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  Another look at how the WBTS uses half truths to push garbage.

  by Defianttruth in

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  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102013047 .

  wow talk about a way to push your garbage.

  i can see it now the wbts is going to start taking their web pages down when people with open minds start picking apart what they write and openly publish for all to have this is only going to get better.

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  bats in the belfry

  Cross-referencing: Awake February 2013: Where do they find these people?
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  WT to Brethren: "Are you still spreading our recently exposed lies that we were forced to change to save ourselves from utter embarassment? (Watchtower -April 15, 2013 page 9)

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  of course, that question was softened up and changed to:.

  "is your teaching up-to-date?

  " (see illustration on page 9).

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  bats in the belfry

  Now they are drilling down to the faithful the 'ever-increasing light' (?) , lest they forget: up-to-date = overlap

  

  Yet they used to say this:

  If we were to fear the arrival of Jehovah’s day with all its awesome accompaniments, we would not be awaiting it and keeping it close in mind, but would be wishing to postpone it into the indefinite future beyond our lifetime, beyond “this generation.”

  The Watchtower 1975, 12/15 p. 752 par. 2

  Q.: Isn't that exactly what the FDS/GB has done with the new theology?
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  My Husband Said "Victims Of Pedophiles Come Forward Soon, Not Fifteen Or Thirty Years Later!" Right?

  by AuntConnie in

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  my husband had gotten into a fight with a couple of victims of different pedophiles, he said in all his years of elderhood, "men and women who were sexually assualted came forward when they were old enough, they did not wait for decades to report they were abused.

  you must have some kind of false memory or you are just trying to bring shame to the congregations.

  " what is the truth of this?.

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  When an elder in the KH befriends and puts repeatedly his arm lovingly around young boys not his children instead of his wife . . . bells and whistles should ring.
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  The scientific hypocrisy of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  i have been involved in an email exchange with a jw regarding my article on noah's flood, and whether it was global.

  it got me really worked up, as i find the watchtower mentality totally hypocritical.

  here is part of the conversation.. .

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  bats in the belfry

  Pure fun, great reading, and totally enlightening:

  Letters to and From the Watchtower Society Concerning Noah's Flood
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  How many decades/centuries before 1914 becomes irrelevant?

  by jwfacts in

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  how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?

  i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.

  but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?

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  bats in the belfry

  If we were to fear the arrival of Jehovah’s day with all its awesome accompaniments, we would not be awaiting it and keeping it

  close in mind, but would be wishing to postpone it into the indefinite future beyond our lifetime, beyond “this generation.”

  The Watchtower 1975, 12/15 p. 752 par. 2

  Isn't that exactly what the FDS/GB has done?
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  How many decades/centuries before 1914 becomes irrelevant?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?

  i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.

  but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?

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  Now they are drilling down to the faithful the 'ever-increasing light' (?) , lest they forget: up-to-date = overlap

  
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  How many decades/centuries before 1914 becomes irrelevant?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?

  i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.

  but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?

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  jwfacts >>

  By what year would the majority of believers have fallen away, because 1914 is just to distant to make any sense?

  That question, or a variant of it, is a definitive 'must' to ask any elder, circumstances permitting.

  Was there not also a 100 year period in the OT that Freddie did away with? Maybe it is to be added on after all.
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  Flip-flopping all over the place

  by confusedteenager in

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  one minute i'm believing completely in god and in jesus christ, and in the next instance i'm questioning all religious systems in general.

  i think i'm just lacking faith, but then in the back of my head i'm wondering if i've just been so indoctrinated and deluded...that i can't imagine living without considering that there is a god to be worshiped, or that i need to worship god in order to be happy.

  i don't know how full-blown atheists or full blown christians do it either way.

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  EntirelyPossible >>

  - You can define your own purpose. For instance, mine is to live a life that makes me happy and be a good parent and a decent person. I work hard, take pleasure in my children, in backpacking, in a good round of golf, spending quality time with my friends.

  Of course, you do understand, this attitude is exactly that the WTBTS condemns. They mistakenly will quote: "If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that." - Matthew 5:47 (NLT)
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  In exodus 10:17 NWT why is the word ENTREAT in capital letters?

  by solomon in

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  cant find the reason in any wt publications.

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  bats in the belfry

  With the incident at Babel HE confused the languages. What did you expect? Clarity of the written word?
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  Why has the WT not tried to shut down this board?

  by hamsterbait in

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  we all know that beth hell monitors this site.. they have repeatedly had sites shut down for quoting large portions of their litterature.

  not this one.. do you think this board enables them to keep a finger on the pulse of what is going on in ex and aposto land?

  hb.

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  bats in the belfry

  do you really think the wt view this site?

  Yes - this site serves as their prime instrument of choice for amending policies and development of doctrines.

  WTBTS has moles // J-W.net has moles.