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  Claims by Jehovah's Witnesses

  by joelbear in

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  jehovahs witnesses claim to be happier than non-jehovah's witnesses.. jehovah's witnesses claim to be happier because they live in a spiritual paradise where everyone is more loving and more moral.. one of the reasons i left is very simply because i found these two claims to be false.. i disproved them by one simple action; getting to know non-jehovah's witnesses.

  the more i did this, the more i found that happiness and kindness were traits that were not associated with any particular religious, social, business, ethnic or political group.

  happiness and kindness instead were associated with very individual qualities: self confidence, good naturedness, humility, generosity of spirit and patience, among others.. i continue to try to apply these traits to my life and study those around me who display these traits.

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  NameWithheld

  Yep, I responded to this thought in another message you wrote awhile back. One eye-opening 'thing' for me was finally being involved in a 'worldly' group of sorts, and slowly realizing that that group of people behaved EXACTLY the same as JWs. No difference. Some good people, some bad, lot's of gossip, politics, etc. Once your eyes open to the fact that the JW world is no different than the 'real' world you can begin to realize many other things. Step one to removing the rose colored glasses.

  I really think this is one reason that the GB stresses the 'need' to stay away from ANY non-JW group of people, including stuff like charity, so as to keep all the JWs confined to themselves, never having the opportunity to see that people are just people, no matter what they label themselves. This is especially true for JWs raised as JWs.
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  Judgment Day Before 2024....

  by sunscapes in

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  the link is http://www.caspro.com/caspro.htm.

  recent guest on art bell show... http://www.artbell.com/.

  as posted on website under "a brief history": .

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  NameWithheld

  No no no, that's all wrong. God spoke to me and told me how it is. He said that you have to take a year for a month, and a day for a year. So you take 607-587, then apply a mixture of salt and brimstone to the calculation. Then multiply the 2,520 days that are months, then add the distance from the earth to Palidies (sp?) or wherever it is that god is staying this week. Divide that by 1914 and add the length of a generation. Turn the resulting months that are days into years (see above). Once that's done you come to YIKES! Nov 30, 2001. Ooops, better say goodbye to everyone tomorrow.

  Sheeesh, this isn't that hard you know, you guys need a color chart or something? I can ask god to provide me one, though we'll probably have to use crayons to color it in ... he can't stay in the lines.

  <NOTE: I hearby certify that the above prophesy is 100% correct and from god. If the end doesn't come in 2 days then it's not my fault, you guys just didn't beleive hard enough!>
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  JUSTICE #5 - Comfort the Depressed - Not!

  by Amazing in

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  elders: comfort the depressed souls not .

  sister hurting was going through some difficult times, both physically and emotionally.

  she sought professional medical help.

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  NameWithheld

  Nope, I find no post titled "JUSTICE 18" or any variation. Nor do I see one titled part 2 of #16. Maybe he posted them without "JUSTICE" in the title?
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  There's a new force on the board

  by Yerusalyim in

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  with this post i enter the hallowed ranks of the jedi class.

  may the force be with you.. yerusalyim.

  "vanity!

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  NameWithheld

  So long to go .... must write more posts ...... must write more .....

  I feel like I haven't been making the monthly average, maybe I'm weak
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  An added point for "THIS GENERATION"

  by Bill Parker in

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  this generation.

  i was born in the year 1932!

  if someone were to ask me: are you part of the generation of 1914?

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  NameWithheld

  Oh, I get it, you will be able to pin-point the exact 'generation' once the "Great Tribluation" starts (maybe, or maybe not till after the big "A"?). So in this case, Jesus' prophesy is total bunk and worse than useless since there is no way to know what it means till after it's done. Good job there ...
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  An added point for "THIS GENERATION"

  by Bill Parker in

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  this generation.

  i was born in the year 1932!

  if someone were to ask me: are you part of the generation of 1914?

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  NameWithheld

  HUH?

  This guy makes as much sense as the WTBTS ... What's all this tree stuff? How are we trees?

  As for "This is where we now stand" how is where we stand today any different in your scenario than, say, 1950? or 1975? or 1990? All of those dates were 'real close to the end' according to JWs.

  "All those alive right at this moment .. are the generation he was talking about" - is that right. So you now are the sole interpreture of Jesus message now eh? How do you know that it's the people alive today? What about when they are all dead and gone. Will it then be the people alive in 50 years? Your weak explination is weaker than the garbldy-gook the FDS spewed in 1995.
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  What Should I Do (JW that Mentions Birthday)?

  by Free Eagle in

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  i have become somewhat friendly with a jw lady (i am also a woman and have gotten to know her over the past four years).

  i am unsure of her status in the religion.

  i am not a jw but have educated myself regarding jw customs, etc.... in conversation we found we were born in the same month, and she told me when her birthday was.

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  NameWithheld

  Oh, maybe Jehovah won't kill us since we ate Chinese instead of turkey, so we weren't really celebrating Thankgiving ...

  Nah, it seems Turky day is probably the most 'lax' holiday for JWs, (since they can't really pinpoint the 'pagan' aspect of it perhaps?). Lot's of JWs use T'day just like us pagan 'worldy' people, to gather with family, eat lot's of Turkey and watch football. Of course, they'd never decorate w/ Pumkins, etc since that would be 'celebrating' it ... pretty warped huh? JWs have the marvolous gift of being able to justify most anything they really want to. They usually say something like, "well, we're just taking advantage of the 'wordly' holidays time off to gather with family".
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  Boring Meetings Part2

  by metatron in

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  you may doubt that boring meetings are intentional,.

  as a means of indoctrination.

  however, many of the society's.

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  NameWithheld

  .... and would MUCH rather be at home watching 'Friends' ...
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  Watchtower Study NOV 12-18, 2001--Barf alert!!

  by dungbeetle in

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  draw close to god.

  5 "draw close to god," wrote the disciple james, "and he will draw close to you.

  must be helped to cultivate a taste for the word of god.

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  NameWithheld

  "A youth may quit serving God because of what seems to be hypocrisy on the part of his parents or some other Christian."

  Ha ha, what seems to be!? How about "what is"?

  It's all the childs fault ...

  "Though most of Jehovah's Witnesses do not have this problem"

  I thought I read that over half of the young leave ... doesn't that qualify as 'most'?
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  Moscow Trial Postponed

  by messenger in

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  http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0111c.html#24.

  moscow jehovah's witnesses trial postponed again.

  9,386 jehovah's witnesses in moscow sign petition rejecting prosecutor's claims .

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  NameWithheld

  Wonder if we should send the Golovinsky Court a WT article outlining what will happen to all non-JWs "Real Soon Now" <evil grin>