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  Does the Watchtower really parallel 1st Century Christianity?

  by Emery in

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  i wanted to get a list of arguments that illustrate how the watchtower society is or isn't following 1st century christianity today.

  thanks again everyone!.

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  GLTirebiter

  I wanted to get a list of arguments that illustrate how the Watchtower Society is or isn't following 1st century christianity today.

  WTBTS publications exemplify what Pinytus criticized during the second century (according to Eusebius, Book IV, chapter 23--emphasis is mine):

  "Pinytus, replying to this epistle, admires and commends Dionysius, but exhorts him in turn to impart some time more solid food, and to feed the people under him, when he wrote again, with more advanced teaching, that they might not be fed continually on these milky doctrines and imperceptibly grow old under a training calculated for children."
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  Light a Candle for Oompa

  by BabaYaga in

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  2. friends

  there is a lovely site where one may light a candle for a moment of silence.. http://www.gratefulness.org/candles.

  i set up a group, where they may all flicker together, if you like.. http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=oompa.

  (we love and miss you, oompa.).

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  GLTirebiter

  Lit.
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  "Safeguard Your Mind" assembly targeting apostate thinking

  by promised_presence in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently attended the second day of the 2 day assembly for safeguarding your mind.

  the first talk was entitled "feed your mind at jehovah's table".

  the first portion of this talk specifically targeted apostates warning members to not listen to them "even if they were once strong in the truth or had great responsiblity in the congregation".

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  "... often bring out points that may be true, but are taken way out of context"

  Rather like the way WTBTS uses the Bible in their publications!
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  SAD news about OOMPA......

  by redredrose in

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  our friend, oompa, has passed away.

  just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

  it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

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  May you find peace. Oompa, you are missed!
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  Publisher's I D Card?....

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anybody know if all "publishers" still carry one of these?.

  sister blues came home from the ministry and was a little nonplussed because the c/o had said that publishers were not agents of the congregation.

  they were just concerned neighbours visiting ........this was in the context of 'how to deal with 'no callers' signs' ...... no, i don't get it either, she has not been issued one of these since she moved to a new congregation and i said that this card would put a lie to that statement.

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  Did anybody else notice the space where the "presiding minister" is to sign the card? This is on an ID card issued by an organization that does not have an ordained clergy. Gotta love that cognitive dissonance!
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  What happens if the lights go out during a meeting?

  by WTWizard in

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  we all know of those kingdumb hells that don't have windows.

  and i never saw an a$$embly hell that had windows that would let light in that would reach the auditorium.

  so, what do they do if the lights go out during the middle of a boasting session?.

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  They don't have emergency exit lighting? That seems odd for a "place of assembly".
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and their Charitable Donations...

  by God_Delusion in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why do jehovah's witnesses get so angry when you tell them that they never donate to charities other than their own pseudo-charity?.

  read what happened this weekend when one of my friends brought this point up at the dinner table.. http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/jehovahs-witness-beliefs/do-jehovahs-witnesses-donate-to-charity/.

  love,.

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  When we donate to a charity we don't know how the money is used

  That is a broad assertion. It is not true for many charities, especially smaller and local ones. If I donate to the local Habitat for Humanity branch, that money stays here--it is used to build a lower-income house in our town. A donation to the local homeless shelter or food bank has visible, local results. These organizations have small staffs, mostly volunteer, and the few paid members are nowhere close to being 1%-ers.

  Information on charities, their budgets, and their expenses literally at your fingertips.
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  These rent-a-refs have got to go!

  by Theocratic Sedition in

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  wtf!?!?

  anybody catch the worst decision ever made at the end of a game?

  wow heads have got to roll!.

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  GLTirebiter

  Yes, every week this goes on only makes the regular refs' bargaining position stronger. It's time for the league to cut their losses and make a deal.
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  Did Jesus participate in judicial committee hearings?

  by I_love_Jeff in

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  did jesus condone such hearings?.

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  It is reported that he broke one up, saying "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
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  lady throwing out her trash

  by man oh man in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aciubm1w1e.

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  GLTirebiter

  "Do you wisely dispose of apostate materialold light?"