Well, we are taught that Satan is trying to turn us away from Jesus and Jehovah and that Satan is going to die - everlasting destruction, and we along with him if we follow his path ie. 'the world'. It is sheer fear. Other religions have hell, and the inbetween (purgatory?), while witnesses have final destruction. We are taught how evil Satan is and how he wants nothing more than for us to fail Jehovah and turn to him.
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Why do JWs fear Satan and demons so much?
by Deputy Dog infor a group that claims not to believe in hell, why do jws fear satan and demons so much?
a quick search on my 2003 wt cd reveals over 14,000 references just to satan's name..what is the worst thing satan could do to a jw?
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Impressions from my first KH meeting
by bohm in<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->.
hey!.
i went to my first meeting last week and, well, i guess i want to write some thoughts about how a meeting is for an 'outsider' :-) .
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wantstoleave
Wow thanks for sharing! It's nice to hear a point of view from someone going for the first time. I think as witnesses, we are so used to how things are done, that we never stop to reflect on it. I thought it was interesting how you mentioned no-one asked the conductor any questions. I had never thought of that before. You'll be interested to know that if you had gone to your first meeting say a year or so ago, they were much longer in duration.
Will you go again?
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Bro. Dale Irwin passed away
by PopeOfEruke inbro.
dale irwin, former city overseer of brisbane (australia) passed away yesterday morning.. a memorial service is being held this coming friday at the brisbane assembly hall.. dale was a much-loved witness here in brisbane and a wonderful public speaker.
he was briefly famous in the early 80's when he and his wife became parents of quadruplets.. sincere condolences to the irwin family...... .
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wantstoleave
Sad news indeed :(
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PROVERBS (of former JW's)
by AllTimeJeff inone of the books from the bible i still value is proverbs.
it's a collection of wise observations of life.
it causes me to think, which is a good thing.. however, i also know that among us former jw's are life lessons that can be reduced to that of a proverb.
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wantstoleave
My favourites:
'You'll never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have'.
'Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere'.
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Is there anyone on the GB who has more than a high school certificate?
by Lady Lee insome time this week i will be interviewed by a couple of university students doing a project on jehovahs' witnesses.
the one i spoke to knows very little about them.. it will be an interview on my personal experience as a jw but from her initial phone call we saw that my answers easily led to more questions.
she doesn't realize she is talking about a cult but began to get the idea that the wts has a lot of control over the lives of jws.. so the education thing came up and i explained how education beyond high school was not encouraged and even though they give lip service to it post-secondary education is still not highly recommended.. which got me to thinking.
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Wouldn't the 15hrs stand for 'credit hours'...? As in, he did 15hrs of Latin? I'm not familiar with 'credit hours' either Theoldhippie...but I assume that's what it means.
Where I'm from, if you take a topic that's say, 6 units....it means that the subject entails you doing a combined amount of 6,000 words in essay form throughout the duration of your topic. It has nothing to do with hours, yet you still receive 'credit' for it in the form of 6 units off of your degree. Lol....
I think in America the credit/topic system is different.
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Time to come out
by whatistruth instill in, married.
but i'm coming out really soon.
you get one chance on this earth and i ain't about to waste it.
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wantstoleave
All the best
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Should JW's read the Bible ?
by wobble inas the gb/wt are always warning the dubs not to read apostate literature, and as the bible canon was decided by the church as late as the 4th century, by which time according to the wt they were absolutely apostate, should not jw's avoid the bible as we know it ?.
i know that they, the wtb$, have produced their own strange version, and that they ignore much of what is actually in even that,but how can they trust it when it comes from an "apostate " source according to them ?.
if they reply that they trust that " god had it preserved it as it should be " (apart from them having to put the name jehovah in many times without warrant, he couldn't manage to preserve that, what they claim is his name, as it "should be ") they are then saying that the 3rd/4th century church that had produced the trinity doctrine in a very full form by then was ,at that time, inspired by god.. if they disagree with that last statement ,where does it leave them in relation to the bible ?.
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wantstoleave
Oh dear, no idea I honestly don't know much about the history of the bible, other than the NWT always been proclaimed to be the right one. Don't witnesses argue that the name Jehovah was actually taken out of bibles, so they just put it back in?
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Is there anyone on the GB who has more than a high school certificate?
by Lady Lee insome time this week i will be interviewed by a couple of university students doing a project on jehovahs' witnesses.
the one i spoke to knows very little about them.. it will be an interview on my personal experience as a jw but from her initial phone call we saw that my answers easily led to more questions.
she doesn't realize she is talking about a cult but began to get the idea that the wts has a lot of control over the lives of jws.. so the education thing came up and i explained how education beyond high school was not encouraged and even though they give lip service to it post-secondary education is still not highly recommended.. which got me to thinking.
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wantstoleave
I dont know about 'back then', but nowadays some of those in Bethel have degrees (medicine, lawyers etc) because the society uses them in legal cases and for the blood issue etc. Kind of hypocritical if you ask me...tell people not to go to University, then use their expertise when it suits you..
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...Good Food at Assemblys.....What Happened?..
by OUTLAW inin a time before many of you were born... assemblys had a great food... i left before the food started getting bad... .
i am totally amazed at reading... how food at assemblys got worse and worse... until finally food was`nt served at all... .
back in the day... food at assemblys was pretty dam good... there was quality cooking back then... jehovah`s witness`s actually looked forward to meals at assemblys... .
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wantstoleave
Darthfader...yes, scripts...thanks for remembering that. I couldn't remember the word. It was always announced at our assemblies to put unused scripts in the contribution box, as they counted as money.
Dissed - so true about assemblies being a meeting place for couples. I remember dreading assemblies because I thought it would be another year I would have to go single if I didn't meet anyone...lol.
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Please explain 'inactive'....
by wantstoleave inis being inactive just not being active in the field service?
or does it mean not attending meetings also?
for some reason i thought it only meant not going witnessing.. for instance, years ago i went to every meeting, but not on field service.
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wantstoleave
Thanks for the explanation :)