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  Sept.15th WT - WT Society uses Guilt & Fear to Avoid Friendship & Internet

  by flipper in

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  once again my wife and i were sent the " witness only " wt version by our lurking jw friend that they study at wt study meetings.

  and once again wt society is showing very controlling tendencies towards it's jw members.. do any of you remember the " old days " in the 1970's or early 1980's when witnesses used to have goody night after book study ?

  or you would have a " potluck picnic " with about 30 to 40 people getting to know one another to draw close as friends outside the confines of the kingdom hall ?

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  Or you would have a " potluck picnic " with about 30 to 40 people getting to know one another to draw close as friends outside the confines of the Kingdom Hall?

  So, they really want to ban those few activities where the UBM can meet members of the congregation in a non-threatening, friendly environment? Sharing some food, tossing a ball around with the kids, just talking: all these things build the human ties that let the outsider see witnesses as something besides an unwanted Saturday morning wake-up call. If it weren't for those afternoons in the park, Superbowl parties, etc. I probably would have as little regard for the individual witnesses as I do for the Watchtower organization as a whole. Knowing them as persons lets me relate to them as persons on their own merits, instead of seeing them only as cogs in the WT machine. Hmm, perhaps that's their point?

  The Christian congregation was founded, NOT TO FUNCTION AS A SOCIAL CLUB

  Another false dichotomy. It's possible to do both, while keeping the priorities in order. It's not an either/or choice.

  Meeting in private homes, breaking bread together: first century Christians were a poor example by WT standards!
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  REAL new light!!!

  by uncle al in

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  New Light: it's good for your soul, and good for the planet!

  
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  scary statement made by elders' wife

  by shadowolf in

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  2. beliefs

  so a few months ago i went with my family to meet for field service (ugh i hate it!!!).

  so while we were meeting for service, an elders' wife began to talk about the 'great' spiritual food the fds had gave us at the recent dc.

  she went on to say regarding info that the fds gives out "we have to follow it,even if we dont understand it, even if we dont agree with it.

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  From Stargate: ori, "They first appeared in the ninth season of Stargate SG-1"

  From the Bible: strange fire, "The reason that Nadab and Abihu were killed is because they offered "strange fire", rather than the "pure" fire from the brazen altar." (Lev. 10)
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  Do you like to invent things?

  by asilentone in

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  if you do, can you make a extended stick for me to give out my business card to a hot female in another car when i stop my car at red light?

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  Maybe one of these?
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  Sex before marriage. feeling guilty

  by frigginconfused in

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  2. friends

  heres the situation.... met a girl i am tottally infatuated with.

  i could just hang out with her and not have sex but she has not been in a relationship in a year and shes pretty horny.

  im a normal dude so i dont want to refuse her.. i cant decide if im rationalizing my feelings.

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  It will cloud my judgement and hers to see if we are good marriage mates. She will fall in love too fast from getting that involved and I will overlook things I might not if I wasnt clouded

  That's your brain talking to you. Don't let other parts of the anatomy drown it out. You've correctly identified a genuine risk, and can make the right choice on that basis. Your're not as confused as you thought you were!
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  SERIOUS QUESTION: just how many demons will fit inside a person?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are demons big or little?

  do they take up space?.

  do they infest our cells and peer out like they are trapped inside a jelly bean?.

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  Facetious to start, serious at the end...

  Let's do some arithmetic and make a good estimate.

  As an average-size adult male American, my body mass is about 80kg.

  I'm very close to neutrally bouyant, so my specific gravity is very close to 1.0 kg/liter.

  That makes my body volume 80 liters, which is 80,000 cc, which is 80,000,000 cubic millimeters,

  The head of a large sewing pin is about 1 cubic millimeter, so you can fit about 80,000,000 heads of pins in the volume of my body.

  If you'll tell me how many demons fit in the head of a pin, I can give you your answer (assuming a standing-room-only crowd with no room left for the dance floor).

  But considering they're spiritual beings with no fixed physical dimensions, that last step will always be missing a key factor. Thus, the problem defies a numerical solution. Let's just say, there will be as many as are allowed to live there (that's my serious answer).
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  How do you handle the wickedness going on today?

  by stillin9 in

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  2. experiences

  we know in the jw realm, satan is believed to be the main cause of all the wickedness going on in our world today.

  after taking a quick look at news headlines, and seeing the crap going on around us, i personally don't find that so hard to believe.

  but i wanted to see how you guys handle the tragedies and wickedness going on around us?

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  I'm not convinced that there is more wickedness today than in the past, certainly not on a per-capita basis. Expanding on what Beks and others have said, the same bright media light that makes us aware of more wickedness than ever before also is a tool helping mankind push back against that wickedness. Extensive exposure of evil acts makes the world seem a more dangerous place, but also makes it harder to keep evil acts hidden and escape the consequences. Ignorance might make you feel better, but it isn't genuine bliss.

  My two cents' worth -- GLT
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  What a crock

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just found this article when i was searching about apostasy:.

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  Lets see how well this shoe fits the other foot. Consider paragraph #3:

  A person goes bad because he lets his own selfish reasoning, his own ambitions and desires,

  for a utopian eternal life on a paradise earth

  his chosen associates and surroundings,

  the Kingdom hall

  mold his thinking and determine the direction of his will. Paul spoke of some who were ‘once enlightened, had tasted the heavenly free gift, but had fallen away.’ (Hebrews 6:4-6)

  by abandoning their previous religious beliefs for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc.

  If we are not continually on guard, the Devil can by his sly propaganda

  New World Translation, Awake!, Watchtower, "Knowledge" book, "Daniel" Book, "My Book of Bible Stories", etc.

  make our hearts receptive to apostate thinking. But how does the Devil, in effect, set a person up as a likely casualty, a victim of apostasy?

  There are many ways, but a knock on the door by a smiling face is often the first step.
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  Blood Fractions

  by alice.in.wonderland in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  someone is pressing me about blood fractions on an unrelated thread, so i just moved the topic to an appropriate location.. "the point for me in every thread you touch is your sickening dishonesty and nauseating apologies for the old men in brooklyn who tell you what to do.. they have told you that products made from blood don't use blood, and you are so corrupt and gullible you just accept it.".

  i accept any bible-based religion that adheres to the bible as its authority.. the purpose of this magazine, the watchtower, is to honor jehovah god, the supreme ruler of the universe.

  just as watchtowers in ancient times enabled a person to observe developments from afar, so this magazine shows us the significance of world events in the light of bible prophecies.

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  Well said ATJ, and it's good to see you here again!

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  Healing on the sabbath was against OT law. Jesus ignored the law, healing on the sabbath (and rebuking the "law-abiding" pharisees in attendance).

  Eating blood was against OT law. If Jesus was a doctor and the patient was dying from loss of blood, WWJD? Save the patient's life, of course!
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  Is it okay to be antisocial?

  by AwSnap in

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  2. friends

  ever since i was a kid, my father would tell me to quit being antisocial.

  to me, i was just playing with my favorite best friend in her room after the bookstudy.

  i had no desire to sit amongst the bookstudy group and listen to things that didnt interest me.

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  Being shy doesn't mean you're ani-social. Shyness is benign; anti-social behavior is malicious.