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  Who was the poster who predicted radical Watchtower change years ago?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who was the poster, about 8 years ago, who came on the forum and claimed he had inside information that the gb were planning radical changes.

  he said that in ten years time jws would be unrecognisable.

  many were skeptical.

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  Next Change is the 144k becoming a symbolic number...
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  JW Cart's Family Photos. My Pusher stole my JWCart1975 I.D. but here I am!

  by JWCart in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of us ride, some of us roll.. .

  family reunion of jw carts gathering together for missionary work, some people waste their time in liberia trying to help ebola victims, jehovah's organization spends all their time focused on meaningful endeavors by bringing them salvation.

  pusher said "why bother helping when people are going to die anyway, focus on the big picture (joining jehovah's organization is the only way to eliminate homelessness, hunger and global issues", doctors waste their time in west africa when they could be pushing carts with literature and books, that's real healing", i still don't understand why we can't help the poor and sick but than again, i am just a jw cart!.

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  Bent she was born in and was raised with the teaching that Armageddon was imminent.
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  There's One In Every Congregation

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  im talking about crazies.

  and i mean, way out there mentally ill nutters that think they're perfectly sane.

  every congregation seems to have at least one.

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  An elder in another hall turns up every Sunday with a spare white shirt - in case the visiting speaker turns up wearing any other colored shirt, in which case he demands the speaker to put on the new shirt!

  Ironically, heard this of a congregation where they had white shirts in various sizes, ready in case a guest speaker showed up with another color or design...until the District Overseer showed up in a Blue shirt and was told to change by the COBE. Needless to say, the DO didn't budge and the White shirts disappeared after that.
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  JW TV, this month about evolution

  by bohm in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this month the last segment is about evolution.

  one is with a sister with a university education in biochemistry who (presumably) teaches at a highschool or public school.

  she says that left handedness of amino acids indicates life was created because "if it was a random process half would be right handed and half left handed" (paraphrased).

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  What the Guy said was that he was raised as a Christian with the Bible. Even a PhD in Biochemistry couldn't wipe his already polluted mind clean.
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  Is shunning unscriptual?

  by MrTheocratic in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  international version 1 cor 5:11. but now i am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler.

  do not even eat with such people.. if shunning is wrong.

  .how does one explain this scripture?.

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  http://m.imgur.com/a/0D6XF
  
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  "Bethelites told they weren’t doing enough, hadn’t reached their potential so about half of them walked out of the talk"

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this was news to me, it's from a year and a half ago,.

  from joe emerson at http://www.christianwitnesses.com.

  bethelites told they weren’t doing enough, hadn’t reached their potential so about half of them walked out of the talk; efforts made to get names of those who walked out but didn’t get them all.

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  Don't trust the source...nerds verification.
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  Is it Time to Declare that The Great Tribulation Has Started ?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't really engage in doctrinal discussions about jw's anymore.

  they seem to say some pretty crazy stuff.

  but i have read some threads discussing doctrinal changes and how watchtower is really out of ideas and money at the same time.

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  Perhaps as soon as Warwick is completed and Brooklyn fully sold off...that way the preaching and therewith the costly literature distribution can stop.
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  Cover of the September 2016 Watchtower.

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the cover of the 2016 september watchtower has an islander couple preaching.

  the brother looks like he may be fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an apple ipad.

  i can't imagine there are many families that can afford an ipad in the pacific islands.

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  That was my first observation to the cover as well. Unrealistic!

  What also surprises me to some extent is the push/acceptance for Apple. After all Tim Cook, is the only openly Gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company. You would think that Apple products therefor could not be used by "True Christians" as they may lead to becoming homosexual or be demon-possessed.
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  Old Relative Not Happy About Push To Use Ipads Etc

  by disillusioned 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was in a close relatives house yesterday and she was having angry and resentful at the push to use electronic devices at the meetings.

  she was talking to another relative of mine who has just got an ipad to use.

  this relative of mine is very elderly and obviously prefers to use her bible and other books.

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  My mid-80 year old (45 years a JW) mother has been spoken to by the elders why she continues to use the paper literature, rather than an iPad. Crazy!
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  JW Broadcasting reeks of desperation

  by oldskool in

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  2. beliefs

  again, i'm a decade removed from the faith.

  i'm catching up now, and can't believe what i'm seeing.. i get that jw leadership faced a dilemma.

  there is no intellectual apparatus within the faith.

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  You nailed it completely. I have been out merely eight years, but do not recognize this as the religion I once was part of...