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New Study Watchtower Celebrates 100 year Anniversary of the Kingdom

by Skinnedsheep in

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it is painful to read.

check out the 1/15/14 wt.

i am going to throw an invisible party to celebrate.

Listener

I noticed that too SkinnedSheep -

By enthroning his Son as the Messianic King, Jehovah had, indeed, become King in a new sense!

I can only think that they are up to their normal tricks by just throwing in a statement that will totally confuse the sheepies, that way you distract them from thinking deeply about the rest of message. Also, if you don't really believe that Jesus became King in 1914 then you could just consider that in some sense he did.

Or someone is trying to introduce the idea of the trinity.

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New Understanding of this Generation

by pronomono in

another tidbit of information about this generation from the 1/15/2014 study edition under "let your kingdom come - but when?".

they've changed it again.. this generation will not pass away14-16.

what is a third reason for believing that gods kingdom will come soon?.

Listener

The more you try to explain untruths the more you get your knickers in a knot.

They don't even know who the anointed are as they don't keep any record of them. How do they even know that the second group are 'advancing in years'? Soon they'll be telling JWs that they are only talking about anointed members who make up the FDS.

The 'we understand' refers to the group of 8 men sitting in a room discussing the issue. If this is the type of new light they can come up with then we are going to be thouroughly entertained in the future.

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In general, the people on this forum have a poor outlook spiritually speaking.

by Stand for Pure Worship in

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so i waz reading the august 15 wt study article, elisha saw fiery chariots, do you?

and it made me think about this forum.

if you remember, syria was hunting god's prophet, elisha.

Listener

Insight and faith are not the same thing and you obviously need more insight to understand that.

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Talk with my parents!

by Kool Jo in

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hey folks...had a skype conversation with my parents (hard-core, extremist jws)...and the cult still has a tight grip on them....like others on here, youre perhaps just watching your parents, growing older, giving to the cult more and more....with nothing in return.. they were happy to tell me how theyre enjoying their new bibles and how this provision is fantastic and show jehovahs blessings blah blah blah.. we then spoke about how their congregation will be getting a new khall, although many persons in the congregation didnt agree with its location.

Listener

"My mom jumped into the conversation and said that the COBE mentioned that if that’s where Jehovah wants the khall to be, then so be it"

I still can't help but cringe when I hear things like this being said and I do think there comes a point in time when some JWs know that attributing everything as being God's will is not right. I also think that these JWs just shake their head but are prepared to go along with it because all that really becomes important to them is their belief in God and they know no other way of serving him.

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The JW Report (Podcast)

by Brother Mike in

this is brother mike starting a new topic called the jw report.

i was thinking about making a 30-40 minute podcast every week that will help expose the watchtower and his true meaning behind this so called worshiping the one and only true god and many other lies that they have been telling for decades.

if you think this is an interesting idea please feel free to support me by commenting.

Listener

Have you done any so far, it would help in giving an opinion.

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Yearly Text; Suggested Ammendment

by iclone in

it was announced at this years general meeting that the new years text is let your kingdom come.

matt 6:10 .

the speaker clearly sounded vexed as he went on to say and why not as 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of christs heavenly reign.

Listener

Let your kingdom come just around the corner.

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So how exactly did this "new translation" come to be?

by sir82 in

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a normal person, upon hearing that a new (or revised) bible translation has been released, would have 2 questions spring to mind almost immediately:.

1) who did the work, and what are their credentials?.

2) what manuscripts is the work based on?.

Listener

They made it clear at the start of the AGM that there would be plenty of new light presented at the meeting. That new light was the revised translation.

By their own words new light can only be developed by the GB members working together as a team.

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The New Diary of Winston Smith

by WinstonSmith in

we had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.

fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.

i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.

Listener

Sorry to hear this Winston, it is far from easy and so heartbreaking. Don't forget that even though it is your mother's decision in some ways it isn't, she is just following what she believes is right and it would no doubt be very hard on her.

Nevertheless comments like this are maddening -

"So now we both live with the consequences of your decision."

It is sad to see her become so judgemental of your wife, she is choosing to shun her because of your actions. It is actually the height of hypocrisy when you look at her letter as a whole. Had you just faded she would not have shunned you (or her) even though she really does know how you feel. It seems to be a typical JW trait. Because things are out in the open she has no choice but to shun, it is all about appearance.

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Hubby gave me my cross and chain

by KariOtt in

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we got home earlier today from celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary.

we had a blast.

walked aroung gatlinberg.

Listener

"blacked out the UPC # off the orginal recepts"

This is strange behaviour and your husband doesn't seem concerned about it, you should speak to someone about it.

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The Revised NWT - A great timewaster

by Listener in

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.

Listener

This is what they have presented the JWs with at the Annual General Meeting of the WTBTS held over the weekend.

It have taken five years to do the revision and they have released these books to JWs by the 10s of thousands all at once, like a Tsunami.

At this stage it the revision has only been done in english.