every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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A Watcher you can have a relationship with god without attending Watchtower meetings.
There must be another reason you attend. Family? Loneliness? If you were “raised in” you might find it soothes you.
Ive noticed witnesses are soothed when you start to use metaphors or stories\ illustrations as you speak. It’s incredible what childhood indoctrination can do to the psyche.
i remember when i was a kid in the early 70s that we always had a baseball game or picnic where they would get together and bring a dish to pass.
every summer there was one or more.
we had canoe picnic parties and camp fires ect.
Sparky That little girl in the picture cracks me up. She’s looking at the camera man like “do you know what the brass monkeys is Goin’ on coz I sure as sh**e don’t ....”🤪🤪
reaction of state secretary and arguments of judge about report jw abuse in the netherlands.
minister dekker: report on jehovah's sketches "extremely worrying" picture
the report on the extent of sexual abuse within the community of jehovah's witnesses paints an extremely worrying picture.
Our man on the spot Gorby!! thank you so much. Perhaps you could start a thread to keep us updated? since you are a native of that fine, upstanding country!!
if this has been posted before, then my apologies..... article in april ‘20 wt changes the view of the locust swarm prophecy...formerly believed to describe the worldwide preaching by anointed.
”simply put, these verses refer, not to our zealous preaching work, but to the activity of the babylonian army that invaded jerusalem in 607 b.c.e.”.
they also tie in the giving of holy spirit to the congregation at pentecost and thereafter.. the article is available to read in full on our least favourite website.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-april-2020/an-attack-coming-from-the-north/.
So.....Jesus “Trolls” the Watchtower society again🤣
...............they’ve figured out that it meant what every historian/biblical scholar knew it meant all along.
in a recent post about the watchtower’s claim that all animals were created as vegetarians, one commenter said that watchtower could no longer sustain this belief so they simply stopped talking about it.
i began thinking about other wacky doctrines and statements by the borg that have faded away.
i’ll offer two of them below, but the complete list must be longer than your arm.. 7000 year-long creative days: watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975. they believed that year marked 6,000 years since adam’s creation, and oh how nicely the 1,000-year reign would fit as the last piece of the puzzle, thus completing the final “day”.
Some more of the Watchtower Crazy, baby:🤪🤪
Black people would over time turn white 🤭in the paradise, in all likelihood and women would turn in to men in heaven 🥴since there had been well documented cases of such things occurring before!! 🤣😂😂😂
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what happens when an elder learns the tatt.. https://youtu.be/tkyujamfziq.
A very beautiful, gentle sermon by a gentle man.
I find some of 'Christendoms' sermons "rough" and "angry" sometimes, compared to ones Witnesses/ExJW give.
this was a comment from the meeting(tm) on sunday.. the person that told me about it, is very confused about the validity of the corporation.
somewhere between a pimo and a pimi-lite.
the thing that angered me was that this person has cancer.
Blues Bro I have no issue with those kind of dubs👏🏾
Punky I understand how hard it is (as an agnostic) to get one you love or care about with cancer to think for them self, yet not take away a faith that gives them comfort or strength; especially if there’s no hope of a cure.
If you have Ray Franz book you could show them the part in Revelation where it plainly states the great crowd is in the “Naos”( the Holy of Holies...in other words Heaven). There’s a great channel on You tube called “Witness for Jesus”, she’s an exjw with very in-depth knowledge who is also having treatment for cancer and is the mother of a young child.
By the way...“Pimi- lite” 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏼🤣😂😂 another exJW acronym to add to the list!!
the latest jwdotorg experience starts very familiarly:.
danielle, one of jehovah’s witnesses in south africa, found a bag that a customer had left behind in a coffee shop.
inside the bag was a wallet with money and credit cards.. when the owner met her to get it back,.
Great catch Neat Blue Dog!!
I’ve lived in my home for 14 years, now.
Ive lost my bag - with purse & cash, debit and credit cards, drivers licence etc - on 3 occasions during that time.
On all 3 occasions it’s been returned intact by, i’ll have it known, YOUNG people....those feckless loosers watchtower hectors so often! Twice I met them and on one occasion the shop keeper informed me who they were.
Empathy moves people to do the right thing.
the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .
4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.
(read matthew 5:23, 24.
Actually our congregation could have been called “The Elder (wars) Scrolls”!!
Lots of squabbling elders. Thankfully not too bad with the flock, though. Unless you were foolish enough to take ‘sides’.
Mostly arguments about not paying for car prangs....there were lots of those with a tiny car park and terrible parallel parking out on the road.
oh and one mild fisticuffs over a girl...the boys weren’t baptised (I think...)
hi.
while there are many excellent web sites that explain a few jw nwt bible translation problems, are there any comprehensive lists of nwt scripture errors online please?.
thanks .
It’s a bit more complicated than simply a list as OTWO stated....although that’s a start.
The problem is, for example say Colossians 1:16-17, the infamous place in where Watchtower adds the word “other” (to infer Jesus was created) that in fact the King James has to also add the word “things” in English since there is no term for “things” in Greek.
So in a way many if not all translations into other languages “add” other words...they have to, for it to make sense.
