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  Destruction to start from “God’s House”

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here is the greatest irony: people proclaiming the destruction of others are the first ones to experience destruction, foretaste of which is already experienced in the form of shrinking glory, finance and confidence!.

  babel means confusion, hence babylon the great means a great nation of confusing doctrines.

  this nation is “intoxicated” and “drunk with the blood of god’s holy ones.” (revelation 17:2, 6) the greatest intoxication of christendom and its heartland jehovah’s witnesses is with their own claim of having monopoly on truth and thus treating rest of the mankind as pagan, a concept that kills everything god’s holy ones stood for (mathew 7:12).

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  Circuit Assembly Experiences

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many years ago, in the congregation i attended at the time, there was a brother who had endured bad health over many years.

  as result he underwent a number of operations - a couple being life saving operations.

  at one or two circuit assemblies he was interviewed on the platform where he related how he endured ill health.. for me, i felt very uncomfortable listening to his experience and, i actually felt embarrassed for him because i have never been one to speak of any health issues i had, let alone publicise it from the platform.

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  ShirleyW , I never quite knew the reason that these blocks were put under her chair to make it higher, maybe she wanted her legs to dangle from the seat and not have contact with the floor, she was old and infirm, she always sat at the back of the KH and had her hand up to answer a lot, maybe if she was positioned in that way it would be easier for the speaker to see her hand? BTW there were about 60/70 publishers in the cong during that time
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  Satan temping Eve. Had she not ate

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  being the loving god that he is :).

  how do you imagine this playing out.

  let's say eve didn't eat and so we didn't fall into sin.. what do you think god would have done with satan and his demons?.

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  good question, although I'm sure our loving creator would have devised another test in which they would have been guaranteed to fail and blame them again for it, all the while continuing his dick waving competition with the Devil.
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  Circuit Assembly Experiences

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many years ago, in the congregation i attended at the time, there was a brother who had endured bad health over many years.

  as result he underwent a number of operations - a couple being life saving operations.

  at one or two circuit assemblies he was interviewed on the platform where he related how he endured ill health.. for me, i felt very uncomfortable listening to his experience and, i actually felt embarrassed for him because i have never been one to speak of any health issues i had, let alone publicise it from the platform.

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  we had another old bag in our cong as a kid ( there were many) who had to have special wooden blocks attached to the bottom of her special chair she used to sit in during the meetings, her name was Claire Bastable, detested her. holy that thou, a massive attitude problem as well.
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  Circuit Assembly Experiences

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many years ago, in the congregation i attended at the time, there was a brother who had endured bad health over many years.

  as result he underwent a number of operations - a couple being life saving operations.

  at one or two circuit assemblies he was interviewed on the platform where he related how he endured ill health.. for me, i felt very uncomfortable listening to his experience and, i actually felt embarrassed for him because i have never been one to speak of any health issues i had, let alone publicise it from the platform.

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  I always remember this silly old senile hag at a CA sometime in the 1970's who clearly had been called on very late in her life and converted, she must have been about 90 at the time of her baptism, a big deal was being made of it because not only was she wheelchair bound she had some sort of allergy to water, so she had to be wheeled down into the pool in her wheelchair and was bound from head to toe in some sort of waterproof polyurethane plastic suit, I was eight at the time and I had never seen anything so ridiculous in all my short life nor have I seen anything since as stupid, my physically abusive bipolar lunatic elder of a father was crying like a baby as he sat next to me while I was trying as hard as possible not to break out into hysterical laughter, the dirty deed was done and the auditorium erupted, I wonder whatever happened to the smelly old bag? what a waste of everyone's times and energy, its an experience I'll take to my grave.
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  Welcoming Our Latest JW Apologist JTrottigy

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i'd like to take this opportunity to warmly welcome our newest jw apologist jtrottigy.

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  he'll likely only be here for a few days like most jw defenders before he runs away when presented with his own doctrine.. so far he's already said some hilarious stuff, like "there's no such thing as nepotism in jehovah's organisation", "confidentiality is paramount to elders" and, my personal favourite "the overlapping generation is so simple to understand".. yh don't think i don't remember you from jwtalk..

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  I welcome some interaction with our newest member, I hope he sticks around
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  Yearly Donations down? 2.4 billion for the 2015/16 financial year

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so people keep saying watchtowsr is in a financial mess.

  i think we can all accept that numbers are stagnating at best and going down year on year in the north / western countries and japan.. however the recent finance dept leeks confirmed that following the may 2015 broadcast requesting more donations, an extra 30 million was sent in for the months of july/august.

  stephen lett stated that this figure equated to a 30% increase.. lloyd evans has used this figure to work out how much is donated on a yearly basis worldwide.

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  its a huge amount, that cant be denied, the most important question is though where is this money going?what is it being spent on? who are the real beneficiaries of this vast fortune?
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  New JW Full Length Expose' Movie Coming to Cinema Entitled…"APOSTASY!"

  by MADMARY in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  new expose' jw film coming the 27th of july, 2018. .

  see link below:.

  apostasy:exclusive trailer for jehovah's witness drama being hailed as best british film in years.

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  it doesn't seem available to buy on Google Play in the UK
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  The urban legends we heard as JWs!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how often have we heard some sort of sensationalist urban legend as jws?.

  here is an example i was told as a kid:.

  the experience of a sister who knocked on a door and was greeted by a big fierce looking man- intimidating and mean.

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  what about the "brother " that went on a business trip to China and walked around with a WTS leaflet hanging out of his back pocket, an uneventful trip only to be greeted at the airport departure gate by 2 Chinese JW's who told him he was in grave danger throughout the entire trip but they watched him and made sure the authorities could not arrest him! LMAO!.
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  Do You Ever Wish That Hillary Was President?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hillary is very supportive of doing whatever it takes to undermine trump.

  would you be happy if she were your president?.

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  would have been even worse than DT