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  What Do Today’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Think?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  when i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.

  i understood jw doctrines .

  i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.

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  FedUpJW - "...Two phrases that definitely DO NOT belong in the same sentence..."

  Damn, beat me to it.
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  Another bad faith video

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. social
  2. current

  just sharing this for all the people who hated me saying it.

  funny how truth finally comes out if those of us who care enough to become lightning rods don’t let up.

  it’s taken a year, but the left wing ( not the same as a traditional liberal ) nut-job bs is becoming quite evident, and this will continue across multiple subjects as time passes.

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  Vidiot

  I've always liked Bill Maher.
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  What Do You Think of Dr. Fauci?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last year millions of people were singing his praises.

  what’s your opinion of him right now?.

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  Even though he hasn’t died for my sins (yet), I’ve accepted Fauci into my heart as my Lord and Savior.

  Praise Fauci!
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  mynameislame - "When I saw the children's version of the story of Sampson, it dawned on me that the story is really best suited to a comic book."

  Noah, Samson, David... superheroes of the ancient Hebrews.

  The Old Testament... the original Shared Universe.

  
  
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  joe134cd - "...But they are also going to lose the level of control they can exude on the rank and file..."

  100% agree.

  Rhetoric and propaganda only go so far in maintaining internal cohesion and discipline...

  ...actual, tangible group-oriented activities such as regular in-person meetings and the door-to-door work - regardless of how tiresome or unpleasant they may be - serve as the most effective tools for sustaining that.

  I even remember an elder who, for all intents and purposes, spelled that out for me when I was a kid.
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  Vidiot

  Strange Days ahead, to be sure.
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  WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

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  let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.

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  I think it's at least partly a zoning issue, 'cause I've seen it before.

  In a small city I'm familiar with, a little-used KH was bought by a local Sikh congregation (who proceeded to refurbish it accordingly), and an older one was also sold to an evangelical church, who turned it into a Christian bookstore...

  ...whilst the congregation(s) who'd been previously using it built a new KH right next door (admittedly, kinda weird).
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  Drearyweather - "...'the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually'..."

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5Z6C5T9BE

  
  
  
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  Vidiot

  I had issues with the hard-ass OT God and Revelation as a pre-teen...

  ...a little less so as a result of certain experiences as a teenager, though.
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  Losing My Religion - America's progressive estrangement from organized religion

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article on the latest gallup survey:.

  https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html.

  in 1937, 73% of americans would be affiliated with some organized religion; that number remained steady until 1999: (70%); the 21st century brought about a major shift: 50% in 2018; 47% in the latest survey.. children who grew up in households without organized religion are less likely to affiliate to some form of organized religion.. it's not only a generational difference; the growth in those who express no religious preference is also on the rise in generation x (those born between mid 1960's and early 1980's).

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  truth_b_known - "Humans are wired for religion. Rationalism has caused a declined in Judeo-Christian religions in the west..."

  That's it!

  I'm a Born-Again Rationalist!!!