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  Paranoia vs. the Governing Body

  by parakeet in

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  in my more paranoiac moments, i wonder if the gb creates its myriad nitpicking rules in order to deliberately create a high turnover of jws.

  the advantage to doing this would be to ease the way for "new light" doctrine.

  the 1914 generation has passed; the generation after that is passing, and their memories are passing with them.

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  yaddayadda

  Interesting theory but seems a stretch.
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  Bush invokes the "Peace and Security" line...

  by Bryan in

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  today in his radio adress, bush said he hoped for isreal & lebenon states living next to each other in "peace and security".. the witnesses must be peeing in their pants!.

  i remember when reagan said those special words in the 80's.

  we all new the end was close!.

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  yaddayadda

  A few JWs must be starting to wonder whether all the claims that modern-day Israel is having a part to play in the fulfillment of bible prophecy might be true after all.
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  Time for a new Watch(man)

  by PopeOfEruke in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  honestly, how useless is the "watchman" class that the jw anointed are supposed to be?

  this so-called "watchman" is supposedly responsible for keeping a lookout and warning all of the faithful the end is coming.. but all they have down is raised false alarms and cried "wolf" for over 130 years!!

  "deliverance is near!!

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  The more they cry wolf and no wolf appears the less the jaded, tired publishers can be bothered getting up off their asses. Each new cry of wolf by the Society is another nail in their own coffin. Every new proclamation of Armageddons nearness is just more fodder for the inevitable disillusionment and cynicism. So keep on crying wolf GB!
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  The Changing Watchtower?

  by Morocco in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just want to go over a couple of topics on my mind and see what you guys all think about it.

  i've noticed recently the new change in the blood doctrine and, to me, i interpreted this as the society's way of finally acknowledging the fact that the teaching is too difficult to maintain.

  this is like putting a small crack in a submarine so that the water doesn't come rushing in causing people to panic, but with time the ship will still sink.

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  yaddayadda

  The Society will sit tight until 2014. I believe they are putting all their chips on the end coming by then. When the end doesn't come in 2014 it will signal the end for the current paradigm because declining new publishers numbers will steadily worsen after this date. We will then see either of two things happen - a new date pulled out, eg, 2034, or a softening of policy and doctrine.
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  The name "Jehovah's Witnesses" adopted 75 years ago July 26, 1931

  by cabasilas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if memory serves, isn't this the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the name "jehovah's witnesses"?

  has the society made much of this?

  seems like it would have been a great pr opportunity..

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  yaddayadda

  Hey maybe they could move the start of the last days to 1931! Great idea, thanks - I'll pass it on to Ted.
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  UN prophecies

  by Fleshybirdfodder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with all the fanfare of the "divine deliverance at hand" convention, are the dubs still pushing the idea of the un banning all religion globally?

  we've seen how powerless the un was with iraq and now with the situation in lebanon.

  do they really still believe that the un will actually do this, or even have the power to suggest it for that matter?

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  You are absolutely right. The Watchtowers prognostication that the UN will turn on all religion soon is absurd and completely untenable. It was Fred Franz's baby I believe and is now an embarrassment. Probably a few on the gb would like to ditch the interpretation but they have hopelessly painted themselves into a corner haha! Old Father time will humble them all, as he does everyone eventually.
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  A new "class" for the goobering body.

  by IP_SEC in

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  2. beliefs

  the wts is fond of associating itself with great men of the bible claiming to be of this or that class (john class, isaiah class and so on).

  they claim god given authority to keep his people clean and to make rules to cover situations not found in the bible.. pharisee rule not found in the law.. *** w96 9/1 12 the law before christ ***.

  pharisee rule not found in the law.. *** w96 9/1 12 the law before christ ***.

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  'Goobering Body' ROFLMAO LOL HEHEhehe... great post by the way.
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  FRESH OFF THE PRESS.... 9/1/06 WT "When a Loved One Leaves Jeh."

  by schne_belly in

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  this just in for your reading displeasure......enjoy

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  What a rotten, sick article. It reeks of cultish mind manipulation. Shame on them for suggesting that leaving the organisation, which then shuns you, is like leaving Jehovah. Shame on the GB and its lackeys to put themselves on a par with Moses' authority; to tell others to get back to the organisation ("back to Jehovah") because their lives are at stake and Armageddon is around the on the horizon, etc; to suggest that grieving because of feeling that their child is 'dead' - all due to the Society's wicked shunning policy - should be combatted by reading over and over the Society's flawed reasons for why shunning is a loving discipline - in other words, brainwash, brainwash, brainwash your natural feelings away until you are dead and cold inside. If you ask me, JW's who are suffering because of missing their shunned loved one due to following the Society's cult shunning policy deserve all the suffering they get!
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  From one cult to another

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  i was the only jw in my family.

  by that i mean my parents never were jw nor was my sister, and i'm single.. when i started fading back in the early 90's as a jw, my sister and her husband decided to start attending meetings with the evangelists, then the pentecostal religion, and then the baptists.

  they're baptized in that religion.

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  Good on your Mom. What are you worried about?
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  "So Alone"

  by scout575 in

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  2. bible

  "my dad died when i was 13, and my closest cousin got raped and stabbed and burned when i was 15. i am an only child so she was the closest thing i had to a sister.

  i felt so alone too.

  no one in the churches i attended seemed to care.

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  yaddayadda

  What is the point of this thread? Anyone can pluck an example such as you posted and try and prove that 'church is a bad place'. Arguably there are more lonely, isolated people outside of churches than in them. If you don't want to attend a new church then join some club, or do some voluntary work, whatever - Just realise you will find outside of church just as many people that will abandon you in times of personal trouble than in church.