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  Apostate views?

  by Richard C B in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the jw organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body.

  what steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking.

  and also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?.

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  freemindfade

  I believe partly it depends on so many variables, how far did he go? Who did he share it with? What did he say? What is his position to the elders?

  Also some halls have elders that are insecure pricks who want to be super troopers and bust people for any and everything, others you have some actual decent brothers, who will do their due diligence but aren't looking to crucify anyone.

  Steps they may offer to address his concerns, I was asked to write down questions, in fact I was approached last night by the COBE and asked if I had them yet. They may offer to have another study. I guess its like pornography, they want to know you have stopped looking and moved on lol, back to the business of advertising the publishing company and its kingdom
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  Mays JW TV Broadcast/Your feedback is appreciated

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a pretty good intuition but i have to admit i am going back and forth on the jw tv may broadcast.

  i keep asking myself are they really in financial trouble (wishful thinking) or are they just grabbing for more money?.

  i always appreciate reading everyone's thoughts and ideas on here.. let me know what you think.

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  freemindfade

  Brother Carlin said it best...

  “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
  
  But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
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  "Mentally Diseased" comment makes news

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.

  i know it's old but i never saw this one before.

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  freemindfade

  http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479

  I know it's old but I never saw this one before.
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  Since man is unable to create life does this mean

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. friends

  does this mean possible a creator did or does exist.

  there is plenty of evidence of a slow evolutionary changes over millions of years and i do not disagree with this.

  but again that fact that mankind can not create a living creature from scratch mean there must be a creator?

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  Man hasn't created life... yet...

  think if it was 1902 you would be saying since man has never flown...
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  Kingdom Hall loans Cancelled? Lurkers...please read

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i hope that writing this, there will be some lurkers that i can shake.. if you have not listened to mays tv broadcast, please do.

  it may wake some up.. note @ around 21-22 minutes into the broadcast lett brings up the the kingdom halls/assembly hall loans have been cancelled and the congregation can now send in what they can afford.

  wow...how many banks would do that?.

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  Splash

  is completely right, from a business perspective these "fiscal" things are all manufactured and controlled. Especially the org, think about it, the they are very much in control of the money they lay out, they dont HAVE to build halls really, if its going bankrupt them, also mortgages that can be used on property holdings could sustain them for some time, and lets not for get the float... yes... when you have gobs of millions and maybe even billions of dollars in transactions, you can reap pretty decent dollar amounts on interest off of floating those amounts, like a bank. Its a show.
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  Christ in You The Hope of Glory:Being Realized

  by hopeofglory in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the mystery of the ages was revealed to the gentiles 2000 years ago.

  the mystery is "christ in you, the hope of glory" (colossians 1:27).

  the churches do not and never will teach this even though it was revealed to the gentiles.

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  For Cinco De Mayo!

  
  
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  Christ in You The Hope of Glory:Being Realized

  by hopeofglory in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the mystery of the ages was revealed to the gentiles 2000 years ago.

  the mystery is "christ in you, the hope of glory" (colossians 1:27).

  the churches do not and never will teach this even though it was revealed to the gentiles.

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  _Morpheus

  this just in...

  soon my god Zeus will smite both your dieties (Thor and Odin) and all the nonbelievers... that is all... BUY MY BOOK lol
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  May tv.jw.org program

  by zophar in

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  2. friends

  the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.

  we need money!.

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.

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  moomanchu

  you are dead on they should have stayed behind the curtain.

  
  
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  is it more likely to be the men or women who leave first?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just pondering the other day, is it more likely that a man will leave a religion, or a woman?

  is there a way to know if the men on the site outnumber the women or vice versa as to who found out ttat first and left.. im going to suggest men.

  basically because men in general, do not like to be told what to do.

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  Careful OneEyedJoe... remember what happened last time lol..

  this time I might not be here to help.

  Wasn't it you and eye that went through this once before and got in trouble and almost shunned by the board? lol
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  Another reason god is a terrible "father"

  by _Morpheus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its easy to look around and say if a singular all powerful were real he would stop the suffering of man and animal, a position i support.

  however there is another even more basic premise i have pondered at times as well (im sure im not the first of course) : would any loving parent ever hide from their children?

  consider it... our all knowing all loving father hides from us even though we cry out to know him.

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  Sofia this story you have been taught is an apologists way of trying to justify a cruel god in a not cruel way, its not real doctrine or fact, its 2+2=5... because it just has to =5.

  People justify abusive spouses in a similar way, ignoring the atrocities they commit and trying to make up a reason they aren't horrible.

  YHWH is an abusive relationship