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  Kingdom songs

  by Jrjw in

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  2. beliefs

  anyone got any ideas on how to get kingdom melodies out of my head.

  keep finding myself singing them without realising and it's getting annoying lol.

  hopefully they'll disappear with time.

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  Half banana

  From house to house..........

  Rubbish tunes, although not all of them, especially those stolen from classical composers.

  As a practical suggestion Jrjw, instead of witness music why not replace them with stonking melodies such as Bach's; Auf wachet or Sleepers awake in English. If you google it you can compare different performances, orchestral, organ, piano and choral and there you are you have a beautiful new earworm to replace the awful old one.

  Try Dvorak's; Song to the moon, from Rusalka and give it the same treatment with different singers.
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  Gordon Nehemia - Finding God's holy name with full vowels

  by Da.Furious in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was just sent a link to a jewish scholar that apparently he has found 1,000 manuscripts with yehovah and latest discovery is one with vowels that supports the spelling yehovah.

  so this pits the myth that jews have forgotten the name into rest.. i got excited jws about the finding in support of the nwt showing the name as it should be.. just wanted to share this with you guys.. link to the blog and podcat: https://www.nehemiaswall.com/1000-manuscripts-yehovah#more-13611.

  also link to michael rood (blog:https://www.michaelrood.tv/) interview who is his friend:.

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  There is little significance in knowing how a certain group of Semites, at a certain time wished to pronounce the name of the lesser god Yahweh, an ox-headed idol from the Canaanite pantheon. How should we pronounce Yahweh’s brother god Chemosh? It really doesn’t matter.

  Not only does pronunciation change over time but it is significant that the name was given a substitute name for superstitious reasons for a long period of Jewish history.

  Really, what does religious hocus-pocus do for anyone?
  
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  Cart Witnessing Is Getting People Baptzed!!!🐑🐑

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently i talked to an elder about this type of witnessing.

  i’ve known him for many years and he is a very honest upright man.

  he marveled at how many people have become baptized in the last couple of years because of cart witnessing.

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  Half banana

  Conversely Crazyguy,

  I wonder how many pioneers manning the carts have left the org through being unwitnessed to by the likes of us?

  8 new JWs baptized (half of whom will fall away) and ten pioneers have woken up and stopped preaching.....?
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  What else is there to the so called "Truth"

  by jdash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  first of all, i want to say thanks to all of you guys who gave me advice on my first post.

  it really helped and i will try to use all of it.

  now, i been doing research on what is false about the jdubs.

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  TD that is a first rate archive document you reference (The Historical Idealism and Jehovah's Witnesses,Thomas Daniels) which in a scholarly way completely damns the honesty of the Watchtower literature and claims.

  The JW org deceives people!
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  What else is there to the so called "Truth"

  by jdash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  first of all, i want to say thanks to all of you guys who gave me advice on my first post.

  it really helped and i will try to use all of it.

  now, i been doing research on what is false about the jdubs.

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  Half banana

  Jdash really there is not one thing which is genuine about the JW org--except perhaps its genuine wish to possess your money and your life !

  The origin of the Watchtower was to promote the false announcement that Christ began ruling in heaven in 1874 and the "cleansed earth" which was to have come within 40 years of that date. Everything taught after these foundational falsehoods has also been false.

  The Bible is not at all God's word, that is a superstition repeated so much and for so long that people have made the assumption that it's true. Assumptions are very bad things, go for knowledge instead.

  Eternal life in paradise is the carrot which keeps the JW donkeys hopeful but it is a trap, an illusion, a distraction from the fact that everyone who is born will also die. The ransom sacrifice cannot work, it just a "belief".

  Can you aim for higher education? that is one of the best tickets out of JW delusional thinking--and it will help to pay the bills too.
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  Don't Try to Choose Your Beliefs

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  beliefs are not things to be chosen like new clothes; authentic beliefs happen to us without our conscious attention.. i have often seen comments from ex-jws to the effect that they are now unsure about what they 'ought' to believe.

  others express offense when their chosen beliefs are challenged and well-meaning bystanders protest that everybody is entitled to believe whatever they wish.

  this misunderstanding of what it means to believe something is unhelpful.. it's natural to want to quickly replace our old beliefs when our worldview has collapsed around us.

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  Very true Cofty, it's so sad to hear ex JWs say they don't know what beliefs to have. We don't need "beliefs" for goodness sake , instead we need knowledge and clear understanding!

  The best we ever get is a feel for the shape of reality based on sound information from different disciplines, we can't carry around a bag of absolute certainties any more like JWs do thinking they know what "the truth" is and that Armageddon is just around the corner. These are just words parroting cult doctrines.

  The world is full of charlatans and religious ones can do a lot of damage to the gullible.
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  I've just won the lottery

  by Half banana in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i’ve just won the lottery!.

  this will really make all of you jealous!

  no truly, i won’t have to work again, enough money for all my needs and more, a lot more!

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  Incidentally another cargo cult practising tribe from the island of Tanna at the village of Yaohnanen believe that the Queen of England's consort, Prince Phillip ("man blong Mrs Queen" in local pidgin dialect) is a divine being!

  I would put JW mentality at the same intellectual level.

  It has to be said that these decent people were practising cannibals from the Stone Age not so very long ago.
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  I've Disassociated. It's getting announced tomorrow.

  by Heathen Dan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my first post to this site, im pale.emperor's brother:).

  first of all, i've left being a jw in june.

  since then my family have tried to convince me it's "the truth" and force me to go back even though it's my own decision.

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  Half banana

  Welcome Dan and well done for standing your ground and making it clear that you do not intend to remain a JW.

  We know what a struggle it has been for you but things should be better in the future. We all hope so!
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  I've just won the lottery

  by Half banana in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i’ve just won the lottery!.

  this will really make all of you jealous!

  no truly, i won’t have to work again, enough money for all my needs and more, a lot more!

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  Half banana

  The Watchtower is no more intellectually credible in its hope of paradise than the worship of John Frum is in the island of Tanna with its hope of precious cargo and abundance for all coming out of the skies courtesy of US military aircraft.

  The impulse is the same; a fantasy of divine blessings showering down from the spirit world and forget the mundane barriers to the dream which the whole community shares.

  Have a look here:

  https://www.damninteresting.com/john-frum-and-the-cargo-cults/
  
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  I've just won the lottery

  by Half banana in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i’ve just won the lottery!.

  this will really make all of you jealous!

  no truly, i won’t have to work again, enough money for all my needs and more, a lot more!

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  Half banana

  This is the prize: everlasting life in paradise. Sounds too good to be true!

  This is the deal, the cost of the lottery ticket: All you have to do to win the prize is give up your own conscience and use the conscience supplied by the GB, plus you give up your education, most of your spare time, plus all of your personal ambitions, you then adopt the personality of a sheep and bow before the great panjandrums of the JW org in holy obedience. You must now permanently switch off any urges to logical thinking.

  It's a fair deal isn't it? Throw your life away serving the GB for the sake of being in paradise?

  Hang on! Hang on a mo! all you ever get back is a USELESS PROMISE but the goods NEVER arrive, it's exactly like being in a South Pacific Cargo cult!

  .....who has the best side of this bargain?