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  In Your Opinion Do Today's Elders Recognize That The Religion Is BS?

  by minimus in

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  i always wondered that while i was in especially when i was an elder.

  i recognize that some people,elders included are brain-dead.

  but do you think that the average older today knows it's all nonsense?

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  smiddy

  Sad to say that many of the Elders i have come across is that they are big fish in a little pond.

  In other words they are nobodys in the society they live in maybe even being invisible to the rest of the population.

  Becoming an Elder in the JW religion they are suddenly looked upon as somebody who has to be respected and looked up to Where their ego gets a big boost.

  once they have tasted that adoration and that is what it is by many it becomes very hard to give it up and be a nobody again and many just cant do that.going from a somebody back to being a nobody .

  Not to be overlooked is the pressure from an Elderette who does not want to lose her position in being an Elders wife .
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  I feel like I'm losing my religion/faith

  by christina1111 in

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  i'm a baptized jw...been baptized for 8 years...and throughout the years i've been baptized i see "hypocrisy" so to speak in the religion...when you're new and not baptized that's when the jws want to invite you to every gathering they have, they want to appear like they're your best friend...they want to help you out when needed and so forth...however, once you're baptized you go to the elders for help they don't help you....all they do is gather you around the office...have bibles in hand and so forth...they give you articles as well, instead of physically helping you out....but yet when you weren't baptized they would physically help you out and not throw scriptures and articles in your face.

  also when you ask for help and so forth with the bros/sisters they want to throw the "each one must carry his/her own load" scripture at you.....but yet what happened to the scripture of taking care of widows and people who are orphans?.

  it's not just one congregation...throughout the 8 years i've been baptized i've been through many kingdom halls...many towns...many states...when i was inactive for awhile i even pretended to not be baptized and just play dumb when the witnesses came to my door...they're much nicer to you when you're not baptized then when you are baptized...why is that?.

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  smiddy

  Welcome christina 1111 glad to have you on board.As other posters have said love bombing is rife to new converts only for the realisation to set in after they have been baptised that it doesnt last.

  What you need to do is ask yourself what attracted you to the religion in the first place doctrinally and now investigate those claims made by JW`s.

  The site JWfacts is excellent in this regard.being non bitter about JW`s just stating facts.

  One or two points I will make .

  The first edition of the" Aid" book under Jehovah states that it doesnt matter if it is not the correct pronunciation of Gods name just so long as we use the commonly accepted version .? WTF?

  Also their KI word for word translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures does not contain the name Jehovah or any equivalent name for God nor does it contain the tetragrammaton the four hebrew letters representing Gods name nor any equivalent greek letters that would refer to his name.

  A third point if I may , in John 1:1 "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God" thats what the KI word for word translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures published by the WTB&TS says. It does not say "a" god

  take care
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  I was manning a cart

  by closed in

  1. watchtower
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  i was manning a cart not long ago.

  o, aye:) .

  a man, who i suspect is familiar with this site comes to me.

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  Thank you Perry a photo speaks more than a thousand words .Generation WTF solved.

  I think the song"Another brick in the wall" describes it just as well.

  After all bricks in a wall overlap each other.
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  3.(e) By Charitable Works for the Relief of Poverty

  by Lostandfound in

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  looking at the australian wt memorandum and articles of this line took my attention.. when did they ever undertake works to relieve poverty, some discarded bethelites facing poverty would laugh at this, more like charitable works for the extension of poverty.

  but no poverty facing the ultra heavies and gb members replete with obscene displays of the means of telling the time..

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  Maybe this is another area the ARC should be looking at also
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  Anyone read the latest Awake (on the supernatural)?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read some of this latest awake on the org's webshite.. it begins by talking about the 'supernatural' - wizards, witches, vampires, etc.

  - their popularity and why they might appeal to people.

  then it goes on to state the wt belief that someone is 'behind it'.. now, i like a few horror/scary films - when i was a kid, i always actually liked being a bit scared by them, tbh.. the silence of the lambs, a nightmare on elm street (1984), the ring, the witch, the thing (1982) and a few others are all great, imo.. they are just genres and subgenres of film, that's all.

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  The Old Testament covers 4000 years of jewish history/religion and their on again off again relationship with the Almighty God Jehovah , yet in Jewish theology their is no concept of a fallen Angel named Satan that was misleading Jews in their 4000 years interacting with the Almighty God Jehovah /Yahweh.

  None of the Bible writers in the Old testament whether they be scribes minor prophets or major Prophets that have actual dealings with GOD or his Angels ever allude to a fallen Angel named Satan as a cause for their falling out of favour with God.

  It is a completely new out of left field view that is new to the New Testament with no basis in the Old testament.
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  What are some of the best movies ,musical catergory you have seen .

  by smiddy in

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  some that come to mind for me.. seven brides for seven brothers.

  brigadoon.

  carmen.

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  Fiddler on The Roof was great , i will have to seek out Across the Universe and also Life on The Road
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  Movies I'm Watching

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  i have, for about 6 months now, been trying to watch every single movie that was "cool" or interesting since 1960.it started out with a desire to watch as an adult all disney movies.

  then it morphed into all bond movies (except for the non-canonicals).now it's turned into pretty much any and all movies.

  here is my list, scratched out are ones i have seen, green are recent next-in line.turns out there was a lot i had never seen before, about 70% because of the cult restrictions!

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  Pans labrynth is great , how about North by Northwest?

  The original "The Thing"

  The bedford Incedent

  Fail Safe

  The Ox Bow Incident

  Dr. Strangelove.

  The Philladelphia Story ?Incident ? About an aircraft carrier that gets caught up in a timewarp.

  The beast with Five Fingers

  Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland.
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  JW Society Make Another Huge Sale

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  have you seen this?

  $88 million?????

  :-o x. https://therealdeal.com/2017/02/14/clipper-to-buy-bk-rental-from-jehovahs-witnesses-for-88m/#.wkquplzkego.twitter.

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  How can this religion that has been estimated to have made more than a Billion dollars this past decade in Real Estate sales to be classed as a not for profit religion.that takes advantage of being tax exempt because they are a religion.?

  Mr Trump their is something seriously wrong with this system that is in place.and it needs fixing.
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  Living as Christians: Help your Children Develop an Unhealthy Confirmation Bias Against Science

  by Saethydd in

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  2. beliefs

  creation declares jehovah's glory.

  however, the devil's world promotes god-dishonoring theories about the origin of life.. .

  wow, how did i once not see how crazy this crap sounds?.

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  I look back now when I thought in my ignorance that the "Life Did It get Here By Evolution or Creation" was a fantastic work that proved beyond all doubt it had to be creation.

  I look back on those years now and find it hard to believe that was me.How could I spend 33years believing this crap and worst of all convincing my wife and bringing up two children in this fantasy .?

  Thankfully everybody are all out now ,except for one niece who I encouraged to adopt the "lie"
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  AI on the cusp of tremendous breakthroughs

  by azor in

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  what does this mean for us as individuals and our civilization?

  harris, kurzweil, and musk among others have some interesting thoughts on the subject.

  as do shows like westworld.

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  I think I could accomodate a Gort type AI but I dont think I want to see a T-1000 type AI to be unleashed on the world.

  Not that any of it is going to happen in my lifetime.LOL