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  How Many Disfellowshipped Are There In The US?

  by Village Idiot in

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  i've read in the watchtower, as well as observed personally, that 1% of the congregation gets disfellowshipped every year.

  i'm not good at the math but i figure that it's 40% since 1975 (yes i know, they're growing).

  i know that quite a few return but still, there must be a large percentage of disfellowshipped jws who will never return.

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  smiddy

  In the 1960`s -70`s the WT was reporting that 40,000 a year were being DF , mainly for immorality

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  HOW the WatchTower leaders flipped the script on Christianity

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  worship of jesus was declared to be an act of idolatry!.

  we are going to examine the cataclysmic changeover in christian teaching exploding inside the watchtower religion in the early 50’s by exploring a background of the history of jesus’ place in christianity.

  jw teaching about the nature of jesus’ importance in the salvation of mankind will be compared with christian history.

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  This is a lot to take in Terry , thank you for that .Some of us need more time to digest it all.

  I was very interested in the" Kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures" when it came out many years ago by the WTB&TS

  Two things that puzzelled me back then.

  1. the tetragrammoton was not their in any of the scriptural texts , nor was their any equivalent in the Greek language.

  This was a word for word translation , printed by the WTB&TS of the original Greek Text , and Gods name was not their.

  So why was it admitted into the RNWT. where it did not belong. ( Adding to the Scriptures ?)

  2.In the same publication , the Kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures ,of John CH.1;1 states.

  "In the beginning was the word , and the word was God"

  In the interpretation into english the indefiite article was inserted that stated the word was "a" God which is an addition to the original greek Scriptures, and should not be their.

  Another case of adding to the Scriptures ?

  And if I remember correctly , their are numerous texts in the Christian Greek Scriptures , the New Testament , about 30 or so ? that his disciples were to be witnesses of JESUS ? to the ends of the earth , every knee would bow down to Jesus in acknowledgement of his position GOD had given him .

  Yet nowhere in any text in the Christian Greek Scriptures are disciples of Christ given the name Jehovah`s Witnesses it never happened in Isaiah`s time , it was not an issue with Jesus , and it was not authorised by him.in our time.In fact the scripture says that it was by divine providence that followers of Christ were to be called Christians not Jehovah`s Witnesses incidentally the name Jehovah didn`t emerge until the 13th Century , and by a Catholic Monk , it`s true.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses Do Not Believe in Freedom of Religion

  by xjwsrock in

  1. watchtower
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  this statement may seem odd at first.

  you may think of jehovah's witnesses as being an american religion in a country where freedoms exist and are prized.

  you may think of the organization's legal battles in the supreme court to protect certain rights and freedoms.

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  smiddy

  Jehovah`s Witnesses are very bold in insisting freedom of religion in the lands that Christendom has already made inroads in , however they are very quite about trying to make any headway in predominantly Muslim countries even after 100+ years of Jesus Christ rule .

  How can they say they have fullfilled Jesus Christ commission to make disciples of people in all the world /nations when they ignore the lands dominated by Islam , a religion that has roots in the Bible , recognising the prophet Abraham and his teachings , with over 1.5 Billion adherents. ?

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  Imagine living in JW's Paradise.

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lets say you are able to go back in time to the first man( their belief adam) 7000 years.. now you are magically transporter back to adam time with the knowledge you have from.

  todays world..would you make life a little easier for you and your family???

  you may move.

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  JW`s seem to conveniently forget that by the end of Jesus Christ Rule of a thousand years when Satan is let loose again their will be many opposers already on the earth who reject Jehovah`s kingdom , as many numbers as the sands of the sea-shore .

  Thats not something that happens instataneously , it`s something that has been building up and fomenting for a very long time .

  So Paradise is not all that it`s cracked up to be.

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  Song 151

  by ab.ortega in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  any idea what could have happened to song 151?

  what logical reason could they have had to skip a number.

  is the number 151 now an evil number accordig to new light?

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  You guys just have to keep up with Jehovah`s chariot , Jeeeez do I have to explain everythig ?

  Here goes : 1+ 5 = 6 , 5+1 =6 , are you with me ? , 1 coupled with 1 =11 minus 5 =6

  and their you have it 666 , thats the Devils number ,you can`t have that in a Theocratic songbook? can you.

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  What The Org Teaches: #2 THE GREAT TRIBULATION

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  every single bible student/jehovah's witness who has ever lived, has been indoctrinated to believe that a catastrophic great tribulation would very soon engulf the entire earth, causing untold death & destruction.

  this spurious teaching is drummed into every j.w.

  's head and used by them as a major recruitment tool.

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  Good points The searcher and prologos , it just goes to prove the old saying, " The Bible is like a musical instument , you can play any old tune on it you like" .

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  Judgment Message Training Video Has Been Leaked!

  by OneGenTwoGroups in

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  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6dur7ol_8w.

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  HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

  Well I thought it was funny

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  Something's Gotta Give

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been 100% alone since my df last month.

  i'm dead to my family now, unless i return to their cult - so i recently made contact with 3 former jw's that were in my cong when i was in my youth.

  to my surprise, they all had exactly the same doubts and reasoning i had and said even though they've been out 6-7 years they "still feel tied to it in some way" and "feel guilty celebrating xmas or birthdays".

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  I agree with Faye Dunaway that unless they do the research , they will always be a captive to the religion.

  Some people leave the religion , however the religion never leaves them , no matter how many years pass by.

  Why is that ?

  Simply because they have never done an outside research into the religion .

  And that can be one of two reasons

  1. They are too lazy to do the research , a condition that is endemic among the rank and file members.

  They want the G.B. members /writing department to do their thinking for them .

  2.And the other is they just want to bury their head in the sand and not face the facts.

  They have invested so much time , money , and energy , into this religion that it is inconcievable that it cannot be the truth.

  Otherwise I would have to eat humble pie and admit , I have been conned all these years and feel so stupid.

  One of the hardest things in life is for a person to be honest with oneself.

  Lurkers / newbies , don`t be discouraged , we have all been their .

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  Things I remember growing up in the 70s

  by The Rebel in

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  2. friends

  i remember sitting on my daddy's lap and driving an imaginary car, i also remember sitting on my mummies lap on the front seat, without a seat belt whilst my dad drove a real car.

  i remember we bought fish and chips from the chippy wrapped in yesterday's newspapers.

  i remember bouncing up and down on my space hopper in the garden.

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  The things you learn on this site that you won`t find in the "AWAKE" , white dog poo , and I thought my dog had a calcium deficiency .or would that be a Calcium overload , oh well.

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  My son just got a serious job offer

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and it looks like he will be accepting it.he will be teaching english as a second language in shenzhen, china.

  it's with a company that works with the public school system out there.his salary includes an apt (most likely shared) that has utilities and internet included, and looking at cost of living (after the rent he isn't paying) it looks like he will be able to put money aside every month.not bad for a kid his age-travel to the other side of the globe, meet new people, get paid, and get experience.

  i am going to miss him..

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  smiddy

  Great news Schimideo2