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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-22-2015 WT Study (God Loves us?)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  blondies highlights from the 11-22-2015 wt study (september 15, 2015) (jehovah love us).

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

  bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .

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  fukitol

  'Jehovah' says: "I am your loving heavenly father. I will kill you."
  
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  Why does the Watchtower leadership slap its own defenders in the face?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  take the case of rolf furuli.

  i don't think there has been a specific thread on the hebrew verbs u-turn in the nwt, and how the society has responded to the work of perhaps their brightest and ablest defender in their history.

  so here goes.. rolf furuli has defended jws on multiple fronts in many different settings, on issues ranging from chronology, mental health, doctrines, bible translation and the blood issue.

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  fukitol

  Naive. The Watchtower Society and the GB and their institutionalised sychophants cannot possibly conceive of giving anyone outside of themselves credit for intellectual and spiritual achievements, even if they are fully supportive.

  That would completely undermine their cardinal rule, ie, that all of the interpretational heavy lifting must be completely left to them as God's appointed channel of spiritual feeding; and any JW who studies the Bible independently, such as Furuli - no matter how impressive their academic credentials - must be ignored as fostering a dangerous mentality of independent thinking.

  Same with Greg Stafford, who also rigorously academically defended many of the main Watchtower doctrines but was roundly ignored by the Society. At least Stafford finally displayed a certain measure of genuine intellectual honesty by having the balls to abandon the organisation and do a u-turn on many false JW dogmas that he formerly defended.

  I would love to know what Furuli would make of the new grey NWT. To defend it would, in many respects, amount to a denial of his earlier praise of the old edition.

  Academica often has nothing to do with intellectual honesty.
  
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-22-2015 WT Study (God Loves us?)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  blondies highlights from the 11-22-2015 wt study (september 15, 2015) (jehovah love us).

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

  bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .

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  fukitol

  Jehovah says: "I love the world. I will kill the world."
  
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  Kenneth Flodin: ‘This Generation Will ... Not Pass Away’ (Matt. 24:34)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbpbb5k_mc

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  fukitol

  Good catch Baldeagle!

  How long before this ludicrous, contemptible, utterly self-serving lie of a doctrine morphs yet again?

  I bet it won't be long given the basically zero growth reported in the latest annual report.

  You can only insult and abuse the intelligence of members of your private club for so long before they walk away.
  

  
  
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  Eagerly anticipating the death of billions!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  surely someone who eagerly looks forward to the death of billions of people (including babies and children) is not emotionally healthy?.

  yet, that is the key belief "happily" anticipated by witnesses.... food for thought?.

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  fukitol

  Yep. And even if it's true, I'd rather die at Armageddon than worship such a genocidal deity.
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  Any time you didn't know what the h#ll to do and just let it ride?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was conducting the theocratic ministry school years and years and years and years ago and announced the #3 speaker up to the platform.

  this of course was the sister/sister talk at the table.

  up comes the publisher, sister so-and-so and her 25 year old daughter as her householder.

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  fukitol

  No wonder they're dumping the Autocratic Misery School.
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  My new Religion is The Truth.

  by LAWHFol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what exactly is religion?

  why all of the pain?

  you either love religion (usually the one you call home), you hate it.. or you're somewhere in between, and you say "let bygones be bygones".

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  fukitol

  Cofty is like a radar on this forum for promptly bashing anything even remotely supporting theism. It's like he scours through here 24/7 to be first off the mark for theist whack-a-mole.
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  I'm a cynical, sarcastic and curmudgeonly old bastard most of the time.

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  but as i move into my early 50's i find i'm more and more comfortable in my thick, leathery hide.. please get it into your thick skull's that i don't insult or make snarky comments with the intent of hurting anyone's feelings.

  that being said, if your precious feelings are hurt it's probably your fault for being a prissy, over sensitive drama queen who can't defend his argument.. i do actually love you all, it's just that most of the time you spineless pussies really get on my nerves!.

  good god i feel better for that!

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  fukitol

  Nothing worse than a self-confessed *sshole that says I still love you even though I treat you like an *sshole.
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  Preach or Tithe- Publishers choice

  by All for show in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my siblings and i have been talking about the money woes.

  we have thrown around the idea for them to keep the preaching/pioneer arrangement to keep some busy.

  to increase cash flow they can institute a new tithing arrangement.

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  fukitol

  They already have a tithing arrangement of sorts, in the form of a committed regular congregation donation for a set amount. They'll never institute individual tithing. Would backfire badly.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

  org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

  instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

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  fukitol

  A lot of apostates all excited here over a dip in numbers. The organisation has always bounced back before and probably will again.