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  1914 Questions

  by sweetyj in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  im not sure if this has already been asked here but i have some questions about 1914. if jesus arrived "invisibly" in the year 1914 why do the anointed partake of the emblems?

  why didn't they stop in 1914?.

  if jesus is ruling in heaven then why are the anointed still on earth?

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  Diogenesister

  I have questions, too..

  If he came already, why is he coming again?🤔

  Edit: aha Anna Marina is the expert in this subject. You should please post your video it's very enlightening Anna.....(on you tube)
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  Jesus is a horse?

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jgnat posted this in one of punky's posts.

  third century.

  why is jesus portrayed as a horse, does anyone know please?.

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  Diogenesister

  Jgnat posted this in one of Punky's posts. Third century.

  Why is Jesus portrayed as a horse, does anyone know please?

  Intriguing....

  
  
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  Watchtower January 2022 The Memorial

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  next years memorial article focuses on the two class system that they promote.. interestingly, they mention how the anointed are in two covenants.

  the new covenant and the kingdom covenant.

  they claim that both of these covenants opened up the way for a small number to become kings and priests in heaven.

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  I don't remember there being two (NT) covenants previously. Am I not remembering correctly? Is this a new thing?

  However they've always said the 144000 would be "kings and priests with Jesus", I'm sure of that. So I suppose they always claimed them as being co-rulers in heaven.
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  Are you less judgmental after you became ex JW?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?

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  Diogenesister

  In some ways, no. In some, yes.

  I'm certainly, 1000% less judgemental toward myself! It's such a relief as I would torture myself.

  I never, ever believed being gay was wrong. I was delusional about The Truth and took the good bits ignoring or excusing the bad. I thought God would forgive everyone (except me, of course).

  Now I believe that death is the end I am no longer forgiving of murderers. I judge them far more harshly. So in that sense I'm more judgemental.
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  Do you think the Door to Door KNOCKING - field service will EVER resume AGAIN?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if i was a jw, and covid put and end to the door to door work for two years, and kingdom halls closed, it would get me to re-visit and think about the stupidity of the overlapping generation, and how they extended the deadline for armageddon to 2072.

  (1992 franz death +80 more years).

  if i was 20 years of age, plus another 80 = 100 years of age for the system to end.

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  Diogenesister

  But trick or treating is once a year.

  Jws knock on doors EVERY SINGLE DAY

  Yes and if neighbours are elderly or no-contact etc they tend to leave treats in a bowl outside for the kids, these days anyway.
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  OMG Gretta von funberg is trying to sing

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. current

  this stupid little autistic twit is a no talent hack.

  she can not dance, sing or even talk well.

  the liberal idiots follow this little idiot like she is the oracle of delphi.

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  In 2019 she completed the 9th grade (the completion of lower secondary education in Sweden) with excellent grades, 14 As, and Bs in three subjects:[36] Swedish, home economics and physical education.

  I know this is silly quibbling, but...

  How can a year 9 student attain 17As and Bs? The very most these are are teacher/in school assessments. These are not exams. Year 9 students don't take formal exams. They haven't even chosen their GCSE subjects yet (or equivalent exams taken at 16).

  I don't think this is accurate.

  And unless Swedish students spend way more time in school than anyone else I'm not sure how they manage 17 subjects, either, in that year.
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  Watchtower More Important than the Scriptures

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  mack moore ex-jw recovery writes:.

  yes, that is how they want people to esteem the magazine.

  they believe it is the unique mouthpiece of god.

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  Diogenesister

  This is excellent Van

  I learnt a lot reading this. A couple years back I got a call from a sweet elderly Jamaican witness who just bought his Bible with him and we had a nice conversation. Next time he came around he bought a woman with him about my age, who'd obviously had been raised in the cult.

  He talked briefly about his son and mentioned his son saying how much he loved his mum and dad. The woman asked smilingly "was it so-and-so" when he said "no it was John" her face suddenly had a look of revulsion and I knew this son had left the cult! She'd displayed her programming perfectly.

  When we ended by discussing their 'closed off' attitude to non JWs she became increasingly unpleasant and finally hit back at me with "bad associations spoil useful habits"(obviously testing me since that's a dog whistle to exJWs). She said "you should only associate with good people" (iron sharpens iron etc)and I was a bit stumped.

  I wish I'd had read what you've written about what "encouragement" really means in a cult. I'd have been able to craft a far better response.

  Cheers.
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  Superman and Captain America

  by punkofnice in

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  2. entertainment

  i see that marvel are introducing a gay captain america as dc announce the son of superman is bi-sexual.. whereas i don't give a hoot about a person's use of their genitalia as long as it is consensual and not with kids, i'm finding all this 'inclusivity' becoming a bit boring.. are dc and marvel just virtue signalling in the hopes of selling comics and not being set on fire by the antifa frauds?

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  Jeff T that was brilliant. I'd never heard of him but I'm going to investigate. A pregnant superman, huh?!😊🤔world's first to-term male ectopic pregnancy.
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  Superman and Captain America

  by punkofnice in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i see that marvel are introducing a gay captain america as dc announce the son of superman is bi-sexual.. whereas i don't give a hoot about a person's use of their genitalia as long as it is consensual and not with kids, i'm finding all this 'inclusivity' becoming a bit boring.. are dc and marvel just virtue signalling in the hopes of selling comics and not being set on fire by the antifa frauds?

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  .....is he AC DC?😜
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  I revisit an old Jehovah's Witness friend from long ago...

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  goodbye old friend; someday we'll meet again ….

  the ghost with the fine china cups.

  my last memory of her… a friend from long ago.. julie was a startling beauty, a blue-eyed, natural blonde; a model, guitar player, a singer with glowing purity of tone, a talented writer, and possessed of a wicked sense of humor.. she was too young to be dating and yet she was a natural flirt.

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  Diogenesister

  was recently contacted by a group of about 40 of the Brothers who were

  in the same (Seagoville) prison in the late '60s with me and they were having

  a reunion (on Zoom).

  These guys, one and all, looked awful!

  
  

  Not a healthy man in the entire bunch.

  Very insular group (still active.)

  It struck me as incredibly sad I was the only one who seems to have escaped

  I'm kinda surprised they included you Terry! If you don't mind my asking, how old are they on average, would you say?

  I suppose it's really hard to accept you were wrong when you've sacrificed so much. What do they call it .... investment bias, or something? Very sad only you woke up :( I had a friend in France who went to jail for refusing national service in the 70s...Pascal. He passed away.