Posts by Ucantnome

i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

Ucantnome

Slimboyfat you said,

However, for those who maintain the holy scriptures, it poses a number of deeper questions.

Would almighty God have allowed this group of Christians to champion his name at this crucial time if they did not enjoy his blessing and support?

And about Jehovah it says:

Acts 15:13 After they finished speaking, James replied: “Men, brothers, hear me. Symʹe·on has related thoroughly how God for the first time turned his attention to the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

The taking out a 'people for his name' I believed was accomplished by the witnessing of Jehovah's Witnesses. I thought that they were commissioned in 1919 to speak to the nations in God's name and after twelve years of doing this, they took the name Jehovah's Witnesses.

So the question that you ask

Would almighty God have allowed this group of Christians to champion his name at this crucial time if they did not enjoy his blessing and support?

I find directly connected to their preaching/witnessing.

I was raised as a witness, it was my parents that had Jehovah's Witnesses knock on their door and witness to them. They became JW and their hope was that they would never grow old and die in this old system of things but would live on into the thousand year reign of Christ. If was a false hope. They died as old people.

I can remember discussions between my father and people he met in the ministry when I was a child about the generation that will not pass away. I remember arguments with relatives regarding 1975.

After 1919 I believe the anointed who later took the name Jehovah's Witnesses were preaching 'Millions now living will never die'

So for me looking at their preaching and the hopes my parents had due to this witnessing I would answer your question that I don't think they did have his blessing and support.

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Why Do People Become JWs?

by minimus in

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i was born in the religion but why on earth do people join this religion?

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Ucantnome

Why? I don't know. I always thought I wouldn't have been one if my parents hadn't accepted it. It doesn't fit with my personality. Having said that, I felt that I examined it to the best of my ability as a young adult and stayed in it and was never in trouble in the congregation although I had the opportunity to be. I witnessed at school and in the my work place, bringing a teacher to the kingdom hall and later a work mate.

I think when my parents accepted it with the information that they had and later I had it made sense.

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Were You Surprised You Remained a JW As Long As You Did?

by minimus in

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we have been told there's no place else to go.

and to some degree mentally speaking, that is true especially if you were raised in the religion.

at 50 i was out of the organization's clutches.

Ucantnome

no, I believed it was the 'truth' I may not have liked going to the meetings etc.but I thought it was right.

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Why do ones that got out come back in?

by moreconfusedthanever in

i have not been to a meeting for about 2 years now.

i do not intend to go back but one thing has me baffled.

why do ones that have faded and been out for years return?

Ucantnome

I was out for about 8 years and returned for a year. I didn't fade, I had invited the elders to visit for a discussion. In the year that I attended I was a very regular attendee, hardly missing a meeting. My reason was that one of my children wanted to attend so we did.

I think the reasons are probably varied as to why people who leave return.

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Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?

by LoveUniHateExams in

just thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.

mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.

the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.

Ucantnome

Bridges of Madison County, Gladiator, High Plains Drifter, Terminator, Aliens, Always, Predator, Field of Dreams, Toy Story, Hustle, Cocoon

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What did NOT get you out?

by problemaddict 2 in

i realize this is odd, but a "how you woke up" thread and the personal stories that are told which i know we all enjoy, made me think of this.

in helping my wife and a couple others get the ball rolling, i realized the thing that resonated with me, didn't even move the needle with them.

i wanted to rail on and on about blood, because that was my conduit to waking up, but for my wife it was about shunning.

Ucantnome

Ucant - Do you mind if I ask what that 1 thing was?

The one thing for me related to two Watchtowers, Jan 15th, 1966 and the Feb 15th, 1994 and the scripture Matthew 24:30 and my reading Matthew 24 as a child.

I was no longer convinced of the message that we were joining the anointed remnant in preaching and as I understood the preaching to be part of the sign of his presence I no longer could be sure of them being the anointed remnant chosen to do this work. If I had remained convinced they were, then all other things seemed insignificant.