A person I know who attended a meeting where the governing body spoke discribed it as 'awesome'
Ucantnome
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"...A God's Voice, And Not A Man's!" (Acts 12:22; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4) ... That Day Is Here!
by bjc2read inquestion: how are members of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses themselves, actually viewed by jehovah's witnesses today?.
well, the following related experience may help answer that provocative question, giving us a glimpse of what the possible future days will bring us.
yes, the answer to that question may even be quite shocking to us, ... with simply terrible, disastrous results!!!
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If the historical Jesus was simply human, would YOU be a Christian ?
by EdenOne ini've been reading a lot lately about the historical jesus, and the latest archaeological findings and what a comparative, horizontal, reading of the 4 canonic gospels actually do tell us about the historical jesus and his teachings.
pick your side, but let me ask you this, because that's the core question i have been asking myself lately:.
if the historical jesus wasn't the son of god, but simply a human prophet with no previous super-human existence, hence, merely the "son of man", with very appealing teachings, but no previous super-human existence, hence, not "son of god" as we commonly believe as jw's, would you still be a christian?
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Ucantnome
No
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Aren't You Glad That You Are Out Of The JW Religion?
by minimus ini am so happy to be out of the cult.
i would never go back!
i don't know some still could accept this religion, be here, regularly and not just get out..
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Ucantnome
i don't feel glad
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What are your turn offs in a guy or girl?
by Iamallcool inone of them is nose rings/piercings.
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Ucantnome
if they smell
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What happens to marriages upon the arrival of Armageddon?
by insearchoftruth ina couple of paradise earth questions: .
1) if you are a married, baptized witness couple (both people being baptized) and armageddon arrives, will the couple still be married on paradise earthtm?
2) if you are married to an unbelieving mate (ubm) and armageddon arrives, will the witness be free to remarry on paradise earth?.
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Ucantnome
I always thought that those who were married would stay married till at least the end of the thousand years and would be a minority group. The ratio of resurrected peopled to surviving witnesses about the same as witnesses to non witnesses today. At the end of a thousand years of marriage i think one would wish they had died and been resurrected and there would be all these interesting stories from the resurrected as to how they died and i dont have one like all those stories witnesses told of their lives in the world before they became witnesses. I could be wrong
however when i got married i thought in a very short time my wife was going to be a perfect 10.
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OK..Seriously..Has GOD ever answered your prayers????
by DATA-DOG inlook...i am not an atheist.
even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.
the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.
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Ucantnome
yes. I think so
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Why are JWs so afraid of apostates?
by Magnum inwhy are jws so afraid of apostates?
their view of apostates seems to be out of the realm of the ordinary, the natural.
its as if the words of apostates are supernatual or spiritistic as if apostates are some kind of jedi knights who can slightly wave their hands or twitch their eyes and bring one under a spell.
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Ucantnome
Emeth i dont hate and despise the witnesses. Would you mingle with me?
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Why are JWs so afraid of apostates?
by Magnum inwhy are jws so afraid of apostates?
their view of apostates seems to be out of the realm of the ordinary, the natural.
its as if the words of apostates are supernatual or spiritistic as if apostates are some kind of jedi knights who can slightly wave their hands or twitch their eyes and bring one under a spell.
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Ucantnome
Emeth's post that i repost here
'Magnum in my opinion apostates are ex-jw's that actively turn against their former faith. ex-jw's that just fade away and build up a life without anti-witness activism are not 'despised' by me.'
made me think about when i left the witnesses.
The date that i stopped attending was a day that two elders finally came to visit me after i had repeated requested the visit. At the conclusion of our discussion of the things the various things that were bothering me i asked them if they wanted to disfellowship me. They said no. They didn't feel it was apostasy as long as i didn't talk to others about it. So I said okay.
My family left as well at the same time. I had no reason to discuss anything with others. In the months that preceded the visit our friends had nothing to do with us and in the couple of years since the Watchtower that had started my problem with my beliefs I had talked to my friends and family about it and made clear how I felt which had resulted in an elder visit with in weeks. That one didn't go so well.
Had the situation been different and my family had stayed (although originally for the children's sake as i thought i maybe wrong i would have preferred in some ways that they had) and then a division had been caused in my family my attitude may have been very different. I may have been more of an activist.
Some years after leaving one of my children expressed a desire to return and go to the hall. I returned with them and became a regular meeting attender. At one of the meetings an elder, one who had been to see me on the first visit approached us and introduced himself to my daughter and chatted. He talked about coming to know God's name and what it meant to him. Near the end of his chat he told my daughter 'you don't need to listen to him' motioning toward me standing there and encouraged her to make a choice herself. On another occasion talking to an elder who didn't know me another elder came up who did know me butted into our conversation put his arm around the elder i was talking with and literally pulled him away from me without a word to me.
Over the years i have had elders visit one came regularly and i have met witnesses i know. I am happy to not talk about my views and beliefs however they always bring it up. After all they are witnesses and want to talk about their faith. I will always defend my position I think it is only christian. Usually they leave, one in the street after asking me a question regarding how i feel now not being a witness and the world conditions held up their hand and turned away and ignored me and started a conversation with someone else when i gave my answer.
So going back to when i left and not talking to people about my decision to leave and the two types of ex witness that emeth mentions i feel that i'm in a grey area and as i say if my family had been divided as some have i would want unity in my family and my situation may have been very different.
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Where were you? / How old were you?... during the Ray Franz witch trial?
by Zoos ini was 13yo and largely clueless to what was going on.
i think i remember hearing something about an apostate being weeded out of bethel but really couldn't have cared less.
i didn't start getting zealous until a couple of years later.. .
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Ucantnome
i was in my twenties living in a warm climate. i felt sad to hear about Ray Franz. it had somewhat of a knock on effect. i never doubted the anointed.
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Are you slowly turning into your Father.
by jam innew research from the uk, men start at age 39.. a few signs to look for..... 1) fall asleep in the front room.. 2)they have "a chair".
3)makes awful jokes that only they find funny.. 4)don't know any artists in the top 40.
5)spending longer on the toilet.
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Ucantnome
i never fall asleep before 12