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  Is the Governing Body trolling us?

  by kneehighmiah in

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  i'm starting to believe the bethel higher ups are trolling us.

  the outright contradictions and stuff like overlapping generation is too ridiculous.

  calling out the harold camping when we did the same thing.

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  Spectre

  I would say they're trolls but I think it's more accurate to say it's a dying cult that'll do or say anything to keep the wheels turning.
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  Special Assembly Day - tepid applause

  by sir82 in

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  just got back from a recent sad.. after most talks, the applause was, at most, tepid.. it was striking in its tepidity, if that is possible (and if that is a word).. affter most talks, applause lasted literally no more than 5 seconds.

  its volume was scarcely above a whisper.. it wasn't acoustics - the bethel speaker was technically a polished speaker (although presenting the same old boring info), and his talks generated noticeably louder applause.

  but even still - that applause was maybe 10 seconds, and about normal-conversation level.. but local speakers - the applause was not much more loud than the hum coming from your refrigerator.. there were 1300+ people there.. it was just so weird - my previous large-group experience was at the agm, where people were nearly apoplectic & drooling with delight over their new "silver bibles" (which very few have read, i'd wager).. these guys were just "zombified".. speaking of bibles - bethel dude called it a "platinum bible".

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  Spectre

  Maybe we missed the message that golf clapping is now the appropriate responce.
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  Am I wrong or right please clarify if you know

  by Skeptical78 in

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  i recently became aware of the new light.

  please correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't this new light concerning 1914 means that the wt have been preaching the wrong doctrine for decades?

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  Spectre

  Let me ask you this, Billy: What difference does it make now?

  I think I read that you are no longer a witness. Are still trying to adhere to the belief that that 1914 was a pivitol year in human history? Why and to what end? It has been a 100 years now. Do you believe in the current WT generation definition?
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  Jehovah is the correct uttering of God's name

  by mistified in

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  i heard my witness friend that if the name jehovah is the incorrect pronounciation from the hebrew scriptures, then jeremiah is the incorrect way to say jeremiah's name.

  i wonder if this is true, because if it is, that would make jws the true religion.

  right?.

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  Remember, In the latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an I.

  ~best said in a Sean Connery voice~
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  Am I wrong or right please clarify if you know

  by Skeptical78 in

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  i recently became aware of the new light.

  please correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't this new light concerning 1914 means that the wt have been preaching the wrong doctrine for decades?

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  Spectre

  I like how he says we need new light from the old standards of disproving 607 b.c.e.

  Sorry, facts are facts, Bro.

  Billy, at least you should just say that its a complicated biblical thing or god testing us or something and shove that cognitive dissonance deeper.
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  Meeting Not Cancelled but Postponed

  by wisdomfrombelow in

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  there's a big snowstorm on the east coast and i found out that the school and service meeting was not cancelled but postponed to tomorrow.

  why do they think it's so important to have it so they ruin another evening after shoveling snow?

  just venting.....

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  Spectre

  You best go. Otherwise your house will cave in from the snow on the roof, you'll die, and you'll be used from here to armageddon as an example not to miss meetings.
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  JW. org: "No, we are not a cult. We do not look to any human as our leader."

  by Faithful Witness in

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  i know this has been rehashed, time and again, but i saw this interesting blip on jw.org last night, and did a little thinking about it.... jw.

  org answers the important question that so many have... are jehovah's witnesses a cult?.

  jehovah's witnesses do not look to any human as their leader.

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  Spectre

  It's astonishing that a watchtower writer could write articles saying, "nope! we're not a cult" without something in the brain saying, "heeeeeeyyyy....waitaminute..."
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  How would you answer these questions that came to me in an email through my website? ...

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  many emails are sent to me through my website, watchtowerdocuments.com.

  all are answered.

  remember 1corinthians 6: 1-2 (i'll answer this question.

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  Just my own issue with #11:

  If I had graduated high school it would have been in 1984. I didn't because the world was going to end at any second. Why bother putting any effort into something when it's hammered into you that there is no point to it. Anything that I ever wanted to do as an occupation was met with, "oh, we won't need that in the new system."

  Some of this is a result of my crazy paranoid schizophenic elder step-dad but hey, he had to get the idea somewhere. I eventually got a couple of associate degrees many years later at the local community college but it would have been nice to see what could have been.
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  Boring Blockbusters

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, movie buffs:.

  i grew up with scary movies of the 1950s -- "the beast from 20,000 fathoms," "forbidden planet," "the thing" (howard hawkes).

  in "the thing," the audience gasped when the men surrounding the ice-encased object proved to be circular: a flying saucer!

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  DATA-DOG: I saw Ray at the San Diego Comic-Con some years ago. We talked about the current CGI movies at the time and I told him that his work had heart and charm to them as opposed to the cold, wrong and clunky effects that early CGI offered. They do CGI a lot better but its gotten to the point of being a crutch.

  I blame Michael Bay for the norm of the non-stop action sequence. Actually I shouldn't blame him. I should blame all the decent directors that emulate him that should know better.
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  Boring Blockbusters

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, movie buffs:.

  i grew up with scary movies of the 1950s -- "the beast from 20,000 fathoms," "forbidden planet," "the thing" (howard hawkes).

  in "the thing," the audience gasped when the men surrounding the ice-encased object proved to be circular: a flying saucer!

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  I liked Superman a lot but I will admit the last half was a bit much (also, I hate Kevin Costner).

  Pacific Rim was a lot of fun to watch but one shouldn't watch that one for deep character development.

  300 I loved but I'm a big Frank Miller fan and you should know what you're getting into before watching that one. Same for Sin City. I heard people complaing about the violence afterwards but with a name like Sin City.....yeah.

  A fun one I just watched was Kick-Ass 2. I was rolling with laughter during the whole thing.

  I'm almost liking TV shows more now for depth of character. When Anthony Hopkins emails Bryan Cranston to tell him his Walter White was the best acting he's ever seen, made me go on a Breaking Bad marathon. Some other TV shows just seem more rewarding than a 2 hour movie.