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  Are Witnesses now partially accepting the internet?

  by ellderwho in

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  2. beliefs

  i started this thread asking the question because since my parents retired to florida (gods waiting room) ive been getting all kinds of internet witness junk from my mom, ie.

  email stories, video clips of pat robertsons' comments about using the name jehovah, andy rooney of 60minutes stories.. also the email header is filled with adresses of im sure all witnesses.

  i know my mom doesnt have any worldly friends.

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  Wild_Thing

  I have two JW sisters and a JW mom and all them have computers with high speed internet. My mom barely knows how to use it, buy sisters are quite a whiz at it. They use for everything! But as far as for spititual things and connecting with other JWs its still a no no.

  I remember when I first got a computer years ago and I hooked it up to dial up ... the only internet we had back then. My sister came over to see the new fangled contraption and we decided to see if there were witness websites online (we heard you could print off the scriptures for the current meetings already prepared by someone (obviously I was still a JW back then). Anyway, we did and search and some 'apostate' sites came up on the search page like Freeminds and the little snipit said something about the JWs being a cult.

  My sister threw her hand over eyes and was screaming 'get it off! get it off!' I was the funniest damn thing I had ever seen! I showed her the miracle of the 'Back' button and how we could modify our search by typing "-cult" she was okay, but I still remember her reaction and have wondered if she would do the same thing today.
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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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  There they parked their trailers, pitched tents, built their own privies and slept like Spartans on mats of straw.

  Nearby filling-station attendants complained that their washrooms were clogged with naked Witnesses taking sponge baths.

  More than 2,500 of them, togged out in bathing suits, playsuits, pajamas or long underwear, waded hip deep into Lake Erie to be immersed backwards in its waters. (Baptizers, chilled by the four-hour ceremony, swigged from a bottle of port wine.)

  LOL! When I read that, I thought ... in the words of Cartman ... "g**d*** hippies!!"
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  Question: Why did Daniel reject delicacies, but later did not reject ...

  by Lady Liberty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi everyone.... i was thinking about the whole star in bethlehem issue as many have posted on the subject.

  and something struck me as strange.

  and i wanted to know if any of you have ever thought about this:.

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  Wild_Thing

  You mean .... the bible contradicts itself?? I'm shocked!

  The only thing I can think of is that there were supposed magic practicing priests that were okay with God ... like turning a staff into a snake. Those were the good guys that did that. Right? Sounds like magic to me.
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  "Crazy" JW Bites Off Man's Thumb

  by Justitia Themis in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006580338,00.html.

  bible rants of 'mad' cannibal .

  by andrew parker.

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  Wow! I would say that this guy has either masterbated or received a blood transfusion ... since both are said to make you go insane!

  I suppose he could've been exposed to aluminum at some point in his life, too.
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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

  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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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  Wild_Thing

  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: