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  HUGE, Faithful and discreet slave SEPARATED from other annointed now!!

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i almost missed this in my last post, but i just realized how important and must list it.

  paragraph 14 from jan 15, 2010 wt last article entitled "jehovah's way of ruling vindicated".

  "a few anointed members of "the israel of god" still remain, and as jesus' brothers, they continue to act as "ambassadors substituting for christ (2 cor 5:20) they have been appointed as a faithful and discreet slave class to care for and provide spiritual food for annointed ones and a growing crowd of christians, who now include millions having the hope of living on earth forever.

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  The light is getter brighter and brighter and gooder and gooder.

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  No Bible in the picture.

  by pat1060 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in todays watchtower study the picture on page 10.a family is having a study.where is the bible.any one else see this.sorry i don't have a scanner.

  " enrich your prayers through bible study"jan 4-10.

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  The Bible was written to support the Watchtower.

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  "Old School" Elders

  by xelder in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the last few years that i served as an elder, and as i was discovering what the wts really was, the term "old school" would be used and it began to bother me more and more.

  it was usually used to praise a person with a mean, unwaivering, dogmatism to an obselete policy.

  a couple of times i would ask the person what he meant by the term.

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  So true. We had an "old school elder" in my old hall

  many moons ago and he used to pull me aside and

  as one elder to another critique my prayers that I gave

  at the Hall.

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  The Gradual Change From Worshiping Jehovah To The Worship Of the Governing Body

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i first began my misadventures with jehovah's witnesses in 1972 as a youth(18 years old) and was baptised in that same year.

  i was young inexperienced and they caught me at a low point when i was weak and looking for god to solve problems.

  being raised as a catholic and going to all the religious indoctrination up to the point of confirmation, i guess you could say i was indoctrinated from birth to believe a certain way which left me vulnerable to the jw propaganda.. fast foreword to the time of my departure in 2001 february.. for a couple of years (late 90s) before i left i started noticing out right lies in the wt publications about their history and the luster that these magazines used to have started to fade rapidly also around that time i really began to notice the gobs and gobs of praise they were bestowing on the organization and the representative members of the so called faithful & discrete slave(gb).

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  Frankie,

  Nice post. The Faithful Slave is put on the same level as Jehovah.

  Last week after the Watchtower Study the conductor said how

  nice it is to sit and eat at Jehovah's table. The Watchtower is

  the holy Koran of the JW's and the Faithful Slave is quoted more

  than God's Word.

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  why i wept bitterly in front of two elders......

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if i ever shared this...but have seen several "sharing" threads here lately and it motivated me..... when i met with the co and po about some doubts and an important question....and when i got the co's answer.....i could not speak....i put my head down and just started crying...not sobbing cause i fought it back...finally the only words to come out were..."i am going to have to leave my wife and son"....and they were like wtf?...but in jw lingo of course.

  see i knew in that instant...that very moment....that i had been lied to my entire life...and my stack of doubts i had been piling on the shelf and waiting on jehovah were all valid....and i knew i would never fit in again...not even with my wife and son...that i would never be the spiritual head they needed and wanted.....that was almost 4 years ago...man time flies...and yep...now i am separated from my jw wife...and yep...i did not fit in...not even with her...and my son is older now and moved out but we are not close.

  btw...i had printed out all 12 places in rev.

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  Thanks for sharing OOMPA.

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  3/09 Study WT- new light on 'annointed'??

  by isaacaustin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mom got a call from a friend who told her the 3/09 study wt has new light on the annointed.

  anyone in the know?

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  Why doesn't the WTBS just report numbers that are

  going down? Who could prove them wrong?

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  2009 Memorial Partakers is Highest Since 1967

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  to the best of my knowledge if.

  10857 is the latest number for memorial partakers then you have to go back to 1967 to get a higher number, 10981.. i wonder why they they don't print this in the january magazine anymore.. will they omit it even from the printed yearbook and only leave it as an mp3 online download?.

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  I think that many Witnesses do not want to live in a Paradise

  earth run by elders and if they have a chance to go to heaven

  that they will take it.

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  Do JW's Put More Faith in the Watchtower or in the Bible?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it just drives me crazy when the brothers giving the public.

  talk on sunday morning will say "the june 1, 1984 watchtower.

  on page 10 paragraph 6 says........" the witnesses, in my.

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  It just drives me crazy when the brothers giving the public

  talk on Sunday morning will say "the June 1, 1984 Watchtower

  on page 10 paragraph 6 says........" The Witnesses, in my

  estimation put more faith in the Watchtower than in God's

  Word. I have heard various ones talking about a subject when

  a question comes up. What I hear is "well what does the

  Watchtower say?" I don't hear "well what does the Bible say?"

  The Watchtower has ruined my sex life. The Bible says nothing

  forbidding oral sex, but the Watchtower does. My wife will quote

  the Watchtower articles to me how wrong it is. The Bible says

  nothing about blood transfusions, but the Watchtower does,

  with the results of thousands of Witnesses dieing needlessly.

  All of this just makes my brain bleed.

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  World Conditions Continue to Improve

  by zarco in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  startfragment.

  as we enter into a new decade, it might make sense to look back to view the progress than mankind has made in these last days.. about 200 years ago everyone on the planet lived on the modern day equivalent of about $400 a year.

  the exceptions were tiny nobilities.

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  Thanks Zarco--good post. I agree so much. My mother

  often tells me that we must be so close to the end because

  of the bad conditions we live in. I tell her I think that conditions

  were worse during WWI and WWII.

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  The look in my mothers eyes

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i asked my mother today, who is in her late.

  80's, if she ever thought that she would ever.

  get this old and see 2010 on this side of the.

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  The Witchtower Babel and Trick Society have

  blood on their hands and are responsible for the

  dumbing down of millions of people who check

  in their brains outside the KH before they go

  thru the doors and then they forget to pick them

  up when they go home.

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