This shows the tendency among JW's to think of God as less than almighty, as being bound by physical laws that somehow exist apart from himself. That isn't the description of the Bible's God, who can do all things, who established the physical laws and can supersede them as he sees fit.
NeonMadman
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are you glad to be done with this type of insanity (taken from yahoo e-mail group)
by booby infriends,.
i've been doing research and can find almost nothing on this in the research aids.. my question is this.
at the end of the system, the calamity of the coming destruction will be enough to destroy most of the life on this planet.
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Holy mother of pearl, I've gotta get me one of these!
by SweetBabyCheezits in"umm, excuse me, do you have this shirt in branch-dividian-brown?
jehovah's-witness-gray is so 2009.".
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NeonMadman
Shouldn't it say, "Proud to be ONE OF Jehovah's Witnesses"?
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Know of a searchable NWT other than WT-CD or clone thereof?
by blondie innot the www.watchtower.org one, not searchable by word or phrase..
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NeonMadman
Possible, pm me with an e-mail address and I'll send it. The file is the NWT exactly as the printed copies, so the name "Jehovah" appears in the NT where they have inserted it.
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Jehovah's Christian Witnesses??
by Junction-Guy in.
when i was a kid and on vacation in florida about 20 years ago, my dad had mentioned about an "apostate group" in florida and that it was called "jehovah's christian witnesses" supposedly they even had their own kingdom halls, how many others here are aware of this group and do they even exist still?
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NeonMadman
Randy, do you know who flew the plane over Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh during the 1978 International Assembly?
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Know of a searchable NWT other than WT-CD or clone thereof?
by blondie innot the www.watchtower.org one, not searchable by word or phrase..
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NeonMadman
I have a NWT module for the OLD version of e-sword, if that would help.
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Congregation Elders got a letter from headquarters on "Sexting". I guess this is the latest trend causing problems.
by miseryloveselders inlast week, my coboe, formerly known as the po, read a letter from ny giving directions on how to handle cases of "sexting" in the congregation.
i've vaguely heard of sexting in news articles.
i'm thinking though, the branch isn't going to send out a letter unless there's a trend.
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NeonMadman
In some areas, teens involved in "sexting" are being prosecuted as purveyors of child pronography (in some cases, teens have been prosecuted for sending pictures of themselves nude - see "Legal Cases" on the Wikipedia article about Sexting). That's probably why elders are required to contact the Legal Dept. if teens are found to be involved with this activity. With so much uproar among the "worldly" media, it was inevitable that the Society would feel the need to take a strong stand on the issue.
Was this letter read to the congregation, or was it a confidential Body of Elders letter?
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Did you really pay attention at conventions or assemblies?
by donny ina co-worker of mine whose family (2 daughters, wife) are jw's related a funny story yesterday.
his wife and daughters missed the friday portion of the convention last week in order to attend a wedding of a worldly relative.
at dinner she mentioned to him that she would go to the convention this friday to make up for the one she missed.. he then asked why and she said so she could get the information she missed.
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NeonMadman
I used to pay attention and take notes, even when I was having doubts about the org. I kept hoping for some "new light" that would lift some of the legalism and clear up the inconsistencies. Finally, I couldn't wait any longer.
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Who Were the Israelites' Doctors?
by maputo95 inthe jws are very opposed to alternative medicine, it seems.. just who were the physicans, doctors or healers of the israelites under moses and the suceeding rulers of the ancient jews?.
help, anyone please!
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NeonMadman
Actually, I would have said that the JW's are very skeptical of conventional medicine and are prone (as individuals) to jump on most any alternative medical craze that came along. It's not as bad today as it was in the days of The Golden Age magazine, but the proclivity to be suckered into any quack cure that comes down the pike is still alive and well in many JW's.
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are 12 step programs a cult? Discuss..
by avishai inwhat qualities would you say they share w/ other high control groups?.
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I went to Overeaters Anonymous meetings when I was a JW for a while. At one point, some of the members started opening their sharing time by saying, "Hi, my name is xxxx, and I'm a food addict." This caused a major uproar in the groups I was meeting with, since the 'accepted' phrasing was, "Hi, my name is xxxx, and I'm a compulsive overeater." Lots of people argued passionately about their opinions as to whether people should be allowed to use the alternate wording. This, along with some less blatant things, struck me as being rather cultic, even when I was a JW.
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JW replies on my Shunning article
by besty ini have a google article on shunning -.
http://knol.google.com/k/why-jehovah-s-witnesses-practice-religious-shunning#.
its had almost 15,000 page views :-).
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NeonMadman
Since he took a position that the disfellowshipping practice of the JW's is completely scriptural, perhaps you could ask that he provide scriptural support for the following aspects of that procedure:
(1) that the elders handling such cases of sin should do so in secret
(2) that in no case and at no time should the congregation ever be informed as to what the sin was, only as to the outcome of the hearing, which they must accept without question
(3) that witnesses would not be permitted at such hearings, except within very specific guidelines, and then, that these witnesses could provide testimony only and then be dismissed, not allowed to observe other parts of the hearing
(4) that the person 'on trial' would not be permitted to make any record of the proceeding, even taking notes
(5) that there would be no appeal from the decision of the committee except to another identical 'star-chamber' hearing.