Posts by oppostate

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Beware of Emojis! A worksheet from jw.org to help you!

by stuckinarut2 in

we all know just hoe dangerous emojis are right??

well, thankfully, "jehovah's organization" have lovingly provided a step by step worksheet to help!.

https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/worksheets/friendly-or-flirtatious/.

oppostate

I award the JW.0rg the smelly fly circling turd emoji!

💩

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How can the WTS call themselves Christians when they have no Christian church?

by TTWSYF in

so was jesus a fool or a liar?

he said that his church would last all ages, didn't he?.

math 16:8and i say to thee: that thou art peter; and upon this rock i will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

oppostate

Man oh man! D-J dude!

Your etymologies are way off dude!

When you start off with such an obvious fallacy it becomes very difficult to take anything else you posted seriously.

Seriously!

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All About The Words We Used

by dubstepped in

in the time since i've left the borg behind i've had a few things hit me as to how words were used.

i'm wondering if anyone else has some similar examples, but here are some things that have made me think:.

watchtower - my whole life i saw this as a thing of protection from outside evil forces, and then when i left someone pointed out "isn't that what they used to keep people in prison".

This popup ad strikes me as funny

by dropoffyourkeylee in

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yeah, i have russians getting in my way all the time.

Poopie has recieved new light from latest clam book

by poopie in

jw
friends

on the subject welcome others the new light is i can now have limited association with df and da ones at the kingdom hall not strictl avoidance..

oppostate

Limited to absolute shunning, of course.

😁

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Cutbacks

by pepperheart in

what other cut backs do you think will be coming or might be coming these next few years for the borg ?.

oppostate

The CO's aren't expensive for the 0rg.

All their expenses are paid by the local cong's.

But the rumor that the CO's jobs had been considered being made into local super elder / regional-circuit-part-time overseers has been around for years now.

The only advantage would seem to be distancing the GoBo's and JW.0rg from legal action.

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2017 Yearbook released

by bohm in

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friends

i saw this on reddit:.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

oppostate

I would not expect to see the huge jump from roughly 15,000 partakers in 2015 to well over 18,000 last year. Care to comment on this?

I was a bit shocked to see a three thousand increase in one year.

But, even more surprising is that many who started partaking in the immediate area congregations in Greater Boston shared stories of "inquiries" and plain persecution by hounders, more than a few have been DF'ed for apostasy due to believing in only one hope not two or they've become inactive and even DA'ed before the hounders got to them. If so many are going down in the local area, the numbers of folks becoming inactive or DA'ing nationally and worldwide must really be up there.

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There is a NEW Songbook?!

by My Name is of No Consequence in

i am not talking about the one that the org came out with in 2010. i am talking about a new one that just came out.

it is completely different or is it just the 135 songs from the 2010 songbook plus the 16 that they have rolled out since then?

my head is spinning!.

oppostate

I'm so dizzy my head is spinning. Like a whirlpool, it never ends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDPlU6ioZU

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December 28 2016 BOE Re One Study Edition of The Watchtower in Languages Other Than English

by wifibandit in

december 28, 2016 to all congregations re: one study edition of the watchtower in languages other than english.

dear brothers:.

for several years, the simplified edition of the watchtower has been produced in french,.

oppostate

I think it is beyond hillarious that they finish the letter by saying that in the future these foreign language translations of the WT will be in even simpler language.

Good grief! 1984 and engsoc, dumbing down language to dumb down minds!

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Irregular to meetings, can I partake in memorial?

by Squekylive in

hi friends .

i don't believe in jw doctrines anymore but because of family i have to be a jw for now.. i am not regular to meetings, and don't answer in meeting, but i report some hours so i remain as active jw now.. .

congregation knows that i am not spiritual and i don't talk to people and i don't care what they think about me.. now, i believe it's important to observe lord's supper as a christian as per john 6:53, so in the coming memorial if i attend i want to partake in the communion,.. i believe it is a sin to pass the bread and wine inspite of knowing it's flesh and blood of jesus.. it's like rejecting jesus.. so i want to partake.. but i dont consider i am anointed etc.

oppostate

Why make a scene by partaking?

Well, if you're a Christian believer you might decide to give a witness for what you believe is true.

And even more so if you are disfellowshipped.

Why so?

Because if you are DFed and partake you are fellowshipping or communing with all others who are likewise partaking. Btcha the GoBos would not like it, but the Biblical reason for observing the Memorial is for believers to commune, to be with others as one, united in Christ.

So if they do not want you partaking then they should not have it open to the public and invite people who are not expected to take part.

I'm partaking and if anyone at the KH does not like it, so what?

I'm not doing it for them, but for my belief in Christ and to show unity with all who also believe in following Jesus,'command to keep doing so.