OnTheWayOut

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  "Deficit" at JW Assembly

  by cookiemaster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've recently been at an assembly here in romania and there was an announced they were running a 10,000 euro deficit and urging all attendees to donate more money besides the already 5k has was donated during that day.

  i really don't understand these things.

  it's their own assembly hall.

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  It all seems like a huge donations scam to me. Sure, they have some costs for the utilities, toilet paper, decorations, etc, but it's definitely not 15,000 Euro per day.

  You understand just fine. They choose a number for what they hope to get from that assembly and always always always announce a deficit at a point partway through the event, so that people will dig deeper in their pockets and give more.
  
  Even if they get twice the chosen target amount, it is sent away to Watchtower and at the next assembly, they only had a tiny bit of operating costs on hand, so they start at a deficit again.

  Apparently, the deficit scam has been going on for decades, all around the world.
  
  
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  The Creation of Jesus

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  seeing a trinity thread.. can a jw apologist explain what (not who) is jesus?.

  prior to the creation of everything 13.7 billion years ago (draw close book), jehovah created jesus as his firstborn, his only-begotten.. there was nothing else - no stars, no dust, no matter - just jehovah - and then, just jehovah and jesus.

  so, what was jesus?.

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  You just have to watch enough science fiction to figure it out.
  Jehovah was pure energy and Jesus was a portion of that pure energy. Jehovah was lonely after spending eternity alone so he took a part of himself and made it independent.
  
  Jesus saw that Jehovah was kind of a dick and created more stuff so he wasn't stuck alone with such a dick.
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  The Second Coming of Christ

  by maccauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the second coming of christ was in the 1st century at the destruction of jerusalem the temple the law and the old covenants.

  so the new eternal covenant came into force in which people of every tribe tongue and naation would enter into.

  the new jerusalem not built by human hands nor with bricks and mortar its spiritual cannot be seen but people will stream to it the sin issue is done there is no more judgment for those in christ .

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  So,if you subscribe to the thought that the "second coming" was not so clearly an easily-viewed arrival with an army of angels or trumpet blasts or whatever, but rather that the temple destruction meant that Christ was there now in a spiritual temple, do you also subscribe to the thoughts similar to Jehovah's Witnesses that people needed a "sign of Jesus presence" or arrival?

  Because, let me tell you. It seems that the Bible was clearly written to indicate that people expected Christ to literally and physically return within a generation (40 years or so) of the time of his death. And I would say that they were greatly disappointed that he did not literally and physically return. The cult of Christianity should have died off.
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  Did you leave the JW RECENTLY? Really? Recently? WTF were you thinking?

  by The Real Edward Gentry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not to be overly harsh...but if you just left, what the hell were you thinking?

  between 1995 and now, you never did an internet search of "jehovahs-witness" or "watchtower"?

  good god.

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  You're the 'real' Edward Gentry? Who's the pretend one?

  Jon Voight played 'Edward Gentry' in DELIVERANCE. So he is the wanna be.
  
  
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  How Many Witnesses Would Really Take Blood?

  by minimus in

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  up until the very end, my mother refused blood.

  it didn't matter if it was a blurred line or not, the bible says "no blood"!

  i wonder if she was in the minority, in her thinking.

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  I believe that most parents that face serious problems on the blood issue with their child are very hopeful that a judge will take the decision away from them, even though they cannot admit it.
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  JW Parents getting... DIVORCED

  by raven in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello everyone!it has been quite some time since i've posted, but a lot has happened.

  i am still with my boyfriend (mentioned in my past and very first post!

  ) life is going well.

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  People get divorced. JW's pretend they are less stricken with divorce, but that really just isn't so.
  I would just use it as a reason to be tighter with your mom. She'll need an experienced ex-JW to lean on as her JW friends will not be so kind.
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  Did you leave the JW RECENTLY? Really? Recently? WTF were you thinking?

  by The Real Edward Gentry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not to be overly harsh...but if you just left, what the hell were you thinking?

  between 1995 and now, you never did an internet search of "jehovahs-witness" or "watchtower"?

  good god.

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  Not to be overly harsh...but if you recently insulted a large number of people on a forum where they go for help, what the hell were you thinking? Between 1995 and now, you never figured out that it's a mind-control cult and intelligence and access to the internet had little to do with people staying.
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  The Trinity Easily Explained in 29 Words

  by maccauk in

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  2. beliefs

  a man can be a father .

  a man can be a son.

  a man can be a husband.

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  maccauk
  bullshit is two words

  The online Oxford Dictionary and Wikipedia list it as one word. But if you need less words, use "Bollocks."
  When you get to too few words, it loses some of it's explanation.
  
  "Total Bollocks" is sufficient but "Made up Bullshit" tells so much more.
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  The Trinity Easily Explained in 29 Words

  by maccauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a man can be a father .

  a man can be a son.

  a man can be a husband.

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  I can do it in 3 words
  
  Made up bullshit.
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  If WT are cutting back on mags will they also cut back on Bethelites?

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  i was thinking after hearing about the agm cutbacks to the mags and other website content surely they will end up dismissing more bethelites?

  i would have thought in the old days, before the web, an artist or writer at bethel would have been a full time job making content for four 32 page mags a month.

  now what are these guys going to do?.

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  What a greatly run cult. When you can't afford to keep your stipend low paid volunteers.