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  Are Magicians Spawns of Satan the Devil?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
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  i was perusing the internet not long ago and came upon this series of videos by a guy calling himself xendrius.

  it declares that many of today's best magicians are in league with the devil.

  his claims are based on his observation that the tricks would be impossible to do unless the magicians had made unholy pacts with the devil.. so what's the take of the wtbts?

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  my mother almost died as she became ill at the same time, she thought there was a connection
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  Are Magicians Spawns of Satan the Devil?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was perusing the internet not long ago and came upon this series of videos by a guy calling himself xendrius.

  it declares that many of today's best magicians are in league with the devil.

  his claims are based on his observation that the tricks would be impossible to do unless the magicians had made unholy pacts with the devil.. so what's the take of the wtbts?

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  years ago my mother had a bible study with the wife of a magician there were some odd experiences the woman would relate.
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  The really cool feeling of community within JWs

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..

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  The feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.

  I was in a few different congregations through the years and I can't say that I ever felt this closeness.
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  Remember When Something Bad Would Happen And You Felt Its Really What They Deserved?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking about christmas and how celebrants may lose their home and all their possessions because a christmas candle burned down the house.. witnesses smugly would say, "well, they shouldn't have been celebrating the holidays!

  ".....yet if a jw got into a fatal car accident while going to a convention, it was clearly satan's doing..

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  I remember a relative expressing such a view when people in their area were flooded out of their homes, many years ago when I was still a Witness. My relative had called on them and they had shown no interest in the good news.

  I didn't share this view.
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  "Freeness of speech"

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this was posted on another thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6040010839031808/christmas-tree-word-appreciation), but wondered about how others here would see this with one experience i had as an elder now as ex-jws.. when we were jw's we had to be extremely careful with what we said around the brotherhood.

  if someone said anything out of the ordinary, relationships among the involved were halted immediately, or were never the same afterwards.

  in this place, one can say almost anything without the fear of having a truck run over us.

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  'It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be put shame in any way but that by my speaking with all boldness, Christ will be exalted now as always in my body.' (NRSV)

  Isn't the freeness of speech related to Paul's wanting to glorify Christ through his whole life/body and living ones live in 'a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ' and so by doing having a boldness of speaking?

  
  
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  "Freeness of speech"

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this was posted on another thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6040010839031808/christmas-tree-word-appreciation), but wondered about how others here would see this with one experience i had as an elder now as ex-jws.. when we were jw's we had to be extremely careful with what we said around the brotherhood.

  if someone said anything out of the ordinary, relationships among the involved were halted immediately, or were never the same afterwards.

  in this place, one can say almost anything without the fear of having a truck run over us.

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  As a witness I would have agreed with him, probably.
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  New Years Resolutions

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mine are:.

  1. move.

  2. lose a little weight .

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  to have a better schedule

  go to bed earlier

  eat less sugar

  double my income.
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  Heb. 11:1-Faith

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i sti'' believed this verse was alwas in my mind: faithis the assured ecpectation of things hoped for... the ebident demonstration of realities not be held.... .

  yes it seemed to preach the scientic method..so ai thought.

  the point is my faith was never based on 'i belive.....' i thought based on the bluecreation book we had the truth.. latley a witness sakid herewes 11:1 meant that faith is the evidence.... well f***his idea.. if jws start belebong ths nonesese they will never escape.

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  .' I thought based on the bluecreation book we had the truth.. latley a witness sakid Herewes 11:1 meant that faith IS the evidence....

  I'm unsure that I am reading correctly what you have posted. However I understand from the 'Insight' book that faith is the title to deed to the things hoped for, (which is relating to Heb 11:1) . Which would seem to me to be what the witness was saying and how I understand faith and which I think my being a JW was partial based on although I understand it more clearly but not totally now.

  if jws start belebong ths nonesese they will never escape

  I was able to leave.
  
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  Favourite Christmas presents!

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my son bought me a 64gb micro sd card for my phone!

  "what kind of geeky xmas pressie is that nic?!

  " i hear you cry.

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  The Explorers Guild Volume one
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  What did you have for Christmas dinner?

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my inlaws are polish, though my husband is a 3rd generation american, but the food traditions have stuck around.. we have christmas eve dinner starting with red beet soup with sour cream, pierogies filled with mashed potatoes or saurkraut, ham, polish sausage sliced and cooked with saurkraut, turkey (that part is american), krischickies (likely spelled wrong) which are crispy pastries dipped in powdered sugar, and apple pie (also american.).

  there are goodnatured threats toward bad children who may need to get their dupa busted (butt spanked) and therefore santa will bring figismachen.

  i also love golabkis (ground beef and rice wrapped in cabbage leaves), but these were not served this time.

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