Topic by twain30

something interesting in the september, 2006 awake was the article's references to the creative days and how ridiculos fundamentalists are for saying that they are each literal 24 hour periods.

according to the jaunuary 1st, 1987 watchtower on page 30, jehovah's witnesses maintain that each creative day was 7,000 years long, totalling 49,000 years.. in the face of overwhelming paleantological evidnce to the contrary; dinosaur fossils, living sea creatures that predated them, single cell life that predated the sea creatures, etc.

i submit that this view is equally ridiculous.. the society cannot abandon this view because to do so would call into question the 6,000 years of man's existence having ended in 1975. this would call into question the validity of the 6th creative day ending, now entering into god's rest...things would begin to unravel.

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Did any of you ever try to "un-do" a potential conversion?

by whyizit in

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i can see from this forum that many jws took quite awhile to decide that the wts was not the "truth" after all.

some stayed in, even after making that decision, for various reasons.

did any of you ever come to the conclusion that some of the things you were teaching to others were not biblical, and then try to dissuade prospective converts to discontinue their study?

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Do you sense change within the Watchtower?

by truthseeker in

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i have had the feeling this year that change is underway in brooklyn, but not change that would benefit the membership or lighten their load.. this is change in response to a) economics and b) readily available information on the internet.

there was a recent post about a speaker at the dc in norway who said that as soon as some bad press about jw's goes online, it flashes up on apostate screens all around the world.. consider the cano incident and then lisa's interview with jr brown.

how many people have since listened to that information?.

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Those Who Hide What They Are

by twain30 in

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i found the watchtower study comment concerning associating with those on the internet who, "hide what they are"-ps.26:4, very disturbing and completely taken out of context.

i've watched the wbts carefully cover over important facts about the dates 1919, 1925, and 1975; shifting the blame and diverting the attention of the publishers.. having called the service dept.

on many occasions, not once have i ever received the name of the brother i was speaking with.

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Zombie Training: Eye Contact in Preaching ( Ap KM)

by metatron in

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the latest kingdom ministry ( april) has a front page article called "show personal interest - by good eye contact".

here's some gems:.

under "sincerity and conviction".

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Blood issu

by happy man in

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this blood issu is not so easy, we have our meeting last week about this, i ask the elder why he dont tell about his major components, and that we can take evry singel compponent how is taken out from this 4 major ones,he say this was so complicated, and think peopel have to read themselfs in wt 2000. .

i can say this, i think it is good that gb done this to a thing between you and the lord, perhaps evrything about the blood should be a conciens matter between us and the lord.

on the other hand, i saw on sweed television yesterday abuot this hepatit c, thing several peopel are going to sue, the state, beaucause they have this decis from bloodtransfusions, and now are waiting to die, they say that a lot of times hospital use this things unessesary, and they have never noen that they hade blood, 900 people only in sweden have hepatit c, i think that if we count how many how are dead in this using or not using blood, we have a much higer accont hwo is dead beaucause they have blood, aids , hepatit c and other, it i sems it is very dangerus to have blood today, and why did we never read about that peopel dying beacause of this, but if one die when they not have blood it is a lot of noice, in sweden i think perhaps we have 2 or 3 how die , when they not have blood, but compare this widh hundreds how die or hade bad things like aids, hepatitc beaucause they have blood ,somthing to think about.

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Can You Discern What The Society Is Really Saying?

by minimus in

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so much of the watchtower is written in "code".

so much of the circuit and district overseers comments are spoken in "code".

for example, you are not told directly that you shouldn't read any other publication but the society's, but you are asked, "how could anyone spiritual ever have the time to keep up with their bible-based reading of all the spiritual food that we must take in, and still have time to read "worldly" books?

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