Vidiot

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  The Coming Global Salvation - (Not Universalism)

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the overwhelming majority of the early church leaders (fathers) were premillennial and believed in a literal 1000 yr. kingdom.

  today, 2/3 of christians are amillennial.

  i do not want to imply that amilennialists, are not christian.

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  Vidiot

  Well, that clinches it.

  Sign me up at your church.
  
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  Predictions for the next decade?

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as it’s nearly the new year my prediction over the next decade or so will see the sense of urgency dwindle.

  then some huge huge changes.

  for example by 2034 in a decades time, they will have address the 1914 issue and will come out and say we can’t be dogmatic.

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  Vidiot

  Prediction for the next decade…

  …Warners and Disney will merge.

  And we’ll finally get the Justice League / Avengers crossover nobody’s been asking for.
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  WAR begins.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  things are moving right along.

  “israel” has gone to war with iran.. who is fooled?.

  this is uncle sam, same as in ukraine.. daniel layed out clearly the events of “d day” june 6, 1944 as the “ships of kittim” would sail against the king of the north.

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  lastmanstanding - “…’a coalition of stupids’…”

  Don’t need to look overseas for that.

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  WAR begins.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  things are moving right along.

  “israel” has gone to war with iran.. who is fooled?.

  this is uncle sam, same as in ukraine.. daniel layed out clearly the events of “d day” june 6, 1944 as the “ships of kittim” would sail against the king of the north.

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  Vidiot

  Know what’s really weird?

  According to Star Trek canon, WW3 kicks off in 2026.
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  Video: I Am Not An Apostate . . . I Had The Courage To Think For Myself (By Exjw Danny)

  by AbaddonProvesIt in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had the courage to think for myself!

  they’ll call us apostates.

  but really, we just had the courage to think for ourselves.

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  “…we just had the courage to think for ourselves…”

  By the WTS’s internal logic, that’s “apostasy”.
  
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  WAR begins.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  things are moving right along.

  “israel” has gone to war with iran.. who is fooled?.

  this is uncle sam, same as in ukraine.. daniel layed out clearly the events of “d day” june 6, 1944 as the “ships of kittim” would sail against the king of the north.

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  Everything is proof of The End!

  Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!!!
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  1/2 of the Jehovah’s witnesses have gone

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.

  some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.

  7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.

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  Journeyman - “…However, for various reasons - ranging from burnout, to distractions from everyday life, to a lack of a personal sense of urgency - they don't act as the ‘old school’ JWs of the pre-2000s did…

  Ten bucks says that there’s also a significant number who are embarassed to (publicly) identify as JWs, considering all the shit that’s been going on.
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  Is There Some Sort of Campaign On?

  by NotFormer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on friday, i walked to my doctor's to pick up a couple of prescriptions*.

  from there i walked in to town to the chemist's (pharmacy) to get the scripts filled.

  it's winter here, and my town can get get colder than is average for my state**.

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  Barb Anderson did some digging a while back, and put it together.

  Unsurprising, really…

  …Russel was a businessman, and activities like that had less chance of a return on the investment.
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  Is There Some Sort of Campaign On?

  by NotFormer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on friday, i walked to my doctor's to pick up a couple of prescriptions*.

  from there i walked in to town to the chemist's (pharmacy) to get the scripts filled.

  it's winter here, and my town can get get colder than is average for my state**.

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  The preaching work in general was never truly about converting new members.

  It was about having a demonstrable activity and paper trail for federal revenue agencies to qualify for charity status.

  Soup kitchens, clothing drives and the like never interested them… an attitude dating back to Russel, in fact.

  If it were really about converting people, there’ve always been way more effective methods of doing that, and the WT leadership certainly had the resources.
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  1/2 of the Jehovah’s witnesses have gone

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.

  some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.

  7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.

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  NotFormer - “…they could well be down to one healthy congregation, where once they had two…”

  This.