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  What part of "TRUE" needs "adjustment"?

  by Terry in

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  let us conduct a thought experiment!.

  let's say you work for a huge investment firm run by a brilliant ceo who has a perfect track record for business decisions.. the ceo sends e-mails, text messages and makes phone calls from his remote island hideaway heaven island.. none of the employees ever actually see him.

  they rely on his hand-picked leaders sitting in the big office on the top floor of the corporate building.. these leaders pass along the transmitted instructions as conduits.. what would ever destroy confidence in these hand-picked leaders as competent and honest brokers?

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  agonus

  So far as I can tell, there are only 2 "JW-unique" teachings that have remained the same in the vast wilderness of WT teachings (and I mean the beginning of the beginning, going all the way back to Russell):

  1) No Trinity

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  2) No Hell (at least, not as a place of eternal torment).

  But if reliable truth can be determined by its enduring and unchanging nature, why does any of the other stuff matter? It's all trivia in the end. The problem is, with just the above "truths" as your yardstick, well, shoot - Unitarian Christians, Christadelphians, and many others would qualify as "true" religions. But the WT can't have that, now can it?
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  Best TV show lines!

  by serenitynow! in

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  agonus

  "I've got a toast: To Captain Bender! He's the best... at being a big jerk who's stupid. And his big ugly face is as dumb as a butt!" - Stephen J. Fry, Futurama

  There are too many funny Futurama quotes to mention but that one made me laugh so hard I couldn't stop crying.
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  Common JW phrases that aren't in the Bible

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm interested to know common phrases jehovah's witnesses use, but don't actually apear in the bible (even the nwt).

  especially phrases most jw's would assume are in the bible.

  e.g.. "paradise earth".

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  agonus

  ... and everybody's favorite (sorry if this has already been posted):

  ..."New Light"!
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  Who or what "governs" the teachings of the so-called GOVERNING BODY?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a person walked up to you one day and started telling you what to do, how to do it, and threatening you if you refused, wouldn't you immediately ask them by what authority they had such a right?

  wouldn't you want to see a badge?

  credentials?

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  agonus

  I suspect a dart board may be involved.
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  IS THIS For REAL? Need someone with French watchtower to verify!

  by Dogpatch in

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  i just received an email from france that, i quote:.

  "new subliminal picture in a french jehovah's witnesses magazine (a very scandal)".

  "reveillez vous" of 2011 april page 32. http://upload.is.free.fr/upload/mgf41rec.gif.

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  agonus

  I'd never have noticed it had it not been pointed out to me. But now that it has, I can't look at the damn thing and see anything else.
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  More than 50,000 DEAD

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  more than 50,000 dead.

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing overall mortality suffered as a result of watchtowers blood doctrine.

  to the best of my knowledge this is the first attempt at such an extrapolation based on data gathered that is both verifiable and offers sufficient information to measure frequency in this particular patient population (jehovahs witnesses).

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  agonus

  Watchtower leadership responsible for more JW deaths than Nazi leadership, eh? Congratulations GB, and a hearty Sig Heil.
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  JW: Special Global Preaching Campaign

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following is from jw.org, but first, one observation: why they are putting all the importance in the bible teach book and not in the bible?.

  also, if you look on the home page, on an image they have, you see all the witnesess holding the bible teach book in the foreground, and in some pictures, a witness holding the bible in the background.

  so much for putting the bible first.. .

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  agonus

  I thought it was already "later than we thought" like four decades ago.
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  Random thoughts about the organization. In 20 years.....

  by stuckinamovement in

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  2. friends

  many people will scoff at the thought that the org will collapse.

  i agree that it will never collapse but the crumbling has begun.

  think about the following.....they have a serious lack of potential future leaders.

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  agonus

  The biggest problem with their business model is that the product has an expiration date that precedes the shipping date ;-P
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  Are the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses trained actors?( LOL)

  by Joliette in

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  2. friends

  was watching the faith in action dvd pt 1, and i'm thinking: these guys honestly seem like there acting!!!!

  i'm utterly convienced that they couldnt believe in what they are teaching.

  couldnt.

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  agonus

  They're actors, all right... just not particularly gifted ones.
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  Banks never show the tellers what counterfeit money looks like? It’s truly a lie!

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have been meaning to post this for awhile and i just came across this example yet again with a jw it is so frustrating because it is just not true!.

  i so clearly remember assemblies and talks where this point was brought out over and over, that banks teach their teller only what real money looks like so they will know the feel and touch of it, that banks never give their telles counterfeit but only real money so then when a counterfeit comes through they can catch it easily because they know what the real thing looks like so well.

  it is even in the bible teach book that was printed in 2005.. none of it is true.. when my husband and i left bethel in 1994 i was working at two jobs all the time to try to make it, finally i got a job as a bank teller.

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  agonus

  You don't mess with Girl Scouts.