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  Lurkers and JWs: Are you in the truth?

  by AuldSoul in

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  jesus said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life.

  " he didn't say he had the way, or that he had the truth, or that he had the life.. according to the bible, jesus is the truth; if you know the truth, the truth will set you free.. jehovah's witnesses set their dogma and religion in the place of jesus.

  they refer to their dogma and religion by a role that jesus said he would personally fulfill; they call it "the truth.".

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  moggy lover

  The thing that truly intrigued me about the way WT followers view the word "Truth" is the way the word was portrayed in one of their publications.

  Back in 1968, at the infamous assembly when the 1975 end-of-the-world-but-we're-not-saying-anything-that-cant-be-denied-later doctrine was announced, they produced the publication "The Truth That Leads to Everlasting Life" Selling a hefty 120M copies worldwide, it is still the WTS's biggest selling propaganda item of literature. Notice the word "That" It happens to be a neuter adjectival modifier for the word "Truth" so whatever else the WTS and its accolytes believe the "Truth" to be, it is to them an "It" and not a person.

  It is conventional wisdom for the R&F membership to regard the word "Truth" to refer to the entire corpus of currently accepted WT doctrine, as sanctified by its appearance in WT literature. It is because of this that the "Truth" does not always remain "true" since, to the chagrin of the WTS, practical events overtake these "Truths" and they get discarded and become "falsehood"

  The WTS, by encouraging a corporate theological amnesia on its membership, manages with a nimble dexterity that is only possible in a hermetically sealed society, to overide any qualms that the majority would have.

  Such an arifice would not have been required if the WTS had actually stuck to the thematic centrality of the Bible - Jesus Christ - who is the Truth. In this respect the book ought to have been entitled: "The Truth Who leads to Everlasting Life"

  An organisation that cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood, and which, through strident campaigning, covers up the falsities it creates, must surely have diabolical origins.

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  People named Jehovah

  by I quit! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever come across anyone named jehovah?

  i've known a lot of hispanics that are named jesus.

  i went to zabasearch to see what i could find and it looks like there are few people with the family name jehovah for instance i found a "henry jehovah" and a paulette jehovah".

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  moggy lover

  Regarding our little mate Jehovah Wanyonyi: He is certainly better looking than Ted Jaracz and looks more intelligent as well.

  Maybe we should get him to write the Wt - at least then we'll be able to get something resembling intelligibility from that magazine.

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  Proof in Awake that 1914 was not the monumental year they say

  by MinisterAmos in

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  lots of dubz running around now giving studies with the "learner mags" that all proclaim 1914 as the year because it marks the start of great suffering like wars, disease, greed, etc.

  on an unprecedented scale.. in 1918, the spanish flu killed 2.5-5% of the world population (wikipedia).

  ww1 which ended in 1918, cost 0.75-2% of the world population.

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  Mr A! I'm surprised at you!!

  Don't you know that all things are relative and symbolic and all [other] things are symbolically relative? Any given number as processed by the WTS has certain in-built variables that make it subject to dissonant pre-cognition, wherin the pre-disposed mental conceptualization of the mature follower of the Clocktower movement can make it mean whatever it is required to mean. Any given number registering in a greater degree, in this case, 33% can by the genius of realtive symbolism, [or is it symbolic relativism?] be transformed into a metaphysical quantity less than the quotient, which in this case is .075%. Numbers are provided, not to enlighten, but to obfuscate, and, must be able, through theological alchemy, to prove whatever it is expedient at any given time to prove.

  For instace, 2+2 does not necessarily always mean four. The WTS has been able to demonstrate, through the magical art of linguistic ambiguity, that symbolically it can either mean more or less than four when it is required to do so.

  To truly understand any given set of numbers found in WT literature you need first to undergo an intense form of programming, amusingly called the "Home Bible Study" using some form of programmable material, such as "What the Thingame Really Really Really Teaches, Honest. Cross our Hearts At least Until At Least Another Publication called What The Thingame Really Really Really Really Teaches [revised edition] Comes Along"

  It is only when you have truly grasped the meaning of this programming, that you will be able to see how marvelously these numbers fall into their obedient places. The greater is made to mean less than the lesser, and the lesser more than the morer. In fact, being properly programmed you will be able to prove that by the use of numbers, the world is flat today and square tomorrow. That you are neither here nor there. Not only are you Arthur and Martha, but neither as well.

  Or something like that.

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  Long long loooong WT paragraphs

  by Lady Lee in

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  i have edited a few books.

  i have proof-read a few books.

  i have written many articles in college and university.

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  Yep. I remember those WT studies of the 50s which seemed to go on interminably. Not only were they long, but they were optuse beyond belief. Freddy Franz in his prime could marshall the English language to such syntactical levels that made his studies virtually incomprehensible. He had a genius for taking the simplest of concepts, and with the masterful use of ambiguity, make it genuinely impenetrable.

  His motto seemed to be: Why make it simple, when its so simple to make it complicated.

  Actually my sympathies went out to those poor jerks who had the unenviable task of translating his words into another language. For that alone Franz should have been indicted for crimes against humanity.

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  Cheap!

  by Core88 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this forum is so popular that i thought i would post here and say man i would love some feedback and peoples thought on my table of who?

  topic in the other room.

  =-) corey ps.

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  moggy lover

  Oh good. You're back.

  I'm sure somebody'll see you right, mate

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  Cheap!

  by Core88 in

  1. jw
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  this forum is so popular that i thought i would post here and say man i would love some feedback and peoples thought on my table of who?

  topic in the other room.

  =-) corey ps.

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  moggy lover

  Huh?

  Hope you wern't referring to me socks. I only bought 'em twelve years ago. Well... I did'nt actually buy 'em but what the hell who's missing 'em ....right?

  Cheers
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  Can You Identify Your EmotiCons accurately?

  by J-ex-W in

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  2. experiences

  lol .

  i was glancing through the active topics and read terry's thread this way.

  had to do a double take--especially since i have had trouble identifying my emoticons accurately!

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  moggy lover

  OK..OK.. so I'm a computer moron... what the hell are emoticons, and how do I get to love 'em?

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  Happiness is.......?

  by spoils_useful_habits in

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  getting through to customer service on the first try and the customer service rep. actually knows what they are doing and have your problem resolved on the first try!!!!

  woohoo!!!!!

  ......do the little things make you happy or does it take a lot?...and for yourself happiness is................?

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  ......Being owned by a cat.

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  Cold, Snowy, Icy..Great day for Old Movies.

  by El Kabong in

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  2. friends

  the weather kept us indoors today.

  baltimore got about 6 inches of snow today, so it was a good day to stay indoors.

  the turner classic movie channel showed 2 fantastic 4 star movies...gone with the wind, and casablanca.

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  moggy lover

  Any of the old black-and-white "Road" movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Oh and the lass who was with them... Dorothy Lamour?

  Waddaya mean its cold? Certainly not from where I'm sittin' The temp was 40C yesterday [make that 101F to you Yanks] and here I am in my shorts guzzlin' all this beer. Pity.

  Cheers, anyway.
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  What is your favorite Pagan Gods !

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  skadi .

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ska%c3%b0i.

  isis.

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  moggy lover

  Bast, cat goddess of Egypt. The Greeks identified her with Artemis from whence the notion of the nine lives associated with cats sprang. Artemis was said to be the mother of the nine muses, whose invention of the seven note scale led to our idea of "Music"

  It was said that dogs have always been the companion of the human family, but Bast waited till the human species became civilized to begin to live with them.

  Cheers