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  After Jesus fasted for 40 days, he was tempted by a man (not a fallen angel).

  by quincemyles in

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  2. beliefs

  after jesus fasted for 40 days, he was tempted by a man (not an evil angel) to turn stones into bread, jump from the temple and bow.

  the tester was a pharisee of the ruling class.

  jehovah's witnesses believe the tester to have been an evil spirit or leader of fallen angels named satan the devil.

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  Herodian Kings could offer the kingdoms of the world? (You say that means kingdoms of Israel) Those Herodian kings which were subject to the Roman empire?
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  Rank & file are seeing the money-grubbing

  by Zoos in

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  2. experiences

  spoke with a fellow apostate from my own area.

  she and i bailed out about the same time and kept in touch.. she used to do secular work with one of the local elders in his cleaning business until she got dfed.

  this same elder was one of the more profound dickheads on my reinstatement committee, before i turned around two years later and daed.. business required her to contact the elder on behalf of an old client.

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  @Simon

  "Grubbing" actually means to dig about or poke about (in soil or similar). An animal might grub about in the dirt looking for insects, worms or other grubs.

  So money-grubbing is like someone digging or poking about in soil but digging about for money. So always on the lookout for money; poking about in the dirt for it.

  Money grubbing and money grabbing have become synonymous really with the US leaning towards the former and British English towards the latter but they are interchangeable.
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  It's official - the G.B. has replaced the Holy Spirit!

  by The Searcher in

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  the watchtower november 2016, page 16, par.

  "some may feel that they can interpret the bible on their own.

  however, jesus has appointed the ‘faithful slave’ to be the only* channel for dispensing spiritual food.

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  Maybe leprosy will be flashing up in the foreheads of the GB for presumptuousness like King Uzziah?

  Sadly not.
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  Another brother steps back

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. friends

  so at the meeting this week it was announced that a certain brother was no longer serving as a ministerial servant.. this is a guy who was brought up in a different country as his family went to serve where the need was greater.

  this is a guy who was home schooled and went straight into pioneering.

  he then went and worked on building projects in various places in europe and africa.

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  Excellent post K99.

  Did he sit through the announcement?
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  I'm gonna sue those f€$¥kers

  by moley in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  well the ball has started rolling, gonna sue, can't go into to much detail.

  time for some payback .

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  Best of luck. Be careful what you post here, their lackeys may be watching especially if the slightest slip on your part will save them $$$.
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  Signs of Toxic Personalities

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  came across this and found it rather interesting:.

  http://facthacker.com/18-signs-of-toxic-people/.

  it's always good to be able to identify when we may be exhibiting some of these behaviors or, hopefully more likely, to spot the behaviors in others and help avoid the impact they can have.

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  @RubaDub

  American English dictionaries don't have the words "gullible" or "humour" (as in sense of humour) in them.
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  The Last Supper

  by Teddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been studying with the jw since june of 2016 and they say only the ones who make up the 144.

  000 and can partake of the bread and cup.

  is this true?.

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  Hello Teddy - welcome.

  Virtually the whole of Revelation is - according to the JW's - "symbolic". And yet the 144,000 of Revelation CH 7 and Ch 14 is supposedly "literal" even though it is made up of 12 x 12,000 from symbolic tribes of Israel.

  Without wishing to be disrespectful the opinion of this poster (who was baptised as a JW 40 years ago and who was dumb enough to be an elder for over 20 of those years until I realised it was a croc) is that it is "all bollocks."

  I would further encourage you to "run Forrest run" as far away as you can from this self serving little cult.
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  JW over-rode our Choice of Funeral music

  by snugglebunny in

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  2. friends

  a few years on and the funeral of my jw momma still galls me.

  she left instructions for which kingdom songs to be sung and we gladly abided by her wishes.

  the funeral was held in a public crematorium, not a kingdom hall.

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  I know they brought in a rule some years back that Kingdom Mal-adies only are allowed at the KH but in the UK at the crematorium there is no reason at all why other dignified music couldn't be played.

  Having said that, most dubbies have K/M's but on occasion I have heard other stuff.
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  Finally found a friend I can talk to

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  he is an old friend that used to attend my congo.

  he moved away closer to his parents at some point and we lost touch.

  for a couple of years i did not hear anything from him.

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  So why did he shave his beard? There must be some desire on his part to be compliant to jw social mores?
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  The Humbling of Anthony

  by Duncan in

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  2. friends

  i didn’t really care for anthony very much.

  at the time of this story he was 13 or 14 years old, a clever and precocious kid down the hall.

  he was extremely zealous about the truth and took it, and himself, very seriously.

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  freddo

  Resurrected for all to enjoy Duncan's sublime story-telling.