Amelia Ashton

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  The origins of personified spirits and demons

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the jews, personified spirit beings, good and evil, along with demons, originated during the 3rd and 2nd centuries bce.. https://jwstudies.com/crucible__powers_above.pdf .

  this file will be available very temporarily.. doug.

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  Amelia Ashton

  When I first started doubting Jwdom I read the books not included in our current day version of the Bible. One was a book quoted but excluded in the final selection and I never accepted the JW explanation that the book quoted is lost and the one we can read is fake....or some such reasoning. A bit like there were 2 places called Damascus which is why Paul was both coming and going there at the time of his conversion.
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  For those who are athest, or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not asking this question to cause an argument or accuse, but i am honestly just wondering?

  for those of you who are now atheist or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  i hadn't given this much thought until about a year ago.

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  Amelia Ashton

  

  The truth will set you free but scientific evidence and fact based truth not the JW kind.
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  The origins of personified spirits and demons

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the jews, personified spirit beings, good and evil, along with demons, originated during the 3rd and 2nd centuries bce.. https://jwstudies.com/crucible__powers_above.pdf .

  this file will be available very temporarily.. doug.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I printed it off. Fascinating reading.

  Thank you
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  Pure Worship restored only for English-speaking?

  by AlexPancho in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  gb recent presents new book "based ezekiel" - pure worship restored.this book also provide into jw-borg site and jw-lib too, but only english.as examle, spanish - it`s second largest language into us and america continents, but has no translated into it.do you have any idea why this could happen?

  they hide something, or just did not have time to translate (but previously published in all major languages at the same time).

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  Amelia Ashton

  One of my many aha moments came from living in Spain and seeing how English was translated into Spanish. They even refer to KHs as churches over there but we couldn't.

  Being English speaking Our Kingdom Ministries were often, if we even got them, a bit irrelevent for us living in Spain. The Spanish version was aimed at Spanish people so no good for us either because our ministry was searching for English speaking people first and we were not to offer Spanish literature at all.

  I felt that was being partial even tho God supposedly isn't. Why couldn't we pair up with the Spanish and all preach together.

  Even the Spanish in our cong (They were all pioneers) who could speak English if finding an interested Spanish person had to pass their details to the Spanish congregation. They could not have them as a return visit. None of the rules seemed to be based on love for either the householder or the JWs
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  1975—Were You Affected By What 1975 Was Supposed to Bring?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for years , we were told to wait until 1975!.

  the end was coming and we better be ready—or else!.

  were you around during this “momentous “ time??

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  Amelia Ashton

  I was in college in 1975 and the only thing I knew about Jehovah s Witnesses back then was that they were predicting the end of the world was happening that year.
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  JW marketing image

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
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  picture from a recent watchtower:.

  what diversity.

  what corporate synergy.

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  This is the reality
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  Brexit Rollercoaster Grinding to a Halt

  by The Fall Guy in

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  uk prime minister could be out of her job within hours.

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  regardless, another referendum on stay/leave looks very likely - now that people can see what the real consequences of a divorce from the eu would be..

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  Amelia Ashton

  I think both sides were clueless has to how leaving would impact us all. The mess of the borders never crossed my mind and I don't even remember them being discussed let alone solved.

  There was definitely no talk of food or medicine shortages that I remember but maybe I missed them and people thought not having them a small price to pay for independence...or perhaps they are part of project fear and won't happen.

  I don't think either side really knows because stay or leave the EU is still calling all the shots.

  I see Nigel Farage has secured German passports for his children after fighting practically his whole political career for UK to be independent from Europe. Is he now not planning on staying here now we are leaving?
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  For those who are athest, or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not asking this question to cause an argument or accuse, but i am honestly just wondering?

  for those of you who are now atheist or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  i hadn't given this much thought until about a year ago.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Lack of evidence, pure and simple.

  Whilst having one of many aha moments a well meaning Christian (non JW) told me God WAS taking care of me and answering my prayers I just wasn't recognising his blessings.

  I was trying to escape a cult and realised their viewpoint was just as delusional as the Watchtower and once again I was the one at fault not God. Why couldn't an all powerful omnipotent being just be be a little bit clearer? It was a hard journey but with lots of reading and YouTube videos starting with Richard Dawkins and Derren Brown there was no other conclusion.

  The laryngial nerve in the giraffe and Dawkins explaining irreducible complexity of the eye proved there was no God for me.
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  Animals

  by unsure in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if humans have to suffer to have free will and to disprove satan's challenge to god as mentioned in the bible...then why the f*ck do animals have to suffer as well?

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  satan's challenge involved humans and not poor animals.. i'm looking for an honest explanation from believers.. at this point, the older i get, the less i believe in a god who is "love"..

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  Amelia Ashton

  When I was "studying" I was told that our love for animals is misplaced and unnatural and that after Armageddon they would be returned to their proper place. We lack love from our fellow men so turn to animals to fulfil that need but it isn't right and we won't need them to love once we are perfect again.

  My dog died 12 June this year and I am still struggling without her.
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  What Do You Think Will Be The Next Big Change In The Watchtower?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think there will be a change in the 144000 belief.

  too many witnesses think they have a heavenly hope.

  maybe 1914 will be discarded too.. what is your watchtower prediction?

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  Amelia Ashton

  Us ordinary minions could count time too when we built ours