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  Do you believe that this life is all there is

  by Fisherman in

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  2. beliefs

  the bible records resurrections and there is orher evidence besides that gives hope.

  what do you think, is there enough evidence to believe in another life?.

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  Mum

  In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody wrote a book called "Life after Life," in which he speaks of people clinically dying and moving on to some other realm. His conclusion is that there is an afterlife, whether we call it heaven or not. There are many YouTube videos of people who have experienced this phenomenon.

  Regardless of religion, race, or sexual orientation, there are hundreds of thousands of people who have had this experience. There is too much evidence of it for me to be sure one way or the other. There is no evidence that one has to be Christian to experience this.

  We will all find out for sure some day.
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  Do you think the brothers who wrote watchtower articles are living in real world?

  by Longlivetherenegades in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you think the brothers who wrote watchtower articles are living in real world?........

  david splane........ powerful by faith convention 2021 video.

  please i got an excerpt of this from another video but the response by david splane is not included.

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  Mum

  The question could as easily be, "Are they living on Venus?" They live by the philosophy of "Do as I say, not as I do." They are so far out of touch with reality, it's like they live in another galaxy.

  In their world, there is no cleaning up after oneself or working for a living. They are as well off as any billionaire, traveling first-class, being able to go anywhere in the world on a whim, having someone else to do anything they find unpleasant, and on and on.

  Their hierarchy is very rigid, and it's set up so the people at the bottom stay at the bottom, especially women.
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  2 outrageous quotes from The WT Society

  by GabeAthouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "can the ethiopian change his skin?

  ", feb. 15, 1904 watch tower.

  we answer, no.

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  Mum

  So, maybe white people could turn black, too. What about Asians and Native Americans? Their existence is not even acknowledged. Hispanics are already considered white? If God picks a race for everyone to turn into, I am amazed that he would choose the white one.

  I just have no words for the talking snake story.
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  Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year

  by ComingOutaMyCage in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.

  https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.

  https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.

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  Mum

  So, when there are doctrinal changes, there won't be anything in print to prove it.
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  IMHO the finest TV interview with Ex-JW's ever broadcast!

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  quite effective and enjoyable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijzvt_jptx8&t=1306s.

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  Mum

  Thank you. I have watched many ex-JW videos, including many by Kristy Ann, but I had never seen this one.
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  Date a JW student

  by Renee86 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  can a witness date and court a jw student if he intends to get baptized?

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  Mum

  As long as you can keep it a secret, anything goes. I personally know a young woman of the Orthodox faith who has an "illegitimate" child fathered by a JW. Did he marry her? No. She is rearing the child as a single parent. Apparently, none of the local JW's know about the "relationship." What a bunch of hypocrites!
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  My Eyes, My Ears ... arrrrrghhhh!!!!

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just saw this ..... https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/uzfp4q/what_in_the_hell/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share.

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  Mum

  Wow! I got a glimpse of my former self - euphoric on a delusion. The idealist in me loved seeing the international flavor of the graduation and made me wonder if JW's in other countries are having the problems of JW's in the west. The "music" was horrible; it reminded me of the comments made in Gary Botting's "The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses" about the "barking rhythm" the JW "songs" have. My heart goes out to these lovely people who have been deceived by the governing body ogres and slick Madison Avenue tactics of the Watchtower. The Thai children were just adorable!
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  Michael's Story (JW commits suicide)

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the story of michael.

  a 4th generation jw.

  elder, husband, father with relational ties to marley cole.. pimo, stepped down as elder, and the body went after him tooth and nail.

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  Mum

  The problem is that good little witnesses set a trap for themselves. They only marry witnesses; they brainwash their children; they don't even create an "escape hatch" for unforeseen occurrences. No one knows for sure what was happening in Michael's personal life to lead to such despair and hopelessness. I read that the elders were harassing him and encouraging his wife to divorce him. It got to be more than the poor man could bear. What a tragedy!
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  WT resumes public ministries*

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from jw org news alert:.

  breaking news | resuming public witnessing.

  on may 31, 2022, the governing body informed all branch committees that they may now resume all forms of public witnessing with the exception of the door-to-door ministry.

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  Mum

  There was a time when people, mostly women, were at home. This partly accounts for the oversupply of female JW's. These days, people are at work, dining out, participating in "extracurricular" activities. The door-to-door method is antiquated at best. Maybe JW's need to be more like the churches in trying to make converts, with old-fashioned ice cream socials and the like.
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  Last nights Zoom meeting: Watching a nine year old on stage reading Bible passages

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my nephew called me sunday night to tell me that his nine year old son was giving his first talk.

  he gave me the zoom i.d.. and password for his congregations in-person tuesday night meeting.. i haven't been to any meetings in nine years.

  many things have changed.

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  Brainwash them while they're still young and think you know everything! Don't teach them critical thinking, but how to be a good drone. Never mind great poetry, great prose, great books, great music, learning in general. The important thing is bare survival and regurgitation of fantasy beliefs.