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  "Fine Witness" diluted in latest experience

  by neat blue dog in

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  the latest jwdotorg experience starts very familiarly:.

  danielle, one of jehovah’s witnesses in south africa, found a bag that a customer had left behind in a coffee shop.

  inside the bag was a wallet with money and credit cards.. when the owner met her to get it back,.

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  It happened to me this week. I lost my wallet, stuffed with cash on public transport. In it were my cards, memberships, drivers licence, in short, my whole life.

  The next morning I had it returned intact. There was no fuss, no evidence of super-human religious intervention, just a decent person being responsible. This is by no means the first time, I am notoriously casual with my possessions.

  The lesson? There are loads of decent people about, there also some scumbags but JWs are by no means unique.
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  Outcast Doctrines

  by Socrateswannabe in

  1. watchtower
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  in a recent post about the watchtower’s claim that all animals were created as vegetarians, one commenter said that watchtower could no longer sustain this belief so they simply stopped talking about it.

  i began thinking about other wacky doctrines and statements by the borg that have faded away.

  i’ll offer two of them below, but the complete list must be longer than your arm.. 7000 year-long creative days: watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975. they believed that year marked 6,000 years since adam’s creation, and oh how nicely the 1,000-year reign would fit as the last piece of the puzzle, thus completing the final “day”.

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  Watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975.

  WT still have a massive problem with this. If you follow bible chronology the human creation story counts back to 4000 yrs BC give or take. That's where the 7000 years theory and the 1975 embarrassment came from. WT cannot just "new light" this fact away. The pages of the bible mean that they can't countenance or admit any other explanation. Jesus quoted the creation story as fact.

  So, they have no choice but to take a stand with closed eyes, hands over ears singing "la la la, I can't hear you" whilst ignoring mountains of hard evidence of the real age of man.

  They are stuck with an unsustainable belief that can't be changed. If they did, the whole edifice crumbles and falls.
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  Shout Out to Smithy

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i see you are back commenting smithy.

  just wondered how things were going with regard to the fires.

  i know that the news has quietened down but i suspect we have not heard the end of it.

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  Good to hear from you smiddy3. Sorry I mangled your name multiple times but it’s good to hear you are safe and well.

  Hard times eh.

  Keep safe,

  SL
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  Shout Out to Smithy

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i see you are back commenting smithy.

  just wondered how things were going with regard to the fires.

  i know that the news has quietened down but i suspect we have not heard the end of it.

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  or should I say Smiffy
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  Movie Review 1917

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  movie review"1917".

  i so seldom seek to sit inside an actual movie theater anymore.however ...some films are absolutely tailored for it.life of pigravityavatar3 examples of movies which do not translate to your home viewing...at all.good, bad, or indifferent - some films are visual and immersive.. here is a sacred pronouncement:movies are a visual medium.in the hands of an orson welles (i.e.

  citizen kane) they are a radio play+visual storytelling medium._____.

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  Terry. you've sold it to me. I will be going.

  I agree with your comments about CGI. I think if a nuclear explosion occurred within sight now it would be dismissed as unrealistic. We have been so inured by big bangs, splattering blood and the like that excellent non-computerised film making has been devalued. CGI has it's place but your observation is so true, the key is restraint.

  It can be compared to public speaking. Many feel that the key to emphasis is to speak faster and louder until blood vessels are popping. Give me the contrast of the quiet pause followed by an almost whispered truth. Power is in restraint.
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  Shout Out to Smithy

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
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  i see you are back commenting smithy.

  just wondered how things were going with regard to the fires.

  i know that the news has quietened down but i suspect we have not heard the end of it.

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  I see you are back commenting Smithy. Just wondered how things were going with regard to the fires. I know that the news has quietened down but I suspect we have not heard the end of it. It would be good to get a bulletin from the horse's mouth.

  Keep safe Smithy.

  SL
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  Amazing Read,Check this out!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
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  currently reading : 30 years a watchtower slave.

  cannot put it down.. this book pre-dates ray franz book "crisis of conscience", written from early 20th century, shortly after the jehovah's witnesses were formed.

  the author describes the original true background of the watchtower society as a multi-million dollar publishing company.

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  Marley Cole I believe. This was in or bookshelves 50 years ago. It was my first furtive glance under the stone as a boy.

  Edit to say, I am confusing Marley Cole's book "Jehovah's Witnesses - The new World Society". We had them both on the shelf.
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  Circus Assembly Jaw Dropper

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the co got on his hind legs for the public talk and repeated twice "tolerance promotes division".

  then backed it up by saying that if one group march for some right, another group will march for the opposite.. so jws are intolerant and proud of it.

  f@@@k me sideways.. may explain that the baptism tally was 0..

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  I would like to know if this is straight from the outline. If any PIMO people like me would keep an ear out for this in the public talk in the CO version of the circuit assembly (not the special visitation one) it can be confirmed as being from head office.
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  Circus Assembly Jaw Dropper

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
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  the co got on his hind legs for the public talk and repeated twice "tolerance promotes division".

  then backed it up by saying that if one group march for some right, another group will march for the opposite.. so jws are intolerant and proud of it.

  f@@@k me sideways.. may explain that the baptism tally was 0..

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  intolerance promotes unity

  And there it is. WT requires obedient unity above everything. The vacant smile, the mindless staged expressions of "love" during international conventions. There is no room for tolerance or inclusiveness. All must march in lockstep on their way to North Korea.

  Hail the Great Leader.
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  Circus Assembly Jaw Dropper

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the co got on his hind legs for the public talk and repeated twice "tolerance promotes division".

  then backed it up by saying that if one group march for some right, another group will march for the opposite.. so jws are intolerant and proud of it.

  f@@@k me sideways.. may explain that the baptism tally was 0..

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  Repeated twice with great gravity and then again later. I think it was from the outline.