i do not know how to scan the wt if someone can it would be great but i wrote it out verbatim .
i think what the wt says speaks for its self.
am i missing something and or reading something into what they are saying.
Paragraph 19 Among those "gifts in men" are US, who act in a representative way for the entire Christian congregation. (Acts 15:2,6) In fact, YOUR attitude toward US is a major factor that will determine how YOU will be judged during the coming great tribulation. (Matt. 25:34-40) Thus, one aspect of the way YOU gain a blessing is by giving YOUR loyal support to US.
That's a bit clearer I think.
Sw
my extended family were all jehovah's witnesses from the bible students day.
my father was immense and chosen as a bodyguard to both judge (spurious title) and nathan knorr.
bethel was very small then so he knew fred franz, covington, henshel well.
Welcome...Band on the Run
Sw
no need for eden tree unless god knew an angle was...going to try and foil his purpose for other life forms.this has always not added up for me.
there is really no reason for the tree (s) unless god knew that he had angles that were already bad in their 'hearts'.
so the questions i have on this are.... were the angles tested to see if they would remain faithful?were humans created to be the test for the angles?was it was 'fair' to have spirit creatures (millions of years old?
This has always not added up for me. There is really no reason for the tree (s) unless God knew that he had angles that were already bad in their 'hearts'. So the questions I have on this are...
IF SO...
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it seems like the january 15th wt and the march 15 wt are about satan attacking us.
maybe it is because i am seeing things more clearly or maybe they are truly using it more.
they are really getting into the fact that the world hates us a quote from the jan 15th wt on page 30 says "the world is basically hostile toward us.
Same here for over 50 years...My mom who is almost 80 still says to me stay faithful, put up a hard fight since Satan is really steeping up his attack on us...so sad so sad. I really feel sorry for everyone who has not come to realize there is something really, really wrong with what we have been taught. It would put my mon into a never ending spiral if she would realize she is being lied to.
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just to give you a little background about myself, i was a born-in, i'm in my late 20's now, i faded away a few years ago after researching the history of the wtbs on the internet.
my fade was aided by moving away with my job(i definately feel lucky about that).
eventually, i had discussions with a couple of my closer jw friends about why i no longer believed in the wtbs.
I'm still in but do not go to meetings regulary but those that I talk with openly feel it still can happen anytime...but some are planing 10-15 years in the future. My parents that are almost 80 and still hope/feel it will come soon...as they have been waiting their entire lives for it.
Why would God allow His "chosen org" be wrong for so long?----He wouldn't!!!
Sw
you really can't make this stuff up.
but an organization like the wt society bent on controlling virtually every aspect of the typical jehovah's witness life - would make this up to keep their control through the use of fear and guilt.
so- i thought i'd share what i thought was the strangest, most offensive, weird language dealing with what the wt society calls " disfellowshipping offenses " .
Magwitch, Said:
#11 stayed all night in the same house with a person of the opposite sex. GUILTY!I stay over at men's houses a lot. Sometimes even in the same bed - It's usually because I did not want to drink and drive or because I did not want to drive in bad weather. Nothing has ever remotely happened in the area of PORNEA. My male friends are not the sexual pigs the watchtower says non jw's are.
WOW: Since when would a man who would want to have sex or sexual contact with a women that's in his bed make him a "pig"?...
...Remember in the morning when he wakes up...he's not semi-hard because he's aroused by you...he just has a pee-on.
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as jw's we are taught that the reason we have free will is to decide whether or not we want to serve god.
we are all very aware of the jw position on children of non-believers.
they will be destroyed at armageddon, just like the children at sodom and gomorrah and back in noah's day.
**Perhaps...but we should only be judged when we are in the same perfect state as Adam and Eve (and Jesus)...ONLY THEN!
If your parent treats you with love, kindness, and always willing to help you understand anything and everything...then most would reciprocate in like manor.
Sw
when it comes to reaching out to our suppressed emotions, feelings and desires from growing up as jehovah witnesses, the information below helps to understand about personal unconsciousness.
in order to deal with confronting the repressed feelings and emotions that we may not realize exist because our 'ego' (consciousness) neglects our 'shadow' (unconsciousness).
sometimes we do things without realizing why, well this helps to understand what happens to our mind.
OK
Sw
(via free minds).
jehovah's witness elders lie and call police.
on october 31, 2010 jehovah's witnesses elders lie when asked by charles huff, also a jehovah's witness, if they shun ex-members of the jehovah's witnesses' religion.
video at link below.
michael c. hall performs a christmas song heavily influenced by his character on 'dexter.'.
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/michael-c.-hall-christmas-song-12-7-10/1263973.
My hero :)
