I don't get the skirting around the issue that God does condemn the rich when they write these articles they always make it sound like the rich can get away with their riches as long as they comply to the WTBTS in their form of worship . Jesus was very clear that the rich had no chance of inheriting the kingdom with the passage of, "easier to pass a camel through the eye of sewing needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of the heavens". He tells his little flock to sell all they own and give gifts of mercy to the poor . How else can he put the situation that the WTBTS can understand, being rich in itself is cause for being black listed in the kingdom of the heavens . They like to pervert the teachings to cater to the rich who want the best of both worlds ,it can't be done. The message is for the poor in order to give them the hope of salvation and eternal happiness despite the unfair play in this world .IMO
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Reject Worldly Fantasies, Pursue Kingdumb Realities?
by WTWizard inaccording to the feb 2009 kingdumb misery, this is the title of the new hounder-hounder talks for public talks starting march 1. now, i can only imagine worldly fantasies include having a family, a reasonable measure of health and security, and being able to live a decent life.
kingdumb reality means throwing your life away out in field circus, attending boasting sessions, dutifully studying washtowel publications every tuesday all evening, and dying stagnant and having produced zero value in your own life.
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RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008
by faundy inhave posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:
i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.
he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.
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my sympathies . I lost my dad this past year to cancer as well and he fought harder to live than anybody I"ve ever known , you have to just think that at least the suffering is over .
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End of the Year, End of the Board Thread
by Farkel inwhat say ye?
this is, after all, an end of an era of the most important jw discussion board since any boards existed.
major stuff has been revealed here.
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heathen
I think more aptly put is that this board is "HISTORY". JWN has yet to show how user friendly it is .
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I think they did figure it out in the heiroglyphs that showed the stones on a sled and some guy pouring out oil or water to lubricate a giant sled . All you need is discovery channel .LOL
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What do you think of the Wise Men NOW!
by wobble ini have just been watching the carols and readings from kings college cambridge,england, bloody marvellous!.
a couple of times they have referred to the visit of the wise men, i wonder what you guys make of this,it always seemed to me a strange thing to be in scripture,the visit of some devout presumably zoroastrian seers.
the wt take on this is that "satan used them to try to bring about the death of jesus".
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yah I've seen these spirits do all sorts of weird stuff , wouldn't doubt it was one.
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End of the Year, End of the Board Thread
by Farkel inwhat say ye?
this is, after all, an end of an era of the most important jw discussion board since any boards existed.
major stuff has been revealed here.
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This place sucks!!! (kidding there of course) I can say I've seen some very interesting posts ,don't know how much of this stuff to believe but if half of it is true the watchtower is very deceitful about things .I think I will hang out on the jwn site for a bit even tho I don't think any of this is really making a difference since the religion itself is growing exponentially , The real estate fraud corporation is building more congs and forcing people to pay mortgages when they still claim not for profit status , they don't trust the members enough to make contributions so they have them free and clear . It made me sick whenever the WTBTS announces it's big change of dropping the interest on the loans ........... That was just in the last couple of months. Everybody got all excited over that one ..
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Name JW Things That You'd Like To Give a 1 Fingered Salute To
by minimus innow that we're mentally and spiritually out of the jehovah's witness darkness, what things would you like to say about the religion that you wished you had said long ago?.
a few of my complaints: .
the blood doctrine.
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I gotta say the making up of dogma at any given time and then trying to convince others , had this happen to me allot lately , I'm always asking if the "society" says it or it's just an opinion and believe me some of the stuff is ridiculous ,I'm with you on the blood dogma ,Their reasoning doesn't hold water and it is senseless to let people die over it .I think dfing is alright in some cases such as promoting a sect or murder , makes sense to me ,if you are not walking the walk and just talking the talk you are a hypocrite and deserve to be cast out where the weeping and gnashing teeth , yadda yadda
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The "Friends"
by cameo-d inwhy is it that jws refer to people from the org as "the friends"?.
sometimes its even used to refer to people in their jw social group.. since "friends" is a quaker term used likewise, how did the jws come to start using that phrase to denote jw members?.
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They do love the scripture of friendship with the world is enmity with God so we have to assume it's just a figure of speech amongst themselves , they have had some articles lately that point out that tho jesus condemned everybody and everything (besides the apostles and believers) he was not anti social, sounds like another of those paradoxes
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What do you think of the Wise Men NOW!
by wobble ini have just been watching the carols and readings from kings college cambridge,england, bloody marvellous!.
a couple of times they have referred to the visit of the wise men, i wonder what you guys make of this,it always seemed to me a strange thing to be in scripture,the visit of some devout presumably zoroastrian seers.
the wt take on this is that "satan used them to try to bring about the death of jesus".
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I'm going with it was some sort of apparition created by satan .It wasn't a stationary star ,it moved in front of them ,going to herod first in an effort to kill the youngster jesus ,it did all happen to fullfill the old testament prophesy that there would be a great wailing in Israel and that Jesus would have to be called out of egypt where they went to hide . One would have to ask if herod was stupid for trusting the astrologers to return but I couldn't see God being responsible for the death of all the babies .
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Being new we invited 30 brothers over for dinner. We got an invite once?!
by Witness 007 inwhats the deal.
i moved to a new congregation and wanted to slowly each weekend invite all the brothers over to get to know them.
the drill was we had a barbie with red wine and music.
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Yah for people that believe you should only associate with them , they sure know how to make themselves scarce . comeon over here and I'll give you a can of beans and toast ..LOL