Posts by NeonMadman

I'll be speaking at the Calvary Chapel Chester Springs. My topic will be "Jehovah's Witnesses at Your Door". I'll be giving some history of my own experiences in the borg and my escape from it, and talking about the mind-set of JW's and ways to penetrate it.

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The NEW MEMBERS ONLY WACKTOWER????

by Honesty in

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the reason i ask..... a cultist on another board says it is "just as freely downloadable as the public edition.':.

well, a little different from the km.

i agree it is geared to jehvovah's people, mainly, but it was amusing, when the change was first being discussed around here, it was all like.... "oh the supersecret jw wt!

NeonMadman

Apparently these are not restricted to the degree that the Organization book or Kingdom Ministries are. I understand that at Wallkill, the study mags are on a rack in the lobby right along with the regular mags so that anyone who walks in the door can take one.

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Col 2:16-19 in CO's talk

by lookingnow25 in

it's time for my once every 3 years visit.

started out lookingnow22, then lookingnow25, now it could be lookingnow28.

still struggling in the org.

NeonMadman

After tossing Colossians 2 around for a bit, you might want to flip over to Romans 14 for some clarification:

Rom 14:4 Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

Rom 14:5 One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Rom 14:6 He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Rom 14:7 For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone.

Rom 14:8 If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

After that, you might want to check out a blog I posted on myspace a while ago on JW's and Christmas, along with some back-and-forth in the comments with a JW who challenged me (sorry, don't know how to make the link clickable in Firefox):

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=32916022&blogID=185764874&Mytoken=FCD2FCD4-08D6-4D6A-BD1E3CC06E35C4B994965589

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Program jws have to locate each other in emergency

by Velvetann in

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did anyone hear about the special program the jws had or have for locating each one of the faithful ones when the great tribulation occurs or something like that.

my jw mom who passed away in 2006 was going on and on about this but i didn't want to ask to much.

i would get an earful of preaching then.

NeonMadman

From what I heard, the problem was that after Hurricane Katrina drove thousands from their homes in New Orleans, some JW's relocated and were never heard from again, apparently taking advantage of the situation to do a quick fade. Hence the drive to get cell phone numbers, contacts of relatives etc. so that nobody can easily escape Watchtower control in an emergency.

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Judge Rutherford, Jehovah's Communication Channel

by VM44 in

"receiving the gift, the marching children clasped it to them, not a toy or plaything for idle pleasure, but the lord's provided instrument for most effective work in the remaining months before armageddon.

" (the watchtower, 9/15/41, page 288.

this quote from the watchtower concerns the release of judge rutherford's book children in 1941.. now, calling the book "the lord's provided instrument" sounds to me to be saying the book was inspired, just like the books in the bible.. apparently at that time, the jws considered judge rutherford as their direct communication channel with jehovah himself!.

NeonMadman

Actually, that sort of rhetoric is nothing unusual. New book releases at conventions are routinely introduced with language like, "Jehovah has given us a wonderful new provision." JW's accept pretty much without question that the WT pubs are of equal value with the Bible, though they would never directly admit it. In reality, they regard WT pubs as superior to the Bible, since the Bible cannot be understood without them. So the real final authority is the writings of the organization.

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Program jws have to locate each other in emergency

by Velvetann in

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friends

did anyone hear about the special program the jws had or have for locating each one of the faithful ones when the great tribulation occurs or something like that.

my jw mom who passed away in 2006 was going on and on about this but i didn't want to ask to much.

i would get an earful of preaching then.

NeonMadman

Did it have anything to do with planting a microchip in, say, their foreheads and right hands?

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Mother-in-law gets a letter from JWs

by Jim_TX in

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first - let me point out that (for those that do not know this), neither my wife nor any of her family are jws.

my wife studied with a jw - but that was many years ago.

she never got too far into the jw religion - but got a knowledge of what - and who they are.

NeonMadman

I got one of those letters a while back. I wrote a very nice letter back explaining some of the reasons why I couldn't trust JW's to help me understand the Bible. :P I also said I'd be glad to have a Bible study with them as long as we didn't use WTS publications. For some reason, I never heard back. You'd think they would jump at the opportunity to start a Bible study.

Obviously, though, it's a scam for hours. With computers, one could crank out hundreds of generic letters personalized to each recipient in a short time, but this letter was hand written. It takes a lot more field service hours when you hand-write your letters instead of using the computer. ;)

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THE UNKNOWN BETHEL APOSTATE

by badboy in

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do you believe there is one?

NeonMadman

I think there are probably a bunch of them, which is why inside info keeps leaking.