Posts by smiddy

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Just had to share.

by Coded Logic in

anybody into art out there?

i was just so blown away by this piece i had to share.. .

at first i was just like "oh, that's a clever idea".

smiddy

I must admit it is very clever and intriguing.

However i have to ask what is the image in the top centre of the screen ? What does that represent ?

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I Give Up!

by pale.emperor in

im giving up guys.

i've reached the end of my patience and now i finally refuse to waste any more time on part-time witnesses.

i've text all of my active jw family members and told them to delete my number from their phone and never contact me again.

smiddy

PE , you have just lost a battle not the war , dont give up just try a new stategy.You never know what tomorrow brings.

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If Jehovah God was in "Human Form" with his Theocratic Nation on earth in todays climate he would be facing Human rights issues.

by smiddy in

jw
friends

where does one start :.

he is guilty of genocide for the attempted and succesful ,killing off other nations not leaving man woman or child alive.. he is guilty of barbarism against women for not living up to his rules or regulations such as cutting off a womans hand for defending her husband in a brawl with another man.. he is guilty of condemning the whole human race for the misdemeanor of the first human pair for eating a fruit he said not to eat ?

a bit over the top dont you think ?.

smiddy

Where does one start :

He is guilty of genocide for the attempted and succesful ,killing off other nations not leaving man woman or child alive.

He is guilty of barbarism against women for not living up to his rules or regulations such as cutting off a womans hand for defending her husband in a brawl with another man.

He is guilty of condemning the whole human race for the misdemeanor of the first Human pair for eating a fruit he said not to eat ? A bit over the top dont you think ?

And he implied it was only death that they would suffer ,that has turned out to be a lie ,because humans suffer all sorts of diseases and debillitating illnesses and indignities before dying sometimes painfull deaths.

And he is a God of Love ? I dont think so .

Jehovah Gods morality and partiallity must also be a subject of the human rights commission also .

King David lusts after Bathsheba he has her husband effectively killed and takes her .his punishment ?his child dies.

Big deal.

Lot has incest with his daughters both of them and yet none of them , lot or his 2 daughters. are condemned by Jehovah

and hello , Lot is held up as a righteous person.

Then their is the crimes against children , apart from the genocides against them their is such accounts as children taunting Gods prophet and executed by bears. (kids will be kids wont they ? )

I`m sure you guys can give us more examples

please do so.

If God was on trial for human rights abuses what would you charge him with.?

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Fewer christians (and other religions) and more with NO RELIGION in Australia

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

the results of the last australian census are trickling out, and the results offer an insight into the changing concepts of contemporary aussies.. in 1966 only 0.8 % marked 'no religion' on their census form.. in 2001 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 16%.. and in 2016 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 29.6%.. so more non-believers than any other group.

catholics (the previous largest group) were now only 22.5% of australians.. ________________________.

the other interesting change is language,.

smiddy

possum

Thanks for that post .I was listening to the ABC radio in my car and heard this same thing on talk back radio today

However, a group called the Atheist Foundation of Australia is leading a campaign to get people to stop making this joke. Their reasoning is, that when officially counted, Jedi gets classified as a "Not Defined" religion instead of "No Religion." When that happens, they believe "it makes Australia seem more religious than it really is."

So it would be interesting to see if this campaign influenced the latest Census as compared to the previous one .

Aussie smiddy

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Gog of Magog - Watchtower says it has two identities

by Listener in

the searcher started a topic addressing the gt, a comment from sparrowdown asked an interesting question -.

"...the political powers of satan's world will form a coalition..."that's the statement that interests me.

what are they alluding to?.

smiddy

Listener,

I hope your summary is correct ,because if it is , it should wake up a lot more old timers and hopefully others that this religion just makes things up as the years drag on.

Jehovahs Witnesses must hold the "Trophy" for the religion that changes their interpretation of scripyures the "Most" that they once held as the only "truth"

Jehovahs Witnesses are living proof that the " Holy Bible" does not mean what it says or does not say what it means .

That is why they have continually changed the interpretation of scriptures they once held as "True" to another interpretation for the past 140 years .

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Today's Watchtower Study 25 June " Do You Share Jehovah's Sense of Justice?" April 2017 issue

by BluesBrother in

same theme scripture as last week deut 32.

3/4 "a god... who is never unjust".

do i share that spirit ?

smiddy

An incident is brought to the attention of the Elders of a child sexual abuse. in a congregation.Handle it in-house we dont want to bring reproach on Jehovahs name.

Justice in the name of Jehovah

Many accounts of crimes committed against minors of sexual abuse in many congregations in a Country reported to the Legal department in Brooklyn ,keep it in house as we dont want to bring reproach on jehovahs name.

Justice in the name of jehovah.

A flood of sexual abuse cases of children in congregations all over the world pouring into the legal department of branches in different countries then sent on to the Governing Body in the USA and the response is ,if it is mandatory to report in your jurisdiction do so ,otherwise keep it in in-house as we dont want to bring reproach on Jehovahs name now do we.

Jehovahs justice in action,

A common statement by Elders "Leave it in Jehovahs hands he will rectify it in his good time " in other words do nothing to get the justice you deserve.

Imperfect human beings seem to have a better sense of justice than Jehovah.

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The GB members of the Watchtower Corporation are cunning decisive crooks

by Finkelstein in

i think its now easy see the long standing and continuous operation of the watchtower corporation and its commercialized corruption as a religious publishing house.

the core centralized intent was to increase the circulation and distribution of the wts's own publications.

they exploited the basic belief in the bible as holy spiritual writings and used the end is near proclamation all throughout the 20th century and even back toward the end of the 19th century.. these leaders also devised special engaging public talks at assemblies and local kingdom halls which were also devised to support those specific core doctrines of christ's return and a imposing question of who's worthy of being saved or not at the soon to come day of judgment armageddon.

smiddy

And of course have Jehovahs Witnesses ever asked where in the Bible is a Kingdom paradise on Earth promised ? Can a JW show me that scripture ?

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Happy are those concious of their spiritual need?

by NikL in

that was the title of the public talk given by the co today.

it's a statement i've heard over the years many many times.it's based on the nwt translation of matthew 5:3i always use a different version of the bible when i follow the scriptures because it lets me get a better view of the scripture in question.well, imagine my surprise when i read the scripture in the nrsv bible to realise it says something completely different.the nwt renders it...3 “happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.. however the nrsv says...3 “blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.. i was quite surprised at the completely different meaning so i looked at other translations and they pretty much all say the same thing.

the only one who says anything like spiritual need is the nwt.

smiddy

Human beings give their"interpretations" as to what GOD Jehovah meant in his word.

Whereas God himself is silent .[ He`s always silent ]

What the bloody hell do imperfect humans know what God meant when he said this or that .? I ask you.

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Some prayers really annoy me

by stillin in

i realize that prayer is a really personal thing, but representing a group in prayer has become so full of cliche's that i just want to vomit sometimes.

co week almost every prayer has the phrase "special week of activity" in it.. then there's "please look after the sick and afflicted.".

not so much anymore, "please bless this food and the hands that prepared it.".

smiddy

When Jesus gave his illustration of how to pray he never mentioned Jehovah .

And the account`s of his giving a prayer ,he never mentions Jehovah.

Forget about the NWT of the Bible

Look at the Jehovahs Witness Kingdom Interlinear translation of The Christian Greek Scriptures,a word for word translation and the name Jehovah does not exist anywhere in that nearest to authentic text in existence.

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messianic bible

by zeb in

there is an add that appears often here about a 'messianic bible, free reserve yours now.

' i contacted them and not wanting anything for free i sent what i thought was a fair price for such a bible.

no bible they seem to be working on it.

smiddy

Did you pay money up front zeb ? Is it a scam ?

On another note I just wonder how many different Bible versions do we need ? or are even necessary ?

Doesnt it just add to more confusion as to what these Bible translators/Bible Societys say GOD meant?

If their was /is a God couldnt he have set matters straight Centuries ago clarifying what he said /meant in the first place instead of the ridiculous position we are in today with so many translations /interpretations as to what he is supposed to have said /meant ?

Not even taking into account the volumes of commentary,theosophical discussions,Bible Dictionarys,etc.etc. speaking for God.

I mean to say he is supposed to be the Creator of the Universe and yet he cant give us HIS actual words and meaning of the Bible ?