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  Super Tasty Kool Aid Flavored WT Study this Weekend!

  by LostGeneration in

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  2. bible

  would love to hear comments on what is being said on the paragraph which states that if the wt demands you drink the kool aid, you should do it - even if you don't understand why!.

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  look forward to any replies..

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  DesirousOfChange >>> What % of JWs remember Jonestown 35 years ago?

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  Possibly not too many . . . but the new kids can look it up on WOL

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102003482?q=Jonestown+%22Hate+groups+and+cults%22+%22These+examples+illustrate+the+powerful+influence%22&p=doc

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  The 1995 nerve-gas attack in a Tokyo subway; the Jonestown , Guyana, mass suicide; and the deaths in Switzerland, Canada, and France of 69 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were all cult inspired. These examples illustrate the powerful influence that certain groups have had on the thinking of some people. Charismatic leaders have got people to do the “unthinkable” by tempting them with some supposed benefit. < g03 7/8 pp. 5-9 >

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  Who knows what the WTBTS teachings will morph into in half a century's time?

  Who will guarantee they won't end up like the above mentioned? By jogging scriptures the way they want them to go?

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  Titbit from April Awake

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. friends

  the latest awake is online.

  there is a story about a nun who became a communist and then got disillusioned with that.

  here's a quote.... .

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  konceptual99 >> Woudn't that be the story in the Watchtower, April 1, 2014, magazine?
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  Article: Humanity Becoming Less Violent, Except Religious Violence

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  end: byline .

  http://www.alternet.org/print/belief/humanity-becoming-increasingly-less-violent-one-exception-religious-violence start: headline .

  humanity is becoming increasingly less violent, with one exception -- religious violence alternet by cj werleman published on alternet (http://www.alternet.org) <div id="sticky-social-sidebar"></div>

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  Finkelstein >>> The JWS may not go about killing others who are not of their beliefs

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  . . . and never forget:

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  *** w52 11/15 p. 703 Questions From Readers ***

  We are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and in the land of Palestine. “Thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, . . . And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.”—Deut. 13:6-11, AS.

  Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God’s law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship.
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  How Many Remember the Mass Skating Rink Parties of the Late 70's ?

  by Perry in

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  2. friends

  they were a hoot weren't they?.

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  moomanchu >>>

  Got to the point that Mondays were always JW skating party night.

  Now, Monday's are JW Family Worship night.
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  JWs are Quasi-prophets. The best of both worlds!

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  out of curiosity, i was taking a look at jw defenses email channel, in the discussion section.. one poster said: that article read in context is saying that the churches failed their privilege of being a prophet of god.

  but jehovah's witnesses didn't.

  if the 1972 wt is read with context then we can realize jw's are the prophet of god and not christendom, they had their chance.. jw defense says: keep in mind that in that article, when the word 'prophet' is used in reference to the witnesses, its always in quotations.

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  BluesBrother >>> quasi = "apparently but not really"

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  So, then, basically they are fake prophets. No wonder, all those many failed predictions.
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  Quote of the day, RE: YB 2014

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "your web site is one of the best gifts that jehovah has given to people like me.n.f., sri lanka.. so, jehovah waited how many years until he could come out with a website as a gift?.

  "caleb, the little boy in the jw.org video series become jehovahs friend, is now known all over the world".

  maybe he is more famous than mickey mouse?.

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  Hail to the . . . ONAN DUDES
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  Quote of the day, RE: YB 2014

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "your web site is one of the best gifts that jehovah has given to people like me.n.f., sri lanka.. so, jehovah waited how many years until he could come out with a website as a gift?.

  "caleb, the little boy in the jw.org video series become jehovahs friend, is now known all over the world".

  maybe he is more famous than mickey mouse?.

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  Another one:

  “The design of WOL (WT Online Library) is a display of your evident care. I could not have asked for a better gift and expression of love and generosity from my heavenly Father, Jehovah. Thank you so much.” — A., Argentina.

  God loves us by giving websites to humankind. .
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  What do you say if you get asked "Are you an Apostate?"

  by KateWild in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am reuniting with past students and return visits.. i met up with a young lad i used to call on.

  he is not baptised, but at university in his 20's and living away from home.

  his mother is a jw and his father is not.

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  The R&F members will not dare to put a question like "Are you an Apostate?" to you.

  The elders right away will bring charges aginst you: "You are an Apostate!".
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  Why the New World Bible Translation is special

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 4, 2014 yearbook .

  jehovah used his own spirit-begotten sons to provide the original new world translation.

  (rom.

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  fastJehu >>> The german yearbook translate "Dear Fellow Domestics" into "Dear brothers and sisters"

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  Now, to translate it into "Dear slaves" (Hausknechte), that wouldn't sound upbeat, would it? . .
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  Sexting, thinking with my little head

  by stillin in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i had no idea, having come from such a sheltered life, how tantalizing those little text messages could be.

  i'm a married man.

  my wife has pretty much decided that sex is not for her anymore.

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  Whatever your plan is going to be, don't let it be "fabricating hurtful schemes".