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  Yesterday's Watchtower Study 11 June 2017

  by BluesBrother in

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  "what will go when god's kingdom comes?

  " from april w/tower.

  we start with a picture of jesus riding a white horse into battle, galloping towards terrified people in darkness.

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  Half banana

  This paranoid drivel from the WT is based on a stupid belief that the Bible is a magic book. The message is all you have have to do is try and comply with every scripture that we (JWorg) bring to you and you will be OK--Big J will reward you.

  Actually this is absurd! To quote two scriptures which can be linked by a common thread does not make an instruction from God. All it does is link two scriptures with a common thread or idea. The verse in Psalms 37 has nothing tangible to do with Revelation except that the themes are wish fulfillment of triumphal victory and salvation for the Jews in the first case and narcotic induced dreamlike military victory in the second case.

  To put them together does not make it the word of God.
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  UK Child banned from seeing JW videos

  by usualusername1 in

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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/11/jehovahs-witness-agrees-not-show-son-religious-cartoons-risk/.

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  Half banana

  All credit to the judge; Jehovah's Witness propaganda is emotionally abusive to all its members but especially to innocent children who do not have the tools of analysis to evaluate WT instructions. JW children have no choice but to accept the teachings without understanding either the role of religious cults or what normal human life entails.

  The JW org exploit by their assumed authority to bamboozle and threaten youngsters into believing that they must be obeyed. The push is to make out that baptism will be a ticket to paradise.

  It's a trap and it hurts people; the JW religion is abusive. Thank goodness that the law here in the UK is becoming aware of this.
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  Where do I go now?

  by Libby in

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  2. friends

  so i thought my purpose was to serve jehovah and get baptised.

  where do i go now to get baptised?

  is baptism even a requirement for serving god or was that just for the disciples and people of that time.

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  Half banana

  "Where do I go now?"
  

  If you have been exposed to JW org doctrine, then it is not surprising that you have to ask this question. The JW org only wants people with low self esteem who are without imagination and want to remain in a state of infantile dependence on their organisation.

  May I kindly suggest you now go to a place where you will be able to enjoy the fruit of your own talents and pursue your own dreams, and do not do the bidding of religious propagandists. This is what real life is about.

  Try getting higher education to help you see how the world works and to give you an income. . . finally; become reliant on your own informed judgement.

  ..............and a big welcome to the site Libby!
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  The number of translations boast

  by Just stopping by in

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  2. bible

  just stopping by to share this... .

  after seeing a watchtower representative paste the same thing over and over, about jw.org being available in 850 languages.... we all know how the watchtower loves to boast about the number of languages it translates into.

  what are the facts?

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  Half banana

  The madness is that the Bible is called "God's Word" by all these societies translating and promoting it including the WT.

  If it was God's word you would at least expect it to be true or at least reasonable. It contains a lot of fiction and is highly anti social with the God of the BIble endorsing smashing children's heads in if they are not of your sort, and marrying your rapist etc. It teaches Adam and Eve but everyone knows there were no literal Adam and Eve. No Adam and Eve, then no original sin nor any need for a second Adam.

  Forget the Bible, don't bother to translate it, it's had it's day. A good education is an infinitely better alternative.
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  The number of translations boast

  by Just stopping by in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just stopping by to share this... .

  after seeing a watchtower representative paste the same thing over and over, about jw.org being available in 850 languages.... we all know how the watchtower loves to boast about the number of languages it translates into.

  what are the facts?

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  Half banana

  "The United Bible Societies’ Scripture Language Report, the only authoritative guide to the annual progress of worldwide Bible translation, records the progress made by United Bible Societies and other Bible translation agencies every year. The figures show that the complete Bible has now been translated into 475 languages and the New Testament into 1,240."

  However many languages the JW org translate their message into, their aim is to bamboozle, lure and recruit, never to help people. Their sole interest is to press their religious racket onto the most uneducated and vulnerable people of the Earth.

  Yes redvip2000 exactly!
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  So how come Jehovah can do anything but he still needs angels.

  by zigua in

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  as the title says :p.

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  How do you know that A Watcher?
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  Human origins pushed back further into the past

  by fulltimestudent in

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  2. friends

  science is a self-correcting journey.

  any error in thought will be corrected by later research or discoveries, so the common concept that we humans (homo sapiens) developed something like 200,000 years ago is undergoing a major correction.

  the discovery of fossilised bones of at least five individuals have been recovered from an old mine in morocco.

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  Half banana

  Satan has just put another five fossil skeletons in the ground to mislead us!

  Are there any others here interested in skull morphology?

  The one shown in the Guardian clip is clearly human but appropriately has many features associated with other older hominins, in this case especially Neanderthals.

  The skull thickness will be much greater than modern gracile H.sapiens. Large eye orbits and absence of a "mental shelf" i.e. the projecting lower chin, is like the classic neanderthal as is the "occipital bun," the protuberance at the back of the head, which is not found in moderns. The prominent eyebrow ridges are clearly a universal characteristic of early man but the high dome of the Jebel Irhoud skull is a modern feature.

  Although it won't be easy to determine, I hope we get a DNA analysis soon.

  Another five nails in the creationist's coffin!
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  Do You Have Any Indoctrinated Guilt Left Over?

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  i voted this morning for the first time.

  at 32yo i wondered in a church of england parish hall with no idea what i was doing.

  everyone else knew how to do it.

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  Half banana

  PE sorry but I think your taste buds are still indoctrinated...
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  Do You Have Any Indoctrinated Guilt Left Over?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i voted this morning for the first time.

  at 32yo i wondered in a church of england parish hall with no idea what i was doing.

  everyone else knew how to do it.

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  Half banana

  Good on you PE, you are now experiencing real life without the Watchtower mind shackles! I also voted this morning, at 7am.

  Jook, yes I think that eating black pudding is the acid test for how far you have come in getting rid of indoctrination. A disk of fried black pudding on crustless bread topped with a slice of apple makes for a good starter. (ideal when the CO comes to dinner)
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  JW's Changing Tune

  by SickofLies in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i left the religion back in the early 2000's, tell you the truth it's been so long now i've been out i don't remember exactly when i left.

  i definitely used this site a lot when i first left and it was a great asset.

  when i left i somehow managed to get my parents to come with me.

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  Half banana

  "All the old problems are now gone"..."the religion is now truly theocratic!"

  It was always vomit .....................and now it is stale vomit