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  Daily text - Matt 26:41

  by YoYoMama in

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  matt 26:41 keep on the watch and pray continually, that you may not enter into temptation.. commentary: .

  what would help us to keep on the watch?

  while in the garden of gethsemane shortly before his arrest, jesus told three of his apostles the above.

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  hillary_step

  YoYoW,

  near = near.

  Unfortunately, your shallow comment becomes you.

  What Dave is alluding to is the Preterist interpretation of the 'end-times' notation in scripture. That is that Jesus, Peter, James and John were actually discussing the fall of Jerusalem when they speak in terms of 'the last hour', and the 'time left is short'.

  Now, check your QFR on this issue and you will find that the WTS, eventually acknowledges that yes, indeed Peter, Paul etc, were expecting Armaggedon in their day, but what they thought would be Armaggedon, was in fact the fall of Jerusalem.

  What the WTS has not been able to rationalise is what evidence exists that these 'end-time' scriptures should be dragged forward from the C1st into our day.

  Prove to us all that these 'end-time' prophecies were to apply in our day! For example YYW, give evidence that 1 Thess 5:3, applies beyond the period when Jerusalem proclaimed it had defeated Rome and when Rome returned to instantly destroy it in 70CE.

  The WTS has, as you will note in your text for the morning, made a final attempt at side-stepping the issue, by suggesting that 'evidence' is the proof. Notice how they are beggining to shy away from 'chronological evidence' as being proof, evidence which they well aware is flawed.

  HS
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  Raymond Franz and UN

  by kpax in

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  can anyone ask raymond franz what he knows about the un involvement?.

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  hillary_step

  You must be the stupiest Phd that walks....just as STUPID....Your stupidity is endless....

  It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make pouring it out. - Pope
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  To: Ex-JW Women - Your Side

  by Amazing in

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  ex-jw women: i, and i assume other ex-jw men, would enjoy hearing your views, opinions, feelings, analysis, and conclusions about your jw experience.

  how did you feel about your husband, fathers, brothers, elders, ms's, and other women in the organizations?

  did you generally feel oppression, and why?

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  hillary_step

  Larc,

  Have any of you read, Visions of Glory, by Barbara Grizuti Harrison. It is out of print but you could get it through inter-library loan. It is the only book I know of that tells the JW leaving in detail, from a woman's point of view. Barbara is a gifted writer, who went on to write several novels after writing this book. .

  I concur with your opinion. Ms. Harrison writing style is wonderful. I read 'Visions Of Glory when it was first released and it had a profound effect on me, due as you note, to its unusual persepective.

  I well remember the comment made to her by Knorr when she resigned from Bethel. If you remember he accused her of being 'too smart'. It was meant as an insult.

  If this link works a person will be able to track down used copies here :

  ; http://www.addall.com/Used/

  Best regards Larc -- HS

  PS : I have made a smaller link. Just type 'harrison' for author, 'glory' for titles and hit enter.

  Thank you Disciple Six for pointing this out to me. Even the Master needs to be Mastered sometimes!
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  Daily text - 1 Thess 5:19

  by YoYoMama in

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  1 thess.

  5:19 "do not put out the fire of the spirit.".

  commentary:.

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  hillary_step

  Lets Be honest YYW,

  What does the average person in the street think of when he thinks of JW's?

  The Bible?

  Not likely! More likely is blood transfusions, Christmas, Watchtower, though not necessarily in that order.

  The reason for this is that the WTS have been mere distributors of literature, and proponents of a particularly unusual theology that relies on condemnation of others for its own self-esteem. Rather like yourself.

  Ask yourself honestly. How much of this literature distributed door-to-door over the past Century is actually read? Perhaps 5%? Can you imagine YYW, 95% gets thrown into bins, or piled on shelves for future bins. Given that the WTS admitted that only 30% of JW's read the Watchtower, 'mere literature', is an overstatement.

  A wicked waste of trees.

  HS
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  Are we in Jesus's Reign?

  by ballistic in

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  sorry, to ask a basic question.

  (and i have been accused of requiring spiritual milk in an email),.

  but i just want to get this straight:.

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  hillary_step

  YK,

  I truly admire your desire to show loyalty to God and arguably to his Organization.

  The problem is that the only means that you have at your disposal to display this loyalty in an way that is remotely understandable to those looking in, has been to start you own parallel religion, complete with its own prophetic interpretations and justifications.

  Now, I cannot say that I blame you as I know many, many average JW’s who when trying to rationalize the excesses of the WTS have reached similar conclusions to yourself. In fact I questioned one JW I recently, whom I have great respect for, and who has concluded that the "Organization’ is living in a time of judgment, and she made an interesting comment. She stated rather desperately, ‘What else can I believe!’. The alternatives were just too emotionally devastating for her to think about.

  YK, given that you are likely one of a very small group on this planet that feels that the scriptural applications that you place on recent events within the WTS are to be fulfilled in the way you frequently proclaim, you must also surely entertain the possibility that you are incorrect.

  Many on this Board would not accept, perhaps not even understand your prophetic inclinations. What would you have them do, presented as they have been by the same evidence of WTS corruption and deceitfulness that you seek to explain away by scriptural means?

  You rather cunningly made an allusion in your earlier note to the end that the early Christians had false expectations and made many mistakes, and of course you are again correct in this statement. Where you begin to fail in your argument is that you state that Christ had to attend to, and realign their thinking, but what you fail to mention is how he did this.

  Yes, he used human agencies to sort out the failings of his people, as he did many times in the past. For example, was Jeremiah an ‘unclean dog’ for publicly declaring the failings of Gods people, or a man filled with honor and courage? When Paul rose from Antioch and went to Jerusalem, under his usual head of steam to confront the Jewish Christians with the concept of undeserved kindness, was he being an ‘apostate Bozo’, or a man filled with Spirit? He most certainly would be disfellowshipped as an apostate were he to try this in an average KH today.

  Remember YK, where you see ‘unclean dogs’ and ‘apostate Bozo’s’, God may see his stumbled little sheep.

  Best regards -- HS
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  Request To Write Governing Body

  by silentlambs in

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  i am enclosing a copy of a recent letter that i sent to the governing body.

  the purpose of this letter is to establish clearly that our requests are simple and the purpose is to protect jw children.

  if you agree with the points stated i encourage you to print out a copy of this letter and write at the bottom:.

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  hillary_step

  Hi YK,

  That's my point. Bill Bowen addressed the Governing Body as his "dear brothers" and then calls upon apostate mongrels to join him in his letter wrting campaign. In short: You are hypocrites.

  In view of the fact that you are clearly condemned as an 'apostate' by WTS definitions, should not the term used in your note be, 'We are hypocrites'?

  Just a minor point Robert, but I know how pedantic you are with details.

  Best regards - HS
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  AMAZING - Exposing Elders (re: Expose Ave...

  by AMNESIAN in

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  replying to:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=17880&site=3.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=17923&site=3.

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  hillary_step

  Francois,

  I would like to make an announcement. In all my years as a JW, I never, ever, not once, brought someone, anyone into the Troof! Most of my field reports were pure fabrication. I was mainly in it, frankly, because the girls were easy. Easy? Hell, they were EAGER! Poor repressed little darlings that they were.

  lol - So as a JW you were a dirty, deceitful, selfish liar.

  I hope that you have changed! - HS
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  First time researching the WT organisation

  by oscartheduck in

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  i've not researched the organisation before in any true level of detail.. i left it about eight months back, after coming to my own conclusions regarding the accuracy of lots of things it has released.

  i simply believed that it was no longer printing anything worthwhile, really.

  it had contradicted itself too many times.. i was brought up in the religion, and was baptised at 14, and afterwards stayed in it for three years.

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  hillary_step

  Tabby,

  Faith On The March by Alex McMillian.

  I would not encourage him to read that book as it does not exist.

  Perhaps you meant, 'Faith On The March', by A.H.McThousand.

  HS
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  Sydney's burning!

  by ozziepost in

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  christmas day has brought devastation all around sydney.

  ash is falling from the sky and blowing around the homes of western sydney residents.

  the sky is black with smoke and house lights are switched on during the middle of the day.

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  hillary_step

  Ozzie,

  If I remember correctly this happened last year as well?

  Why has this started happening all of a sudden, has the rainfull been sparse?

  Best regards -- HS
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  AMAZING - Exposing Elders (re: Expose Ave...

  by AMNESIAN in

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  replying to:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=17880&site=3.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=17923&site=3.

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  hillary_step

  Amnesian,

  This is the longest post that I have ever read on this Board, but it was very well worth the contemplation. Thank you.

  I know that this post was directed to Amazing, so please forgive my intrusion.

  I agree with many things that you have stated, and also disagree with many other statements, especially those that seem to find it too easy to paint a thousand motives and a thousand hearts in one color.

  However, you argue with a passion that has left me speechless, and in a manner that will I am sure result in this post being viewed as one of the most important and helpful that has ever been posted to this Board.

  Thank you again. - HS