

WT 89 1st Sept page 19 para 7

Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the 'great crowd', as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil.

Thanks

Thomas Covenant

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