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  Believers: How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  don't start fighting, darlings.

  i am genuinely curious.

  after all i was a jobo 50 years and thought the wbt$ was 100% correct.. i ask this because i see that, for example, christian denominations (or whatever), likely have differing interpretations of the same writing.

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  Vidiot

  punkofnice - "How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?"

  By how much said view affirms and reinforces your biases, obviously.
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  Mental Illness among JW's

  by Victor in

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  2. beliefs

  disclaimer: this article has some broad generalizations that will have exceptions to what is stated.

  this is the only way i can even attempt to address the topic.

  i've looked for scholarly articles published on peer reviewed journals for years.

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  Vidiot

  The two related pieces that Atlantis linked to were pretty decent, but once you got to the end and realized there was an obvious agenda of converting JWs to evangelicalism, it was hard to not take the info with a retroactive grain of salt.
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  Brazil: Watch Tower claim raid on premises unlawful

  by Antonio_Madaleno in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  in september 2019, the branch of jehovah’s witnesses and a number of kingdom halls in são paulo brazil were raided by the police, in search of documentary evidence of criminal activities relating to child sexual abuse.

  the jehovah’s witnesses claim that the raid was unlawful.

  below is a translation of the court of justice determination.

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  Vidiot

  Don’t forget guys...

  ...going around poking people in the eye with a stick and then whining when you get smacked for it doesn’t make you “persecuted”...

  ...it just makes you an asshole.
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  Do JWs believe that animals were created to live in harmony? Lion and the lamb

  by Doubledecker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thanks to all who replied to my first post, i appreciate you taking the time to do so.. i left jws for my own reasons as a teenager as i just simply didn’t believe it .

  i am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the jw broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before i’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.. however i digress .... as a young kid i used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”.

  like i say i was 10 years old i remember so please excuse the childish question.. but do they actually believe that was gods original plan for animals ?

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  Still Totally ADD - “Unlike today, nature was all around them trying to kill or eat them.“

  Dont kid yourself.

  It’s still like that in plenty of places around the world.

  Just Google “Australian wildlife”. 😏
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  Do JWs believe that animals were created to live in harmony? Lion and the lamb

  by Doubledecker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thanks to all who replied to my first post, i appreciate you taking the time to do so.. i left jws for my own reasons as a teenager as i just simply didn’t believe it .

  i am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the jw broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before i’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.. however i digress .... as a young kid i used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”.

  like i say i was 10 years old i remember so please excuse the childish question.. but do they actually believe that was gods original plan for animals ?

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  I always had trouble picturing tyrannosaurs munching on leaves, even as a kid.

  And, in fact, as a died-in-the-wool shit-disturber, I’d often call out literalist JWs when they were dumb enough to bring up this very subject...

  ...I’d ask, “if all dinosaurs were herbivorous, why have they found allosaurus teeth embedded in brontosaurus bones?”

  The deer-in-the-headlights look never got old, and what’s more, I never got in trouble for it, either.
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  Unwritten, congregational 'rules'

  by Thetruthhurts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what were some of yours?

  the big one in our hall was no frontal hugs!

  these were generally thought of as inappropriate, only side hugs should be given between sisters and brothers.

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  Anna Marina - “How democracy will flourish when they take over the world...”

  Realizing that the Org planned to run the world forever - and just what that would entail - actually contributed to my fade.
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  Brazen conduct

  by road to nowhere in

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  2. bible

  i just noticed the clam illustration of "reject brazen conduct" a young man in service walking past 2 others drinking beer and playing cards.

  i know elders who do both.

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  Vidiot

  I’m no fan of Ayn Rand, but a particular conversation between Ferris and Reardon in Atlas Shrugged comes to mind.
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  Why does the Borg never use the terms Grace or Ezer

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  let me start with: this is not a discussion of the validity of the bible or whether it is inspired of god.. my question is why do you think they don't use grace in their teachings when this is such paramount teaching in the rest of the christian world.

  and why do they not reference the hebrew word for helper in genesis 'ezer'.

  this word as applied to a woman seems more dignified as it carries the connotation of strength where the man is weak.

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  If Christendom says “zig”, the WTS zags.
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  Baptisms exceeding 300K last year – a possible reason

  by Viva la Vida in

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  2. beliefs

  two facts to consider: 1) most baptisms take place during assemblies and conventions; 2) the theocratic year goes from september to august.

  my theory: the borg changed the calendar of conventions and assemblies so to concentrate the baptisms in a single theocratic year.

  if some conventions used to take place in july/august, for the 2018 series they moved them to september.

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  Vidiot

  Sure, there’s 300K baptized a year...

  ...compared to how many DFed, DAed, faded, etc., though?
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  What happens to bethel members who get sick?

  by JimmyYoung in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i am sure if you are at bethel and have the flu you just get time or what ever to recover, but what about serious sickness.

  say you get cancer or some possible terminal illness?

  what happens?.

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  Vidiot

  Can’t say with certainty, but I’ve heard that cults tend to shoot their wounded. 😏