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  Taking back re-defined words

  by onefootout in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was trying to think of all the words that wts re-defines to mold the thinking of anyone who will listen.. truth, or the truth.. i am going to try to use the word 'truth' in conversation in it's proper context, describing things that are actual truisms to try to get people to view the word not as describing the religion they belong to, but to things that are actually true.

  emphasize that actual truisms never change.. generation.. this one takes some sublty because it has been latched onto by us doubters and could raise the forcefields.

  example: so many of the people our parents or grandparents age of the 'greatest generation' that experienced ww2 have died.

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  Numbers exiting

  by onefootout in

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  2. beliefs

  does anyone have a running tally of the average numbers leaving/inactive each year?

  if i calculate right, 2009 saw 59,269 leave and then 2010 saw 115,857 leave.

  if i am looking at this right, that is a huge jump.

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  For the WTS does the 'Ends justify the Means'?

  by onefootout in

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  i really think they feel it does.

  they are soooo focused on 'spreading the good news' that anything they feel furthers that, whether it is true and accurate or not is totally justified.

  how do you argue with that?

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  Response to "Do you think the F&DS are directed by Holy Spirit"

  by onefootout in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  thinking about the article a year ago, 6/15/09 watchtower page 23 para 15.. if you are put on the spot, or even in casual conversation if asked if the f&ds, anointed, gov.

  body ect.

  make mistakes, have holy spirit, are spirit directed ect.

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  Difference between Spirit Inspired and Spirit Directed?

  by onefootout in

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  2. beliefs

  the title says it all.. what arguments have you heard in people trying to defend the org in saying they are 'spirit directed but the writers and gb are not spirit inspired'?.

  i have never seen much of a difference.

  this seems to be the crux of the matter.

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  First post after lurking on the sidelines

  by onefootout in

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  2. friends

  i've been lurking on the sidelines for a while and have decided to jump in and introduce myself.

  the name kinda gives it away.

  i'm a lifer who got a shocker about a year ago by stumbling across the 607 baloney.

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