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  The Mystery behind the Conventions and Assemblies

  by The wanderer in

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  looking back and knowing it is not gods organization raises.

  a few questions about the conventions and assemblies.. what was the real motivation behind the conventions?did the watchtower hold conventions to show the world god has a united people?.

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  I have learned that Assemblies give JWs the impression that they are bigger and having more impact than they really do.
  
  Since I have left, the TRUTH becomes quite obvious. The world in general hardly notices these people. It was a cold reality to me.
  
  At the assembly we seemed to be this worldwide organization, warning the empires on a scale greater than this system has ever seen.
  
  Outside of the borg, after only a year, even with newspaper propaganda - the general feel is: Who Cares!
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  Bugzilla

  by IP_SEC in

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  holy crap redhat just issued 27 security advisories today.

  hahha apatching we will go, apatching we will go.. just a warning for yous guys running red hat enterprise.. ipsec

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  Amnesty Vendor

  LOL!
  
  I thought this thread was about the bugzilla application (http://www.bugzilla.org/) that I just installed on my apache web server.
  
  Geeks Rule!
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  Mt 24:14 fulfilled - response from dubs and CO

  by mavie in

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  i was talking to a current jw about this issue.

  i asked if they had heard about mt 24:14 being fulfilled, to which they replied 'no'.

  had told them that the wt has said that scripture had been fulfilled a long time ago, which they did..... i then asked, 'so you *have* heard about mt 24:14 being fulfilled since your co is talking about it....'well, ya'.(!!

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  WTS damage control has now kicked in, slapped the speaker's hand and will now keep quiet until everything dies down.
  
  The faithful JWs that I know are now saying that apostates are probably behind it all.
  
  I even heard a 'sister' say that apostates are behind the whole UN debacle.
  'The evil slave got onto the UN website and posted this anti-witness info.'
  
  I wish that I was kidding about this kind of reasoning, but the fact is that there is absolutely no way to reason with witnesses if they don't want to see the TRUTH.
  
  The sad thing is that I was exactly like that for most of my life!
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  Mt 24:14 fulfilled - response from dubs and CO

  by mavie in

  1. jw
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  i was talking to a current jw about this issue.

  i asked if they had heard about mt 24:14 being fulfilled, to which they replied 'no'.

  had told them that the wt has said that scripture had been fulfilled a long time ago, which they did..... i then asked, 'so you *have* heard about mt 24:14 being fulfilled since your co is talking about it....'well, ya'.(!!

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  WTS damage control has now kicked in, slapped the speaker's hand and will now keep quiet until everything dies down. The faithful JWs that I know are now saying that apostates are probably behind it all. I even heard a 'sister' say that apostates are behind the whole UN debacle. 'The evil slave got onto the UN website and posted this anti-witness info.' I wish that I was kidding about this kind of reasoning, but the fact is that there is absolutely no way to reason with witnesses if they don't want to see the TRUTH. The sad thing is that I was exactly like that for most of my life!
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  How many still live with consequenses made as a teen that still affect you?

  by megsmomma in

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  with so many of us having gotten baptised at a young age and now dealing with the results of it.... it made me wonder how many decisions made at a young age still could and do affect your life.. example: when i was 14 i thought it was a good idea to marry this weird brother that was our land lord.

  (thank goodness i was too young to do so) also, i thought it was a good idea to have pet monkeys....and a good idea to have my own apartment with several other young jw sisters...even thinking it would be a good idea to have babies.... i was too young to do any of those things...so i have no consequences from having those ideas....yet, getting dunked at that age was perfectly acceptable....and now i still pay the price.. are there any things you can think of that you would have done at a young age that could have made you pay for years to come?.

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  Amnesty Vendor

  I was baptized as a pre-teen & eventually followed the righteously, envious path of a faithful witness youth toward manhood. I have had enough titles and organizational connections to choke Balaam's antitypical talking ass.
  
  Standing firm for the TRUTH, I rejected all that this system offered to me from its god, Satan.
  
  During the height of my JWness I challenged my blood relatives to defy my scriptural basis for avoiding education and worldly success. My bible prowess was insurmountable. Old Testament, New Testament, Dates - I had it all in my corner. As faulty as my arguments were, just imagine if my best case was: 'the faithful slave has a strong feeling that we are in the last days!'
  
  Nowadays tears come to my eyes when I humbly think of those who would gladly take me in with open arms, while the organization to which I devoted my life causes me to tiptoe around even a hint of dissatisfaction.
  
  Was I cheated?
  Was I stupid?
  What a dumbass!
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  How many still live with consequenses made as a teen that still affect you?

  by megsmomma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with so many of us having gotten baptised at a young age and now dealing with the results of it.... it made me wonder how many decisions made at a young age still could and do affect your life.. example: when i was 14 i thought it was a good idea to marry this weird brother that was our land lord.

  (thank goodness i was too young to do so) also, i thought it was a good idea to have pet monkeys....and a good idea to have my own apartment with several other young jw sisters...even thinking it would be a good idea to have babies.... i was too young to do any of those things...so i have no consequences from having those ideas....yet, getting dunked at that age was perfectly acceptable....and now i still pay the price.. are there any things you can think of that you would have done at a young age that could have made you pay for years to come?.

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  How many still live with consequenses made as a teen that still affect you?

  by megsmomma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with so many of us having gotten baptised at a young age and now dealing with the results of it.... it made me wonder how many decisions made at a young age still could and do affect your life.. example: when i was 14 i thought it was a good idea to marry this weird brother that was our land lord.

  (thank goodness i was too young to do so) also, i thought it was a good idea to have pet monkeys....and a good idea to have my own apartment with several other young jw sisters...even thinking it would be a good idea to have babies.... i was too young to do any of those things...so i have no consequences from having those ideas....yet, getting dunked at that age was perfectly acceptable....and now i still pay the price.. are there any things you can think of that you would have done at a young age that could have made you pay for years to come?.

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  QUESTIONS FROM READERS----CHECK THIS OUT!

  by Mary in

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  seeing as i have the wt in front of me today, i thought you'd enjoy the questions from readers from the february 15, 2007 article on the evils and pagan origins on toasting or clinking of glasses.

  the article specifically mentions how not everything today that was of pagan origin is necessarily bad, and sites "wedding rings" as being of pagan origin, but it's not viewed like that now.

  then, incredibly, they go on and say that while toasting might not be considered a religious practice today, there's "good reason" for christians to avoid it------without giving any valid reason why other than: do as we say:.

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  Amnesty Vendor

  After a recent discussion of this & similar topics with a faithful jw, her reply was that maybe jah uses issues like this to identify our heart conditions in regards to his organization.
  
  So, anyone choosing to question god's organization and the fds can quickly be identified as apostate and therefore be shunned.
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  You have ALL been such a DISAPPOINTMENT this year!

  by Amnesty Vendor in

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  happy festivus to my fellow jwd members!!!

  thus, i have now fulfilled the airing of grievances!

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  Amnesty Vendor

  Happy FESTIVUS to my fellow JWD members!!!
  
  Thus, I have now fulfilled the Airing Of Grievances!
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  "This Generation"

  by Jeffro in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know the witnesses changed their 'generation' definition in 1995 to get away from being tied down to the literal generation of people who saw 1914.. but applying their definition of the word to matthew 24:34 makes the verse meaningless, regardless of whether the original text grammatically allows for their interpretation.

  there is no point in saying "this generation will by no means pass away" if 'generation' merely refers to an attitude of people which may remain the same for any ongoing period of time.. there is simply no point in saying it unless it was intended to refer specifically to a literal generation of people who were alive at the time.

  of course, there is no validity to their 1914 doctrine anyway, but nevertheless, they are inextricably stuck with it..

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  Amnesty Vendor

  "tendency for imperfect humans ... With similar sincere intentions"
  
  I have condemned 'worldly' friends, relatives and 'apostate' ex-witnesses for not being loyal to what I believed was the Universal Sovereign's sole channel of communcation.
  
  Yet, later God - in his infinite wisdom has revealed that I followed 'imperfect humans with sincere intentions'.
  
  Still, even today I will be ex-communicated for heresy if I refer to the current Governing Body as just 'imperfect humans with sincere intentions'.
  
  HELP!!!