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  144 year-old mystery finally solved

  by Tahoe in

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  punkofnice

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Sdh239AII
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses no longer count time. How is this news affecting moral and meeting attendance at local congregations?

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  no more watchtower and awake mags every 2 weeks to place.

  no private home book studies.

  no more "essential" spiritual food meals 5x a week.

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  At it's most extreme, the Jobots will see it as a 'test'. If not the other extreme could be 'a loving arrangement(tm)'

  I imagine most Jobots will carry on 'business as usual'.

  I can't imagine it 'stumbling(tm)' many because they're all too 'idiocracy' for it.
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  If you were to design a new religion?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  what the jw sect has become and is slowly becoming is far more near what i thought could be a good religion based on the bible.. no more counting hours and no more blindly following direction now they admit they are not inspired.. i would like to design a new sect inside the jws.

  it has to be kept secret because the elders would not like it.. this new sect involves giving a tick every month or so saying you are still kindof active talking about the bible.. going to meetings occasionally and attending on zoom sometimes.

  very rarely go to ministry groups but don’t ever do first call, just say you are doing street work and have a nice walk somewhere maybe the shops or the park.

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  If you were to design a new religion?

  I wouldn't.

  Religion has caused enough problems in the world. If you want to take a Biblical view, it was 'religion' that gave Jesus such a bad time and then killed him.

  I wouldn't stay in a cult like the Jobots, undercover, overcover or Wombling free.
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  I’m not sure what this means!

  by NeedsProof in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was visited by 2 witnesses, and we had a long chat about lots of things!

  one of them named claire took the lead and i instantly felt some sort of connection to her, after we had spoken and they had left i started to have this overwhelming feeling to research her and what she had spoken about but i couldn’t find her anywhere on any website or social media, so i left it and thought nothing more of it all day….

  however the strange thing is i had a dream that night and claire was in it, many things happened in this dream that i was told i was only allowed to speak about with claire, i can speak of the dream to others but the details only me and claire can know!

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  It means you had a dream. I don't believe it goes beyond just that.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

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  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  ...........and Kossy cracks on regardless of the complete train wreck the thread has become.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  punkofnice

  This thread has become a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, methinks.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  It's ok to be grumpy.

  Ecclesiastes 4

  Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness

  1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.

  2 And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.

  3 But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

  4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  5 Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.

  6 Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

  7 Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:

  8 There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

  9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:

  10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

  11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

  12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

  Advancement Is Meaningless

  13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.

  14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.

  15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor.

  16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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  Bible question

  by BoogerMan in

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  when boaz lost his wife, did he become ruthless?.

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  punkofnice

  There were also those unfunny quips about Lot's wife and salt................too banal to remember.

  The one about riding through the land in triumph...........

  ...............not my humour but whatever makes a person smile is not bad.
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  Cult or High Control Group?

  by MillennialDawn in

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  2. friends

  i see this phrase a lot: "the indication of a cult is what happens when you leave.

  " i'm not sure where that originated, but it is a faulty categorization.

  "cult" is almost always used in a derogatory way.

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  punkofnice

  We've had this conversation a few times over the years. The point is moot.

  The JWs are a fake religion whatever you describe them as.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  punkofnice

  Kossy - The end to the Watchtower organization is foretold in the Bible:

  It'd be nice to think so. However, it doesn't say or infer that in the vaguery it uses. I think you're putting too high a value on the fake religion that no one in their right mind cares about.

  This chapter would more likely be about ending the oppression of the Jews back then. Look at the timeline and when it was written. VS:1.

  The Watchtower Corporation(tm) isn't big enough or important enough to be the biggest part of a prophecy.

  That's my sixpence ha'penny on it anyway.