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  Mass JW exodus

  by stockholm_Syndrome in

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  maybe there will be a mass exodus from jws when thinking people read feb 2017 watchtower telling them the governing body stuff up, shouldnt expect correct/ perfect information and basically make up guff as they see fit.....ya reckon?.

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  smiddy

  A mass exodus from the JW religion ? You must be dreaming.

  Wishfull thinking I`m afraid that statement you quote from the WT will most likely go over the heads of the majority of witnesses and they wont get the sense of it.
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  Survey: Are you Agnostic or Atheist or Christian?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  i am agnostic.

  i will count how many agnostics, atheists and christians that are reading this forum regularly.

  please answer my question.

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  smiddy

  I do not believe in an Almighty GOD of the Bible who intervenes in human affairs or any other GOD that is known to humans on this earth .

  So in that sense I`m happy to define myself as an atheist .

  However I do not dismiss the possibility that their are other life forms spiritual or otherwise in this universe .
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  My Son's Science Project "What Causes Leukemia"

  by azor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm putting the below information on this forum first to get your input.

  so my 9 year old leukemia survivor wants to do his science project searching for the cause of leukemia in children.

  the data required to put together a semblance of a cause is vast to put it lightly.

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  smiddy

  It sounds like a great project for your son and you to embark on I wish you both success in doing this.

  Many years ago my 14 year old nephew died from Leukemia and as a good faithful JW I tried to comfort my SIL with the resurrection hope .

  It didnt go too well ,and thakfully we are in a good place these days.

  I`m sorry I dont have any info to convey to you other than good luck.
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  2 words for truth in Russian, for wt writers too?

  by prologos in

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  2. current

  ny times article: "--- 2 words for truth in russian,--" pravda, the malleable truth, and istina, the unchangeable cosmic reality.

  it looks like wt writers like that, or think like that.

  wt is constantly changing the surface truth, but can not change the underlying reality, no matter how many groups they overlap.

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  smiddy

  I think you both have summed up the WT organization down to a "T"

  Good observations.
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  Ex JWs in Spain contacted their Government to act against the JWs on child sexual abuse matters

  by Susan Gaskin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the letter below (translated from spanish) was just sent out yesterday to the minister of justice in spain by ex jws.

  the collective group who did this have a website with this link: http://www.foroextj.com/.

  email: [email protected] facebook: www.facebook.com/abusostj twitter: @abusostj.

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  smiddy

  I look forward to more updates on this one it sounds promising.for victims of abuse.

  edit to add , Susan gaskin has 3 videos of her experiences within the WT if you want to check her out typing her name and JW`s.
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  How long until some of the Biblical apocrypha will be inserted into the WT teachings?

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have read through some of these, though not in complete, but enough to see some of these writings could fit into the wt views, such as arian beliefs of jesus.

  it would also help separate themselves quite a bit from "christiandom" and their bible.

  the "new light" of books not accepted in the canon.

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  smiddy

  As Phizzy says the JW/WT religion has accepted the Bible canon that Apostate religion namely Christendoms ,Catholic and Protestant Churches have agreed to , as to what constitutes the Bible Canon with the Catholic Church identifying the books of the Apocrypha .

  Years ago in the book" Equipped for Every Good Work" which dealt with all the books of the Bible it did praise the book of Maccabees both 1 & 2 as being valuable for an insight into jewish history / culture ,if I remember it right.

  It always puzzeled me why the JW`s went along with Apostate Christendoms definition of what constituted the Bible Canon.

  But then again thats not unanimous either is it ? Russian Orthodox Church ,Polish National Catholics ,Eastern Orthodox Church ,Roman Catholic Church ,Protestant Churches The Greek Orthodox Church ,,and I`m sure their are a few others I have missed.
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  Despite their false predictions aren't the JWs right? Won't the world eventually end & Paradise come?

  by deegee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aren't there christian denominations who do not make false end of the world predictions but who nevertheless believe that the world will eventually end and paradise (whether in heaven or on earth) will come?.

  it seems the watchtower was just jumping the gun when they made false end of the world predictions but they are nevertheless the right: the world will eventually end and paradise will come..

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  smiddy

  The OP is that an oxymoron statement ? I think it is.
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  A Taxonomy of WT Presidents/GB

  by breakfast of champions in

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  2. bible

  [this is what happens when the semester ends.

  idle hands.

  so i was thinking of how you would categorize the presidents of the wt, and i came up with this:.

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  smiddy

  What about William H.Conley ? where does he fit in ? the first president ? O.K. he wasn`t president for very long but he was the first .
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  Question for believers here, Ecclesiastes 1:4 and Psalm 105;5 "Earth remain forever".

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what is your understanding on the earth remain forever???

  today it's a fact (99,999%) that the earth will be consumed by the sun in the future be it 3 million or 3 billion years.

  a topic we have been discussing here on paradise earth in the last two or three days and i notice no believer chimed in.

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  smiddy

  Good point George OT
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  Beatles poster was "Demonized". We had to take it down. How about you?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  in 1967 richard avedon published a poster of his portraits of the beatles.

  my jw aunt attacked it for being spiritualistic!

  the "third" eye on george's palm was spiritualistic!

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  smiddy

  My young teenage son was into Kiss records ,what did I do ? I got rid of them and banned anything" Kiss" in the house

  I`m also embarrassed to admit it now that I turned off the movie "Life Of Brian" after a few minutes because I thought it mocked Jehovah and the "truth" religion.

  The Life Of Brian is now one of my favourite movies , such classic lines in it.