I personally have found that "paganism" was THE first religion and christianity irradicated any and all evidence of how christianity was an offshoot of "paganism". So to make a long story short I find nothing wrong with any holidays.
Moridin
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Holidays
by eyes_opened ini know this has probably been covered a bunch...but here i go anyway lol.
how many of you guys who have been out of the org.
for a while, now celebrate the holidays?
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Pedophelia Cases Starting to Come Into the Courts
by Moridin inhello all,.
check out the media section at http://www.geocities.com/graendal54/doubts.html, proclaiming the truth about the "truth".
new story, court hears church confession case.
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Moridin
The link is the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Media banner that will bring you to the news section.
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Pedophelia Cases Starting to Come Into the Courts
by Moridin inhello all,.
check out the media section at http://www.geocities.com/graendal54/doubts.html, proclaiming the truth about the "truth".
new story, court hears church confession case.
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Moridin
Hello All,
Check out the media section at http://www.geocities.com/graendal54/doubts.html, Proclaiming the Truth About the "Truth". New story, Court Hears Church Confession Case.
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Is There Something Sinister At The KH?
by Englishman inever since i departed the jw`s, i have pooh - pooh`d the idea of satan, devils, demons, witches and warlocks and laughed at jw paranoia re smurfs and demonised objects etc etc.. just recently, i have had some thoughts as to why jw`s are so obsessive about this subject, suppose that:.
what if the jw religion were itself of satanic origin?
consider the facts:.
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Moridin
I agree with TR...I think a lot of the demon experiences were stories started by the watchtower and also things that started in people's heads. We all know how often we were having the whole thing about watching for demonic things and being careful with what we watched, listened to, and dabbled in. It was so driven in that it was always on our minds. Our minds play tricks on us quite often and with demons being on them most of the time as witnesses it would be obvious that any experiences could be figments of our imagination. On the contrary however I do believe that those that have died live in another dimension as spirits. Sometimes these ones have unfinished business or are so angry at being taken away from their bodies so unexpectedly that they tend to stick around and make some people's lives miserable. So in my opinion some of these experiences with spirits and not demons are very true and other times they are figments of our imagination.
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Question #3 "What will you say?"
by ozziepost inall irregular and inactive publishers will be pleased with the heartwarming news that april will see a special campaign by the elders to encourage you.
yes, don't faint, it must be true because the april kingdom ministry says so.
in fact, so strong is the forecasted encouragement, that it states on paragraph 25 of the insert article:.
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Moridin
I think I will definitly tell them exactly how I feel about their organization. I am so sick of hiding my true self and what I believe that I almost wish to get it over and done with.
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Out of the Mouth of Babes
by deludednomore inwe have not attended a meeting for several months.
besides one elder who keeps pounding on our door, we have been left pretty much alone.
one jw friend still talks to us regularly.
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Moridin
I remember having this issue drilled into my head. I didn't want to except the "fact" that all the kids in school would be killed so I constantly preached to them...hmmm maybe that's why I never had that many friends growing up.
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Questions for this weeks service meeting
by NikL inin the true spirit of sharing all the bountifull truths that exist within gods organisation (note the sarcasm) i am forwarding the following questions i have obtained for use at this weeks service meeting.... building appreciation for the bible -mankind's oldest modern book.
the following questions highlight points you may have observed when watching this video: .
(1) what facts distinguish the bible as being unequaled?.
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Moridin
I would very much like to see their answer for question three. If any have seen the video please let me know how the Watchtower explains how the Bible has not been changed.
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Stuff-Not to Tell the R+F;)
by ISP inthings to avoid.
circulate to all elders.
please let us have feedback so that we can maintain a full database.. well don't get involved in anything about past chronology.
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Moridin
I like that translation better than the NWT :) and pass me some o that Bud!
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Stuff-Not to Tell the R+F;)
by ISP inthings to avoid.
circulate to all elders.
please let us have feedback so that we can maintain a full database.. well don't get involved in anything about past chronology.
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Moridin
Don't forget that the witnesses once taught that in 1925 the men of old, Abraham, Isaac, David, Job...would be resurrected and would direct the org from their home which I might add was in their names, in Beth-Saren(I think that was the name.) Also that God lives on the star Alcyone in the Pleiades star cluster...this one you can find at my site http://www.geocities.com/graendal54/doubts.html it's in that article, Teachings the Watchtower Discarded.
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Elders- "Trained or UnTrained- WHICH IS IT??
by JT inthe biggest error wt has continued to make for the last 120yrs is they leave a wonderful paper trail behind - where a serious student of study will have no problem following and seeing that so many of their lofty claims simply don't fly .
case in point - are the elders trained or untrained clergymen as it were?.
well for those of you who have never served as an elder allow me to share with you what elders are told about their training.
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Moridin
My father was an elder for quite some time and he never really felt comfortable with the "training" he recieved. He mentioned that the congregation he was appointed in had two sisters running the elders. They were deathly afraid of them and they constantly counseled the elders! On my father's appointment he gave a very strong talk on some subject...sorry wasn't paying attention so can't remember what it was on...and the sisters cornered him after the meeting to counsel him on being too outspoken. He hauled them into the backroom and disciplined them. The other elders were shocked...but they finally got some b***s. That was a bad thing as it turned out. My father said that a lot of the judicial decisions were made from the heart and not from prayer or thinking. There were two feuds that separated the congregation into two factions and there was a lot of infighting among the elders. The "training" they recieved went in one ear and out the other. I thank God they were a spiritually weak congregation because they were the reason I started to question the org.