I kept some of the older stuff. I was reading the first Kingdom Come book. Its cover is really weird. I let my cousin barrow it and he took it the kingdom hall and put into their library. I told him to get and give it back. My father had all the old brochures and a lot of them all stacked in my brother’s garage.
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Do You Keep Your Old JW Books?
by Clam inwhat have you done with your wts book collection?
have you sold them, burnt them, given them away or kept them as a memento?
the only one i kept was aid to bible understanding, which i still find helpful, even though there are errors, eg 607bc lol .
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WHY did you exit god and the bible when you exited the dubs?
by gumby innot all that post here threw the bible and the bible god out the window when they exited the dubs, but many have.. for me personally, i never doubted god or the bibles authenticity untill years later when i began doing a re-search on the bible canon and how it was formed.
from there, i began looking at the sceptics view of the bible and it's god which then changed my views.. i guess my question is, why did you ( those who disbelieved god/bible upon exiting the dubs)... throw god and the bible out the window before you had re-searched it enough to make you believe contrary?
if all you really knew was that the wtbts was bunk, what made you feel the bible and it's god was bunk too?.
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The Watchtower Company does not advocate true Christianity. I left for that reason. Their teachings take away from Jesus Christ. I am a Christian now..
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A Million Little Lies (or The Man Who Conned Oprah)
by sixsixsixtynine in.
an interesting expose on the bestseller, and oprah book club pick:
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He must be one of the writers for the WTBTS.
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Kingdom Halls?
by Rooster in.
when jesus was talking to the samaritan woman by the well did he imply that buildings (like the temple) would have to be built & dedicated to god for a person to be able to worship god?
can modern day kingdom halls really be considered a place of true worship?
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When Jesus was talking to the Samaritan woman by the well did he imply that buildings (like the temple) would have to be built & dedicated to God for a person to be able to worship God?
Can modern day kingdom halls really be considered a place of true worship?
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EACH ONE MUST WATCH HIMSELF
by Rooster ineach one must watch himself.
shortly after jesus resurrection and ascension to heaven he formed the christian congregation, on pentecost day of the year 33 c.e.
there the "faithful and discreet slave" class, with jesus apostles taking the lead, began to feed the individuals in gods newly formed household of faith with spiritual food.
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Rooster, Rooster, Rooster...There is no scriptural evidence this is referring to a "class". And no scriptural evidence that "class" would be the governing body of the JWs.
You are right on the money. It does not imply class in the scriptures.
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Do You Keep Your Old JW Books?
by Clam inwhat have you done with your wts book collection?
have you sold them, burnt them, given them away or kept them as a memento?
the only one i kept was aid to bible understanding, which i still find helpful, even though there are errors, eg 607bc lol .
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My father was born in 1926 & was a member of the sect all of his life. He had one room of his house full of thousands of WTBTS publications. Dating back into the 1800. When he died about two years ago my brother and I rented a Dumpster and through almost all of his books into it. I took some of the watchtower bound volumes home and used them for firewood.
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JUST HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU? DO YOU LIKE IT THAT WAY?
by Terry infool me once; shame on you.... fool me twice; shame on me.. we've all heard that one before.
it implies that being fooled is everybody's susceptibility until more facts are presented which enable more critical thinking.. critical thinking is something you aren't born with.
it takes lots of practice.. and anything humans want to learn requires many tries.
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The TRUTH for a JW is different from an ex JW.
A JW wants to believe what the Watchtower Society tell them no matter how contrary it might be to fact.
An ex JW wants to be told the facts no matter how contrary it might be to the Watchtower Society.
And they call us, the Apostates, the ones who are evil?
We are apostates to fantasy. We are apostates to mind-control. We are apostates to a manufactured world-view. We are apostates to counterfeit reality.
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WTBTS They are the ones that have deviated from following Jesus Christ as He instructed.
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More hypocrisy??
by jambon insomething that always bothered me when i was in the org, did anyone else feel the same?.
right, they say its bad for jw`s to go to uni/college?
(i know they changed the tack for a while, but thats essentialy the `law` now).
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The Switchtower Babble & Trick Society is full of lies and deceit.
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EACH ONE MUST WATCH HIMSELF
by Rooster ineach one must watch himself.
shortly after jesus resurrection and ascension to heaven he formed the christian congregation, on pentecost day of the year 33 c.e.
there the "faithful and discreet slave" class, with jesus apostles taking the lead, began to feed the individuals in gods newly formed household of faith with spiritual food.
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My father was blabtised in 1941 as a member of the Witchtower sect.. Thus we were jerked up as dub's.
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The Body of Elders
by Honesty inis this a scriptural arrangement that can be backed up in the bible or just another form of control over the rank and file jw's?
i can't see where the jw's have followed the apostolic example recorded in the book of acts.
acts 6:1-6 in those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the hellenistic jews against the hebraic jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.
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Want.