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  What would it like to see

  by JohnR1975 in

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  what i would like to see and maybe will get there in about another ten years is being a jw is a rewarding thing that enriches your life.. just like other religions out there you may not know the entire truth and maybe not quite right many of the beliefs but to have to idea of a belief centres and stabilises you.. i would like jws to be able to celebrate birthdays and maybe even other holidays if they choose to and not be judged by those who choose not to.. i would like jws to be allowed to have different interpretations of scripture and everyone is happy to agree to disagree and be able to say to each other yes maybe that interpretation is nearer the truth.

  we just don’t know.. i would like new members of the gb to issue an apology for previous members getting so many things wrong.. they need to come out and say they were wrong about 1914 this date has no scriptural significance and the same is true of 1919. jws were not chosen in 1919 as the one and only true religion.. we just don’t know about so many things and it takes humility to admit we were wrong.. i would like to see even more lightening up on stupid restrictions like young people being allowed to have a varied friends and activities that are not with jws only..

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  I would like to see the entire organisation vanish
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  Why I dislike eschatology

  by Riley in

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  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouye3e0fypc&t=183s&pp=yguzd2h5igkgzglzbglrzsblc2noyxrvbg9neq%3d%3d.

  please take the time to watch.

  i am not good with words but i have heard someone so eloquently explain how i feel about something.

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  Did Jesus dislike eschatology?

  Jesus was deeply rooted in eschatology. He was a failed apocalyptic prophet. Not better at predicting the end than Freddy Franz.
  
  
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  JWN, 23 years posting Blondie

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.

  i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.

  in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.

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  Page 3 - Hilarious death by moderator from FreeTheMasons
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  JWN, 23 years posting Blondie

  by blondie in

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  can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.

  i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.

  in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.

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  Totally agree with the OP.

  Huge appreciation for Blondie and your contribution to sanity all these years
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  Atheist philosopher Philip Goff becomes a Christian

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  philip goff, professor of philosophy at durham university, in the past few weeks has said that he has become a christian of a fairly liberal and perhaps somewhat heretical variety.

  it’s been a long journey from staunch atheism in his teens, to questioning the basis of his atheism and a purely materialist conception of reality as a professor of philosophy specialising in consciousness, to now considering himself a christian.

  he says it’s the result of coming to terms with the fact that atheists and theists both have good arguments and looking for a middle ground that accommodates the best arguments of both.

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  Big questions like why is there something rather than nothing are beyond our grasp.

  Christianity - and theism in general - is a non-answer. 'God' is nothing but a placeholder for people who can't live with 'I don't know'.
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  What made you look behind the jw curtain?

  by Touchofgrey in

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  i was listening to a lunchtime call in radio show about jws and the personal experiences of being disfellowshiped, and a former elder called in saying he was disfellowshiped for asking about jws and their involvement in the un in the 1990s ,and he just said look it up.. thinking that it was a made up lie ,so i looked it up and it was true even a letter confirming it from the un itself and that led me here and to jwfacts and further research into the history and teachings of jw and walked out the door about 5 years ago.

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  It was after they came out with the 1995 changed teaching on Generation - LHG

  Me too. But it wasn't just that they had made a huge u-turn on doctrine it was the way they tried to sneak it past our attention and treat us like infants. I can forgive genuine error but I will not be talked to like an idiot.
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  2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

  by Listener in

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  a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

  this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

  but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

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  I cannot sympathise any longer with intelligent adults who allow themselves to be mentally abused by these charlatans.
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  How did JWs arrive at a clearer understanding of what the Bible teaches than other Christian denominations?

  by slimboyfat in

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  for jws who believe that jehovah had a hand in reviving the truth in the nineteenth century this is enough explanation for how jws managed to achieve a closer approximation to early christian beliefs and practices than other groups.

  but is there an explanation for this phenomenon that doesn’t rely on supernatural intervention?

  new testament scholar james dunn explains the difficulty of interpreting the biblical texts in this way:.

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  SBF have you had a stroke?
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  Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  the last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.

  the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.

  i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.

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  Grew up attending Murrayfield, Edinburgh - then it moved to McDiarmid Park Perth and finally we were assigned an indoor arena at Newcastle. I got through them by volunteering for buffet distribution which meant working through all the sessions. When they scrapped food service it was agony. I couldn't stay in my seat at my last convention around 95. The praise of the GB was offensive. A member of the GB was present and he actually used the phrase 'at lunchtime I walked among you all...' I walked out. After calming down I went back in and whispered to my wife that I wanted to go home - she was very very delighted. We never went back.
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  God Just Can't Lose

  by cofty in

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  wtf did harry do?.

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  Saw this window in a little rural church in the Cotswolds, England.

  It occurred to me how theism is impervious to reason - it is 'Not Even Wrong'.