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mentallyfree31
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Info For Newbies and Current Jehovah's Witnesses! Please Read!
by mentallyfree31 inexample: gravity is real.
because if 607 bce is wrong, then so is 1914 and 1918 and 1919. very simple.
so if we cannot trust secular research, then we can definitely discard the date of 607 bce.
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Watchtower on Demon Materialization
by Marvin Shilmer inwatchtower on demon materialization .
i added a new article to my blog about watchtower teaching on demon materialization.
my article is titled watchtower on demon materialization and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/06/watchtower-on-demon-materialization.html.
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mentallyfree31
That is funny stuff. Wow, thanks for posting. I have never seen this before!
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Q: When did russel/bible students came up with the 606-1914 calculations?
by Dold Agenda inq: when did russel/bible students came up with the 606-1914 calculations?.
for russel the invisible precense of jesus started 1874 right?.
but was'nt his year of autumn 1914 when the harma should start based on pyramydology alone?.
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Thanks TD. This all sounds familiar now.
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Q: When did russel/bible students came up with the 606-1914 calculations?
by Dold Agenda inq: when did russel/bible students came up with the 606-1914 calculations?.
for russel the invisible precense of jesus started 1874 right?.
but was'nt his year of autumn 1914 when the harma should start based on pyramydology alone?.
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I'm a little fuzzy on the details now, but didn't John Aquila Brown use the 2,520 years calculation in his book "The Even Tide" in 1823. I believe that to be correct. This would have been 20 years before Russell was born, and some 40 years before Russell started preaching.
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Info For Newbies and Current Jehovah's Witnesses! Please Read!
by mentallyfree31 inexample: gravity is real.
because if 607 bce is wrong, then so is 1914 and 1918 and 1919. very simple.
so if we cannot trust secular research, then we can definitely discard the date of 607 bce.
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BabaYaga - The preaching work is actually the LEAST effective way of making recruits. Other religions dwarf JW, and they have never done a day of door to door preaching. As for my experience, most of the time I was knocking on empty houses.
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon inharold camping.
2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.
maze's ramblings.
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I didn't read all the comments here, just the introductory post, so I apologize if this is a repeat.
I recommend Carl Oloff Johnson's book "Sign of the Last Days".
All of the signs Jesus mentioned in Matthew chapter 24 are actually much better today than they have been in hundreds of years. Except earthquakes - these have basically remained fairly constant for hundreds of years.
It's a very enlightening book. One of the best ones I read after leaving.
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Gems from the August 15, 2011 WT
by Ultimate Reality inpdfs can be obtained at jw.org.... spiritual gem #1. perhaps witnesses should apply the standard the wt recommends for gathering information on the internet to wt publications; from page 4:.
(1) who published this.
material?
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The only long term solution that I see to their problem is converting the literal 144,000 to a figurative 144,000. Joyous new light, everybody will rejoice, and back to the fields to preach. Everybody wins.
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2011-2012 Let God's Kingdom Come DC starts this WEEKEND
by yknot inwell it is that time of year again....... dc season!!!!!
so any of yall going to be in brooklyn, queens, jersey city or oklahoma city this weekend?
maybe brooklyn, queens, jersey city, portland (or & me), green bay, west palm beach, sacramento, long beach, bakersfield or san diego weekend of 5/27.
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mentallyfree31
This will be my second year to skip. Seems like a bad nightmare.
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dos it really matter if it was a cross or a stake???
by highdose inwhat does it matter?
i belive its been found that the romans used both, so what does it matter?.
what does it matter that the roman word for cross sounds also like a word for another god?.
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mentallyfree31
It ONLY matters if you are in a cult.
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Out of the cult? You ARE Lucky!
by mentallyfree31 injust wanted to share an experience i had yesterday, that made me realize just how lucky i am to be out of this cult.
brief background: when i graduated high school in 1995, i started doing janitorial worker (shocker!!
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Just wanted to share an experience I had yesterday, that made me realize just how lucky I am to be out of this cult.
Brief background: When I graduated high school in 1995, i started doing janitorial worker (shocker!!) while pioneering. I worked for a 72 year old special pioneer, who had been a special pioneer for decades. I worked for him three years, until 1998.
As you know, I left the cult in December 2009. Yesterday, I was passing the Kingdom Hall on the highway, and saw this "brother" that I used to work for in 1995. He is almost 90 years old now, and has been special pioneering for 40 to 50 years. He could barely walk, but had his bookbag in hand, waking up the steps to the Kingdom Hall to go in service.
It really hit me hard. I am lucky to be out of this. I wanted to stop the car and get out and kiss the ground. I felt like the luckiest man alive. It doesn't matter what I lost to leave this organization. I am free. And I can't think of anything better than being free.
For those who remember my family's story, you will remember that it was a routine mistake on a blood test (of my brother leavingwt's second unborn child) that is responsible for us leaving the cult. If that test hadn't come back with a false positive, my whole family would still be in this, going strong, at every meeting.
Not a day passes, that I don't smile and remember just how lucky I am to be out!
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