This type of article is great. Anyone who is not under mind control sees this for what it is: The delusional rantings of religious nutcases. It doesn't help anyone become a JW. This is something we can be thankful for, I think.
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HAVE YOU WONDERED? Pubic WT of Oct 1.2008 page 31
by bobld in"you may have heard that jehovah's witnesses do not accept blood transfusions.this scriptural stand is often misunderstood.their stand is based on the fundamental law that god gave to mankind.just after the flood of noah's day.god imposed this one restriction.they were not to consume blood.
(genesis 9:3,4)it was never recinded.
over eight centuries later,god reaffirmed that law to the nation of israel,explaining that the blood is sacred, representing the soul,or life itself.
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Is it too late?
by Hikaru injust wondering.
with watching the world news and all and seeing how close the gt is.
wondering, is it too late to go to meetings with grandma again?
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leavingwt
If your desire is to return to Jehovah, you'll want to sign off of this forum and never return. According to their theology, you're bringing demons into your home by reading these very words.
I'm sorry you're in a state of fear. I recall being in the same state in 1989, and so I got baptized. I believed then that if Armageddon came and I was not baptized, I my throat would be slit by Jesus Christ and the birds would eat my carcass. I was 15 years old. They dunked me.
Once I examined the history of not only Watchtower, but several other Apocalyptic Millennarian groups, I lost all fear of Armageddon. Keep in mind that for more than 100 years, there has been a publishing company in Brooklyn telling people that Armageddon is "just around the corner". People have been putting their lives on hold, not marrying, not having kids, not educating themselves, not saving for retirement, because they honestly believed that Armageddon was at best, a few years off. Now, think about the fact that tens of thousands of Witnesses have died from old age, waiting for Armageddon.
It boils down to this: Jesus said that nobody knows the day or the hour. Further, at Luke 21:8, he warned us that some would say that "the due time has approached". He commanded us NOT to follow such ones.
From the Shawshank Redemption: "Either get busy living, or get busy dying."
The choice is yours. Below is some reading material about Apocalyptic Millennialism. JWs are one of many groups with these teachings. They are not special, in this regard.
Apocalyptic millennialism, for all its dangers, offers immense rewards: believers find themselves at the center of the ultimate universal drama and their every act has cosmic significance. Apocalyptic believers become semiotically aroused (if not semiotically promiscuous), finding cosmic messages in the smallest incident, in every coincidence. Moreover, they can almost taste the fulfillment of their burning desire to see justice done — the good lavishly rewarded, the evil savagely punished. Finally the approach of the endtimes and the promise of a new world liberates believers from all earthly inhibitions: the fear of future punishment by those who now hold power vanishes, and a wide range of repressed feelings — sexual, emotional, violent — burst forth. Such a combination proves irresistible to many: millennial hope possesses believers.
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New Orleans is a lost cause...
by Gregor ini was thinking the same thing gregor.
i think it will soon be a ghost town.
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leavingwt
I've been there several times.
Smells of urine and vomit.
The music and the food are great, if you can get past the smell of urine and vomit.
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The Happening
by leavingwt ini recently watched m. night shyamalan's latest film, the happening.
i would describe it as "equally as bad as the lady in the water".
dreadful.. disclosure: i really enjoyed 'signs' and 'unbreakable'.
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leavingwt
I recently watched M. Night Shyamalan's latest film, The Happening. I would describe it as "equally as bad as The Lady in the Water". Dreadful.
Disclosure: I really enjoyed 'Signs' and 'Unbreakable'. The Village was well-acted, but the plot didn't do anything for me. Any M. Night Shyamalan fans here? Is his career over?
I think he should try directing other people's scripts. He's hit a serious dry spell in the writing department.
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"Insights Into the Watchtower Society" booklet (1987) PDF
by cabasilas insome of us oldtimers remember when the movie "witnesses of jehovah" first came out in the mid 1980s.
for those who haven't seen it, some clips are available online at:.
http://www.goodnewsdefenders.org/video.htm.
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leavingwt
Thank you!
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Apocalypse Delayed By M. James Penton
by Number1Anarchist inclick on preview book.
you can review the entire book it looks like.
has alot of good information.
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leavingwt
I've read Apocalypse Delayed. It is excellent. If you read it, you'll know more about the organization than 99.9% of active publishers.
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new tract campaign next year for the memorial
by bereanbiblestudent injust heard that there will be another tract campaign next year to invite people for the memorial.
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leavingwt
Speaking of the Memorial, does anyone know how many partaker there were, this year?
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I Find that Being an Apostate Can Be Quite Funny, Do You?
by jamiebowers ini've been out for 20 years but only discovered jwd in the last few years (lurked for quite a while).
anyway, i find it quite humorous that we apostates are privy to actions, decisions, literature, news etc of the wb&ts before our jw friends and relatives.
when i told my "worldly" aunt with much glee that i downloaded the "shepherding the flock" book, she didn't get it.
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leavingwt
Couldn't be happier! Yes, it is quite funny, sometimes.
Check out this quote from a recent CNN article. A fellow 'apostate' sent it to me today.
"Most of the survivors decided to ignore security protocol. They headed
downstairs through a smoke-filled stairwell and didn't wait to be
rescued.
"They were not rule followers, they thought for themselves and had an
independent frame of mind ," Gonzales says."
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If you don't believe in conspiracies................
by Warlock inthen i guess you believe that president bush was a legitimately elected president.. oil companies don't manipulate the price of oil.. all of the female gymnasts on the chinese team were at least 16 years old.. warlock .
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leavingwt
I believe Bush won Florida in 2000. Several non-Republican studies have reached the same conclusion.
Al Gore certainly won the popular vote, but thankfully we have the Electoral College system. Without the Electoral College system, candidates would only need to campaign in about ten states.
If the Supreme Court had not stopped the recount, Bush would have still won:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
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leavingwt
I've never smoked anything in my life. I might try a cigar or a pipe one day.