Posts by Lieu

A sister putting stuff on her head 'cause her baptized 10yr old boy is around ... who the hell is that child the "head" of ?!! The sandbox gang? Certainly not his mother.

Keeping convention clothing on all day

Book bag "heaviness"

Wearing suit jackets and ties in 90 degree heat

Can't imagine who could correlate .....😊

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Comment from Examining the WT Daily May 22

by Dreamerdude in

somehow i missed this silly comment in the wt study las year.

i just have been daydreaming.

but wt wants tomane sure i get the point.. "after the death of the apostles, satan fomented apostasy, which flourished for many centuries.

Lieu

Dreamer dude, the answer is simple: They don't have a friggin' clue. Someone in the writing department is making things up again. Fanciful daydreaming, sounding ridiculous as usual.

The Christians hiding out in Turkey just kinda did nothing? Timothy, Clement, Titus, etc just converted to Buddhism? Those in Egypt ? Scrolls hidden all around the Middle East ... nope everyone on siesta until, until The United States of America! f-yeah!!!!

And the word "apostasy" is not even in the Bible. However, antichrists were already popping up and false teachers out and about while the apostles were still around.

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What's your favourite feel good movie ?

by jhine in

maybe it's time for a less serious thread .

i have just finished watching dirty dancing ( again ) .

what is your feel good movie , the one that makes you smile and cry happy tears ?

Lieu

Independence Day

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Many are leaving their enforced, inbred and inherited religions, and surprise it's not just JWs...

by UNCONDITIONAL LOVE in

jw
friends

i want to share this great article from an informative website on religion and how it is an age old play on emotions and why many are fleeing from religion, including you.

the other insightful articles on this website will help to soothe your complex worries and open your eyes to a great reality.. one love.

http://wakeup-world.com/2015/11/21/waking-up-from-religion/.

Lieu

I tapped into the light switch a couple times, does that count? Those things are universal I'm told

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New Bible, In Spanish.... Why taking so long?!

by Doubtfully Yours in

is it possible it's not like they initially said, that it was just having god's name added in places where it had been deleted, and that perhaps they're making more adjustments to it in order to fit our doctrine?.

come out with the freakin' new bible in spanish already!!!.

dy .

Lieu

Exactly RubaDub,

Latin America is a gigantic Curacao. There's different languages mixed together depending on the indigenous groups that were around before the Spanish and others showed up . A lot of borrowed words in the daily language, not to mention concepts. Then there is the US and spanglish.

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JW's pressed the rain down in Ukraine

by oppostate in

jw brothersasamblea en ucrania 7.712 aguantando la lluvia que buen ejemplo para nosotros!

!que gran ejemplo y aguante!.

would you sit under torrential rain out in the open during a convention?.

Lieu

Aguas!!! Um, no. Negative.

Silly. The point??? We like sitting in puddles? It's like being in the bathtub? Now no one will notice I peed myself?

Great, now unsuspecting Ukrainians can open doors to sneezing and coughing JWs.

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Was Jesus really a Jehovah`s Witness ? He never identified himself as such , in word or deed.

by smiddy in

also he never chastised the jews for not identifying themselves as jehovah`s witnesses following isaiah`s statement at ch.43 :10-12 , so many years before hand.. and he had ample opportunity to do so on numerous occasions .. jesus himself never used the divine name /jehovah or any other equivalent , in any of his sayings attributed to him by his contemporaries .. sure he acknowledged god as his father and that he did his fathers will , but he never acknowledged him by a personal name such as jehovah or anything like it.. and lets not forget acts 11:26 it was first in antioch that followers of jesus by divine providence were to be called christians , not jehovah`s witnesses,.

smiddy.

Lieu

Because the NT isn't about YHWH, it's about who was sent to be the Savior. Christianity is about following the example of Christ and gaining knowledge in Christ, to the glory of YHWH. The whole Hebrew Bible is a build up to Christ, the Messiah.

Christ is King of the Kingdom. Christ is the mediator for all mankind. Christ is the High Priest and at Christ's name every knee will bend.

The apostles and disciples were followers of Christ , they were actual witnesses of Christ. So yeah, those of Christ were called Christians. Jehovah's Witnesses were standing on Egypt when the Red Sea was split . If you weren't there it ain't you.

Acts 4:10-12 NET

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy. [11] This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone. [12] And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."

Anyone who claims to be a follower of the Bible should believe that is God's arrangement. He himself made those arrangements and that's how he wants things to be.

Now what I found interesting is when reading certain accounts, Christ says he has made God's name known. He also says it's the name that's been given to himself. John chapter 17 is mind altering. It's common practice for a father to give his first born son his same name. Junior. Hmmmm?

When I think about it, God never really told the Israelites his name.

"I am" is not a name, it's a state of being.

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Another generation....

by joey jojo in

it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?

the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.

the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.

Lieu

It's simple really. If you don't see it all you are not who he was referring to.

This is not brain surgery.

Also, "the last days", as the apostles understood it were happening in their time. See what Peter says to the crowds on Pentecost when they think the disciples are drunk (concerning their speaking in other languages). It's in Acts chapter 2. He's referring to the things happening right there and then.

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New Member

by DangerMcDanger in

my name is jimbo, i'm almost 20 years old, and i live in southern california.

here we go, here's my story (i feel like i'm in an aa meeting haha):.

i was invited by a friend who, looking back, i could tell was buttering me up for months so she can lunge on the perfect opportunity to invite me to a meeting.

Lieu

Hi there and welcome.

I generally dislike the term "worldly" because it is completely negative in connotation when used by a JW. It's used like one should spit after saying it.

But that all comes from those JWs who live on a compound in NY kept insulated from anyone not a member of their sect. They have no clue.