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  Russian Earthquake Forces Putin to Reconsider – Won’t Ban Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  ap – april 1st, 2017. russian earthquake forces putin to reconsider – won’t ban jehovah’s witnesses.

  in a stunning reversal of events, vladimir putin had an emergency meeting with all un members and made a proposition unbanning jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.. after the devastating 6.9 earthquake in eastern russia, and after receiving nearly one metric ton of letters from jehovah’s witnesses worldwide, putin changed his mind and decided not only to not ban jehovah’s witnesses in russia, but proposed to the un to remove all restrictions from jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.. surprisingly, jehovah’s witnesses were not pleased.. david a. ssholian, the spokesman for jehovah’s witnesses, said that “this reversal is a disaster for jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.

  we just can’t be unbanned everywhere, that would be a severe blow for our faith.”

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  JW`s are told not to believe everything they read in the newspapers and what do some ex JW`s do ? they believe everything they read .

  Priceless I L TTATT2

  April the 1st did it for me.LOL
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  Who else is tired of attacking/defending Islam?

  by Spoletta in

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  at this point, i think we have a good idea of everyone's opinion of islam.

  for the love of god, can we move on to something else!

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  Can we have your point of view Spoletta on Islam ? Just asking .

  We have everybody else`s view do we have yours ?
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  Great way to show the world your not extremists.

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. beliefs

  i really don't know what to expect of this.

  they are being labelled extremists in russia and are close to being banned.

  so the show that they aren't extremists they encourage all jw's worldwide to bombard the kremlin and court with millions on letters..

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  JW`s are just one of many religions , because of their literature percieved as being extremist and shunning procedures against members because of not living up to WTB&TS expectations

  They are not singled out on their own ,many doomsday sects are treated just the same.

  Are JW`s a doomsday sect ? of course they are they have been predicting it for the past 100+ years in one form or another .
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  Can we support Russian government's ban?

  by intropist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  글쓴이: 류비 / 시간: 목, 03/30/2017 - 14:48. .

  hi, i want to leave my personal opinion on the matter of russian government's banning on the activity of jehovah's witnesses in their territory.

  i think it's more or less important because bearing a certain opinion is related with the quality of life.

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  Jehovahs Witnesses are just one of many religious sects that are considered extreme some worse than others.

  Apparently their are numerous sects springing up with doomsday in mind and the Govt. is reigning in these cults.

  But the bottom line is they ,JW`s are just one of many that come under this proposed ban because of their published material that they distribute.

  WT propanda would have you believe they are the only ones targeted which is not true .

  Why should that surprise us ?
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  JW apologetics websites.

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lately i have been studying some basic christology and jesus in the old testament and why first christians believed jesus was god in the flesh.

  really interesting stuff.

  i am not really sure if i fully understand it but i do now realize why pastors go to university and bible school for a number of years and also how their beliefs are not just based on a few verses that can be edited in the nwt.

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  Christendoms religions including JW`s cant even decide on how many books comprise the Bible so how could they ever agree on what is contained theirein ? The numbers vary widely.

  Their are also books mentioned in the Bible that do not appear in those lists such as The Book of Enoch , The Book of Jubilees The Testament of Noah and The Book of Jasher to name a few.

  It all comes down to each different sects interpretation of what said scriptures mean , not what the scriptures actually say but what the sect says it means.

  And no GOD of the Hebrews (OT) or of the Christians (NT ) has ever came to HIS defence to set matters straight as to what is HIS TRUE WRITTEN WORD

  His silence is deafening .

  It always puzzled me why the JW`s adopted the Protestant number of authentic books of the Bible.where they could have settled for a couple more just to be different from christendom and it still would have been considered a christian religion.

  Bottom line is : It all depends on interpretation of what the scriptures mean by the interpretator and not what the scripture actually says .

  Thats why we have over 40,000 different Christian sects nowadays and GOD is still silent ?

  Is he a GOD of order or disorder ?
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  What does CLAM stand for?

  by QuestioningEverything in

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  i've seen this in a few posts and not sure what it means.

  :) please help..

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  Christ Laughs At Meetings ( JW meetings that is )
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  4000 places of Abuse says the Australian Royal Commission on track to deliver its final report on Dec.15

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  according to an article in the herald sun tues.march 28 2017 ,australian children were abused in more than 4000 institutions new data by the child abuse royal commission has revealed.. male clergy were most commonly perpertrators of the abuse followed by teachers and residential care workers while boys aged 10-14 were the most common victims.. the arc started its 57th and final case study yesterday ,chair justice peter mcclellan confirmed that after four years the $500 million commission was on track to deliver its final report on december the 15th (2017).

  "survivors have waited too long for an effective response to their suffering and the future protection of australian children must be given the highest priority "he said.. end of article..

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  Thank you darkspilver for posting the full quote.
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  4000 places of Abuse says the Australian Royal Commission on track to deliver its final report on Dec.15

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  according to an article in the herald sun tues.march 28 2017 ,australian children were abused in more than 4000 institutions new data by the child abuse royal commission has revealed.. male clergy were most commonly perpertrators of the abuse followed by teachers and residential care workers while boys aged 10-14 were the most common victims.. the arc started its 57th and final case study yesterday ,chair justice peter mcclellan confirmed that after four years the $500 million commission was on track to deliver its final report on december the 15th (2017).

  "survivors have waited too long for an effective response to their suffering and the future protection of australian children must be given the highest priority "he said.. end of article..

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  I thought some here would have commented on the final report being handed down in December this year bringing closure to an investigation that has been ongoing for the past 4 years.

  With the next step going forward as to how effective this ARC has been in bringing real change to all the institutions that were brought before this inquiry

  Some have made positive statements of change that they are implementing due to the ARC .that I know of.

  Many others I do not know of their stance.

  However I believe the WTB&TS /Jehovahs Witnesses have taken exception to a number of recomendations that the ARC addressed as real problems of concern

  It will be very interesting just how the Australian legal profession responds to the recomendations the ARC reports to them on the inadequate response of certain institutions to the recomendations they make to them.by non compliance of their directives.

  Anybody ?
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  Bible writers ignored their own principle

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bible gives a very beneficial principle when it states “too much talk” is problematic whereas “anyone who holds his tongue is prudent.” (proverb 10:19) in harmony with this if bible had given us just enough verses like this: “remember god always and do everything as an offering to him” (ecclesiastes 12:1; colossians 3:17), it could have kept itself invincible.. instead, it started to speak “too much” which often backfired.

  1) too much information on a too less important subject (such as woman’s menstruation) and yet too less information on too important subject such as creation which comes in just one sentence: god created “the mankind in his image.” (genesis 1:27).

  2) jesus was taken to a mountain top so that he and satan could see “all the kingdoms of the earth” [which is in support of flat-earth belief], and satan tried to tempt jesus by offering them all in exchange of an act of worship to him.

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  Point 1 : I can almost concur with if man was made in GODS image. ,GOD is such a bloodthirsty being.No wonder mankinds history is so full of bloodshed.

  Point 2 :Proves the Bible unscientific and that it speaks out of both sides of its mouth and Jesus was no ordinary man as he was depicted to be.I dont see any examples of Adam having supernatural powers of any sort.

  Point 3 :Apart from no one coming in his defence because of all the miracles he was supposed to have performed , that statement in John 21:25 always amused me ,seriously ? with the amount of literature that is available to the average joe today and is increasing everyday as we speak ?

  So I agree with you venus ,good post
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  GoBo hints we want all to dress American I

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. humour

  in this wt literature illustration from a german kingdom hall, one can see that the two nonwestern jw's on the right are featured as needing to improve on their choice of clothing and become more american like the gobo wishes them all to be.. .. .

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  Didnt Jesus and his disciples wear a dress and sandles ? They wouldnt be allowed out in FS with a dress code like that.

  Not to mention they all had beards.