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  Is The GB Paranoid? And Should They Be?

  by NotFormer in

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  2. scandals

  the gb seems to have a bunker mentality, that they are special, and that the world is out to get them, so they tend to keep within their tightly controlled, protective environment.

  bottlegate proved that there is some danger outside of the rarified atmosphere of their echo chamber; you never know when a camera might be trained on you, or that someone might recognise you as being something more than plain old "joe citizen".

  further, tm3's new address was quickly found and distributed, and (as i understand it) someone drove to his gated community to tell the security guard that tm3's "ass is grass".

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  Ding

  I'm looking for the recent quote and citation where the GB said that JWs should be ready to obey any directives they receive even if they don't seem to make sense.

  Could someone help me find that, please?

  Thanks.
  
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  Governing Body's failed doctrines blamed on Jehovah's gradual revealment

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh9w8zmgli0.

  ( starts at the 21:00 minute mark ) governing body member jeffrey winder reveals the real reason for the failed doctrines throughout the watchtower's 150 year history.

  he claims that the governing body are neither inspired or infallible.. the governing body do not need to apologize for getting doctrines wrong.. the governing body ''do their best with what they have and what they understand at the time.''.

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  Ding

  The fact that the GB makes it up as they go along seems to me to be a much more logical explanation.
  
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  Jehovah and Pleiades

  by James Brown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone remember seeing old watchtowers in their kingdom hall library before they destroyed them all, of the watchtower annoucing jehovah from pleiades kingdom.

  i am 72 years old and i remeber seeing these old magazines somewhere..

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  Ding

  I remember that. I don't have any old literature which contains it.
  
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  A Modest proposal to solve the 1914 problem

  by r51785 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  throughout watchtower history dates have been a problem.

  the usual solution for failed prophetic dates has been to kick the can down the road.

  this needs to be done with 1914. the generation that will never pass away is now 110 years old and therefore is past its useful life span.

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  Ding

  Scholar,

  No need to reinvent the wheel.

  Please read The Gentile Times Reconsidered by Carl Olaf Jonsson, which disproves the 607 date in many different ways.

  Also, check out jwfacts dot com.

  Lots of evidence there.
  
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  General Amnesty For Disfellowshipped

  by NotFormer in

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  2. beliefs

  future gb: "please come back!

  all is forgiven!".

  would it work?

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  Ding

  In the parable of the Prodigal Son, who thought the standards for restoration were far too lax?

  The elder brother.
  

  In fact, who probably wouldn't have allowed restoration at all, even with a great deal of groveling, which he would have considered insincere?

  The elder brother.

  Whom does Jesus want to be like? The father or the elder brother?
  

  Hmmmmm....
  
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  Essential Beliefs

  by LeeMerk in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if the watchtower really wants to move more mainstream they need to take a lesson from evangelicals in the united states.

  they seem to say there are "essential beliefs".

  a handful of core beliefs that are necessary to be considered true christians.

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  Ding

  Their one unassailable doctrine is that whatever the GB teaches is the truth.
  
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  Did God know adam and eve would sin?

  by gavindlt in

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  2. bible

  to all those on this forum, i would love to know what your take on this vital question is..

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  Ding

  If God didn't know that, by the same reasoning he wouldn't know ahead of time any of the evil that would happen.

  That would eliminate a lot of the prophecies in the Bible and would leave a God who knew very little about human beings.
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  JWs And Superstitions

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  prompted by a mention in a different thread.. cracks in the sidewalk, a pinch of salt over the shoulder, black cats🐈‍⬛; do jws have such superstitious beliefs.

  are they allowed to?

  would they be counselled if the elders became aware?.

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  Ding

  A lot of JWs seem to say "Jehovah" in every sentence of their prayers as if Satan is going to get them if they skip it once.
  
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  Can't the "slave" make up its mind?

  by BoogerMan in

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  2. bible

  w54 4/1 p. 222 par.

  27 - 1919. w63 4/1 p. 202 par.

  5 - 1919. w65 7/1 p. 393 par.

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  Ding

  Sometimes think the GB and WT writers don't bother to check what the WT has said before, probably because they know the vast majority of JWs will simply believe the latest "light" and forget they ever said anything different.
  
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  Join JW's or DIE - soon!!!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w72 10/1 p. 607 - "they (jw's) know that soon now all who are not true worshipers of jehovah (jw's) will be destroyed.".

  how quickly half a century passes by!

  2 peter 3:8 - "...one day is with jehovah jw.borg as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

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  Ding

  In 1972, "soon now" meant 1975.