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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

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  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Thanks Lady Lee! Who knew that TIME documented their history so well!

  I found another gem where they interviewed Franz and asked him about the failed 1975 date:

  Asked about 1975, Franz now says that the 6,000-year chronology is correct, but the seventh day of Creation did not begin until Eve was created. Thus the date for the End has to be extended by the amount of time between the advent of Adam and of Eve—an interval not yet revealed (previous Witness publications had stated that Adam and Eve were created in the same year).

  It's amazing how he spun that one. Here is the link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919076,00.html
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  How do you view the Bible?

  by Fisherman in

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  i think that the bible gives hope and comfort.

  i also think that the bible is a good book without me saying too much.

  but is it a product of god?

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  If you ever read the history of the bible and other ancient writings, you will learn that there use to many different 'holy' books and many different 'gospels' that circulated. It was one body of men who decided to get together and vote on which books were really holy and which ones were not. The ones that they liked and supported their current doctrines were the ones compiled into what we today know as the bible. They rest were forgotten or never heard from again. And the ones that do know of have been written and rewritten and retranslated so many times that we will never know if what we are reading is what was intended by the writer.

  So, because of that I don't think the bible has any more godly inspiration than my little pinky. I do think it probably has some good lessons about how to treat others and be a good person ... if you read the right parts. But I don't humans need any book to tell us how to be a good person. I think that message has to come from within.
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Wild_Thing

  I'm glad so many found this as interesting as I did! By the way, there are many you can search for at http://www.time.com/time/.

  But it has made me wonder how many other interesting (and damning) articles from the media there are in existence from years ago. I use to have access to the university's resources. Hopefully, someone with that kind of access can search old newspapers and magazines and find some more gems. I'm not sure how far back they are electronically archived. It would certainly be interesting to see.

  And I think it would be hard for active witnesses today to argue with history presented in that form. I am sure they can come up with some way to say that the media was their enemy or whatever and persecuting the witnesses, but it would be harder. It seems whenever you try to tell today's rank & file about watchtower history, they dismiss it as apostate propaganda.
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Wild_Thing

  I'm sorry for posting so many, but this is the best one yet! It's about Raymond Franz and the Watchtower's witch hunt surrounding his exit:
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Wild_Thing

  Here is another TIME article that references the 2874 date. And the Cosmos I, II, and III? It is amazing to me how anyone saw this man as credible.
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Wild_Thing

  This one talks about them waiting for the 1975 date:
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Wild_Thing

  Has anyone ever posted about the tons of TIME magazine articles about the JWs? TIME has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s. Go to the TIME website and search for yourself! Here are some goodies I found. I had no idea about the 2874 date that Rutherford set. What a nut!
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  If you could be a Bible character....

  by Fleshybirdfodder in

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  i'd be babylon the great.

  always looked like she was having a good time seducing kings of the earth and getting hammered off of holy peoples' blood whilst bronco riding that multiheaded, horned furry cat thing.

  fbf.

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  The Apostle John... I just would like to know what he was trippin' on when he wrote Revelation.

  LOL! You beat me to it! That was the first thought that came into my mind, too.

  Since it's taken, I guess I will be one of the high priests that burned the "incense" at the temple. Maybe I can find out what they were smoking too!
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  What bible verse would you change?

  by Abandoned in

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  what if the bible were a wiki project where all readers could make their own changes?

  what verse would you change?

  i would change matthew 5:9 "happy are the peacemakers, for they shall get a piece be called the children of god.

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  Wild_Thing

  I would change Genesis and put Eddie Izzard's version of creationism in:

  God:I created the world in six days, and on the seventh day, rested. Eighth day I actually rested as well. Ninth day, rested, 'cause I fucking had just made a world, you know. Tenth day, rested - actually I rested from then on, really. Fourteenth day I decided to smoke all the marijuana I had created, just to test the first batch. On the fifteenth day I decided to smoke all the opium I had created, just to test the first batch. And on the 309th day I woke up again, and I decided to create 500 huge monsters that I'd seen just the night before.

  Jesus: Dad, did you have to make them so stupid?

  God: Well I didn't know what I was doing, I was off my tits!
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  This is the only place I don't feel ugly

  by Abandoned in

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  2. friends

  i want to thank everyone here for all the help and kind words offered to me as i adjust to having worth.

  i guess i have a long way to go and i guess i'm going to have to go and see a counselor like someone else suggested.. no matter how hard i work or what i accomplish, i still feel so ugly and i'm still afraid of the stupidest things.

  i don't know if my fears are on par with paranoia, but they are definitely distracting and i need to get some outside assistance.. the good news is that around here, with people who've gone through the same, i feel better.

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  Wild_Thing

  Counseling does wonders, Abandoned! You won't regret it!

  Now go look in the mirror and repeat after me ... "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone-it, people like me!" (old Saturday Night Live reference)