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  Jehovahs Witnesses and the Name , HOW Important. ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah`s witnesses place great emphasis on the importance of god`s name as jehovah .so much so that they are often accused by christendom`s religions as substituting jehovah for christ.. the old testament ( hebrew scriptures identify god as the tetragrammaton four hebrew consanants yhwh and not jhvh.

  as mistakenly believed by a 13th century spanish monk .. modern scholars including the j.w.`s agree that the more accurate pronunciation of gods name would be more nearer to yahweh than the name jehovah .. so why do j.w.`s insist on the name ?

  jehovah ?

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  Ucantnome

  i think it is important. i think it may be tied to birth of a nashun
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  How was it when you were a JW as a kid?

  by nevaagain in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whats worse than being an adult jw?

  when i was a kid i always had a bad concience all the time.

  i believed i would not survive armageddon for the fact that i didn't like going to service and i didnt like going to the meetings.

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  It was a mixture of good and bad. Hated the meetings and assemblies. Didn't mind witnessing at school. Hated giving talks. Wanted to be baptised. Done pioneer days occasionally with parents, so so. Went out on my own on return visits occasionally when I was 10 and older. I remember being at the barbers just before Christmas when I was about 7/8 and knew he was going to ask me about Christmas and I felt I had to give some sort of witness. No parents just me and my brother. I did. Dreaded getting up in the chair . Barber shop was full.
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  What do you day dream about?

  by punkofnice in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i don't refer to anything sexually explicit of course.. i mean, in general.

  do you dream of owning a big house, a football team, the perfect body.......er paradise earth?.

  i'll start:.

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  Ucantnome

  punkofnice I have lived and worked in the USA for some years some years ago. I wouldn't want to return to those states, too many memories I'd rather go to the Pacific Northwest or some places on the east coast.
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  What do you day dream about?

  by punkofnice in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i don't refer to anything sexually explicit of course.. i mean, in general.

  do you dream of owning a big house, a football team, the perfect body.......er paradise earth?.

  i'll start:.

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  Ucantnome

  Leaving and starting a new life possibly in the US
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  Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

  how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

  how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

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  Ucantnome

  I think suggesting that i woke up is suggesting i was asleep. which suggests its my fault. it isn't.
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  Who would you like to hear of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses ?

  by wozza in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll start off with this one:.

  some years ago when i was formulating my exit, i employed for some time an ms brother from another congregation.. i'd had a couple of young "worldly" lads work for me but they proved unreliable as they used drugs or alchohol and consequently would'nt arrive at work and such like.. so when i was was contacted by this brother and spoke to him and heard he'd worked at the australian bethel for some time on construction and wanted an opportunity to learn the trade of bricklaying ,i thought ,"great someone to finally trust and be reliable".

  he was in his 40's at the time and he worked like a trojan ,was honest ,really likeable and interesting ,could play the classical guitar beautifully ,had a beautiful family.

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  Ucantnome

  no one.

  losing ones beliefs can be difficult, some fare worse than others i think
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  Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

  how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

  how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

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  Ucantnome

  i didn't wake up i wasn't asleep. i didn't put effort in. it was more like my wife saying turn left at the lights and i knew to turn right.
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  Call For Children To Get Baptised From CO

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i've been pretty good at not going to meetings lately.

  yesterday i went for the co's last talks.

  older co. his last talk was absolutely shocking.

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  Ucantnome

  I think it's a jolly good idea
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-11-2015 WT Study (EXPECTATION)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  blondies highlights from the10-11-2015 wt study (august 15, 2015), pages (14-18) .

  for pictures see this link.

  opening comments.

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  Ucantnome

  'That in itself is a good reason to remain in expectation—Jesus told us to do so! In this regard, Jehovah’s organization has set an example. Its publications have consistently exhorted us to “await and keep close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah” and to fix our hope on God’s promised new world'

  I find this comment from the Watchtower March 15 1980 page 17/18 regarding 1975 interesting.

  
  

  6 In its issue of July 15, 1976, The Watchtower, commenting on the inadvisability of setting our sights on a certain date, stated: “If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises.” In saying “anyone,” The Watchtower included all disappointed ones of Jehovah’s Witnesses, hence including persons having to do with the publication of the information that contributed to the buildup of hopes centered on that date.

  and the question to the paragraph was

  Did the information in the July 15,1976, Watchtower endeavor to lay the responsibility for such expectation solely or primarily on its readers? Explain.
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  Why some are religious or not?

  by Vidqun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  time article: several years before pope francis became pope of the catholic church in 2013, psychologists began to debunk the idea that being more educated meant a person was less likely to be religious.

  instead, a new social psychology theoryone that had little to do with education levelarose.

  according to dual process theory, people are either deliberative or intuitive when they make decisions.

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  Ucantnome

  Hence we come across some very well educated people, able to use Critical Thinking skills in their professional life, who are still believers in some very dodgy nonsense.
  The difficulty is to get such people to apply the skills they have to their "beliefs".

  Some people have university degrees in theology and apply the skills to their religious beliefs and still remain believers I would imagine that they have critical thinking skills and are intelligent people.