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  Bro at table set up wouldn't answer question (but still counted his time)

  by ShirleyW in

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  i asked when they would start offering gray bible and she said two weeks, then the only bro at the table saw my headphones in my hand started in by saying " i see you're plugged in, do you have a smartphone?

  to which i said no, because i just had a feeling that must've been a new angle to tell folks about the new bible app.the sis said they would start offering it in two weeks the bro goes on to mention that you can download the app and you get the bible in five different languages and mentions some other stuff you can do onthe app, i said all this technology reminds when the society admonished you all to stay away from the interenet about 25 years ago .

  you should've seen his face, he was smiling but was thinking "how does show know" behind that smile.

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  goddidit

  I'd love to see that Awake. Does anyone have the month & year?

  ShirlyW, great work. I hope you keep doing that. It might make a few of the people think.
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  The Revised NWT - A great timewaster

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sometimes the wtbts are just brilliant in coming up with new ways of wasting the jws time.. with this new edition they will have to be getting their head's around new terms and phrases.

  many jws will know a lot of verses off by heart, now they will be required to relearn them which will be no simple task.. they have been told to keep their old nwt for research purposes.

  now instead of looking up one scripture they will have two bible's to look up.. the writing committee now has so much new material available to them to write copious articles about.

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  I thought I read something recently about it being shown in court that the NWT writers had no knowledge of Hebrew or Greek anyway.

  Does anyone know anything about this?
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  The Revised NWT - A great timewaster

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sometimes the wtbts are just brilliant in coming up with new ways of wasting the jws time.. with this new edition they will have to be getting their head's around new terms and phrases.

  many jws will know a lot of verses off by heart, now they will be required to relearn them which will be no simple task.. they have been told to keep their old nwt for research purposes.

  now instead of looking up one scripture they will have two bible's to look up.. the writing committee now has so much new material available to them to write copious articles about.

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  They've revised their bible? I'd like to hear more about this.

  Has this been done before? How can they attest to it's accuracy and then change it?
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  Combatting cult mind control by steven hassan

  by goddidit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i've been hearing a lot of good things about this book.

  apparently, some of its readers were actual believing jws and it deprogrammed them.. i'm curious why they read it in the first place though, since jws are discouraged from reading anything outside their own literature.. i know a recent convert who i'd like to help.

  i could buy him the book.

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  Hmmm. Thanks Black Sheep. I will.

  Ahh, it occurs to me that maybe you assumed I am a JW or fading/conscious but just to be clear, I'm not nor have ever been.

  I'm happy to read the book but now you know my position, is this still your advice?

  Thanks for any feedback.
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  Combatting cult mind control by steven hassan

  by goddidit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i've been hearing a lot of good things about this book.

  apparently, some of its readers were actual believing jws and it deprogrammed them.. i'm curious why they read it in the first place though, since jws are discouraged from reading anything outside their own literature.. i know a recent convert who i'd like to help.

  i could buy him the book.

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  goddidit

  So I've been hearing a lot of good things about this book. Apparently, some of its readers were actual believing JWs and it deprogrammed them.

  I'm curious why they read it in the first place though, since JWs are discouraged from reading anything outside their own literature.

  I know a recent convert who I'd like to help. I could buy him the book. But how do I get him to read it?
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  The US Government actually deserves credit for the WT heading it's way down....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the government wanted the wt shut down as well.

  they found out that the wt teaches all it's members not to get an education, not to get any good paying job, to spend all their time placeing magazines and being window washers.

  so they said, we'll make the cost of insurance, infact require insurance by law, increase the cost of living on everything, then the wt members won't have any spare money to donate and the wt will just fade away due to lack of money.. so the wt after the economy and all cost of living going through the roof the past few years, plus some lawsuits, is suddenly cash starved.

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  goddidit

  this may be a naive question but i've never been a jw

  they make profit from the circuit assemblies?
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  Are we alone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. friends

  the title of this thread is the title of a chapter in the book by richard dawkins that i'm really enjoying in spite of or perhaps because of it having been written for young people.

  i thought i would share a couple of paragraphs on his theories of the kind of bodies aliens on other planets might have :-.

  'let's exercise our imaginations a bit more.

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  goddidit

  Space Madness, I would say he is speculating, not theorizing.

  One difference is that the existence of aliens is something that can be tested using the tools and methods of science.

  Otherwise, you ask a valid question, but what's your point?
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  JW Quirks

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  were you ever told......... .

  women have one less rib,.

  the human skin is made mostly of dust,.

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  Marked
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  Counterpoints needed

  by goddidit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm looking for some brief counterpoints to some or all of the following claims made by a jw.

  this will be very helpful.

  something brief with links would be best.

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  goddidit

  I'm looking for some brief counterpoints to some or all of the following claims made by a JW. This will be very helpful. Something brief with links would be best. For example, regarding the 'are no part of the world', some references to their dealings with 'the disgusting thing' that I've heard about (U.N. I think). Thank you all.

  Jehovah's Witnesses:

  - base their teachings on the Bible

  - worship only Jehovah and make his name known

  - show genuine love for one another

  - accept Jesus as God's means of salvation

  - are no part of the world

  - preach God's Kingdom as man's only hope
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  Link to Golden Age 1925 prediction- primary evidence of JW cock-up on Archive.org

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  trying to convince a jw that the wt predicted 1925 is hard because they won't look at anything from 'apostate' sites.

  but the american archive organisation is a disinterested organisation who publishes anything ever printed in america online for research and scholarship purposes.

  they are not apostates because they publish all religious, political, judicial, legislative etc online for the public to research.

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  goddidit

  marked

  thanks