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  The trouble with Christianity. TRINITY.

  by whereami in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gotta love pat.. "ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

  ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity.

  it is the mere abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of jesus.

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  No Governing Body in 1925

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from the june 15, 1938 watchtower, p. 185: "in the beginning of the first hebrew month the watchtower of march 1, 1925 published the article "the birth of the nation," meaning that the kingdom had begun to function.

  an editorial committee, humanly provided for, then was supposed to control the publication of the watchtower, and the majority of that committee strenuously objected to the publication of that article "the birth of the nation," but, by the lord's grace it was published and that really marked the beginning of the end of the editorial committee, indicating that the lord himself is running his organization.".

  there was no governing body, judge rutherford was the watchtower president making the decisions and running the organization.. .

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  The Abuse - and Cover Up - of Children, With No Support from the Elders...

  by passwordprotected in

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  2. child-abuse

  ...isn't unique to the watch tower society.. the trial took place in march 2008. prior to the trial, not knowing how the young man would plead, we asked pastor dh to come with pastor sw ready to give testimony on our childs behalf if needed.

  pastor dh made it known to us they were not coming to the courthouse.

  i explained to him if the young man pleaded not guilty, our child would then have to get up in front of the court and reveal the entire ordeal along with answering questions from the attorneys.

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  there are 2 classes of ex Jehovahs witnesses

  by the max in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hi im part of a group of ex jh,s, we meet for drinks and dinner, go to football games.many of the guys do drugs,(i dont, i like sport) , most live very hedonistic lifestyles, lets leave it at that,(im happily married).

  my point is, when i left, i was honest, and got df,d.

  now im experiencing the same kind of shit that i experieced in the hall, the ex jw,s are just as judgemental, and stupid as when they were at the kingdom hall, for eg you were df,d we were not,it doesnt matter to them, that their doing coke and getting into group sex.

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  Apstates and the WT magazine...part two

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sorry but the first post seems to have no comment feature so i have started a new thread for the next part.... 1986 was a big article.

  to avoid putting up a lengthy poat i have edited it somewhat.. wt 3/15 1986 .

  donotbequicklyshakenfromyourreason.

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  APOSTATES-yes another thread about 6/15 WT

  by darth frosty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  talking to blackman about the article and was thinking...didn't the whole apostate thing first start getting recognition in the 70's?.

  i seem to remeber a thread saying that apostates were a contrivence enforced in the 70's to combat the 1975 fiasco.. could someone research the amount of times apostacy is used before the 70's compared to how much they used or warned against it after the 70's..

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  Need scholarly/credible references for Orthodox (or other) Jewish views on blood

  by pirata in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is anyone aware of any scholarly/credible references for orthodox (or other) jewish views on blood?

  i would like to share this information with a jw, and was looking for something that leaves jws out of the discussion and would be seen as somewhat authoritative.

  thank you..

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  John 1:1

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most the nwt translates john 1:1 as "... and the word was a god," not "...and the word was god.".

  the reason they give is that the word theos doesn't have the definite article in front of it in the greek.. in his 1982 book, "the jehovah's witness' new testament," greek scholar robert countess looked up all such occurrences in the nt (theos without the definite article) and checked the nwt.. he discovered that the wts only followed their stated rule 6% of the time.. 94% of the time, they translated it "god" anyway!.

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  Armageddon fears

  by d in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you fear armageddon as a child?

  me personally not so much, then 9/11 happend and things started to change and i started getting scared of it.

  how about you?

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  Meet Israel's Openly Gay High Priest

  by PublishingCult in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  aristobulus iii of israel (53 bc 36 bc) was the last scion of the hasmonean royal house, brother of herod the great's wife mariamne, and paternal grandson of aristobulus ii.

  he was a favorite of the people on account of his noble descent and handsome presence, and thus became an object of fear to herod, who at first sought to ignore him entirely by debarring him from the high priesthood.

  but his mother alexandra maccabeus (63 bc 28 bc), through intercession with cleopatra and mark antony, compelled herod to remove hananel from the office of high priest and appoint aristobulus instead.. .

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